Comments for Amerika: New Right, Conservationist, Traditionalist, Deep Ecology and Conservative Thought

Comment on Detox by lisacolorado

lisacolorado — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:19:05 +0000

I’ve been thinking about this same thing in the recesses of my consciousness. Things are the way they are. What are you gonna do?

First off, do we understand it all and know it’s true that things have gone wrong? It looks like it but people’s needs are still the same, and we can all still laugh while at other times trying to speak of better principles.

Second, How would we be if we didn’t have this thought, that our society has gone wrong. It wouldn’t change anything. There’s so little we can do about it either way.

The truth is, nobody would be persuaded by threats and fears and doom. What people are drawn to is a smile, welcoming, and clarity.

Comment on Conversation with a postmodern hippie by RiverC

RiverC — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:53:11 +0000

Moloch is getting hungry again!

Comment on Conversation with a postmodern hippie by lisacolorado

lisacolorado — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:47:41 +0000

Great time to jump back to Amerika! Good post. Leave him in solitary confinement with his soul, indeed. Best thing for it.

I’ve started to think of myself as a humanist too, but the kind where there is no answer in religion nor political faith-based ideology.

We’ve all got a view from the ground, no matter what some self-styled expert says. They may have gotten a higher perspective from one tower, but they couldn’t see everything, much less the ant’s eye-view from straight below them.

Comment on Conversation with a postmodern hippie by Repair_Man_Jack

Repair_Man_Jack — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:28:53 +0000

There was a guy named Solomon who once told a bunch of young punks something similar. It's called Ecclesiastes. "All is vanity." Saith the preacher. If nothing else, Earnest Hemmingway got an interesting book title out of the whole rant.

Comment on Conversation with a postmodern hippie by Wes

Wes — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:08:10 +0000

When I first started reading your work today, my time appeared to my mind’s eye like it was moving in fast motion, like those TV edits where they blur through a day. Then after a few sentences, I realized that I was reading something of importance and everything slowed down to a slow crawl and it all became focused on the screen and every word on it. It was an odd sensation. You wrote a worthy piece today and one that reflects my life’s experiences and historical study.

Comment on Conversation with a postmodern hippie by Owl

Owl — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:36:05 +0000

“I read history, I know human beings have never changed, and people have tried every damn thing you’re doing right now, all before. All failed. How do I know? If it worked, shoot, we’d never hear the end of it. There’d be whole Bibles, and Aeneids, and Kalevalas and Mahabaratas dedicated to your new way of doing things.”

For some reason this never really occurred to me, but you’re dead on. Since there is precisely one (1) best general form way to run a society, every sick useless person on earth wants to “revolutionize” away from it, trading group success for individual feelings of relevance, and it always takes the same form.

You’re really right – if their sickness had ever worked, if there had ever been a remotely successful multicultural society with an inverted racial hierarchy starting with blacks on top and ending with whites on the bottom, run by women under a creed of atheism and communism, they really WOULD beat us all over the head with it as evidence of their sick ideas being practical. Hell, even a village of 500 that managed to go a few winters without famine, coup or other breakdown would have all of academia in an endless uproar of eternal vindication.

They literally WOULD write the Holy Gospel of Occupy Wall Street and proselyte on every street corner in the suburbs until we all adopted black babies and donated all of our money and unwed daughters directly to Barack Obama.

Excellent point and excellent article.

Comment on Civilizations make rules, and rules are inferior to goals by josef H

josef H — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 11:23:44 +0000

@ i was thinking of this the other day when i remembered the old 1960′s edition Quillet encyclopedia that i used to skim through, in my dad’s office; there was a page that shows photographies of the world races: every race was distinct, as well as ethnicities. you could look at each physionomy and complexion and tell the race from those clues. now i look at the mugshot of an islamist terrorist on TV and i read “convicted briton/australian/canadian..”

nothing distinguishes anybody from anybody else. i experienced the initial cultural jolt about 2 decades ago when i stumbled upon a Dr alban article where it says the guy is swedish..

Comment on Conversation with a postmodern hippie by Eric

Eric — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:42:39 +0000

I think what often happens is that people know something is wrong; it is pretty hard not to feel that. But they are unable to identify what the true root cause of the problem is and therefore they latch onto a belief system that they feel represents the opposite of what the problems are, which of course they don’t even really know the root cause. There is also the need for identity and very often much of the opinion is nothing more than serving to fulfill that need. Some people, as they mature and start to see not is all that they once believed, are unwilling to adjust their views, kind of like being unwilling to accept they were wrong. And of course others never change, never see things any different than they always have, and will go through life convinced of their moral superiority.

Comment on Conversation with a postmodern hippie by 1349

1349 — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 07:57:14 +0000

Don’t know if this is a widespread interpretation but one of our local liberals says:
“Humanism is a system of ideas initially aimed at the overcoming of theocentrism.
First a revolutionary one (??? – 1349), in the unrolling of its life cycle it transformed into liberalism, marxo-communism and anarchism.
Modified humanist ideas still dominate mass consciousness, because they are simple, easily understandable and therefore useful in any management.”
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Comment on Conversation with a postmodern hippie by Eric

Eric — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 04:21:11 +0000

I hope it is okay to simply say that this one was really good, one of the best and most poignent posts yet for me for many different reasons. It speaks volumes in a very effective way.