Posted on 07/31/2017 6:31:52 AM PDT by Lazamataz
In the opening pages of the book "Foundation", written by Isaac Azimov, he describes the beginning of the fall of the Empire. The Empire was a multi-star-system civilization of trillions of people, but it was beginning to rot. One of the key characters observes that a researcher, a pompous Lord of a planet, considered it 'scientific method' to read someone else's work, saying "Why should I travel to another planet? Someone has already written about it." The protagonist thought, "Scientific method, hell. No wonder the galaxy was going to pot."
Azimov was prescient. We find ourselves in a similar time. All the technologic wonders of this era are being challenged by Social Justice Warriors (who, among other things, claim algebra is racist), and by shortcut-taking scientists that purchase or wrangle "peer review" of their scientific work (that is nothing of the sort).
This is the time of universal lying. Consider:
Where does this leave us, when the organs of news no longer adhere to time-honored standards; when science is poorly peer-reviewed; when the fact-checkers need their facts checked?
It leaves us in a time of universal deceit, and as George Orwell once famously said, "In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." America must be based in its entirety on truth. Truth must exist in science and in news, both print and broadcast. Thomas Jefferson warned us, in an 1816 letter, that "If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Well, that’s a point in his favor.
My dearly departed Grandmother used the phrase to describe those who spent portions of their lives smoking weed or in general using drugs. “Gone to pot”, or “on the pot” were equally interchangeable, with her admonitions.
Good read Laz, thanks.
I try. Thanks.
Thank you.
Hat-trick, your screen name is only two letters short of being an anagram of Tax-Chick.
"I don't need to know the truth. I've got kids"
Just what you want to hear from "managers" in the bankster system... where buzzwords, bullshyte, and the CTO Emperor's finely Arheeeetected Underwear/New Clothes, are objects of worship - despite the fact that they don't compile into anything usefull.
"I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits....
Shall we not have regular swarms of them here, in as many disguises as only a king
of the gipsies can assume, dressed as printers, publishers, writers and schoolmasters?
If ever there was a body of men who merited damnation on earth and in Hell,
it is this society of Loyola’s.
Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration
to offer them an asylum."--John Adams to Thomas Jefferson; May, 1816
There is nothing new under the Aten!
Meanwhile - The Party (tm) is infested with interior decorating RINO-crats who game the system for their own progressive activist causes instead of conserving the values this Republic was founded upon.
My late grandmother would say, “Get off the pot,” but I assumed that had the meaning you would expect in a place with only one bathroom that didn’t have running water until the 1970s.
Several sources mentioned an association with marijuana usage, but the “dead or otherwise in decline” usage is older.
What you describe here is a kakistocracy, or "government by the worst persons; a form of government in which the worst persons are in power."
>>Social Justice Warriors have acted to remove algebra -- one of the simplist forms of abstract math -- from student curriculums
(2 + 2 != 5)
psy·cho·sissīˈkōsəs/noun
"According to my opinion, and the opinions of many defectors of my caliber, only about 15% of time, money, and manpower is spent on espionage as such. The other 85% is a slow process which we call either ideological subversion, active measures, or psychological warfare. What it basically means is: to change the perception of reality of every American that despite of the abundance of information no one is able to come to sensible conclusions in the interest of defending themselves, their families, their community, and their country.It's a great brainwashing process which goes very slow and is divided into four basic stages.The first stage being "demoralization". It takes from 15 to 20 years to demoralize a nation. Why that many years? Because this is the minimum number of years required to educate one generation of students in the country of your enemy exposed to the ideology of [their] enemy. In other words, Marxism-Leninism ideology is being pumped into the soft heads of at least 3 generation of American students without being challenged or counterbalanced by the basic values of Americanism; American patriotism.Most of the activity of the department [KGB] was to compile huge amount / volume of information, on individuals who were instrumental in creating public opinion. Publisher, editors, journalists, uh actors, educationalists, professors of political science. Members of parliament, representatives of business circles.Most of these people were divided roughly into two groups: those who would tow the Soviet foreign policy, they would be promoted to positions of power through media and public manipulation; [and] those who refuse the Soviet influence in their own country would be character assassinated OR executed physically, come Revolution. "--KGB Defector Yuri Bezmenov--Soviet Subversion of the Free Press (Ideological subversion, Destabilization, CRISIS - and the KGB)
XX + XX = FAIL
XY + XY = FAIL
XX + XY = Human
I write for a living and make errors all the time. We have 3 stages of proofreading and stuff still gets through.
Excellent work, Laz. Thank you!
Liar...
With all due respect, I believe Reichs Minister Goebbels was also pretty up front with his agenda.
Changing pilots on the doomed jetliner might buy a little more time, but we have a math problem, not just a political problem. Three engines are on fire, and mountains are ahead. Now is the time for parachutes, not new plans.
The Rats say that 2+2 can = 27, and they promise their welfare constituent voters all 27.
The GOP says that 2+2 = 11. It’s not as insane as saying 27, but it still doesn’t solve the math problem. The plane is going to come down in the mountains, closer or farther, but it’s coming down.
There is no political solution. It’s time for parachutes.
Bookmark.
going to pot
going to potty
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