tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50381722915488098872012-01-24T17:05:32.878-08:00A MYTHO-SOCIAL JOURNEY THRU POLITICS, CULTURE, & HISTORY BEFORE THE FALL.Andrea Nyx Hemerahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16795467390913806495noreply@blogger.comBlogger971100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5038172291548809887.post-59125418110619844082012-01-24T17:04:00.001-08:002012-01-24T17:05:32.963-08:00

Among books I read last year were the biography of PAULINE KAEL: LIFE IN THE DARK by Brian Kellow and BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER by Amy Chua. I thought to write about the Kael book, but I could go on forever about Kael, and so I decided to save it for another day. On Chua’s book I have only a few things to say, so I might as well get it over with. I hadn’t heard of Amy Chua until last year

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What distinguished Christian Power from forms of power derived from other spiritual traditions? What did Christian thinkers, activists, strategists, and leaders grasp that spiritualists of other religions failed to do? Was the Christian strategy for power consciously organized or accidentally arrived at? No faith or religion, however profound, has a chance of shaping and changing the world

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*In the spirit of Michael King(aka Martin L. King), the following speech is mostly a work of plagiarismI HAVE A DREAM 2012. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration of truth in the history of blogosphere..Six score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand today, signed the Emancipation Proclamation so that black slaves

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Many American think-tanks are alarmed by what they see as the resurgence of Chinese nationalism, especially among the young. If American experts/observers of China in the 80s encountered idealistic and open-minded youths who admired the freedoms/rights of America while being critical of the Chinese Communist Party, a sea-change in Chinese attitude appears to have taken place through the 90s and

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There’s a saying, ‘with great power comes great responsibility’. But, great or not, with any power comes some responsibility. Everyone has some power, and so he is responsible to the extent of the power he has. Even a poor man has power over his children or dog or cat. Freedom is a kind of power. Though often defined in opposition to power, power simply means more freedom to do as one pleases.

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SOCIAL NETWORK, directed by the supremely gifted David Fincher and surely the most talked-about film of 2010 as well as the most critically acclaimed, could be said to be a flawless piece of work; or maybe too flawless, to the point where flawlessness becomes a flaw in itself. But the problem owes less to Fincher than to the clever–maybe brilliant–but soulless writing and acting, respectively, of

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MOUNTAINS OF THE MOON is an outstanding film. Rare is the period film set in a non-Western locale that seems strangely authentic and devoid of overly exotic fetishism and/or preachy moralizing. To be sure, there have been many decent genre movies about whites in Africa hunting, warring, and adventuring. The older ones tend to romanticize the white man as upright, dashing, and fun in contrast to

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Mark Romanek’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel NEVER LET ME GO is so awful I thought I’d need organ transplants from a thousand clones to keep me alive through its 100 minutes of aching arty posturing. (Romanek could have used a brain transplant himself.) In a way, this film’s main problem isn’t much different from the dilemma faced by its protagonists. It is an example of creative cloning.

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‘Diving Bell and the Butterfly’ by Julian Schnabel is a splendid film: smart and beautiful, at times uplifting despite the depressing condition of its protagonist. (If ‘The Miracle Worker’, the story of Helen Keller, is about a child without sight or sound being ‘awakened’ to the world around her, ‘Diving’ is the reverse, a story of a man who’s seen, heard, and done everything suddenly being shut

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The following is intended for and will likely make sense to only those who’ve seen David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ, not least because of the complicated plot twists and the discussion of the surprise ending. For those who’ve seen it, I’m assuming your knowledge of the basic storyline, main characters, and themes. Cronenberg is someone I acknowledge as a personal artist but do not particularly like. I

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It’s common knowledge among Rock fans that the Beach Boys’ PET SOUNDS has long been rated as one of the greatest albums ‘of all time’. In just about any poll of Rock critics, personalities, and artists, PET SOUNDS is routinely listed in the top 20, top 10, or even top 5. It has been canonized along with titles such as SGT. PEPPER’S LONELY HEARTS CLUB, ARE YOU EXPERIENCED?, WHO’S NEXT, THE CLASH

