tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post1822768712136150015..comments2023-10-03T07:01:41.144-05:00Comments on Always On Watch: Semper Vigilans: The West's DestructionAlways On Watchhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-34449694621936482022015-12-03T05:36:59.120-06:002015-12-03T05:36:59.120-06:00Duck,
FYI...I have read Things Fall Apart. A good...Duck,<br />FYI...I have read <i>Things Fall Apart</i>. A good read with simplistic language on a topic worth pondering.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-16833306258344898732015-12-02T20:26:43.569-06:002015-12-02T20:26:43.569-06:00In my view, self-hatred is contrary to the teachin...In my view, self-hatred is contrary to the teachings of Jesus Christ, Who said: "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." <br /><br />IMO, this presupposes that one has regard for oneself. Loving oneself doesn't presuppose selfishness, but does presuppose understanding that all of us are flawed.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-52082012854480523722015-12-02T19:55:28.766-06:002015-12-02T19:55:28.766-06:00Any oysters left?Any oysters left?-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-49863137133495417552015-12-02T17:34:09.738-06:002015-12-02T17:34:09.738-06:00The Walrus and the Carpenter come to mind.The Walrus and the Carpenter come to mind.(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-9275118552102288822015-12-02T15:05:34.451-06:002015-12-02T15:05:34.451-06:00FJ,
Yep!
I'm actually enjoying the way that t...FJ,<br />Yep!<br /><br />I'm actually enjoying the way that this race for the White House has shaken things up.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-15834951231482912842015-12-02T14:51:59.417-06:002015-12-02T14:51:59.417-06:00It's all about covering the Trump bet, now...It's all about <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/private-memo-lays-out-how-the-gop-would-deal-with-trump-as-its-nominee/2015/12/02/78514cba-9909-11e5-94f0-9eeaff906ef3_story.html" rel="nofollow">covering the Trump bet</a>, now...-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-68593810188582850982015-12-02T14:50:27.435-06:002015-12-02T14:50:27.435-06:00You want to win, you APPRORIATE. Just ask Ward Ba...You want to win, you APPRORIATE. Just ask <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/apps/g/page/politics/memo-on-donald-trump-from-ward-baker-to-nrsc-senior-staff/1898/" rel="nofollow">Ward Baker</a>, head of the NSRC.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-87910430277108161272015-12-02T14:47:12.972-06:002015-12-02T14:47:12.972-06:00But the Autobiography of Malcolm X doesn't fol...But the Autobiography of Malcolm X doesn't follow the multiculturalist agenda. He call's himself 'X" not to glorify his "African roots", but to boldly state he's "something new". That alone would disqualify him from all multiculturalist mythologies.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-46573724524967573682015-12-02T14:04:36.633-06:002015-12-02T14:04:36.633-06:00I'd be more concerned about the teacher's ...I'd be more concerned about the teacher's admission that she gets bored by Shakespeare's language. I assume she can teach the "African oral tradition" translated to modern English.<br /><br />Why that would be more relevant than say <i> A Bend in the River</i> or <i> Things Fall Apart </i> I don't know but I wouldn't expect her to handle works on colonialism with much insight either.<br /><br />Seems a tempest in a tea pot.<br />She should teach <i> The Autobiography of Malcolm X </i> and really force the issue.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-87138155572127268772015-12-02T13:24:01.990-06:002015-12-02T13:24:01.990-06:00The "fear" of the "Other's"...The "fear" of the "Other's" jouissance is inherent to all races and cultures. In the teacher's case, she fear's her own culture's jouissance (to "master" and "enslave" all 'others') more than any subsequent mythologized "union" of cultures.Red Herringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04577272042339047115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-13668392421954508692015-12-02T13:19:18.951-06:002015-12-02T13:19:18.951-06:00...Much as Kronos castrated Ouranos, and Zeus cast......Much as Kronos castrated Ouranos, and Zeus castrated Kronos (in Robert Grave's account).Red Herringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04577272042339047115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-60375533834753134372015-12-02T13:17:54.722-06:002015-12-02T13:17:54.722-06:00My, my, Beamish of all people hits one on the scre...My, my, Beamish of all people hits one on the screws.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-32107790429791112272015-12-02T13:16:06.260-06:002015-12-02T13:16:06.260-06:00Multiculturalism suspends the reality of the jouis...Multiculturalism suspends the reality of the jouissance in the Other, and replaces this kernel with an ascepticized folklorist entity. In this particular teacher's eyes though, she associates her own racial-cultural jouissance with something that need to be eliminated instead of folkloricized. And so she "castrates" Western culture by eliminating the white males.Red Herringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04577272042339047115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-55040483754077950812015-12-02T12:49:31.294-06:002015-12-02T12:49:31.294-06:00The didn't call the continent Europa for nothi...The didn't call the continent <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europa_%28mythology%29" rel="nofollow">Europa</a> for nothing. ;)Red Herringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04577272042339047115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-47331675879441049812015-12-02T12:46:09.681-06:002015-12-02T12:46:09.681-06:00No, I think that's she's "racializing...No, I think that's she's "racializing" culture. Europeans are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exogamy" rel="nofollow">exogamous</a>. Most other races are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogamy" rel="nofollow">endogamous</a>. We look "outward" where they look "inward" to reproduce, perpetuate and extend their "races".<br /><br />"Helen of Troy" (The Iliad) is the model... to capture a bride from "outside" the tribe.<br /><br />We see it as an advantage to appropriate the customs of other tribes. They see it as a betrayal to their own.Red Herringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04577272042339047115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-45779876463165350342015-12-02T11:27:33.125-06:002015-12-02T11:27:33.125-06:00I don't know why you would deem Spengler any l...I don't know why you would deem Spengler any less valid than Howard Zinn.Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-72672946629465628122015-12-02T11:26:46.937-06:002015-12-02T11:26:46.937-06:00Off my philosophical flight of fancy...
