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2021-04-10 -Great Cultural Revolution

The Wall Between Civilization And Our Innate Savagery Is Weakening

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-10 00:31|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Spare the rod and spoil the child.

You can't make silk purses out of sow's ears.

“How we live is so different from how we ought to live that he who studies what ought to be done rather than what is done will learn the way to his downfall rather than to his preservation.”
― Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince

“Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-04-10 05:02|| 2021-04-10 05:02|| Front Page Top

#2 many symbols and rituals of the older consensus were losing power even before they were discarded

That's because everything moves from order to entropy, even civilization. To keep anything from entropy, force is required. In nature, it can be gravitation or the strong forces. In society, it is violence backed by the majority's will. How have the moslems kept their fundamental values the same for centuries? The day the majority starts self-righteous pansying about and entertaining cucks with boo hoo hoo theories about empowerment and emancipation, chaos gains a foothold. It then advances onward, until everyone from the common criminal to the satanist pedophile has been 'emancipated'.

I'm all for restoration of the Christian ethic, of nationalist pride, but it's usually a tool in the hands of suicidally inactive masochists and thumb twiddlers. What's required is not more ambiguous concepts of morality, but selective unfairness toward the recidivist, the criminal, the one who think 'anything goes' and 'nothing is sacred'.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-04-10 05:36|| 2021-04-10 05:36|| Front Page Top

#3 /\ That's because everything moves from order to entropy, even civilization.

Yes, somewhat obvious but seldom mentioned, "moth and rust doth corrupt". It would appear to the natural order, unless corrective measures are taken.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-10 07:33|| 2021-04-10 07:33|| Front Page Top

#4 The Thin Veneer of American Civilization

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-10 09:39|| 2021-04-10 09:39|| Front Page Top

#5 a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived
Those who are themselves deceitful make up the greatest proportion (by far) of people who are ready to be deceived. Heedlessness, ignorance and selfcenteredness also play a major role.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-04-10 13:10|| 2021-04-10 13:10|| Front Page Top

#6 Thanks Skid, the VDH article was superb!

Posted by NoMoreBS 2021-04-10 13:41|| 2021-04-10 13:41|| Front Page Top

#7 While human sacrifice is not (yet) part of the curriculum

Actually, that is exactly what abortion is. It is just an aesthetic form of dead babies in the alley, or thrown off of a cliff, or placed in a bronze oven.

Purposefully exposing the elderly infirm to disease in order to save money is right there too.

How about destroying one's current and future livihood, banishing them to poverty and abuse for the rest of their days, and probably their children as well, to make a social point?

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-04-10 14:04|| 2021-04-10 14:04|| Front Page Top

#8 We had a good run
Nice while it lasted

Posted by Waldemar Thrating6631 2021-04-10 14:47|| 2021-04-10 14:47|| Front Page Top

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