Perspective, Baybee.
Think upon the Olden Daze; that to which we give less than zero mental energy here in America. The daze of Lords and kings and various aristocracy who, by right of birth or royal decree were deemed to be more fit, more able, to own the property, make the decisions and run the show.
It once was, “whatever is good for the Medicis is good for YOU — if you know what’s good for you.” Now it’s “whatever is The Truth for the elites is True for you — if you know what is good for ya…”.
We — we thought — got rid of the very idea of Birthright Makes Right with the long voyage to the wilderness, the brilliance of a handful of brave men who believed in the Spark of Divinity of Everyman, and the War to prove our seriousness.
It worked — for quite a while. Now it’s faltering; sputtering like an engine with sugar in the gas tank. We have elites in our gas tank.
VDH:
A postmodern narrow coastal corridor runs from San Diego to Berkeley; there the weather is ideal, the gentrified affluent make good money, and values are green and left-wing. This Shangri-La is juxtaposed to a vast impoverished interior, from the southern desert to the northern Central Valley, where life is becoming premodern.…In the interior, unemployment in many areas is over 15 percent. The theft of copper wire is reaching epidemic proportions. Thousands of the shrinking middle class have fled the interior for the coast or for nearby no-income-tax states. To fathom the nearly unbelievable statistics — as California’s population grew by 10 million from the mid-1980s to 2005, its number of Medicaid recipients increased by 7 million; one-third of the nation’s welfare recipients now reside in California — visit the state’s hinterlands.
But in the Never-Never Land of Apple, Facebook, Google, Hollywood, and the wine country, millions live in an idyllic paradise. Coastal Californians can afford to worry about trivia — and so their legislators seek to outlaw foie gras, shut down irrigation projects in order to save the three-inch-long Delta smelt, and allow children to have legally recognized multiple parents.
But… but… but… how?!?
Disinformation. …instead of expending the impossible energy needed to dictate the very form and existence of the truth, they would allow it to drift, obscured in a fog of contrived data. They would wrap the truth in a Gordian Knot of misdirection and fabrication so elaborate that they felt certain the majority of people would surrender, giving up long before they ever finished unraveling the deceit. The goal was not to destroy the truth, but to hide it in plain sight.
The Will to Power over Others: it’s simply Human Nature. As evidenced by the Cycles of History.
It’s up to US to figure out a new way to counter The Will to Power over Others with The Will to Freedom for Everyman.
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The Big Lie repeated ad nauseaum works very nicely here, thanks to the First Amendment. Until that lying has consequences, – significant punishment for sedition, libel, slander, fraud – I don’t know how to stop it.
A good start might be regaining control of K-12 education and a major purge of meaningless, useless hate white America courses from universities. Begin that by eliminating any Federal involvement in education. With government money comes control and the bending of morals, standards, grades and course content to keep the money tap open.
The other thing that must happen is for everyday America to get their asses out of the mall and their head out of their asses and realize that there is a cold war ongoing within our country to make our Constitution meaningless and turn over control to Ivy elites who circulate through the revolving door of government and directorships of major corporations, mostly investment banking. The Socialist wing of the Dem party (that would be most of them, BTW) leads this charge, and the Old Boys in the Stupid Party go along as long as they are allowed to be comfortable and share in the perks and the swag.
The core of the whole damn kaboodle is corruption – what’s in it for me – not what’s right for the country.
Make hero’s out of athletes and entertainers.
Claire-ee, you just demonstrated that you know where to find the Truth, that is unvarnished! I make it a habit to read Victor D. Hanson before the ink dries on his latest article. I gave him the tactical callsign of “VD” Hanson… I once lived a few miles from his farm in Selma when stationed at NAS Lemoore & living for 3 years in Hanford. The first book of his that I read was “Mexifornia” and it later proved to be accurate as can be for our State! VD`s father was a Marine who died in the Okinawa campaign. I have since read all his published books…..
Truth is vital for me too. Blogs that I personally read every morning are amongst others, Lucianne.com, Powerline, Ace of Spades, National Review online, Instapundit, Free Republic, Real Clear Politics and Brietbart—-to name a few. No day passes without Knowledge is Power and Rogie`s C&S…..
I subscribe to no fucking newspaper or magazine. I have not watched television since 1989. I believe that too many people get ALL their news from these 3 sources and, therefore, have great difficulty getting at the truth!
I grew up in Fresno, and survived. Left California when I was in my late twenties.
Time to award ‘em The Maynard™.
Nice bronze plaque Doug! That’s about 12 lbs., right?
Be sure to hang it from a chain around the awardee’s neck.
There’s a dog on the roof?
“A postmodern narrow coastal corridor …”
Somebody wrote a book a while back, part of which had a large floating city (magnetism was just starting to get noticed at the time), in which the Good Life was lived. It floated over land where the Not-So-Good Life went on. If the ground-dwellers didn’t give good things to the Floating City folks, they’d just move their city over the offenders and cut off their sunlight.
dnqdwg: The Big Lie only works when people don’t have enough sense to disbelieve it. That’s why the Left has been waging a war on education ever since John Dewey – around the 30s or 40s. Teaching kids to think for themselves doesn’t help the elites, who want to plan our lives.
They really think the whole world can be like Berkeley.
It’s not even an elite, it’s like a tottering pile of parasites that *thinks* of itself as elite.
Hog – Our neighbor’s dog does go out on their roof, via a second-story window, frequently. Then she sits up there and barks.
… but, fortunately, kids of a certain age also need to establish their individuality and often do so by rebelling. They can just as easily rebel against their schools as against their parents. So, outside of school, expose them to information/perspectives their history books lack … and then turn them loose and watch the fun. There’s nothing a kid loves more than knowing he has more information than an authority figure – any authority figure!
Hog – What I meant to say is some dogs like to sit on roofs. Most of them prefer it to sitting on a dinner plate, in fact.
Woof on the roof— sorry!!!
Huh. So that’s what Galt’s Gulch actually looks like.
Yep. They live the life of leisure, ignore the obvious and are actually surprised when the mob appears at the gate with pitchforks and torches.