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2020-02-06 Home Front: Culture Wars

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Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-06 02:28|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Too many jewels here to quote, but -- no offense to the Schlichter -- most of these wrote themselves.

We have seen the absolute (for now, anyway) nadir of The Shitshow.

Posted by Lex 2020-02-06 02:38|| 2020-02-06 02:38|| Front Page Top

#2 You ain't seen nothing yet, Lex. The "elites" won't give up their privileges without a fight - you do realize that there are millions not trained for anything productive - who hold high paying white-collar jobs due to being good party persons?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-06 02:47|| 2020-02-06 02:47|| Front Page Top

#3 Da'uzh, moi droog.

I still think that Cruella DeBotox's performance was more akin to a death rattle, the last rantings of a dying hag, than anything remotely rational.

These are like Portents of the End Times.

Surreal:

Bloomberg, spending half a BILLION DOLLARS to win the right to lead the supposedly anti-billionaire party.

Surging candidate in IA: a gay millennial with no experience whose name begins with "Butt."

Other leading candidate: Bloomberg's mortal enemy, a Lenin impersonator (though Ilyich at least could stand up straight, unlike the Hunchback of Burlingt- er Brooklyn).

This is a procession of freaks. A vision of Death and the Apocalypse.

Are we seeing the death rattle of the Global Grifter Democrats?

Posted by Lex 2020-02-06 02:55|| 2020-02-06 02:55|| Front Page Top

#4 I repeat, what about millions of incompetent school teachers, college professors, bureaucrats of the sprawling welfare state? You think they just give up and hunt for a job now done by a "undocumented immigrant" (they're incompetent to do anything else)?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-02-06 03:01|| 2020-02-06 03:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Vengeance is mine, saith the Lord. I shall repay!

Posted by Lex 2020-02-06 03:10|| 2020-02-06 03:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Seriously, reclaiming the schools and the culture will take a generation.

Long march. Patience, perseverance.

Posted by Lex 2020-02-06 03:15|| 2020-02-06 03:15|| Front Page Top

#7 If the incompetent school teachers taught a bit of chemistry maybe they can go breaking bad and BECOME undocumented pharmacists?

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2020-02-06 03:40|| 2020-02-06 03:40|| Front Page Top

#8 Seriously,reclaiming the schools and the culture will take a generation.

Actually, either civil war or a major economic collapse [can you say 22 Trillion dollar debt Mssr Louis XIV], would result in radical readjustment of limited funding possibilities and priorities.

Posted by Procopius2k 2020-02-06 06:48|| 2020-02-06 06:48|| Front Page Top

#9 "To crush your enemies, to see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of the media"

Posted by Bob Grorong1136 2020-02-06 07:18|| 2020-02-06 07:18|| Front Page Top

#10 I've lived too long and seen too much premature political celebrating to get too excited yet.

Lex, from your keyboard to God's ears, but, to requote the Blog father..."Don't get cocky!"

re-taking the culture will require much longer than a generation.

Posted by AlanC 2020-02-06 08:40|| 2020-02-06 08:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Same here Alan. Wen I read their obits, I'll celebrate.

Posted by Besoeker 2020-02-06 10:12|| 2020-02-06 10:12|| Front Page Top

#12 I am waiting for technology to become cheaper and the teachers' unions to simply price themselves into extinction. Why pay for a teacher when you can rent VR goggles and get a better product online? At that point the main purpose of going to school is babysitting and that doesn't need fancy credentials.

Posted by magpie 2020-02-06 10:20|| 2020-02-06 10:20|| Front Page Top

#13 I hope the Republicans don't get cocky over this. I've seen the pubs snatch (remember when that was still a verb?) defeat from the jaws of victory too many times. We should always operate as if we're 5 points behind and stay frosty.

Posted by Warthog 2020-02-06 11:13|| 2020-02-06 11:13|| Front Page Top

#14 May the Dems follow the Chinese curse and "have more "interesting times."

Posted by JohnQC 2020-02-06 12:02|| 2020-02-06 12:02|| Front Page Top

#15 . . . and don't forget Nancy's 49ers lost the big game! Icing on the cake.

Posted by warthogswife 2020-02-06 13:31|| 2020-02-06 13:31|| Front Page Top

#16 Just to be clear: in the POLITICAL realm, everything is going against the Global Grifter Uniparty.

