ex cathedra: Truer words

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Truer words

Related by a teacher on another site:

One day I asked the bored, black faces staring back at me: "What would happen if all the white people in America disappeared tomorrow?"

"We screwed," a young, pitch-black boy screamed back. The rest of the blacks laughed.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...: ... I was marvelling at Bill Clinton's enthusiasm for LBJ's achievements for equality in his NYT review of Robert Caro's 'The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson.'

Isn't the verdict of critical-theory hierophants that the Great Society has been a failure? so that America today is a nightmare of white racism, white sexism, and white homophobia [sc low-class whites' failure to fear slave revolt in morality because this opens the possibility of real noble-base distinction]? ... And don't conservatives deem America today a mess of entrench'd government programmes that have ruin'd the vitality and freedom of the American people and done little or nothing to build real equality?

But as President Clinton is a noted exegete of the word "is," I was reminded of Heidegger's enthusiasm for the "strange word" of Heraclitus: »all' ôsper sarma eikê kechumenôn ho kallistos kosmos« (Frg 124). The most beautiful world is like rubbish heap'd randomly [or as a likeness eike for there ekei]. (An Introduction to Metaphysics, 133/ Ger 102).

And again, »the unmanifest harmony stronger than the manifest harmony« Frg 54. ibid.

America's world today has not resulted unintentionally from good intentions, but is the result of a plan'd but unmanifest 'harmony' (daughter of Ares and Aphrodite, or Nergal and Ishtar)? Is that possible? ... Maybe America's unmanifest harmony and beautiful unmanifest kosmos or ordering means there's no need for Islamic traditionalism to impose harmony and order?; 12:45 AM, May 11, 2012
Anonymous said...: Along this line, perhaps the most important remark of Mr Clinton ("a deeply traditional[ist] man" according to HRC) is that LBJ gain'd support for the Grate Society from the "traditionalist" on grounds that it was "the Establishment Choice."

Establishment: East (dawning of new aion etc; semi- 'is' dawns in east and gets negated or hated in west into nothingness, sc non-being) Abel (vanity, emptiness) for L.S.'s portion (js4521 cf Psalm 63:9f) ?

Choice: haste sc hates, agenda for hating, negation? js2363, 2439 ?; 1:12 AM, May 11, 2012

Toward Our Future

What the sons of Europa need is a new religion: one that is as tribal, portable and survivalist as Judaism, as masculine, terrestrial and tough as Islam and as intellectually and aesthetically creative as Christianity...with a dose of the unflinching realism of the ancestral ways of the Greeks and Romans, Germans and Celts and Slavs..And for the larger Indo-European frame, something of the Indian capacity to combine an ultimate and philosophical realization of The One with a robustly mytho-poetic religion on-the-ground. Oh, and some of the psychological acumen of Buddhism.

Liberalism's Basic Flaw

Liberals believe that the chief role of the State is to force everyone to be equal, (ie, take vengeance on the successful). So when they are confronted with any group that they deem less well off than themselves, they are morally disarmed, completely and utterly. Any group that can achieve Victim Status is on their way to power and the (White) liberal's only job is to give them what they want, no matter how much that damages him. And nothing may ever be expected, much less demanded, of them in return. It's a recipe for suicide: no other outcome is possible.