Killers Without Conscience - 2010

2010 | Ward Dorrity

[Lurker]

A most interesting read that you sent me. I’m almost done with it. Thanks.

[steve86]

Wow, if you can keep up that level of pith throughout a hard cover you’ll gain fame as one of the greatest authors of conservative social commentary. It is sort of a psychoanalysis of political motivation (take that as a compliment, even if psychoanalysis in the clinical sense is tarnished). Another FReeper suggested submitting this essay to a periodical? Have you done that? Seems like a appropriate stepping stone. Glad to have you in the Great Inland Northwest (I think that’s where you are).

[Noumenon]

Cool. Be interested in your thoughts.

[Noumenon]

Yes, I live north of CDA and south of Sandpoint. Nice area.

About the book. I hardly even mentioned Antonio Gramsci in this essay. I’ve got an entire chapter with the working title, “Like Gramsci’s Ghost...,” an obvious play on the recurring ghost of Banquo from Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Gramsci never lived to witness the success of his memes and their destructive power. But he would have nodded his ghostly head in warm approval of how far his ideas and his methods have brought us to the edge of our own civilization’s destruction.

It’s coming together slowly. Btu it’s getting there. How it will be received - who knows? I’m not a scholar, per se, just an observer.

[Noumenon]

Oakland riot bumpage...

It’s 0bama’s America at its finest.

[Noumenon]

The corollary of the will to power is the desire to submit.

"He [Albert Camus] had noticed a modern impulse to rebel, which had come out of the French Revolution and the nineteenth century and had very quickly, in the name of an ideal, mutated into a cult of death. And the ideal was always the same, though each movement gave it a different name. It was not skepticism and doubt. It was the ideal of submission."
Paul Berman - Terror and Liberalism p46

And thus, the tyranny of the weak...

[Lurker]

The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.— Robert A. Heinlein

I'd go one step further than Heinlein and agree with Camus I think. There is a large percentage of the human population who simply want to be told what and what not to do. They're a real danger. Because as we all know there's another sub-set of humanity that is very, very willing to step into the role of Controller.

[Noumenon]

I've just completed a re-read of Jamie Glazov's United in Hate: The Left's Romance with Tyranny and Terror, and the first few chapters, particularly the first three chapters, are still resonating strongly in my mind. Those who have linked their entire raison d'etre to the doctrines of the Left - the implicit hatred of humankind, the immanentist view of history that demands the destruction of everything ("burn the old world to reveal the new one," as one anarchist protesters sign read) have been willing to surrender their own lives as well. It's the final destination of those whose personal failures have left them only with a desire to submerge themselves in the totalist whole, surrendering their individuality - and ultimately their lives - to that utopian dream. Which those of us who have even the remotest conenction with reality understand that is a monstrous and evil nightmare.

So, the Will to Power can only succeed when there are enough useful idiots willing to surrender themselves to it. And too few willing to resist it. Otherwise, the monsters have no chance.

[Chances Are]

Eight to ten years in the future, from 2002.....not much time left?

No, not much time left.

CA....

[Conservative4Life]

Excellent

[Noumenon]

I’m working on a book-length version of this. There is so much that I left out in order to keep it brief. For example, Antonio Gramsci has an entire chapter in the re-work, and I don’t even mention him here.

[PGalt]

OUTSTANDING!

[rbmillerjr]

Impressive. Don’t give up, get it published.

[riri]

Excellent. Nice, nice work.

[infowarrior]

I'll stand behind you on those words. An exceptional essay in both principle and execution.

You and Noumenon will not be standing alone...

the infowarrior

[TigersEye]

Those of us who have sacrificed our anonymity to post our POV on the internet are but a small fraction of the patriots in this country. I think we are far from alone.

[Cap Huff]

bump for later read

[maine-iac7]

"Are we All Nazis?" A chilling but enlightening book - the "Nazi" personality is/has always been, in EVERY society. All it takes for them to rise up is the rule of law to be set aside...as the laws on sexual molestation has been in the case of the TSA.

as one reviewer of the book states: "Hans Askenasy reveals the extraordinary conditions under which any of us could become an inhuman murderer. Or so it seems. But the conditions are ordinary, not extraordinary, and the inhuman behavior is all-too-human."

The chill of watching those TSA people molest people because they "have the power!" is a very frightening glimpse of how easily people in ANY society would turn on their fellow citizens if given the chance to do so with impunity.

[ChowChowFace]

Bump

[saleman]

Bump