A few years ago I participated in a radio debate on white privilege" with a certain man whose name is unimportant who had a Ph.D. in ethnic studies." At one point he introduced an argument by saying If whites are 80 percent of the population…" which prompted me to interject and point out that whites (non-Hispanic) are now only 63 percent of America. Of course you might think that someone with a doctorate in ethnic studies" would know what the ethnic and racial composition of the country is.
While no one wants to be a real-life Cliff Clavin (of Cheers fame) mistaking trivia for intellectualism facts matter because theyre small snippets of reality. Theyre little pictures and as with a jigsaw puzzle if you have enough of them assembled properly you can see the big picture. This is otherwise known as being in touch with reality.
This is why a certain trend in that liberal bastion called education is quite interesting. Educators will often say today We dont just teach kids facts uttered dripping with derision; we teach them how to think." This is quite convenient. After all its easy to test knowledge of facts; thus such measures can reveal modern education as a fraudulent enterprise. But how to think" is a bit more nebulous and if you define the expression of feelings-derived folderol as reason your students cannot fail.
Yet there is a deeper reason why liberals eschew facts: they refute fiction. And since leftist agendas have no basis in reality exposure to snippets of it is deadly; for just as one small pin can pop a balloon one little fact can shatter a rationalization.
This brings us back to Dr. Ethnic Studies. His field of expertise isnt about anything as old-fashioned as facts but he can expound at length on oppression white privilege critical-race theory and micro-aggressions." These things you see are the stuff of sophisticated modern men. Never mind that theyre complete fiction.
But liberals are raised on fiction. Fiction about Americas nature and Western influence; fiction about the races and sexes (not to mention genders") and fiction about sex; fiction about history and culture; fiction about economics; fiction about religion. Heck with how liberals claim old fairy tales are destructive theyre raised with fiction about fiction. This brings us to another fiction: Barack Obama as educated man.
If we were to mention again that he thought Austrian" was spoken in Austria pronounced corpsman" corpse-man" (three times in one speech) or that he called the transcontinental" railroad the intercontinental" one (Amtrak to Bangkok anyone?) wed obviously have to be racists. After all anyone can make a mistake. But its one thing to commit a Spoonerism and say a scoop of boy trouts" or like Dan Quayle correct a spelling-bee participant based upon the antiquated word form potatoe" (which The New York Times used as recently as 1988). But then there are those mistakes indicating that just perhaps you dont really possess the knowledge base one might expect from an educated Western gentleman.
And a fact about Obamas upbringing is that it was defined by fiction. Clergyman Hosea Ballou said Education commences at the mothers knee…" but not only was Obamas mothers knee not around all the time but what an odd knee it was. Her father had given her his first name Stanley because hed wanted a boy and Stanley Ann Dunhams personal development reflected that bizarre beginning. She attended Mercer Island High in Seattle which had a wing known as anarchy alley" that was infested with radical leftist teachers. It is said that Dunham thrived" in that atmosphere and she became a committed left-wing atheist herself. Then there was Obamas mentor in Hawaii Frank Marshall Davis a pornographic-novel writer and anti-white card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA. And how radical were Obamas leftist grandparents with whom he lived in the Aloha State? Obamas grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham was the one who chose Davis to be scrambler of young Barrys brains.
The point is that there was no prominent person in the young Obamas life who could or would expose him to reality. It was all anti-American anti-Western isms and destructive schism. This brings us to Obamas mind-numbingly ridiculous description of his 2008 campaign travels: Ive now been in 57 states; I think one left to go." Where does such a bizarre mistake come from? After all that there are 50 states is drummed into every American child so that it just instinctively rolls off the tongue: 50 states 50 states 50 states….
That is again every American child."
Its not that I dont think Obama knew there are 50 states. Rather he doesnt have the intellectual foundation youd expect of an educated Western man and this includes a lack of the rote knowledge that like an actor who has spoken a certain line in 500 rehearsals and performances is expressed the same way every time. And this by the way has nothing to do with where anyone thinks Obama was born. He simply is not truly American in mind heart and spirit.
But to fully grasp the nature of leftists ignorance an understanding of their philosophical foundation is necessary. There is a certain experience many conservatives know very well: You debate a liberal and he just seems immune to facts and reason. No matter how airtight your point it rolls off him like water off a duck.
To explain this lets start with an analogy. Becoming proficient at golf involves gaining knowledge about the swing. And if you realize youve fallen victim to a misconception improvement depends upon rejecting it and accepting the truth in question. But what if you were so bent on using your old swing so attached to hackerism" that you simply would not accept that truth? A pustule on the face of the game youd remain.
