Is the only form of progress statist?
I have a tendency to think of libertarianism and "freedom from" to be extremely progressive. As in, progressing in the wrong direction on bad data and individual whim.
I'd certainly call the Nation of Islam and its militant wing the Black Panthers a black mafia. All revolutionaries have a tendency to adopt the worst of what they are fighting against, that's the reason the KGB exists, a copy of the Czar's secret police.
The last shall be first, and the first last, ring a bell?
Not on that you aren't. The Church is a hospital for sinners, not a four star resort amusement park for Saints.
Also keep in mind that if you can drive a car from the 50ties, you can drive one built in 2015, and inversely. Safely.
XP was a (had become) a mature operating system. I abhor the fetish of "newer is better" that reigns in our industry.
Cuireann mé marc ar an lá. Cuimhním.
It's a comment deep down in a thread, but if you'd like to read the whole thread, it's at http://www.crisismagazine.com/2015/christians-must-go-offensive-gay-mafia. I personally prefer the Benedict Option.
The legal impossibility of a Christian polity in America is formally declared in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The so-called 'free speech' and 'free exercise' clauses of the First Amendment are purely secular mandates. They are a rejection of the Catholic notion of the common good, mandating that there be no restraint whatsoever on things that damage souls and ultimately destroy the State itself. They grant as lawful precisely what many popes have called unlawful: unconditiona
I tried to comment on something about progress, then it claimed I was posting anonymously, logged me out, and when I logged back in the comment on progress was gone. I'm going to post my response anyway.
I think I finally found a big hole in all human progress. Human beings are short term thinkers. That's why we base our transportation system on fossil fuels that can't be easily replenished; that's why "progressives" base their romantic escapades on non-sustainable procreative strategies like serial adultery and homosexuality. That's why when the "scientific Green Revolution" came to Bali and overturned a few thousand years of theological agriculture to try to increase rice production, the whole ecology went out of whack.
No long term view. And that's why this Gleichschaltung, like all others before it, will fall.
My only question is, when will Northern Europeans in general realize that what they think is progress, is extremely short term thinking?
I was just asked, on a comment, to prove that I was human.
I am logged in to slashdot.
This is a test to see if I can post in my journal without becoming anonymous.
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -- Rich Kulawiec
