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Sunday, October 18, 2015
RE ROUSSEAU NOBLE SAVAGES THE MENU IT TAKES A VILLAGE
Professor Allison paints an enchanting noble savage picture, in a Teaching Company video, from Before 1776, of New England area Native Americans' war practices, and ritual eating habits, including ritual noble torture, and nobly eating the heart (at least) of brave, vanquished, properly tortured enemies.
One critical distinction, from an individualist anarchist like Ayn Rand, is that these Native American noble savages, like Burroughs' Babangos, are conceived as tribally noble, as contrasted sharply with the individualist, entrepreneurial, anarchist, Rand ian, anti civilizational, single and unique noble savage, Tarzan.
Burroughs considered advanced Western civ ignoble, just as Rand did I think.
'Civilization' for them was itself strictly Western. The rest was not civilized.
"Civilization" was, for them, as it had been for Cecil Rhodes, a singular term.
yet, to paraphrase Mrs Clinton, it takes a village to make a good noble, or ignoble, savage, cannibal or not.
One critical distinction, from an individualist anarchist like Ayn Rand, is that these Native American noble savages, like Burroughs' Babangos, are conceived as tribally noble, as contrasted sharply with the individualist, entrepreneurial, anarchist, Rand ian, anti civilizational, single and unique noble savage, Tarzan.
Burroughs considered advanced Western civ ignoble, just as Rand did I think.
'Civilization' for them was itself strictly Western. The rest was not civilized.
"Civilization" was, for them, as it had been for Cecil Rhodes, a singular term.
yet, to paraphrase Mrs Clinton, it takes a village to make a good noble, or ignoble, savage, cannibal or not.
Saturday, October 17, 2015
THE MENU THE MAKER'S DIET CULTURAL RELATIVITY MULTICULTURALISM AYN RAND INDIVIDUALISM
See Tarzan And The Champion, the diet of the Babangos.
The book contains somewhat of a recipe, or at least a procedure, call it a topic for a culinary anthropology article, "Meat Tenderization Among The Babangos".
Burroughs even criticized, tongue in cheek I assume, those who claimed that this was a bad diet!
His earlier work had characterized all cannibals as degraded, but he went back to his Rousseau esque noble savage roots for this one, and for these now noble cannibals.
If the ideal was merely a noble savage, then all, among these savages, is permitted.
Why then not a noble savage cannibal?
Cf. "Understanding A Primitive Society", Peter Winch
Why not let Americans vote on an issue like this, if it ever comes up, viz whether to locally legalize cannibalism (say on the model of Mormon polygamy, another multicultural bugbear) , state by state, or even county by county, or city by city, or even say street by street (direct democracy)?
Why should the feds tell local cannibal tribes what to do?
This post is dedicated to Boop. You know who you are.
All the best
The book contains somewhat of a recipe, or at least a procedure, call it a topic for a culinary anthropology article, "Meat Tenderization Among The Babangos".
Burroughs even criticized, tongue in cheek I assume, those who claimed that this was a bad diet!
His earlier work had characterized all cannibals as degraded, but he went back to his Rousseau esque noble savage roots for this one, and for these now noble cannibals.
If the ideal was merely a noble savage, then all, among these savages, is permitted.
Why then not a noble savage cannibal?
Cf. "Understanding A Primitive Society", Peter Winch
Why not let Americans vote on an issue like this, if it ever comes up, viz whether to locally legalize cannibalism (say on the model of Mormon polygamy, another multicultural bugbear) , state by state, or even county by county, or city by city, or even say street by street (direct democracy)?
Why should the feds tell local cannibal tribes what to do?
This post is dedicated to Boop. You know who you are.
All the best
Friday, October 16, 2015
THE ENDGAME OF WESTERN CIV
where there are no principles left......
highly predictable, for over 200 years, really.
i am not a partisan, re American politics.
highly predictable, for over 200 years, really.
i am not a partisan, re American politics.
UNFORTUNATELY THEY WERE DELUDED BACK THEN TOO
"But a half-century ago, despite the very real excesses of the CIA abroad, Americans believed more deeply in the Constitution and the American criminal justice system than they do today." DK
I perhaps should add, for clarity, that who was 'deluded' was Americans, not the CIA, then or now.
I perhaps should add, for clarity, that who was 'deluded' was Americans, not the CIA, then or now.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
THE FUNDAMENTAL CIVILIZATIONAL PROBLEM
has been that Western Civ needed to expand into the Slav Civilization, Westernizing it as it went, not the other way around.
Similarly, we should have encouraged Japan's encroachments into China, especially after they had proved themselves in the Japanese Russian war of 1905.
Similarly, we should have encouraged Japan's encroachments into China, especially after they had proved themselves in the Japanese Russian war of 1905.
RE WEST IS TOAST SMELL THE COFFEE GAME OVER
The Russia China Alliance, in a possible worlds nutshell, correct me someone if I am wrong.....
Russia gives China a free hand in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere, China gives Russia a free hand in Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere.
Russia gives China a free hand in Asia, Africa, and elsewhere, China gives Russia a free hand in Europe, the Middle East, and elsewhere.
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
RE DREW PEARSON FALLACY
"Another unfortunate species of chicken bred thirty years ago has also come home to roost in the Republican coop this week: the idea that politicians' sex lives are newsworthy. Republican lawmakers, it seems, received emails accusing their leader, Kevin McCarthy, of having an affair with a Republican colleague. She denied it, but there is no way of knowing whether it played a role in his decision to give up the speakership. I have no idea whether the accusation was true, but a government composed of people who have never been guilty of an affair would be chosen on a very poor basis. I for one do not want it." DK
Nothing new here, really, just another layer of the artichoke of the media market place being peeled back.
