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

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.

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

Eric — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 01:22:08 +0000

I always struggled with the use of the term Conservative on this site, because for a lot of people it can conjure up imagery of investment bankers manipulating the system to skim off the backs of others. Or hard-core religious fanatics that are clearly as off as any. Or maybe it is the extreme talking head politicians or political types that get their ego needs met through this sort of thing. All these people seem to be as bad as their “inverse” matches on the left. So when the discussion of liberal vs. conservative comes into play, it can sometimes be hard to agree without reservation.

But what I am starting to see (not that I didn’t before, but maybe more clearly now) is what you are trying to define as a conservative. I come to this site to get a sense of calm from the craziness of much of the internet. What I mean by that is the writing at least requires you to think in different ways, or at least just critically think. I guess I am not so much here for the labels, but more for the ideas, to then run those ideas through my head and compare them to my own thoughts, experiences, ideas, etc. It forces me to think and also to try and become more responsible for my own being. I find this very much a good thing.

Comment on Civilization consumes itself out of resentment by Eric

Eric — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:09:31 +0000

I’m not young enough anymore to claim “ignorance of youth”. That said, it seems to take people a lot longer to group up these days. I’m no longer looking for others as models of “how to be”, but would rather find those truth and answers from within (much based on observation from “without”.) One thing I know for sure, I’d rather behave more my age, at least how my age should behave. I don’t care if society creates an easy out for this. It is not the right way. And although I do catch myself slipping into poor habits now and again, I see that as experience grows and if one is willing to keep themselves on the right path, it does become easier to know right and wrong. And they are not always what you may have once been told.

Comment on Civilizations make rules, and rules are inferior to goals by Brett Stevens

Brett Stevens — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:53:08 +0000

I think what they mean is that when society falls apart, everyone suffers total destruction. That seems “equal,” doesn’t it?

Comment on Civilization consumes itself out of resentment by Constance Cafavy And Comprehensive Amnesty Reform

Constance Cafavy And Comprehensive Amnesty Reform — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 23:22:11 +0000

[...] Our cognitive block here is the assumption that all people are equal, which means “identical” in the common parlance, and thus that we can just replace a whole bunch of our people with others and everything will be fine. Even more, however, I think our people want to be replaced. They want to die. Just not now, but they want to know they destroyed this society. Because they hate it. They hate it for being weak, for being in a state of dying, for being a hateful place that sucks them in and makes them whores to money with no greater purpose. (HT:Amerika.org) [...]

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

crow — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:13:23 +0000

Socialist Western governments have reduced national identity to words like ‘Briton’ and ‘American’ on a piece of paper issued by them, to anyone from anywhere, who wants one.
This tactic is both the simplest and most destructive action any nation can perform, by way of eliminating its prior cohesion.

The leftist mindset is one of eliminating whatever it was that made a nation a nation, in favour of spawning ever more ‘groups’ that are opposed to each other, and who vie for social dominance.

Odd that they should call this grinding, relentless, low-grade warfare ‘equality’, isn’t it?

Comment on Civilization consumes itself out of resentment by Constance Cafavy And Comprehensive Amnesty Reform | Red States

Constance Cafavy And Comprehensive Amnesty Reform | Red States — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:00:15 +0000

[...] (HT:Amerika.org) [...]

Comment on Civilization consumes itself out of resentment by Repair_Man_Jack

Repair_Man_Jack — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:03:22 +0000

There are American workers who, for lack of a better term, can’t cut it …. There shouldn’t be a presumption that every American worker is a star performer. There are people who just can’t get it, can’t do it, don’t want to do it. And so you can’t obviously discuss that publicly. – Senator Marco Rubio.

Comment on Civilization consumes itself out of resentment by Owl

Owl — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:27:55 +0000

Excellent. I agree.

People who write well don’t come up with new truth, they point out what’s already there that most people don’t notice.

They remind you of things like the fact that you are now currently breathing and that you are now currently alive – things so obvious they slip under our radar or are forgotten.

I’m beginning to do a bit of blogging just for its own sake, not really aimed at any reader base, because I too share what I think all writers and philosophers have: the ability to still see life through the unapologetic eyes of a child no matter what their age.

Somehow, some of us never really learn what we’re “supposed” to think or believe or notice, and so we notice what we will.

Comment on Civilization consumes itself out of resentment by crow

crow — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 04:00:20 +0000

Being responsible for all you know is not an easy or comfortable thing.
Anything you have not personally experienced is – at best – suspect information. Meanwhile, experience is not something the young have much of.
You can’t win.
But realizing that is a great start to seeing things in ways other than win/lose.
Once you clear the junk out, however, it becomes relatively easy to know what is “right” and what is not. This can not be explained, but is true, nonetheless.