Sunday Miscellany

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To keep this blog interesting, I clip stories from Twitter and other places and save them for later use. Often, there’s simply not much that needs to be said about them so I thought I’d clear out the attic today and combine a bunch of them into a single post. There’s no theme here, other than I happen to notice them for some reason.

I saw this posted on Maggie’s Farm yesterday. I know a few people in the drug and alcohol treatment rackets. To a man, they say that their methods are entirely useless on people lacking the will or capacity to stop using. They also report that almost all addicts are more than a bit nuts and their drug and alcohol abuse is a symptom of that.

The question, of course, is whether these programs are anything more than a clearing house for addicts. Eventually, their drinking or drug taking gets them into trouble and they head off to treatment. Those with the will and ability to get sober do so and those lacking it fall down further. In other words, the treatment is irrelevant. It is the idea of it that works as a sorting mechanism…

The founder of Green Peace is a heretic. I was told by a Jewish friend that Jewish men naturally become more religious as they get older. He jokingly refers to Temple as God’s waiting room. It seems to me that Gentile men go the other way and become less religious in old age. Not only that, they become less tolerant of social codes and taboos.

British men seem to be famous for this last part. Something snaps and their words come raw and unvarnished. John Derbyshire is a good example. James Watson is another. Patrick Moore is Canadian, but either English or Irish ethnicity. I suspect that’s what is happening here. He has hit that stage where he is no longer willing to pretend and out comes the unvarnished truth…

I find the comments are often better than the content of news stories. Steve Sailer’s blog is mostly a comment magnate. Sailer seems to have figured out that he can throw some chum in the water and get a bunch of great feedback. It makes his blog one of the best on the Interwebs. Comment #13 in this thread is a good example.

It’s funny how most men are fine with homosexuals being homosexuals as long as they agree to the unwritten rule that they keep it out of public life. This seems to be our natural and default position and it’s the claim that “the personal is political” that is new and alien. A look at the origin of the word “idiot” is instructive:

Idiot is a word derived from the Greek ἰδιώτης, idiōtēs (“person lacking professional skill”, “a private citizen”, “individual”), from ἴδιος, idios (“private”, “one’s own”).[1] In Latin the word idiota (“ordinary person, layman”) preceded the Late Latin meaning “uneducated or ignorant person”.[2]
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An idiot in Athenian democracy was someone who was characterized by self-centeredness and concerned almost exclusively with private—as opposed to public—affairs.[6] Idiocy was the natural state of ignorance into which all persons were born and its opposite, citizenship, was effected through formalized education.[6] In Athenian democracy, idiots were born and citizens were made through education…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idiot

“The personal is political” is a post-1960s concept that seems to be killing itself via Twitter as we speak. Give every silly girl the ability to broadcast her every passing thought via Twitter and the demand that we accept the personal as political drowns in its own waste.

I’m fond of pointing out that people join mass movements out of self-loathing. They seek to swap their natural identity for that of the group. It’s why the members of a movement compete with one another as to who is the most committed. Inevitably this zealotry contest ends with purges and maybe worse.

It’s also why Cultural Marxism so aggressively attacks the private space of citizens. Privacy is a challenge. Someone who wishes to maintain a private life has something to hide and therefore he may be a heretic. You never know until you turn him inside out and look. Islam has a similar suspicion of privacy, which is not a coincidence…

One of the things I love about Roman history is just how many incompetent rulers they were able to muster, yet survive. People on the rise accumulate a lot of cultural capital. In periods of bad rulers, they live off that excess capital from a previous age. The Roman Republic and a few early emperors accumulated a lot of cultural capital.

America is another story. The rulers from the Civil War through WW2 built a huge gap between America and the rest of the world. Conquering Europe and Asia in one shot is no small thing. But, it does appear the subsequent run of bad emperors is frittering it away. Obama will be remembered, I suspect, as a man thrust into a position for which he was unqualified, thus hastening the decline of the empire…

If you want to see how it ends for the Occident, it is right here in this story from Sweden. The religion of the West is a worship of the other. So much so the other now has a veto over the daily life of the European. In America, the cuckoldry is focused on black males, but in Europe it is the Mohammedan…

The following tweet was in my twitter feed for some reason:

I have never heard of Pharrell Williams. I’m always amazed by the number of famous people out there that are unknown to me. I bet I know no one who knows who this is either. But, someone does  as he has become fabulously rich at something…

Finally, the Cult has been tub thumping about this story for a week or more. Indian Wells has finally been redeemed as the steroidal Williams sisters made their triumphant return to the place formerly filled with black-hearted racists. I could not fathom why this was a such a big deal to the NYTimes. They have been covering it like an election.

Then it occurred to me that anti-racism has turned a corner. It is no longer about chasing after the blue-eyed devils. It is about the worship of black people now. They have become the chosen people of the American Left. The triumphant return of the Williams sisters is symbolic of the triumph of this weird new cult built around the worship of black people…