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The Japanese title of this film is SEPPUKU, which, to the best of my knowledge, is the proper term for ritual suicide committed by the samurai. But its popularization in the West as ‘harakiri’–a slang term–probably accounts for the foreign release title. Possibly, the difference between ‘seppuku’ and ‘harakiri’ is that of ‘intercourse’ and ‘fuc*ing’. ‘Seppuku’ also connotes correct

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AVATAR was of course the most hyped and talked about movie of 2009 and became the biggest box-office smash ever(not adjusted for inflation). There was nonstop buzz about the biggest budget ever, astounding breakthroughs in CGI and 3D imaging, epic preparation and herculean hardships, and conceptual genius/imagination. It has hailed as the magnum opus, the heroic fulfillment of a lifelong dream

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(The following piece will likely only make sense to those familiar with the six major films of Sergio Leone, but then maybe not. I urge the reader to watch A Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, Duck You Sucker, and Once Upon a Time in America as they constitute one of the most exciting and interesting bodies of work in cinema

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My first impression of DUCK YOU SUCKER was something like “pretty fun movie.” A big admirer of Leone, I’d wanted to see it for a long time. But I was underwhelmed by its flaws and quickly realized why it's the least remembered and celebrated of his films, at least in the US. Still, I liked it enough, and there was no mistaking the unique and distinctive sensibility and style.Problems with the

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If most war movies dwell on the physical manifestations of war–understandable given the nature of war–, there is a subset of the war film genre called the POW movie where the story takes place away from the battlefield. Because we see enemies coexisting in close quarters and the imbalance of power between the captors and the captives, the emphasis is more on the psychology than on the physicality

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SPOILERS GALORE! DO NOT READ THIS IF YOU HAVEN'T SEE THE MOVIES(which I highly recommend).For whatever reason, certain lesser films have greater impact on us than truly great ones, leaving us with the dichotomy of ‘favorite movies vs. great films’. Though film lovers generally agree on a core canon of films reserved for posterity, everyone has his or her list of favorite films(some of which may

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A general assumption prevails that communism failed for its extremism, and that capitalism may fail for the same reason. There is no doubt some truth to this. Communism is an extreme form of socialism and suppressed and stifled freedom and initiative. And the kind of hyper-globalized–over-extended–capitalism where the finance industry has grown ever more powerful is also causing havoc all over

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Consider the various forms of supremacism. We are most familiar with the kind where a people claim to be superior to other peoples–as with the ‘Aryan’ Nazis–or when a people are accused of such tendencies–Zionist Jews tagged with ‘Jewish Supremacism’.But there is another kind of supremacism, which might be called toady supremacism–or perhaps sidekick supremacism. This is a kind of supremacism

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Wolfgang Petersen’s DAS BOOT is justifiably considered the best submarine movie. Though no expert of submarine films, I recall the dramatically effective ENEMY BELOW with Robert Mitchum, which had a suspenseful and ennobling final scene that left a powerful impression on me as a child. Throughout the film, the two sides ruthlessly clash iron against iron, but when confronted face to face, they

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A review about Zwick’s DEFIANCE, a morale-boosting and morally bullying film about Jewish partisans fighting for survival against Nazis and their Belarusian collaborators. Zwick’s previous film was BLOOD DIAMOND, which I haven’t seen, but my impression is it blames Western greed for the political bloodshed in Africa. Isn’t it bemusing that Jews, who denounce antisemitic scapegoating for all the

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So, what’s the big deal about this movie? It’s lavishly and handsomely produced but that can be said about any big-budget Hollywood movie. It has action and violence aplenty, jokes and gore galore, and movie references for those in the know. But why do we need 2 ½ hrs of glitzy trash when 90 minutes would have more than sufficed. (The saving grace of the movie’s length is there won’t be IB part

