Forgive me for intruding with stupidity, but it makes a good talking point. Unless you are living under a rock (where I hear it is quiet and peaceful) you have been inundated with propaganda about the Casey Anthony trial. It’s a veritable media gold rush because it has all the elements that make the crowd [...]
Posts Tagged ‘democracy’
Embittered
From observing the blog-o-sphere over many years, since that fateful day when Jorn Barger coined the term “blog,” I finally understand blogs: They are descendants of the teen films of the 1980s. In these films — Real Genius, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller’s Day off, 16 Candles and so on — there’s a clear division between [...]
Signs of the decline
Is democracy a credible political force? Making the above statement will get you curious looks. Then they explain, slowly as if to a child, swelling with pride at what they know: no, it’s the best system. Yet their confidence is slipping. In 1789, with the French Revolution, it was decided that we could have a [...]
Polarization
If there is anything besides domestic social policy that divides the Western right, it is the Israeli state. The liberal left prefer to oversimplify this issue, as with all things, into a binary ‘just’ or ‘unjust’ case. This is convenient when your supporting constituents are constantly fed victim and oppressor indoctrination and very little else [...]
Voiceless
Democracy is based on the concept of equality, or giving everyone a voice. The only way it accomplishes this goal is by narrowing the population of those to whom it gives a voice to those who already agree with democracy. Parents practice this old sleight-of-hand as well. “You’ll find the answer when you’re ready,” they [...]
A tale of two mentalities
Most logical fallacies, if you boil them down to their essence, originate in taking SOME of the facts and letting them represent the ENTIRE situation. For example, if you ask why the house is on fire, and I say that Bill was smoking, I have made a true statement, but a fallacious answer; Bill was [...]
Why diversity self-destructs
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. The Second [...]
Ending the 20th century
The 20th century was the era in which an idea finally came to fruition. Borne of the transition of Christianity to Protestantism, developed under the mostly-secular Enlightenment, and thrust onto the world through the French evolution, the concept of contextless equality gained full force in the 20th century. The result was unmitigated, lugubrious disaster. Equality [...]
The Problem of Democracy, by Alain de Benoist
The problem of democracy by Alain de Benoist 103 pages, Arktos, $27. In an acrimonious and unstable political season it is refreshing to find a book as level-headed as The Problem of Democracy. This short, dense tome bucks the modern trend of taking a “strong thesis” and arguing it like a machine that makes cocktail-party [...]
