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The perils of designer tribalism
The New Criterion ^ | April 2001 | Roger Kimball

Posted on 02/27/2002 8:04:51 PM PST by GeronL

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To: nopardons
www.newcriterion.com
21 posted on 02/28/2002 1:14:24 AM PST by GeronL
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To: nopardons
Some people like to take in knowledge in small snacks.
This is like sitting down and eating the entire bag of popcorn.
22 posted on 02/28/2002 1:16:21 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: GeronL
They stay in business by selling this stuff =o)

Thank you for treating us to this piece!

23 posted on 02/28/2002 1:17:29 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
It's a seven course meal !

This is the sort of thing, which more people SHOULD be reading and responding to, as opposed to things like : what's your favorite 80's rock band, your favorite movie line, why everyone but people who live below the Mason - Dixon line are horrid and shouldn't be allowed to live, and the like.

24 posted on 02/28/2002 1:31:00 AM PST by nopardons
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To: GeronL
Thank you so much for the info. I hadn't ever heard of this magazine before. If this is an example, of what they publish, I want a subscription ! It's just wonderful.
25 posted on 02/28/2002 1:32:45 AM PST by nopardons
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To: GeronL
Very interesting article. Unfortunately the people that need to read it most never will.
26 posted on 02/28/2002 3:07:04 AM PST by Godel
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To: GeronL
Great post -- thanks! And thanks to my sweetie, Mrs. C., for directing my attention to it!

Rousseau is the patron saint of Third Worldism

No kidding. The Rousseauian "Cult of the Primitive" has generated more human misery in the last 200 years of "civilization" than the previous 6000 years of barbarism. To wit: Rousseau begat the French Revolution, which begat Marx and Engels, which begat world communism, which begat over 100 million dead in the 20th century alone. The lure of "tribalism" is not some esoteric, academic malady -- it has serious, real world consequences.

BTW, the book mentioned in passing above, Paul Johnson's Intellectuals, is to be highly recommended!

27 posted on 02/28/2002 3:17:03 AM PST by Cincinatus
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To: Cincinatus
Bump!!
28 posted on 02/28/2002 4:40:22 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: nopardons
I have been blasting away at Rousseau, myself, for many decades, and all of that " NOBLE SAVAGE " garbage.

Man without technology isn't a noble savage: he's a dead, naked, and hairless ape.

Having had to live through the stupid Hippy " BACK TO NATURE " and the elevation of the primative stuff, I can tell you that that IS exactly what led to the " diversty junk of today ... same crowd; just as WRONG today, as they were back then.

Courtesy of the Marine Corps, I often lived at one with nature.

The concept is vastly overrated.

29 posted on 02/28/2002 4:45:56 AM PST by Poohbah
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To: Poohbah; All
Bump!
30 posted on 02/28/2002 10:09:59 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: GeronL; aculeus; Orual
Great post.
31 posted on 02/28/2002 10:41:08 AM PST by dighton
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To: GeronL; dighton; aculeus
Delicious reading - main course through dessert. There are too many wonderful phrases and concepts to quote here, but just for an appetizer:

“the enchanting music of departure.”
“designer tribalism.”

Compassion ceases if there is nothing but compassion, and revulsion turns to insensitivity. Our “soft pity,” as Stefan Zweig calls it, is stimulated, because guilt is a convenient substitute for action where action is impossible. Without the power to do anything, sensitivity becomes our main aim, the aim is not so much to do anything, as to be judged.

32 posted on 02/28/2002 11:31:08 AM PST by Orual
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To: GeronL ; dighton ; Orual
Excellent post.

Too bad he didn't mention Franz Boas who was responsible for the advancement of this 'all civilizations are good' nonsense.

I found this particularly outrageous:

In Australia, policies inspired by the Culture Cult have brought the illiterization of thousands of Aborigines whose grandparents could read and write.

33 posted on 02/28/2002 12:45:41 PM PST by aculeus
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To: Cincinatus
Thanks for the brief book review. I trust your and Mrs. C's opinion , highly . : - )

I also agree completely, with your post.

34 posted on 02/28/2002 1:02:22 PM PST by nopardons
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Hi, my friend. You, of all people, must have enjoyed the Gilbert quote ! LOL

Great reply ! Yes, a dead, naked ape, indeed.

35 posted on 02/28/2002 1:05:45 PM PST by nopardons
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To: aculeus
Good for you ! I too brought up the glaring omission of Boas.
36 posted on 02/28/2002 1:08:57 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons
If this is an example, of what they publish, I want a subscription ! It's just wonderful.

Yes, it's one of the best. Also check out http://www.aldaily.com/ which highlights at least three new links daily. It's not entirely conservative but they've featured New Criterion articles more than once.

37 posted on 02/28/2002 1:59:01 PM PST by aculeus
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To: nopardons
Good for you ! I too brought up the glaring omission of Boas.

I now see that you did. As they say, great minds ....

38 posted on 02/28/2002 2:21:48 PM PST by aculeus
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To: aculeus
: - )
39 posted on 02/28/2002 2:28:10 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons;aculeus
He did mention Boas

The Australian anthropologist Roger Sandall does not mention The Tears of the White Man in The Culture Cult, his [1] new collection of essays. But his discussion is everywhere informed by the same spirit of salutary impatience. What Bruckner criticizes as Third Worldism, Sandall castigates as “romantic primitivism” and (marvelous phrase) “designer tribalism.” What is romantic primitivism? In the words of Arthur O. Lovejoy and George Boas, it is “the unending revolt of the civilized against civilization.”

40 posted on 02/28/2002 10:15:46 PM PST by GeronL
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