The ancient Greeks looked up at the sky in search of first principles. In fact, this is the root of Western ontological thought. In the beginning, there are principles, what mathematics calls axioms. The Reflexive Axiom, for instance, states that every number is equal to itself. This is true at all times and all places since the beginning of time. A proof in math always rests upon at least one axiom.
The root of Jewish thought is looking into the silence of the Cosmos expecting to hear a voice, a revelation of something beyond the world. That revelation cannot be discovered with passive indifference. Silence must be broken as it was in the beginning, when God said “Let there be…” To grossly simplify things, silence, indifference and neutrality are the hell of a cosmos without the word of God.
This being a short blog post, the above is a grossly simplified bit of comparative philosophy, but the takeaway here is to understand the two different ways to confront the world. More specifically, the two different ways to confront the unpleasant parts of the world, namely other people. The Christian seeks to bring the immoral back into line with first principles. The Jew will present them with indifference.
The former has a history of running around looking for monsters to slay. Even today, when our rulers have abandoned anything resembling Christianity, they run around looking for sinners to torment. Having run out of sinners worth tormenting, they invented new sins so they could create new sinners. That’s why you suddenly find yourself in trouble because you think men should not wear dresses.
The Jewish approach is to exile those who cannot reconcile themselves to God and the faith. It’s not just a physical separation; it is an emotional and spiritual one. The Yiddish expression “meh” that is usually interpreted as a shoulder shrug is a very serious insult, or at least intended as one. To be indifferent to someone’s point of view, to not even be willing to speak to their arguments, is to relegate them to the hell of silence.
Reading this tantrum on National Review this morning, it occurred to me that the Jews have it right on this score. Ted Nugent is a fool, a horse’s ass, who makes a mockery of himself on TV for money. I don’t know if he is an anti-Semite, but my hunch is he is not because he is too stupid to know the meaning of the term. For the same reason we don’t condemn the retarded to the gallows, we should not call guys like Nugent anti-Semitic.
The writer of that piece is just a hipster dufus with a mullet and a British accent so he added nothing to my thoughts on the subject. His purpose is virtue signaling. “Look at me, I’m a good thinker. The proof is I’m hollering at a bad thinker. See?” This is popular on the Left, but increasingly so on the modern Right, thus proving that there is very little space between the two.
Regardless, the right answer here is to simply ignore people like Nugent, if you are striving for a more thoughtful dialogue about topics under public consideration. If you and a buddy are having beers, deciding on your next hat, maybe Nugent has something to offer on head gear. Anything else, the response should be “meh” and leave it at that. Idiots are the background noise of the cosmos. You’ll never hear the call if you spend all your time listening to idiots.
Well I loved the first half of this piece, but I don’t think I can go more than about halfway with you regarding Ted Nugent. He is a wild man, a loose cannon, and that picture is rough. It could *be taken* as anti-Jew, and whoever made it might have intended it to be, but I don’t think he meant to use it that way. I read his reply that Cooke linked to, and I accept that. He’s just vociferously defending the 2nd Amendment, and trying to point out that Jews should want it defended more than anyone, and that… Read more »
I’d place Nugent in the category of harmless weirdo. I actually went to a Nugent concert in the 70’s, back when he was truly a mad man. I just think you ignore guys like that when they step on their dicks trying to comment upon important stuff. I’m a 2A guy to the core, but I don’t think he helps the cause. Probably does more harm than good.
That’s where I am with it too. “Airhead celebrity says something dumb — film at 11.” Ted, like all celebrities, should just shut up and sing… but if he doesn’t, I’m going to ignore him like I ignore the deep thoughts of every other celebrity.
I thought Ted’s post was sort of funny in a mocking sort of way. And it did underline the fact that a great many Jews in this country are left-wing, and despite the history of their own race have no problems taking away people’s ability to defend themselves. In fact, the vast majority of Jews voted for Obama in both elections, and in the second election it was quite clear that the administration was openly hostile to Israel. And Jews would vote for Obama in overwhelming numbers if he ran a third time despite the Iranian “treaty”. In addition, the… Read more »
Yes, but if you do happen to notice that they tend to identity vote en bloc, as do, say, La Raza or the New Panthers or the Ummah, then you must be a badthinker.