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Some thoughts on the ALTERNATIVE RIGHT article:http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/untimely-observations/elena-kagan-professor-hate-crime/#disqus_threadElena Kagan:"This Essay on the regulation of hate speech and pornography addresses both practicalities and principles. I take it as a given that we live in a society marred by racial and gender inequality, that certain forms of speech

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http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/virtus/what-happened-to-honor/This is an interesting but problematic article because HONOR is a difficult concept. Honor is something felt than explained. Because honor is a sense, people are bound to disagree as to what it is or isn't. There is family honor, individual honor, military honor, gangster honor, etc. There is honor among men, among women,

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http://www.alternativeright.com/main/the-magazine/wanted-something-to-dream/"I have argued that the reasons campaigners have failed to make real political progress, in spite of having logical arguments, a moral case, and massive supporting data, is that, in the effort to persuade and inspire action, key aspects of human psychology have been ignored. Even though he is typically steeped in

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Introduction: The basic point of this piece is premised on the notion that the ideology of the modern right–Nazism included–was more closely associated with ‘spiritual’ reverence for nature than the ideologies of the modern left were. Many early modern rightists were animal lovers and/or nature worshipers and tended to emphasize the ‘irrational’ and sacred link between man and nature that was

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When people ponder about the appeal of Yahweh or Jehovah(or Allah for that matter), they generally focus on His monotheistic nature or his mercifulness. Through His oneness and goodness, He represents universal truth and morality for all men and for all times. True enough. But less discussed is His all-powerfulness which is the third element in the trinity of God’s greatness. The Jews have been

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http://www.alternativeright.com/main/blogs/untimely-observations/the-myth-of-judeo-christian-values/ Gottfried’s article offers fresh perspectives on Jewish-Christian relations. The term ‘Judeo-Christian’ has become part of the political, cultural, and spiritual lexicon in the Western World. Both Jews and Christians have reasons for embracing the term. Jews, vastly outnumbered by Christians, use

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Many reasons are put forth for affirmative action policies, but there’s one that is almost never discussed. Affirmative Action, especially at top ranked schools, is a means by which the liberal Jewish elites seek to gain control of the intellectual, economic, cultural, and political leaderships of the two main minority communities–blacks and Hispanics. Since both groups are very large and tend to

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Noam Chomsky the famous left-wing Jew spoke at length about manufacturingconsent, about which he must be an expert since he’s been manufacturing ideologicalconsent among his zombie-followers. Though some people value Chomsky as a voicethat speaks truth to power, he’s really in the tradition of Lenin and Trotsky. Chomsky speaks not so much truth to power but lie to power so as to can hog and

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In politics the enemy of your enemy is your friend. We need to remember this ifwe are to understand why Western feminism for the most part turns a blind eyeto the mistreatment of women in the Islamic world.It isn't so much that Western feminists approve of the culture and values ofthe Islamic world. It's that they see Western Patriarchal-racism-imperialism-capitalism to be their main enemy.

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In life it's often necessary to apologize because every individual commits wrongs. Sometimes, it's accidental, neglectful, or mean-spirited, but in any case, we wouldn't be human without conscience, and conscience requires that we owe up to our faults and apologize to family members, friends, co-workers, or anyone we may have wronged. But, apology in the political sphere is another thing. I don't

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HURT LOCKER is a film about war as drug–ironic considering our ongoing War on Drugs. Though HURT LOCKER deals with the Iraq War, it may shed light on why we fight the war on drugs. There is, of course, the sincere wish to be rid of the scourge of narcotics. However, could there also be an addiction to keep on fighting among those involved? Could they be addicted to the fighting the addiction?

