Seeds of Intellectual Destruction

American Thimker ^ | January 6, 2007 | By J.R. Dunn

[Valin]

Wednesday January 3, 2007
Wretchard, Sunsara Taylor With Hugh Hewitt
Hewitt: Hour 2 - Belmont Club blogger Wretchard, plus an enlightening interview with a member of the fever swamp, World Can't Wait's Sunsara Taylor.

http://www.townhall.com/MediaPlayer/AudioPlayer.aspx?ContentGuid=d7875f4c-826c-4bdc-bef0-2cecbe98fd12

Sunsara Taylor: WARNING WARNING Before listing to Sunsara you should
1 have a extra large heafty bag at hand.
2 drink (at least) 1 fifth of Wild Turkey
3 have the suicide prevention hotline on speed dial.

[antisocial]

Bump for later

[RightWhale]

At any rate the Ds are back in power, so anything that happens is on their watch.

[jordan8]

When the left talks about American hegemony, it should be read WHITE American hegemony, the white is usually (but far from always) silent, but seldom far beneath the surface. The left had degenerated into a white hating racist movement by the late 1960's, and until you acknowledge that fact you are saying very little. Knee-jerk anti-Americanism may have had its roots in the cold war but nobody of any consequence will now publicly defend the idea of a command economy, so "anti-racism" must fill the void. The left doesn't simply object to capitalist hegemony abroad they object to the very existence of the core culture of America, and are well on the way to getting rid of it. Susan Sontag's remark "White people are the cancer of human history" is an eloquent summary of the new left's post communist morality and the explanation of why the thinking decried in this article didn't disappear with the cold war

[Yardstick]

Wow, great piece. What's interesting is that there's nothing in it that any Freeper doesn't already know. Conservatives understand the Left forwards and backwards. We see clearly what they're up to. We know what makes them tick with scientific precision. Meanwhile, liberals chronically misjudge conservatives and misunderstand conservatism. According to the doctrines of Lao Tzu (is that the Chinese strategist's name?) we should be winning decisively. It's troubling to think that the Left, whose ideas are so detached from reality, is as successful as it is. On the other hand, human foibles like class envy are very real, and the Left exploits these with great skill.

[preacher]

Outstanding observation:

"What's interesting is that there's nothing in it that any Freeper doesn't already know. Conservatives understand the Left forwards and backwards. We see clearly what they're up to. We know what makes them tick with scientific precision."

It's so damned frustrating to see the Left for what it is and not be effective in doing much about it. It's fun to discuss these things with people who agree with us but what do we really accomplish? Most of the opinion forming elements, academia, the press, etc. are totally controlled by the Left.

[driftless2]

Unfortunately we have reached the point where a great many Americans don't really believe in America anymore. Not the America I knew growing up fifty years ago. No one at the time thought that we were perfect. But we knew that America was good even though from time to time some of its citizens or actions were flawed. Now we have millions of citizens who would like to see us turned into another effete, toothless, European-style nanny state completely at the mercy of our enemies. In short, most libs don't believe in America.

[Dumb_Ox]

Countries fighting legitimate defensive wars don't suffer this kind of erosion of public support in the midst of hostilities.

Ergo...

The public has been brainwashed into pacifism!!!!

The mass of citizens, as described in an earlier work, White Collar (1951), were effectively mindless androids bullied and channeled by the bureaucracy.

Mindless militarists, mindless pacifists. This reminds me of the old advertising saw: half of the public is mindless, but nobody knows which half.

The potency of the doctrine rose not from any innate theoretical brilliance or predictive power, but from the fact that it embodied a number of impulses (usually involving petty resentments) as old as human nature itself. The notion that some vague "they" - usually identified with politicians and industrialists -- were running things for their own benefit.

On the contrary, the self-interested nature of elites is a presupposition of the American political order, which the designers of the constitution were at pains to sublimate into drives conducive to good government. Their design has mostly failed.

[neverdem]

Still got 27 replies · 493+ views this time since I posted it last month. I linked it on another thread yesterday. RKV wasn't familiar the author.