Monday, April 26, 2010
Great writing, but misses the point
Ross Douthat's latest NYTimes column hits hard, and I'm glad he managed to say these things in a place where some Communists may actually end up reading them.
Not quite. Yes it's decadence, but it's not just a grim historical tendency. It's Lenin's grand plan as translated by Alinsky. Using the ACLU, affirmative action, Wall Street Mafiosi, saboteur judges, open borders, free trade, "fair and balanced debate", Global Warming, and a dozen other gambits, Lenin shreds the bonds of society, turns ordinary people into quivering confused blobs of poverty and rage, turns evil people into Masters of the Universe.
A shredded society doesn't simply "knuckle under" to totalitarians, it REQUIRES a totalitarian to restore security. And that's where we are. ¶ 6:12 AM
Our culture has few taboos that can’t be violated, and our establishment has largely given up on setting standards in the first place.
Except where Islam is concerned. There, the standards are established under threat of violence, and accepted out of a mix of self-preservation and self-loathing.
This is what decadence looks like: a frantic coarseness that “bravely” trashes its own values and traditions, and then knuckles under swiftly to totalitarianism and brute force.
Not quite. Yes it's decadence, but it's not just a grim historical tendency. It's Lenin's grand plan as translated by Alinsky. Using the ACLU, affirmative action, Wall Street Mafiosi, saboteur judges, open borders, free trade, "fair and balanced debate", Global Warming, and a dozen other gambits, Lenin shreds the bonds of society, turns ordinary people into quivering confused blobs of poverty and rage, turns evil people into Masters of the Universe.
A shredded society doesn't simply "knuckle under" to totalitarians, it REQUIRES a totalitarian to restore security. And that's where we are. ¶ 6:12 AM
