tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post6455503390220958440..comments2024-03-28T23:57:50.103-05:00Comments on Bayou Renaissance Man: The blindness of the ideologically boundPeterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comBlogger34125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-20429177391867839832015-06-18T17:09:29.096-05:002015-06-18T17:09:29.096-05:00Instalanche!Instalanche!Groothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06113425530541748210noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-86911771479719899812015-06-18T16:59:02.990-05:002015-06-18T16:59:02.990-05:00Congratulations on being linked to and quoted by P...Congratulations on being <a href="http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/208745/" rel="nofollow">linked to and quoted by Prof Reynolds</a> last night.AuricTechhttp://aurictech.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-12183859936632197802015-06-18T14:37:55.739-05:002015-06-18T14:37:55.739-05:00This may be relevant to the post:
http://theralph...This may be relevant to the post:<br /><br />http://theralphretort.com/sjws-blown-out-by-deus-ex-dev-voice-of-adam-jensen-6017015/<br /><br />Seriously, the SJZealots can't deal with anything. Why are they on the Internet is beyond me.Shadowdancer Duskstarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04816622060704932669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-68865688468971853062015-06-18T11:35:22.277-05:002015-06-18T11:35:22.277-05:00So many of the people who are name-calling have ne...<i>So many of the people who are name-calling have never done anything except use words or pictures, and therefore, they think they are doing something that matters.</i><br /><br />That right there. Their righteousness exists only inside their heads. <br /><br />They think that controlling the narrative is controlling reality. It isn't. <br /><br />They think that being nasty and noisy and obnoxious wins them gravitas. It doesn't. <br /><br />They think they are right because they DuckSpeak. They aren't.<br /><br />They think their children will inherit the world they want ... but mostly they don't have any children, just their own little cliques, so they won't. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-56015784285283037022015-06-18T09:40:10.877-05:002015-06-18T09:40:10.877-05:00Ideology can be, as you point out, sheer Idealism ...Ideology can be, as you point out, sheer Idealism (e.g., Platonic primacy of consciousness), otherwise known as dogmaticism. But ideolofy itslef is a system of idea--and if properly formented--based on reality. For example, the ideology of our Founders (Aristotle's logic & Plato's antipode) was derived from the nature of man--a conscious being possessing a volitional, rational faculty. Thus, because we are fully conscious, we have the right to life; because we have fre will, we have the right to liberty; and because we need to produce to sustain our lives, we have te right to own property.<br /><br />I mention this here because the last thing we need is some shoot-from-the-hip, act-first-think-later (if at all) pragmatism. Pragmatism say that truth is our expedient way of thinking; reality, our expedient way of acting.<br /><br />For a current example of this sort of thinking, please see Trump's recent announcement as a candidate for President.<br /><br />Or just review the record of the current administration.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-37674041347217900992015-06-18T02:44:36.704-05:002015-06-18T02:44:36.704-05:00Peter, it's a Cruel Crazy Beautiful Worldcon.Peter, it's a <a href="https://caninedaze.wordpress.com/2015/06/18/cruel-crazy-beautiful-worldcon/" rel="nofollow">Cruel Crazy Beautiful Worldcon</a>.Brian Znoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-62851153494260985532015-06-18T00:25:20.630-05:002015-06-18T00:25:20.630-05:00@ Habakkuk21: Your words are not only coherent, t...@ Habakkuk21: Your words are not only coherent, they sing to the very heavens with their truth. Your heart spoke directly through your fingers, and your message is plain to those with ears to hear.<br /><br />Well said. :)Wraithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02791730539181731523noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-28525533849488498452015-06-17T23:05:23.693-05:002015-06-17T23:05:23.693-05:00It's kind of sad to see this kind of argument ...It's kind of sad to see this kind of argument roiling SF fans. I agree with your response, Peter. "Social Justice" is a current buzzword, but it stands for a kind of authoritarianism that has no place in science fiction or anything else, since it is used as a type of club to silence those with whom one disagrees. If her attitude came to dominate it, Tor Books would soon be out of business. No boycott needed. People will read what they like, regardless of what some social critic has to say. <br /><br />Calling people Nazis is the perfect way to shut down discussion and drive people away. If one thinks he or she speaks for everyone, he's speaking for a pretty small circle. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-2651465917080925762015-06-17T22:19:43.745-05:002015-06-17T22:19:43.745-05:00Please, friends, no personal attacks or negative c...Please, friends, no personal attacks or negative comments about anyone, regardless of what 'side' they may be on. We are - or should be - better than that.Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-77721362962815989902015-06-17T22:15:04.220-05:002015-06-17T22:15:04.220-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.cognitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03720137927401287717noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-21784249946540656792015-06-17T21:47:19.060-05:002015-06-17T21:47:19.060-05:00Or you can completely invert Subjective and Object...Or you can completely invert Subjective and Objective, as Joseph Stalin did. When Lenin's widow complained to him about his excesses, he told her "Shut up, or I'll make someone else Lenin's widow."Segestahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10473932834064034935noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-19884925155326031262015-06-17T21:43:20.005-05:002015-06-17T21:43:20.005-05:00Very very well written. You have to wonder how su...Very very well written. You have to wonder how such a strong "will to disbelieve" came to them, such a strongly defended but oh, so obviously wrong position must require fingers in ears singing behavior 24 hours per day. Thank you.imp of the perversehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01296624178629830976noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-89083740233662789422015-06-17T20:18:26.922-05:002015-06-17T20:18:26.922-05:00Your comment on the smell of blood and dust and th...Your comment on the smell of blood and dust and the song...too true. I'm broken right now. Too true. quillyhttp://justbarkingmad.