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We value the ‘rational’ life because there’s a certain logic and consistency to reason. We prefer order to chaos–well, maybe not in rock music and sports(though they too require basic order or form at the core. Thus, we have a tendency to project reason onto emotions. Since it may be possible to predict result B following from action A, there is a temptation to believe that action A will not

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It’s often been said by the Left and even by the Right that nations or political/cultural/ethnic boundaries are artificial or created by man. In other words, nothing ordains Germany, France, Vietnam, Mexico, or Canada as natural entities. They were all created by man or tribes of men, and thus they are said to be ‘artificial’ or ‘imagined’ communities.After all, a deer doesn’t understand the

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　It may seem odd that there are so many angry and bitter left-wing Jews when Jews are the most successful people in America. Even most leftist Jews make more money than most conservative white Americans. Some of the richest people in America are leftist Jews with innovative ideas, professional connections, and business acumen. And, even non-business leftist Jews do quite well in journalism,

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I came upon an interesting article by Steve Sailer which surmises that the rate of cultural change slowed down significantly since the 1970, and this may account for the waning ‘Culture Gap’ between genertions: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/generation_gap/ (Of course, some may argue that we tend to take less notice of generational gaps less because they’ve become ubiquitous; one seems to

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Though the Frankfurt School is justifiably attacked by the White Right, there are certain lessons to be learned from its development and influence. It could be said that the Frankfurt School saved(or salvaged) Marxism–and leftism in general–and carried it one step further. Paradoxically enough, Frankfurters did this not by building on Marxist dogma but going back to the origins of Marxism. They

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We loosely associate tribalism with selfishness and universalism with selflessness. It is said that a tribal–or particularist–person only cares about himself and his community whereas the universalist person cares about others and all of humanity. This may indeed be true in some respects, but selfless particularism and selfish universalism also seem to be quite commonplace. We only need to look

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If anything is well-suited for Jewish power and influence, it is finance. Jews are to the West what the British Imperialists were to India–a small but powerful minority occupying the role of the POWER ELITE. Since a minority elite lacks power-by-numbers, they must rely on the strategy of divide-and-rule. Thus, over the centuries in Europe, Jews served the gentile aristocracy in oppressing the

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There is a prevailing view among the antisemitic and some of the counter-Jewite Right that the decline and dissipation of the white race and Western culture are the invariable result of the influence of the Frankfurt School. Some even argue that the Frankfurt variation of Marxism ultimately did more damage than hardline Marxism ever did. If the main school of Marxism called for violent revolution

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What is one of the most blaring contradictions on the Left? It is none other than the ideology or spirituality of "white guilt". This is amusing considering that the Left prides itself as the RATIONALIST inheritors of the Enlightenment tradition opposed to religion. As rational materialists, leftists staked their claim of intellectual superiority by characterizing their methods, theories, and

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Many on the White Right paint a social portrait where black males are committing wave after wave of sexual crimes against white women. According to this narrative most sexual encounters between blacks and whites are violent, with black males brutally raping, beating, and even killing white women. White women are presented as the primary victims of black sexual aggression, and for that reason,

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　Jews have long been associated with finance–banking, investment, speculation, etc. The profession that had once made Jews servile and dependent on the gentile elites of Europe and America eventually made them the lords of the world economy. The finance sector no longer serves the productive sector but has come to command the entire economy. The world of finance and economics, like that of

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　Some people may regard Wajda’s Katyn as ‘too little, tool late’, and it’s not hard to understand why. The mass killing of Polish officers happened long ago, and the official line during the yrs under communism was that the Nazis were to blame and Soviets were the liberators. Even when the truth was confessed by Gorbachev in the late 80s, its impact outside Poland was limited. Liberal media

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　Good many conservatives promote the idea of American Exceptionalism as a hallmark of what America is all about. Our nation is supposed to be a ‘City on a Hill’ and a beacon of freedom to all other peoples around the world. US is supposed to stand for progress and human rights, and so forth and so on. They mention the Founding Fathers and Ronald Reagan. Didn’t the Founders establish a new kind of

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Though it’s often(and properly and justifiably)been pointed out that Columbus arrived on a continent already inhabited by other peoples, one can still make an effective argument that Columbus DISCOVERED America. To some extent, this is a debate about semantics, but there’s more to it than meets the eye. In a very true sense, Columbus did indeed discover America in at least two ways.First, most

