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| Mark Steyn: "the nuclearization of ancient pathologies" |
| 2006-08-08 |
| Excerpted from a much longer article--go read it all. These are dark times for the world: we are on the brink of the nuclearization of ancient pathologies. It's a very strange feeling to read 19th-century novels and travelogues and recognize the old psychoses currently re-emerging in even more preposterous forms. I'm a bit behind in responding to the gazillion Jews-are-to-blame-for-everything emails, but when I do I usually say I take a relaxed view of hatred but take my advice and don't get over-invested in it. There's a very sharp short book by Andrew Roberts called Hitler And Churchill: Secrets of Leadership and, as you go through it, you realize that the key difference between the two is that the prime minister had a very shrewd understanding of what the Führer was like and the Führer had absolutely no clue about the prime minister. To Hitler, Churchill was "that puppet of Jewry": he didn't offer that as a bit of rhetorical red meat for the Saturday-night Nuremberg crowd, but as a serious analysis in the privacy of his study. That's the problem with full-blown Jew-hatred: it's not just a toxic frosting on what may otherwise be a perfectly agreeable cake, so much as a reliable indicator that your entire worldview has been infected. Which is why it doesn't usually work out so well for the Jew-haters. "I have a premonition that will not leave me," wrote Eric Hoffer, America's great longshoreman philosopher, after the '67 war. "As it goes with Israel so will it go with all of us. Should Israel perish the holocaust will be upon us." |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #4 MARY MATALIN was on HANNITY AND COLMES thia AM [Guam time] - she admonishes the Dems and asked what had happened to the Dems in the looming primary victory of Lamont over Lieberman. The Party of Wilson, FDR, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson os dead - HANNITY > iff Lamont wins, as he is expected to iff post-primary outcome trends continue, it'll be a sign that MOVEON.org and the FAR/RADICAL/ULTRA-LEFT now has de facto, pro forma control of the core of the Dems in [Clintonian] America = Amerika. and that today is that day = death of the old Party. MATALIN > new MOVEON. etal., FAR/RADICAL LEFT-led Dems = in favor of anti-USA geopol isolationism, retreat, and concessions, and also favor a domestic agenda that suppors the "Coarsening" of Amer politics, culture, beliefs, and society in general, i.e. to "justify" national-universal-pervasive Governmentism/Socialism in America. MATALIN > new Dems Party want to "RUN AWAY", and NOT TAKE A STAND ON ANYTHING. IOW, MARX et LENIN et STALIN, etc VIDAE - ALL HAIL THE FUTURE PEOPLE"S REVOLUTIONARY CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF AMERIKA; ALL HAIL OUR GREAT LEADERS IN MOSCOW-BEIJING. The extermination of 200Milyuhn-plus Amerikans + 90%-plus of World's population is "necessary" for the Enviro, good SOcialism, OWG, Russia-China = Commie Asia = Mackinder's WOrld Island, and the Global Politburo, the "status quo" for Americans = Amerikans, for Amerikan Hated Nazis-Hitlerists = well-meaning but defective Limited Communists-Totalitarianists. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2006-08-09 00:01 |
| #3 Damn good read. |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2006-08-08 21:55 |
| #2 Same with all racist jerks. They are so hateful and insecurity of themselves, they gotta force it on someone else to make themselves feel better or they will eat a bullet. Personally, I'm all for the latter fix. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2006-08-08 16:16 |
| #1 That's the problem with full-blown Jew-hatred: it's not just a toxic frosting on what may otherwise be a perfectly agreeable cake, so much as a reliable indicator that your entire worldview has been infected. I have never met anyone who thought the Jews were in control of everything who didn't also have a 5-mile long train of boxcars filled with insecurity, loathing and idiocy in tow. |
| Posted by: Dreadnought 2006-08-08 14:54 |