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-64831636155624727042015-06-17T20:11:49.668-05:002015-06-17T20:11:49.668-05:00Peter, I for one want to thank you for speaking up...Peter, I for one want to thank you for speaking up and speaking out.<br /><br />A few thoughts:<br /><br />1) We're dealing with individuals who've concluded that their own ideas and beliefs are so morally, intellectually, and ethically perfect, all other people (you, me, and the rest of the universe) who stray from those ideas, are not just wrong, but also evil.<br /><br />2) Having appointed themselves to the seat of moral, intellectual, and ethical perfection, these individuals have further concluded that it is their moral duty to be jerks and assholes to the rest of humanity. Because the rest of humanity simply doesn't measure up. So it's their (the zealots') job to call us out. For being mortal men.<br /><br />3) There is no "save" against this mentality. No goal posts you can possibly kick the ball through, to achieve the win. They will keep moving the goal posts and inventing reasons for why you are an awful human being. And they will fabricate accusations from whole-cloth without blushing, because part of being a zealot means not having to care about facts. They are literally "above" having to care; at least in their minds.Brad R. Torgersenhttp://www.bradrtorgersen.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-55135115351262182022015-06-17T19:22:59.562-05:002015-06-17T19:22:59.562-05:00Peter, the problem is that it's *all* lies in ...Peter, the problem is that it's <b><i>*all*</i></b> lies in this country anymore.<br /><br />Monthly economic numbers that everybody knows are complete bullsh*t because (1) they don't even count tens of millions of healthy adults who have been driven completely out of the workforce and (2) everybody also knows that in a couple of weeks they'll quietly be revised downward, anyway.<br /><br />"Hands up, don't shoot."<br /><br />"One in four college girls will be raped."<br /><br />Anthropogenic climate change (remember "Hide the Decline?")<br /><br />Fabricated, politically-motivated scholarship of the Michael Bellesiles sort. <br /><br />Passing bills to find out what's in them.<br /><br />"Caitlyn" Jenner being described as "heroic" while Marcus Luttrell is dismissed as a hobo.<br /><br />"News" anchors that don't pretend to be anything but political tools for the Party, to the point they might as well have "Craftsman" or "Kobalt" stamped on their foreheads.<br /><br />And so on. Why so surprised about a fake black woman making up fake hate crimes for a so-called "civil rights" group that has fallen so far from its roots it might as well be the KKK in blackface?<br /><br />Like Instapundit is fond of saying, it's all Potemkin villages from top to bottom. <br /><br />There's a line from one of Tom Clancy's novels about why CIA totally missed the fall of the USSR, even though they were seeing the same domestic intelligence the Politburo was getting: The underlying system was so corrupt that the data bore absolutely no resemblance to reality.<br /><br />Well, that's the vibe I get when I turn on the TV anymore. That, or Weimar Amerika: We're so wrapped up in our own decadence that we don't see totalitarianism and disaster coming.<br /><br />--Wes S.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-85089284778016693032015-06-17T19:03:45.176-05:002015-06-17T19:03:45.176-05:00I wasn't going to join the boycott, but then I...I wasn't going to join the boycott, but then I saw this, from John Scalzi today:<br /><br />"John Scalzi @scalzi · 7h7 hours ago <br />Also, if someone would boycott me because they're following the lead of some racist shitball, I'm fine with that. Don't need those sales."<br /><br />Tor's highest-paid author doesn't want me buying from his company? FINE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-61279889119871282362015-06-17T19:02:54.261-05:002015-06-17T19:02:54.261-05:00I am reminded of a quote from the H. Beam Piper st...I am reminded of a quote from the H. Beam Piper story, "Oomphel in the Sky" regarding a primitive culture.<br /><br />"He defined truth as a statement. A statement exists only in the mind of the person making it, and the mind of the person to whom it is made. If the person to whom it is made can't understand or accept it, it isn't the truth."<br /><br />This appears to fit the SJWs.Jay Deenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-16172664768374236962015-06-17T18:45:03.615-05:002015-06-17T18:45:03.615-05:00Well said, Peter. I was there. I managed to get th...Well said, Peter. I was there. I managed to get the crap beaten out of me Grahamstown BOSS. I - and my parents before me, tried to do our part with adult and supplementary education. My old man took serious risks in 'Mashu to do what he believed was right. I find being told I'm a racist by these poseurs... well. I wish I could put them back in my history.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12315551718688781746noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-1609553164200351472015-06-17T17:44:20.786-05:002015-06-17T17:44:20.786-05:00Peter
What are your thoughts on the state of South...Peter<br />What are your thoughts on the state of South Africa today? Natehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02962463170236658764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-47563022811085215482015-06-17T17:22:18.639-05:002015-06-17T17:22:18.639-05:00"Wraith said...