Terms search Lorch, Drew Pearson fallacy, muckraking
Nothing new here, really, just another layer of the artichoke of the media market place being peeled back.
Terms search Lorch, Drew Pearson fallacy, muckraking
Sunday, October 11, 2015
RE THE KENNEDYS
Only a fool and his brother both get themselves killed by double crossing the mob.
This is not a profile in courage, but rather in hypocrisy and stupidity.
See Real Lace re what the so called Irish aristocracy thought of the Kennedys.
They are only now saying there was another shooter re RFK.
This is not a profile in courage, but rather in hypocrisy and stupidity.
See Real Lace re what the so called Irish aristocracy thought of the Kennedys.
They are only now saying there was another shooter re RFK.
POSTSCRIPT TO THE LAST POST
The Russia China Alliance, one could see it coming a mile away.
What another enormous blunder.
The TPP, what a bad joke on all concerned.
What another enormous blunder.
The TPP, what a bad joke on all concerned.
RE RUSSIA SYRIA THE WEST AND THE REST THE SO CALLED LONG WAR
We blundered in 1917 1918 by not partitioning Russia at the time of the Revolution, rather than entering the war on their side. See Lansing's rationale, Wilson's, and ours, for entering the war, in 1917.
We blundered again in not pushing them back from Eastern Europe in 1944 1945, what I have called The Patton Solution, and thus in allowing them to develop and deploy nuclear weapons in 1948 1949.
We blundered again, in booming other hostile undeveloped and harmless civilizations to offset their influence during and even after the Cold War.
Regarding Russia we are toast.
Bobbitt and others have called it The Long War.
I call it a long series of blunders, and, in a sense a long surrender of Western Civilization.
We blundered again in not pushing them back from Eastern Europe in 1944 1945, what I have called The Patton Solution, and thus in allowing them to develop and deploy nuclear weapons in 1948 1949.
We blundered again, in booming other hostile undeveloped and harmless civilizations to offset their influence during and even after the Cold War.
Regarding Russia we are toast.
Bobbitt and others have called it The Long War.
I call it a long series of blunders, and, in a sense a long surrender of Western Civilization.
ONE COULD ALSO CALL IT FALLOUT FROM THE REFORMATION
http://bozonbloggon.blogspot.com/2015/10/re-perennial-political-fragmentation-dk.html
RE PARLIAMENTARY NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
"There is an obvious, though unlikely, solution to the situation in the House: the election of a new Speaker by a coalition of moderate Republicans and Democrats, together with an agreement to keep funding the government at current levels, forget about Obamacare and immigration, and leave Planned Parenthood on its own. That would be the equivalent of a Parliamentary National Government, such as Britain formed in each of the two world wars. It would definitely isolate the anti-government revolutionaries, and it would also force some Republican presidential candidates, in all probability, to support the deal. I do not expect it, but I I thought I would put it forward to introduce a ray of hope into perhaps the most hopeless American political moment that I have ever lived through in 68 years." DK
Wonderful forlorn suggestion.....
It seems to me that this horse left the proverbial barn, here, both ideologically and structurally, after 1776.
Wonderful forlorn suggestion.....
It seems to me that this horse left the proverbial barn, here, both ideologically and structurally, after 1776.
Saturday, October 10, 2015
THE TRI JANUS FACE OF LEFT AND RIGHT AND LIBERAL DK'S CURRENT POST AND MY REMARK
"They evidently feel no obligation to make our institutions work because they do not believe in them. Sometimes it seems that shutting down the government isn't their nightmare, but their fondest dream...." DK
The vestige, what is left of the impoverished left here, never believed in the US, but was a utopian globalist movement beginning to end.
The liberal, and conservative, international globalist economic and political, order came to look very suspiciously at the nation state itself, as well as, ultimately, Western civilization itself, sadly enough, much less an Anglo American Western civilizational remnant offshoot.
This has been the tragic legacy of the Cecil Rhodes project, as it morphed down through the 20th Century and beyond.
It did not start out that quite way, but that is how it has ended.
Rhodes thought there was only one civilization, the English one, really. He wanted to lift all peoples into an advanced state, under enlightened English tutelage.
Blunder.
The vestige, what is left of the impoverished left here, never believed in the US, but was a utopian globalist movement beginning to end.
The liberal, and conservative, international globalist economic and political, order came to look very suspiciously at the nation state itself, as well as, ultimately, Western civilization itself, sadly enough, much less an Anglo American Western civilizational remnant offshoot.
This has been the tragic legacy of the Cecil Rhodes project, as it morphed down through the 20th Century and beyond.
It did not start out that quite way, but that is how it has ended.
Rhodes thought there was only one civilization, the English one, really. He wanted to lift all peoples into an advanced state, under enlightened English tutelage.
Blunder.
Friday, October 9, 2015
RE PERENNIAL POLITICAL FRAGMENTATION DK CURRENT POST
"This morning on NPR I heard an unlikely source point to another problem: the failure of authority at all levels of our political system. For 40 years, a commentator (whom I did not initially identify) said, we have had political reforms decentralizing our government, legislative bodies, and political parties, and making it harder and harder for anyone to exercise effective leadership. The Speaker of the House no longer enjoys power over committee assignments and campaign funds, and thus has no way to bring his troops into line. The commentator,. who stated this very telling point without a hint of partisanship, turned out to be David Frum, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush. Rather than dismiss the remark based upon its source, I take all the greater pleasure in commending Mr. Frum for his insight because he happens to be on the other side of the aisle." DK
This trend is neither new, or uncharacteristic, in this country, unfortunately.
Weak central government, and strong localism were built into the constitution, unfortunately.
This trend is neither new, or uncharacteristic, in this country, unfortunately.
Weak central government, and strong localism were built into the constitution, unfortunately.
Thursday, October 8, 2015
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