So it is in all of life. Everyone falls victim to certain misconceptions and growing in knowledge and wisdom involves rejecting them when were blessed enough to discover refutative truths. But this can be difficult for two reasons. First it may involve relinquishing ideas to which were strongly attached. This could be because theyre integral pieces of an incorrect jigsaw puzzle weve glommed onto an example of which would be a committed atheist who insists there are no moral absolutes because he knows their existence implies Gods. Or it could be that an incorrect belief is embraced as a justification for a behavior (e.g. sexual perversion heavy drinking) to which were attached. Or it could be both.
Second pride can get in the way as correcting oneself involves admitting error often with respect to ideas weve spent an entire lifetime defending. It can be like giving up a cherished son.
And while most everyone exhibits to some degree this tendency to rationalize leftists are defined by it. They are to use a favored psycho-babble term morally and philosophically dysfunctional" people. They live lives of rationalization which is when you lie to yourself sell yourself on a fiction and for this reason only intensify whatever dislocation from reality their upbringing sometimes might have wrought.
Their greatest act of self-delusion their ultimate denial of reality and the one that facilitates all others is their embrace of moral relativism the idea that there are no moral absolutes. The appeal of this fiction is that it allows one to justify any behavior imaginable. After all my sins are not sins if theres no vice only viewpoint. Who is to judge? Who is to say? Theres no black and white only gray.
But once you unmoor yourself from objective moral reality there is no limit to how immoral you can become. This is why Fyodor Dostoevskys Ivan Karamazov said that without God everything is permitted." Its why occultist Aleister Crowley insisted Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." And it explains leftists bizarre thinking. Did you ever wonder for instance how modern liberals can say something so preposterous as The truth is no defense against a hate-speech charge"? Its not hard to understand.
When a person who lives a sincere life finds that part of his ideology conflicts with the Truth he alters his ideology. But what if you not only were attached to your ideology like a drunkard to drink but didnt acknowledge Truths existence? It is then that you instead rationalize away the Truth.
In fact with his denial of Truth the leftist places his ideology where Truth should be: the center of his life. This ideology which just reflects his emotions anyway then takes on the role of God. It becomes the ultimate arbiter the fiction that becomes fact." This is why Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels once said National Socialism is a religion. …My Party is my church…." Like him todays leftists have repeated a big lie to themselves so often that it has become the truth."
Interestingly or maybe ominously the Bible speaks of the end times in 2 Timothy 3 and writes of men of depraved minds" who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth." I dont know if these are the last days or just the last days of freedom but our republic is now infested with millions of fiction voters who elected a fiction president based on fairy-tale promises. And its looking less and less like our story ends with happily ever after."
A few years ago I participated in a radio debate on white privilege" with a certain man whose name is unimportant who had a Ph.D. in ethnic studies." At one point he introduced an argument by saying If whites are 80 percent of the population…" which prompted me to interject and point out that whites (non-Hispanic) are now only 63 percent of America. Of course you might think that someone with a doctorate in ethnic studies" would know what the ethnic and racial composition of the country is.
While no one wants to be a real-life Cliff Clavin (of Cheers fame) mistaking trivia for intellectualism facts matter because theyre small snippets of reality. Theyre little pictures and as with a jigsaw puzzle if you have enough of them assembled properly you can see the big picture. This is otherwise known as being in touch with reality.
This is why a certain trend in that liberal bastion called education is quite interesting. Educators will often say today We dont just teach kids facts uttered dripping with derision; we teach them how to think." This is quite convenient. After all its easy to test knowledge of facts; thus such measures can reveal modern education as a fraudulent enterprise. But how to think" is a bit more nebulous and if you define the expression of feelings-derived folderol as reason your students cannot fail.
Yet there is a deeper reason why liberals eschew facts: they refute fiction. And since leftist agendas have no basis in reality exposure to snippets of it is deadly; for just as one small pin can pop a balloon one little fact can shatter a rationalization.
This brings us back to Dr. Ethnic Studies. His field of expertise isnt about anything as old-fashioned as facts but he can expound at length on oppression white privilege critical-race theory and micro-aggressions." These things you see are the stuff of sophisticated modern men. Never mind that theyre complete fiction.
But liberals are raised on fiction. Fiction about Americas nature and Western influence; fiction about the races and sexes (not to mention genders") and fiction about sex; fiction about history and culture; fiction about economics; fiction about religion. Heck with how liberals claim old fairy tales are destructive theyre raised with fiction about fiction. This brings us to another fiction: Barack Obama as educated man.
If we were to mention again that he thought Austrian" was spoken in Austria pronounced corpsman" corpse-man" (three times in one speech) or that he called the transcontinental" railroad the intercontinental" one (Amtrak to Bangkok anyone?) wed obviously have to be racists. After all anyone can make a mistake. But its one thing to commit a Spoonerism and say a scoop of boy trouts" or like Dan Quayle correct a spelling-bee participant based upon the antiquated word form potatoe" (which The New York Times used as recently as 1988). But then there are those mistakes indicating that just perhaps you dont really possess the knowledge base one might expect from an educated Western gentleman.