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Jared Diamond’s GUNS, GERMS, AND STEEL was a great success with both the elite and the not-so-unwashed-masses. The book argued that the West(and to a lesser extent the East)gained a decisive advantage over natives of Africa, the Americas, and other places due to natural-environmental factors. Soil in the temperate zone was more suited for agriculture. Animals in that zone that could be

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http://www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2009/09/tape_shows_beat.php Initially, the police reported the beating as racially motivated but then back-tracked and stated that it had resulted from a squabble over a seat. I would argue it’s irrelevant whether it was racially MOTIVATED or not. After all, black kids often beat up one another all the time. They sometimes kill one another over gym shoes. So,

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Country music studs consider themselves tough, manly, and virile. I’m sure a good number of them boys were at the award ceremony. Yet, none of them came to the defense of the lovely Taylor Swift who was harassed, bullied, and intimidated by Kanye West, a jive-ass Negro of the worst sort.Now, suppose the award had gone to a popular black female singer. Suppose some white male country singer came

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It’s not enough to talk about the LIBERAL MEDIA. We all know that MSM is liberal-biased. What is truly dangerous is not so much that the media is dominated by liberals but that it is mostly owned and dominated by liberal and leftist JEWS. If we accuse MSM of harboring generic liberalism, powerful media Jews can hide behind non-Jewish liberals(who happen to be far less powerful than the Jews)

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Pat Buchanan's "Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World" is a necessary book countering certain popular myths surrounding World War I and II. We like good guy vs. bad guy narratives, and both wars--especially the second--have been sold as triumph of good over evil. Academics and Historians know more--and think differently--than the

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The Left has several advantages on the issue of Free Speech and Hate Speech. They have a long record of fighting for free speech going back to days of HUAC and Joe McCarthy. When conservatives went after communists and fellow-travelers, leftists and liberals–many of them Jews–took a seemingly principled stand which called for absolute freedom of speech. Back in those days when white people freely

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Conservatives are busy warning us of the looming danger of "communism" to our free market economy. According to this narrative, businesses of America are what makes this country great. Well, who can disagree with the dynamism of capitalism? But, what we have seen develop over the past decades is entitlement capitalism. More and more people expect capitalism to ensure most people with the

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Many white people complain that black tend to be lazy, dependent, criminal, loud, aggressive, and anti-intellectual. Black people complain that this is due to the centuries-old legacy of white slavery and discrimination that followed. They say that black people were ‘bred’ this way by white folks. So, if black students don’t take their studies as seriously as white students, it’s because white

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The recent incident involving the arrest of Harvard African-American Studies professor by Sgt. Crowley(who happens to be white) ignited a discussion across the nation about race, history, crime, and etc. This is both unfortunate and welcome. Unfortunate because it obfuscates what really happened that night–a pompous snot-nosed downity(prone to looking down on social inferiors) black professor

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There used to the notion of the 'uppity nigger'. An uppy was a black guy who 'didn't know his place'. At worst, he acted like he wanted to push everyone around. Many whites disliked the uppy. They felt threatened and/or offended that a black person would strive to be the equal of white folks. But, some white people embraced the uppy ideal. Some white folks felt that the oppressed blacks had a

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During the campaign, Obama said blue collar white folks were ‘bitter.’ Today, Obama called the white cops of Cambridge, Ma "STUPID" for doing their job–checking up on a possible burglary at the house of Professor or Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (These black guys sure love pompous names for themselves). It’s no wonder Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor the WISE LATINA. After all, she had ruled against

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On the passing of Michael Jackson King Jr., and what he meant for American society/history. Celebrity culture is nothing new in the 21st century, but with the exponential rise of mass media and high-tech gadgetry penetrating deeper into our lives celebrity-dom is turning into a Hydra-like monster. To be sure, not much technology is needed to create frenzied mass devotion among a large segments

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Advocates of ‘gay marriage’ keep demanding rational reasons as to why we oppose it, but they don’t realize that our views on ‘gay marriage’ goes beyond Reason. Humans are essentially emotional beings, and our use of reason relating to social matters are premised on our basic emotions. These emotions must be controlled and guided by reason, but we should not deny them. Denial of basic emotions