Ironically, if any of th..."Wraith said...<br /><br /> Ironically, if any of these SJW's found themselves in an actual war, such as you've described here, they'd either be cowering in the corner or working for the bad guys. Doing what you and your friends did would take courage they simply don't possess."<br /><br />Yes, but they'd feel ever so conflicted and intense about it, and if they ever put it on paper, I'm sure they'd win a Nebula: "If You Were a Vertebrate, My Love..."richard mcenroehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10659450906647134430noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-52093093683243658642015-06-17T15:33:07.427-05:002015-06-17T15:33:07.427-05:00This probably isn't the best time, but...
Afri...This probably isn't the best time, but...<br />Africa (South and otherwise) is a hellhole and as far as I can tell has always been a hellhole; it was a horror when the whites were in charge and it seems to still be a horror (of a different type) now that they aren't.<br /><br />Is there something in the water in that part of the world? I just don't get it.Coconutnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-18950676132866233852015-06-17T12:05:34.220-05:002015-06-17T12:05:34.220-05:00Dear brother Peter,
So many of the people who are...Dear brother Peter,<br /><br />So many of the people who are name-calling have never done anything except use words or pictures, and therefore, they think they are doing something that matters.<br />They have never jumped out of a vehicle with an aid bag in hand, to run with heart pounding to see if they could save a life (which I have done). They haven't spent time in hospitals, providing spiritual comfort and physical presence to a family watching a loved one die (which you and I have both done.)<br />They've never worked in a psych hospital, a factory, and they've never been in the military. You have been a chaplain in a prison. I shined shoes in a barber shop. My wife picked tobacco in the hot North Carolina sun. We have done REAL things; and they have never done anything except play with words and art. Words and art are important ONLY when they relate to the experience of a human being. I fear that the writing and art professionals never had the chance to have that experience. And now, when some come along who have HAD experience, they are challenged, because they suddenly realize that if they cannot completely control their own reward systems, they are forced to ask whether their lives have mattered at all.<br />This, by the way, is an excellent starting place, if it is embraced, and not avoided.<br />Once again, I have to add the caveat: I do not know whether my words are coherent. The pneumonia is restricting oxygen supply to my one remaining lung. Please forgive any deficits in what I have written; my heart is not to destroy, but to heal.Habakkuk21https://www.blogger.com/profile/11928724752057162332noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-13981862816472195302015-06-17T11:52:02.301-05:002015-06-17T11:52:02.301-05:00I am waiting for someone to please, please, say to...I am waiting for someone to please, please, say to me something like "racial discrimination is wrong" so i can sneer "That's true for YOU."Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15222328459836041333noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-60230674356100598852015-06-17T11:26:05.682-05:002015-06-17T11:26:05.682-05:00"The camp comments from those gay men . . . l...<i>"The camp comments from those gay men . . . let's just say that I don't think I've blushed so much in my entire life!"</i><br /><br />Ah, but don't you see? The fact that you blushed proves you found the comments embarrassing and uncomfortable, QED you are a homophobe.<br /><br />One has to remember that in this particular kind of conflict the accusation is never about actions and deliberate direct effect, which can be falsified, but about attitude and unconscious indirect effect, which can't.<br /><br />Also, remember the functionalism in the philosophy: simply refusing to support certain beliefs or choices as enthusiastically as required, even as indirectly as arguing that some problems' advocated solutions may be cost-prohibitive or counterproductive, is as bad as active explicit criticism or denial of the problem, and likewise proof of hostile attitudes.<br /><br />These fallacies are not unique to either side, but it really does seem to me they are significantly more common in the side which, pace Alinsky, sees nothing wrong with any tactic as long as it gets results.Stephen J.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6244999628674918029.post-35603164149287816142015-06-17T11:02:05.284-05:002015-06-17T11:02:05.284-05:00@Anonymous at 10:59 AM: Yes. Some SA policemen u...@Anonymous at 10:59 AM: Yes. Some SA policemen used to train their police dogs to bite at the faces of suspects, tearing and ripping at the flesh. Once seen, never forgotten . . . and never repaired, either, under the pathetically inadequate medical care available to black people under <i>apartheid</i>.<br /><br />It was a sick, <i>evil</i> culture . . .Peterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10595089829300831372noreply@blogger.com