It’s OK for a Jewish commenter to notice that Israeli government is filled with socialists who undermine their own nation. If anyone else notices it, it seems like media Jews rise up as one to shout them down. Strange.
To look at Ted’s post and conclude that he is not a Jew-hater — I hate the stupid term “Anti-Semite” — is sophistry of the first order. If pinning Israeli flags on American Jews, referring to Jew York City, claiming that a Jewish conspiracy is behind every anti-2A movement, isn’t Jew hatred, I don’t know what else would qualify.
In the past I would want to defend Ted against his leftist detractors, but no more. He is an unhinged idiot.
I think that the post-WWII Zionists (the real ones running Israel, not the imaginary ones haunting the fever swamps of the anti-semites) would tell you that there are only so many times you can say “meh” before hitting back, else you run the risk of never being able to say “meh” again. The Jewish paradox informs our own predicament. How many times can we turn the other cheek before our own position becomes untenable? I went out with a friend (an outer party type but with close contact with inner party blokes) Friday night. He is an impressionable sort and… Read more »
You cannot ignore this guy…he is not alone…That is pure Kremlin’s agit prop…All the neo-nazi sites have Putin on equal footing with their semi-god Adolf Hitler…Vladimir Stalinovitch Pooty Poot is stirring maximum trouble worldwide in the hope of keeping the stolen Donbass and the Crimea peninsula without looking at a very near bankruptcy… He has given the French Front National Marine Lepen 40 millions Euros to push exactly the same agenda as Ted Nugent, so she fired Chauprade, her only Euro deputy, for badmouthing the muslim invaders of Europe….Zeuros are truly screwed…everybody is a Ted Nugent over there…at least, we… Read more »
“The former has a history of running around looking for monsters to slay. Even today, when our rulers have abandoned anything resembling Christianity, they run around looking for sinners to torment. Having run out of sinners worth tormenting, they invented new sins so they could create new sinners. That’s why you suddenly find yourself in trouble because you think men should not wear dresses.” I have to disagree. I’ve been reading a modern biography of Jesus, and the above paragraph is a pretty apt description of the attitude of the Pharisees, the people Jesus kept arguing with. Judaism eventually, after… Read more »
I think it is perfectly reasonable to say “Germany has a history of invading France.” That does not mean Germany only invades France or that every German is in favor of invading France. The purpose of these head faints in my posts are to setup points later in the post.
Great wordsmithing today, especially “the background noise of the cosmos.” You may, of course, meet my evaluation with indifference.
A keen and practical observation.
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Just read the article. My response is WTF. I went to school for near ten years with at least 50% Jews; yes at an Ivy. This was in the 60s and early 70s. Don’t remember many “meh” moments as my experiences were that the Jews were the activists in the classroom and in the protests. The Jews I knew then were not wallflowers. As to Ted Nugent, I have never followed popular music so I don’t know much of him but he sure showed a cognizant graphic of the Anti-Gun Crowd. Looks effective to me–I think it will resonate with… Read more »
This can be looked at on the left-right scale, the one that is actually circular, with the hard left and the hard right meeting at the same place–which is where the need to remake people and shout about their shortcomings prevails. The “indifference” area is at the other end of the spectrum, the “middle” in the old linear version of the left-right scale. Before the Internet, it was easier to be indifferent, out of sight and out of mind, and all that. Now all the shaming and virtue signaling is really a series of taunts, as words are the most… Read more »
“The proof is I’m hollering at a bad thinker. See?” This is popular on the Left, but increasingly so on the modern Right”
How much of this is folks on “the right”, simply quoting, and mocking with the “unintended” consequences of their own “bad think”, those on the left?
Of course, with only….say….140 characters, it’s tough to assume the original “new think” signaling (dog whistle, code speak, challenge/countersign…) being mocked will be recognized, or apparent, ironically… out of context.