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For the prevention of disease people need to develop immunities. Immunities develop as a result of coming in contact with germs. Too much contact with germs and one becomes infected and dies. Too little contact with germs, and one doesn’t develop the necessary immunities to fight off other germs. So, while parents must provide clean environments for their children, an antiseptic environment is

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If you listen to liberals, there’s nothing worse than HATE. Indeed, they want to suppress ‘hate speech’. But, is hatred always or necessarily a bad thing? Don’t liberals hate certain ideas, things, and peoples as well? We need to consider two issues. What is the true nature and purpose of hate, and how do liberals define hate? Once that’s well understood, we’ll better underst the role of hatred

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I'm sure all of you have realized that the term 'actress' has become something of a dirty word. All the actresses in Hollywood now refer to themselves as 'actors'. They think they are standing up for new freedom, justice, equality, and progress but they are only lobotomastically toeing the latest Politically Correct Party Line. So much for originality.Now, I can understand why some women want to

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When surveying the history of communism, we focus on what communists did to pre-existing capitalists–the businessmen, entrepreneurs, bankers, landowners, and other members of the propertied class. Some intellectuals will, even today, find justifications for what communists did, but few still believe that communism is a viable economic system. Therefore, majority of thinkers, even on the left,

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There are several reasons why Obama has won over many Americans, but I shall consider two. There are two kinds of Obama supporters. There is the genuinely duped, the kind of people who really look at him as the messiah of CHANGE and HOPE for whatever pitiful reason–ignorance, sappiness, guilt, fear, anxiety, etc. But, there is also the duplicitous, the kind of people who know exactly who and what

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It’s often been asked why communism killed so many people if the goal was to liberate mankind. In a way, this question answers itself. Any war, crusade, or revolution seeking to change the world is an act of violence. Consider the fact that America was on the ‘good guy’ side of the Good War–WWII–yet killed millions of civilians through aerial bombings and other methods. US even dropped two big

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In some ways it’s not hard to understand why women tend to be more liberal than men. Indeed, it is also true that effeminate or metro-sexual men also tend to be more liberal. One could argue that liberalism is soft and feminine(matriarchal or nanny-ish) while conservatism is hard and masculine(patriarchal or guardian-ish). It could well be that women tend to be kinder, gentler, and more

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The misconception of love as pacifist.Since at least the time of Jesus, there's been this idea that love is about peace, harmony, and so on. This concept of love is pacifist if not exactly passive--Jesus urged his followers to go out, actively embrace your fellow men, and love. And, it's true that there has long been an idea that dichotomized love against hate and linked love with peace while

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If antisemitism is a unified theory(of science, religion, history, etc) that views Jews and/or Jewish culture as essentially sinister, philosemitism argues the very opposite. Philosemitism is a grand theory that says Jews are the fountain of much if not all that are wise and noble. It says Jews are inherently good, or at least better than other people. It believes that Jews are essentially

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You cannot gain national power in this country without the approval or consent of Jewish power. You’re best off if the Jews fully support you. But, if the Jews don’t like you or your views, you must at least win their consent or mild approval. And for conservatives the only way to win this approval is by supporting Zionism 100%. Doing so the conservative candidate will win support from

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Proponents of ‘gay marriage’ say that people–mostly on the Right–who oppose it are against Marriage Equality. Many on the Right deny this because ‘equality’ has become a sacred cow, which is rather hilarious because no society on Earth is more competitive and hierarchical(in a meritocratic way)than the United States. After all, liberals live to succeed in business–be in Hollywood, law, medicine,

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Though both liberals and libertarians talk about the The People, both have elitist blinders on when it comes to social reality. Elitism in and of itself is not a bad thing. There is hierarchy everywhere and in everything. In the military the special forces are better trained and more skilled than regular troops. In sports, you have professionals as opposed to mere amateurs. There are colleges

