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| -Great Cultural Revolution |
| 'VDH-We went mad because we easily could. And we could, not because we were poor and oppressed, but because we were rich and bored. |
| 2022-09-12 |
| [AmericanThinker] Travel abroad and or talk to pro-American foreigners here, and you will be surprised at what they say. It is not boilerplate anti-Americanism of the usual cheap Euro style. And their keen criticism is not just that we are $30 trillion in debt, dependent on China, with a corrupt elite, or have gone insane inventing the most lurid crimes to put away the supposedly predetermined guilty Donald Trump. Instead, they express disbelief, worry, lamentation even, that the one solid referent in the world has gone, well, completely rabid. They are terrified after the Afghanistan debacle that their old ally or new homeland, the once constant America, is delirious, incompetent, and self-loathing, and now there is no plausible alternative to the old American deterrence. So, they wonder who will resist China, Russia, Iran, or North Korea—and are silently petrified to go it alone without the United States. They seem staggered by the very ideas that now emanate from the United States: that nonexistent borders are desirable; that once rarified institutions like the FBI or CIA now function like the Stasi of old; that the very idea of meritocracy is considered racist; that one incorrect word can destroy a life-long career; that there are three or more sexes, not two; that biological men with male genitalia and physiology can compete, and destroy decades of advances, in women’s sports; that race is the sole mode of self-identification; and that half of America dislikes American customs, history—and the other 50 percent of the population—as much as do its enemies. Onlookers no longer see American universities as free-wheeling bastions of unfettered research and expression. Rather they watch dreary (and sometimes scary) places where conformity to the old Soviet-style is enforced—or else. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #6 You should read the piece. It's not all wrong. Absolute Denial over a little dissonance is what caused all this mess. Especially the part about what wokeness and the afromarxist creed is leading. |
| Posted by: Dron66046 2022-09-12 19:38 |
| #5 I doubt I'll finish the rest of this piece Hoping. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-09-12 17:03 |
| #4 They are terrified after the Afghanistan debacle that their old ally or new homeland, the once constant America, is delirious, incompetent, and self-loathing, and now there is no plausible alternative to the old American deterrence. What the fuck? Now this, this is madness. Europeans have been trying to get out from under the US boot for a long time. They despise us and have little to say in our favor. They tell us how evil and wrong we are all the time. I doubt I'll finish the rest of this piece because the author is clearly in la-la land. |
| Posted by: Sonny de Medici5342 2022-09-12 15:01 |
| #3 Yes. I'm mad of my own accord. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-09-12 13:21 |
| #2 Who's this "we?" Brings back the old days of Herb. The madness of others does not derange me, it just sharpens my focus on what is sane. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-09-12 10:55 |
| #1 "children of Merlin, chasing a gleam. Children, too, of Eve, forever building Edens – and kicking them apart in berserk fury because somehow it isn’t the same." "When the world was in darkness and wretchedness, it could believe in perfection and yearn for it. But when the world became bright with reason and riches, it began to sense the narrowness of the needle’s eye, and that rankled for a world no longer willing to believe or yearn." Walter Miller |
| Posted by: James 2022-09-12 10:44 |