I’d argue that most anti-Semites aren’t actually anti-Semites — as in, they’ve never met a “Semite,” and their “proof” of the Jews’ perfidy is some easily debunked nonsense like “there were no Jews in New York on 9/11!” Historically, every major change in European living standards sparked a pogrom…. until there were no more Jews to target, as in England, so they started targeting “witches.” You can’t burn things like “the printing press,” “freedom of expression,” and “double-entry accounting” — i.e the REAL cause of massive cultural and economic shifts — at the stake, but you can burn people… especially… Read more »
Honestly, I’ve never really understood antisemitism or anti-Antisemitism. Jews are interesting for biological and anthropological reasons. A small homogeneous group operating as a guest population teaches us a lot about the intersection of biology and culture. Obviously, if you are a Christian, you need an appreciation of Judaism. Otherwise, I don’t have more or less interest in Jews than I do Italians. I’ve known a lot of Jews and the idea of them operating a worldwide conspiracy is laughable. That said, if you don’t want to be around Jews or Greeks or Italians, I don’t care. Humans have prejudices. It… Read more »
I think it’s because, as a distinct group in the human ecology, their entire history is based upon exploiting a distinct niche in the human ecology. They work for the government. Their culture selects for the administrative layer. You may not be able to reach the king, but you can get his chamberlains. When the king falls, his administrators will suffer. Look at the minority Tutsis in Rwanda. Few know of the genocide by Idi Amin of the Indian manager class in Uganda. The 10% of Tligani rule Ethiopia in a tribal dictatorship, soon their turn will come. The Spanish… Read more »
I find antisemitism fascinating, as it’s one of those cognitive kill switches — otherwise very bright guys like Steve Sailer just can’t get their underpants untwisted about the perfidious Jooos!, and I’d love to know why. Look: If it can’t be falsified, it’s dogma. I can’t prove that the Rand Corporation and the reverse vampires aren’t reading my thoughts…. but if that’s the standard I’m gonna use, I can’t hardly complain when I hear that the majority of Millennials prefer socialism to capitalism (or whatever). If you don’t want to hang around Jews, fine. Israel is a nation like any… Read more »
You may as well say there is no vast shadowy conspiracy of virtue signaling. But there is, and it comes easily, without a handbook or meetings. If I belonged to an ethnic group (I don’t) and they were prone to representing my mental universe I would be happy to conspire with them.
A conspiracy to do what, exactly? That’s the part which is never defined. The purpose of virtue-signalling is to pump yourself up in the eyes of your peers. What does the Worldwide Jewish Conspiracy aim to achieve? Saying “Jews tend to share similar attitudes” isn’t evidence of a conspiracy, any more than saying “Cowboys fans tend to like the Cowboys” is a vast, shadowy, pro-Jerry Jones conspiracy.
The conspiracy is Universalism. Mankind as a whole has always striven to organize a universal state, from the Romans, to the Khans, to the present–socialism or Islam, two side of the same bad coin. But it is the “socialist” brand that crosses borders most easily, and the attraction of socialist ideology rises with IQ. Very intelligent people tend to over value intelligence, and believe they can understand everything and direct everything. All experience supports this being a Jewish sandbox that lets anybody play. Intellectual capital is everything because results don’t matter.
Anti-semitism is a true mental disease…These guys actually blame JOO for every ill possible…They actually check under their bed in the morning to see how many are there! The Chinese have a minority that get very close to the Zeuros’ imaginary jews, and it is the HAKKAS…A Han people that escaped the northern frontier’ wars with the Mongols…once in the coastal areas, of course, all the good land was taken and in town, all the bureaucratic jobs were also occupied…So, they did like the Jews and worked in financial matters and industrial trades. But the Emperors always persecuted them harshly… Read more »
Twain: “Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.”
The Tribe isn’t indifferent and never was, they have their doctrine of “Chnage the World” (tikkum olam), and the rest of the Gentiles have always felt their power and wrath.
Isn’t no accident that the two world biggest religions are inspired by Jews, like the modern day political movements (Marxism to Neocomservatism) and the whole Freudian psycho-babble, Hollywood sets the agenda, the Tribe is in full control of the narrative and they will not only take our guns but our very soul
Naughty boys, they need time on the time out step.