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The social psychologist Kevin MacDonald argues that Jews pose a problem to gentile majorities through the Culture of Critique. There is indeed a COC at the core of modern Jewish culture, but that isn’ the main problem. Problem is not Critique but Subversion, for Critique can be positive and even necessary for the health, survival, and regeneration of a community.It is critique that allows people

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Though millions gaze at him as The One, Obama struck me as shady as Clinton was slick and Bush was dumb. Until recently, however, I would have regarded him as no worse than a weasel, a common creature in politics. But, Obama’s recent reneging on his promise to Armenians makes him nothing less than–there is no other word–a piece of scum. I understand the realpolitik considerations of American

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As a pragmatist and student of history, Obama knows well enough that capitalism produces wealth and that modern socialism essentially amounts to taxing the private sector to maintain the bureaucratic state. Few people on the Left would argue for socialism as means of production as well as for distribution. Most people agree that capitalism produces far greater wealth than any other system and

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We tend to look upon slavery as a great evil, a scourge that ravaged mankind all through history. By our modern moral standards this is understandable. We believe in ‘human rights’, individual freedom, and equality of man. So, from our perspective slavery can only be regarded as a great sin and a terrible stain on those who’ve practiced it. Of course, white people have been blamed most for

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Planet of the Apes has always been one of my favorite films. I loved it as a kid though the first viewing freaked me out; I had screaming fits and turned it off after the first 30 min–I must have been 5 yrs old. So, I really saw the entire film when I was around nine. I loved every minute of it, and I like it even today. Of course, reasons for liking it changed over time.I saw Planet of the Apes

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In this period of economic turmoil, War on Terror stress syndrome, and mood of general uncertainty, people are understandably worried about their society, present and future. Many people feel something is wrong with America and something BIG needs to be done. What is that something? Who can do it?Due to the scale of the problems it’s understandable that many people feel helpless and look to

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There is a tendency among libertarians to argue for more individual liberty and freedom as the key to societal good. This isn’t because everything people do with freedom is good but because bad things will cancel each other out. It’s like a vision of humanity as economic, social, or emotional billiard balls. There is a rational argument here but one minimizing the moral sense of limits and

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Many Americans oppose Keynesianism(I do too), but if we’re going to have it anyway... how could it be made to work best? Even something deeply flawed has varying levels of functionality. Drinking and driving is always stupid, but it is less dangerous with beer than vodka.So, even if Keynesianism is fundamentally unsound, applications can range from utterly stupid to somewhat workable. How may we

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It’s often been argued that capitalism accepts human nature for what it is whereas socialism tries to change it. Capitalism is realistic whereas socialism is idealistic. Capitalism believes that human nature is essentially unalterable, socialism believes ‘human nature’ is but the product of social conditioning(or, it’s innately noble before being perverted by an unjust society).Capitalists say

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Most of us would like to think "Gomer Pyle"–Lawrence–in Full Metal Jacket went from a naturally nice guy to a cold-hearted killer. In other words, the Marines turned him from a warm healthy individual to a cold killing machine. But, could it be argued that what drove Gomer crazy was the realization of his true self? Gomer was probably raised in a protective environment where he indulge being a

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The evolutionary advantage of art may actually be quite elementary. Art, in the most basic sense, is that which gives pleasure to eyes and ears. Art is created by man but distills the essence of what we find beautiful or pleasurable in the physical or psychological realm. So, what is the evolutionary advantage of appreciating beauty? In the most basic sense, the ability to appreciate beauty makes

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Isn’t it striking that the movies The Kingdom and The Traitor star, respectively, Jamie Foxx and Don Cheadle? Both films take place in the Middle East, and the enemies are Arab terrorists. Other than the fact that Hollywood often cast Muslims as The Enemy, what is noteworthy that stars of both films are black. Why would this be?My guess is that the Jews want to bring American blacks to their side

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One of the problems I have with Holocaust remembrance is its aura of religious dogmatism.Holocaust is a historical event but has been elevated into an article of faith than maintained as a matter of knowledge.When it comes to the American Civil War or World War II, the relevant question is ‘do you know about this event?’ or ‘how much do you know about such-and-such?’ When it comes to the