Here is t...Off my philosophical flight of fancy...<br /><br />Here is the crux: Vapid statement like the teacher's are easy to make and they cost the author nothing.<br /><br />Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-22540747876595627592015-12-02T11:25:20.027-06:002015-12-02T11:25:20.027-06:00Societal Oedipus Complex: The desire to kill the ...Societal Oedipus Complex: The desire to kill the masculine brutishness, cold logic, and harsh illumination of human nature that brought our society to its pinnacle; coupled with a concomitant desire to fall into the soft, feminine embrace of heart and soul, goodness, arts, nurturing, ambiguity. <br /><br />But alas, you cannot have one without the other, and like Yin and Yang, masculine and feminine each contains qualities of the other, and anyone who believe women to be the weaker sex is a fool. You cannot escape judgment, men cry, and the feminine can calculate just as coldly as the masculine.Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-2921400079683741362015-12-02T11:15:56.752-06:002015-12-02T11:15:56.752-06:00Isn't self-loathing a core component of Christ...Isn't self-loathing a core component of Christianity? We're all sinners unworthy of heaven nothing we can do can save ourselves blah blah....(((Thought Criminal)))https://www.blogger.com/profile/17311656184275255223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-38746281309794554322015-12-02T10:15:59.637-06:002015-12-02T10:15:59.637-06:00I only made it through the first 5 minutes, or so,...I only made it through the first 5 minutes, or so, of the video. Does she think that we would be better off if we became more like Africa? I don't! Perhaps she needs to relocate to Africa.JonBerghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01718776762194333398noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-14475120654570591012015-12-02T08:24:40.476-06:002015-12-02T08:24:40.476-06:00Creative destruction is a key element in capitalis...Creative destruction is a key element in capitalism. The West, unlike many "other" cultures, seeks to "surpass" itself.<br /><br />And as Oswald Spengler has stated, "The West has a <i>Faustian</i> instinct."-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-64405017742371117432015-12-02T08:07:09.208-06:002015-12-02T08:07:09.208-06:00Look at the picture of this ghoulish collection of...Look at the <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/latest-high-security-leaders-meet-climate-talks-064842902.html%22" rel="nofollow">picture of this ghoulish collection of odd-balls, delusional fools, self-important grandees and insane asylum escapees</a>.<br /><br />France is still burying its dead from the most recent terrorist attacks, and "world leaders" gather in Paris to declare war on... the earth's climate...<br /><br />Western Civilization reached the apex of culture and reason, and now we're sliding down the other side... Silverfiddlehttp://westernhero.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-74800870734363534672015-12-02T07:36:19.755-06:002015-12-02T07:36:19.755-06:00Paging Oswald Spengler, Mr. Spengler, please pick ...Paging Oswald Spengler, Mr. Spengler, please pick up any courtesy phone.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4320479736034351430.post-57951540232638422632015-12-02T07:16:09.068-06:002015-12-02T07:16:09.068-06:00Beyond death....nothing is inevitable.....neither ...Beyond death....nothing is inevitable.....neither the supremacy nor the waning of the west. The balance is tilted with the struggle [or the lack of] to maintain freedom. We've been losing this battle for years.Constitutional Insurgenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03251746798758539951noreply@blogger.com