Against China-grifting, against one-worldism, against mass immigration from Mexico or Africa & "sanctuary cities," against 3 Cups o' Tea and nation-building & Afghan Girls Can Code etc etc

Which means in the POLITICAL realm of parties and elections, There will almost certainly be a major political realignment during this decade.

In the CULTURAL realm, the story is reversed. Those of us who stand for our civilization, our history and our western cultural values are on the back foot.

The identitarians & media/hollywood SS clowns are riding high. They utterly dominate the media, the schools, the entertainment industry, even the LANGUAGE we use in our day-to-day discourse.

So if we are to take back control of our discourse and language, of our schools and universities, of our culture, it will take at least a generation. Maybe two. Maybe never.

Does that make sense?

Posted by Lex 2020-02-06 13:40|| 2020-02-06 13:40|| Front Page Top

#17 You might say, "OK but how can this schizophrenic divide - between the election results and the cultural landscape - continue? House divided against itself," etc.

But it can and does happen, again and again, that a society functions well enough with massive discontents between its rhetoric and its reality, or between the stories it tells about itself and the way power is actually acquired and applied in daily life.

We have such a disconnect now, and have had one for half a century. Our elites handle it through the age-old universal solvent: hypocrisy. Lies, BS, The Shitshow.

They can continue to do so because they completely, totally control the Means of (Cultural) Production. Every single top research university, all of our public schools and nearly all of the religious schools as well, every Hollywood or streaming film production studio, every broadcast network and every major news or publishing house: ALL of them are dominated by executive leaders, publishers, editors, producers, creative talent, teachers, professors, administrators who hate our traditional culture, our great men and our traditional values.

It will take many decades for this vast left-wing/identitarian mandarinate to be displaced. If ever.

Posted by Lex 2020-02-06 13:48|| 2020-02-06 13:48|| Front Page Top

#18 * massive disconnects

Posted by Lex 2020-02-06 13:48|| 2020-02-06 13:48|| Front Page Top

#19 1. Teachers in a classroom can see how students are reacting to the material and tailor the flow. Haven't heard of a VR system that can do that yet.

(yes that does assume good teachers)

2. the political realm is totally off the leash and who knows what's gonna happen.

3. The epidemic Wuflu may be 100 times worse than reported bu the Commie Chinese so what that could/would/will do to all these equations only the Lord knows.....and I hope he's in a good mood.

Posted by AlanC 2020-02-06 14:16|| 2020-02-06 14:16|| Front Page Top

#20 massive discontents between its rhetoric and its reality

* massive disconnects

(For Lex from Richard III, spoken by Pelosi)

Now is the winter of our disconnect
Made glorious summer by this son of New York;
And all the clouds that lour'd upon our House
In the deep bosom of the Senate buried.
Now are our brows bound with crowns of thorns;
Our bruised arms hung up for merriments;
Our stern alarums scorned at merry meetings,
Our dreadful marches reduced to pitiful whimpers.
Grim-visaged war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;
And now, in additiion to mounting barbed steeds
To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,
He capers nimbly in a First Lady's chamber
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

Posted by JHH 2020-02-06 15:35|| 2020-02-06 15:35|| Front Page Top

#21 Ha ha, JHH. Thou hast made my day!

Careful - don't get European Conservative and me started on Tricky Richard III ("plots have I laid, inductions dangerous...")

Posted by Lex 2020-02-06 16:29|| 2020-02-06 16:29|| Front Page Top

#22 The amusing thing is that the 'app development' that helped set up the chaos was apparently a grift to funnel money to a bunch of retreaded Zero and Clintonia 'expert' staffers, who turned out to be - who'd guess it - incompetent. Metaphor and poetic justice all in one.

Posted by Nero 2020-02-06 20:19|| 2020-02-06 20:19|| Front Page Top

#23 "Retreaded" or "retarded"... or both?

Posted by Lex 2020-02-06 22:53|| 2020-02-06 22:53|| Front Page Top

#24 #19 Teachers in a classroom can see how students are reacting to the material and tailor the flow. Haven't heard of a VR system that can do that yet.

What Alan said.

Don't know why - be it because these apps are designed by emotionally-clueless techies or for some other reason -- but our collaboration apps fail to replicate the intense exchange of information that results from two humans sitting across from each other, reading each other's eye movements, body language, posture etc in the same physical space.

Until that UX problem is solved,distance learning will lag -- and educational tech will not "scale."

Posted by Lex 2020-02-06 23:05|| 2020-02-06 23:05|| Front Page Top

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