And a fact about Obamas upbringing is that it was defined by fiction. Clergyman Hosea Ballou said Education commences at the mothers knee…" but not only was Obamas mothers knee not around all the time but what an odd knee it was. Her father had given her his first name Stanley because hed wanted a boy and Stanley Ann Dunhams personal development reflected that bizarre beginning. She attended Mercer Island High in Seattle which had a wing known as anarchy alley" that was infested with radical leftist teachers. It is said that Dunham thrived" in that atmosphere and she became a committed left-wing atheist herself. Then there was Obamas mentor in Hawaii Frank Marshall Davis a pornographic-novel writer and anti-white card-carrying member of the Communist Party USA. And how radical were Obamas leftist grandparents with whom he lived in the Aloha State? Obamas grandfather Stanley Armour Dunham was the one who chose Davis to be scrambler of young Barrys brains.
The point is that there was no prominent person in the young Obamas life who could or would expose him to reality. It was all anti-American anti-Western isms and destructive schism. This brings us to Obamas mind-numbingly ridiculous description of his 2008 campaign travels: Ive now been in 57 states; I think one left to go." Where does such a bizarre mistake come from? After all that there are 50 states is drummed into every American child so that it just instinctively rolls off the tongue: 50 states 50 states 50 states….
That is again every American child."
Its not that I dont think Obama knew there are 50 states. Rather he doesnt have the intellectual foundation youd expect of an educated Western man and this includes a lack of the rote knowledge that like an actor who has spoken a certain line in 500 rehearsals and performances is expressed the same way every time. And this by the way has nothing to do with where anyone thinks Obama was born. He simply is not truly American in mind heart and spirit.
But to fully grasp the nature of leftists ignorance an understanding of their philosophical foundation is necessary. There is a certain experience many conservatives know very well: You debate a liberal and he just seems immune to facts and reason. No matter how airtight your point it rolls off him like water off a duck.
To explain this lets start with an analogy. Becoming proficient at golf involves gaining knowledge about the swing. And if you realize youve fallen victim to a misconception improvement depends upon rejecting it and accepting the truth in question. But what if you were so bent on using your old swing so attached to hackerism" that you simply would not accept that truth? A pustule on the face of the game youd remain.
So it is in all of life. Everyone falls victim to certain misconceptions and growing in knowledge and wisdom involves rejecting them when were blessed enough to discover refutative truths. But this can be difficult for two reasons. First it may involve relinquishing ideas to which were strongly attached. This could be because theyre integral pieces of an incorrect jigsaw puzzle weve glommed onto an example of which would be a committed atheist who insists there are no moral absolutes because he knows their existence implies Gods. Or it could be that an incorrect belief is embraced as a justification for a behavior (e.g. sexual perversion heavy drinking) to which were attached. Or it could be both.
Second pride can get in the way as correcting oneself involves admitting error often with respect to ideas weve spent an entire lifetime defending. It can be like giving up a cherished son.
And while most everyone exhibits to some degree this tendency to rationalize leftists are defined by it. They are to use a favored psycho-babble term morally and philosophically dysfunctional" people. They live lives of rationalization which is when you lie to yourself sell yourself on a fiction and for this reason only intensify whatever dislocation from reality their upbringing sometimes might have wrought.
Their greatest act of self-delusion their ultimate denial of reality and the one that facilitates all others is their embrace of moral relativism the idea that there are no moral absolutes. The appeal of this fiction is that it allows one to justify any behavior imaginable. After all my sins are not sins if theres no vice only viewpoint. Who is to judge? Who is to say? Theres no black and white only gray.
But once you unmoor yourself from objective moral reality there is no limit to how immoral you can become. This is why Fyodor Dostoevskys Ivan Karamazov said that without God everything is permitted." Its why occultist Aleister Crowley insisted Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." And it explains leftists bizarre thinking. Did you ever wonder for instance how modern liberals can say something so preposterous as The truth is no defense against a hate-speech charge"? Its not hard to understand.
When a person who lives a sincere life finds that part of his ideology conflicts with the Truth he alters his ideology. But what if you not only were attached to your ideology like a drunkard to drink but didnt acknowledge Truths existence? It is then that you instead rationalize away the Truth.
In fact with his denial of Truth the leftist places his ideology where Truth should be: the center of his life. This ideology which just reflects his emotions anyway then takes on the role of God. It becomes the ultimate arbiter the fiction that becomes fact." This is why Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels once said National Socialism is a religion. …My Party is my church…." Like him todays leftists have repeated a big lie to themselves so often that it has become the truth."
Interestingly or maybe ominously the Bible speaks of the end times in 2 Timothy 3 and writes of men of depraved minds" who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth." I dont know if these are the last days or just the last days of freedom but our republic is now infested with millions of fiction voters who elected a fiction president based on fairy-tale promises. And its looking less and less like our story ends with happily ever after."