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http://buchanan.org/blog/2009/01/pjb-is-gop-still-a-national-party/comment-page-1/#comment-15085GOP served its useful purpose. Now, it's time for it to go. When a horse's leg is broken, you put it out of its misery. You don't let it slowly die in pain. It's truer with an elephant. An injured elephant is useless. It must go. It's time to put a bullet through its head. Not out of hate, but out of

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Advanced Physics and the Irrationality of Religion.Religion has come in many shapes and sizes. Even within a single religion, there are many schools of interpretation. For instance, in the Old Testament God is intemperate and unpredictable; He willfully and erratically interferes in our affairs or plays dice with the cosmos. But, others have argued that God created the universe according to set

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The following piece asks the question, ‘was what Hitler or Stalin did rational?’.The question sounds perverse, and in a way it is. How can the mass killings of people–especially those who are ‘innocent’–be rational? Also, even if we allow that no one is innocent in either the spiritual or ideological sense, who has the right to kill so many?Still, rational isn’t the same as moral. The opposite

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Look at Obama's top donors and the people--other than blacks--that supported him most: the white educated class. This is especially true of the Jewish population, the most successful in America which voted 80% for Obama. Jews are not only overwhelmingly liberal but have great influence in media, and they used their power to make Obama president. So, Obama-ism didn't happen because the unwashed

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"Into the Wild" is one of the better films of recent years, but it’s not without considerable problems. Sean Penn is an able director and has an eye for nice details but lacks a sure-footed personal vision or style characteristic of the great ‘auteurs’. To be sure, personal style can get in the way or overwhelm a particular subject or theme–impose the director’s narcissistic will–, and it is true

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There was a bunch of apocalyptic movies in the 90s exploiting the vibes surrounding the approaching millennium. As it happened, the latter part of the 90s was relatively stable. The late 80s and early 90s saw the fall of Iron Curtain and communism relegated to the dustbin of history. There were economic good times under Clinton, who was a ‘new kind of Democrat’. There was the rise of Tony Blair

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John Boorman’s film Excalibur contrasts the pagan character with Christian consciousness. The story begins with Uther, the brutish warrior who becomes king through sheer might. Uther is like a wolverine. Brave, tough, insatiable. His heart is beastly. He lives, triumphs, and dies as a pagan warrior through and through. For him, there’s no concept of peace or truth beyond this–or his--world. Even

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Today, many libertarians and conservatives recommend that we read Rand’s ATLAS SHRUGGED to understand the true meaning of freedom, individualism, American values, and capitalism. They argue that our society is burdened by big government and an elite that simply does not appreciate the power of capital, enterprise, ambition, risk-taking, and innovation. You’d think that American society is divided

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Thus far, US has been largely ruled by white elites. There is a perception among both the elites and masses around the world that white people—especially of Northern European ancestry—have been guilty of imperialism, slavery, and worldwide oppression/exploitation. White Americans have tried very hard to defend themselves against this impression, but the fact is the academic and media elite in

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Though Hussein was a scumbag, a good argument could be made against the invasion. One could argue that Iraq didn't attack the US, was no threat to the US, and was not involved in 9/11. (By the way, moveon.org went one better and even opposed the invasion of afghanistan because, in its warped anti-neo-imperialst worldview--typically chomskyite--, any group that hates or attacks the US is motivated

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With the election of Obama, it’s clear that the liberals have fully revived the strategy of ‘no enemies to the left’. Is it time–with counter-moral justification–for conservatives to embrace ‘no enemy to the right’? To be sure, this is much tougher for conservatives to pull off since the extreme right is generally perceived as more odious than the extreme left, not least because the academia and

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Consider how the media have focused on Obama's family background. There has been great emphasis on his mother and his father, but almost nothing on his grandparents--until when Obama compared his 'typically white' grandmother with the toxic Jeremiah Wright. Obama also made a big thing about his white grandmother in ads run in southern States to convince white voters that he was raised white.But

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