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Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 1:43pmSanction this postReply
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Professor Machan,

Good article, but I have a few concerns.

I wasn’t surprised one bit at his ready exploitation of the Connecticut schools shooting. As one of his hacks, Emanuel Rahm, said a few years ago, “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it's an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.”
There is something I find particularly distasteful about using the corpses of children to advance an authoritarian agenda. I just needed to get that off my chest. On to the concerns...
As one of his hacks, Emanuel Rahm, said a few years ago...
"Emanuel Rahm"? Isn't it Rahm Emanuel or am I missing some inside joke?

I suppose there is still some semblance of liberty left in the country--mostly having to do with the free flow of opinion and the permission to engage in a great variety of artistic expression (although judging by what kind of works seem to gain the approval of the elite media even this may reasonably be doubted).

Could you elaborate on this? Are you saying that (the existence of) artistic freedom may be doubted since only some pieces of art win the approval of the elite media?

It is almost as if he and his team are deliberately advancing an incoherent agenda, one that will leave the American people with no guide to what to expect from his administration of the American government.
I don't know if it is deliberate or simply the result of an incoherent worldview. Could it be both or a combination of the two (I suspect it is the latter)?

I do not know if Mr. Obama has read all these and other irrationalist and post-modernist thinkers and consciously follows them...
Obama doesn't seem very sharp. I think it is likely that he assembled his own philosophy the way most people assemble their own, by means of passive absorption of the ideas one is exposed to.  


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Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 6:06pmSanction this postReply
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Hi, Kyle -
 
Emanuel Rahm"? Isn't it Rahm Emanuel or am I missing some inside joke?

Ooops. Not an inside joke, just an error. I'll see if I can fix it.

On this:

Obama doesn't seem very sharp. I think it is likely that he assembled his own philosophy the way most people assemble their own, by means of passive absorption of the ideas one is exposed to.

You're very generous, Kyle.

Seeing that Obama spent a whole bunch of time surrounded by academics familiar with post modernism, including those at Harvard, I prefer to think that he is quite familiar with those ideas, and chooses to consciously adopt that particular brand of crazy.

(Error repaired in the article)

(Edited by Teresa Summerlee Isanhart on 2/13, 6:10pm)


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Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 7:03pmSanction this postReply
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Seeing that Obama spent a whole bunch of time surrounded by academics familiar with post modernism, including those at Harvard, I prefer to think that he is quite familiar with those ideas, and chooses to consciously adopt that particular brand of crazy.
I agree. And I believe that he purposefully lies and hides his most extreme postmodernist ideas because he believes he knows better than all the ignorant, bitter-clingers that make up the population.

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Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 2:20pmSanction this postReply
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"Obama doesn't seem very sharp. I think it is likely that he assembled his own philosophy the way most people assemble their own, by means of passive absorption of the ideas one is exposed to."

And in his case, since he attended one of the mandrels of left wing thought -- the inbred chokepoints of instruction where the indoctrination is anything but passive(translated: repeat after me or I will fail you)-- it is hard to call it passive absorption.

The act of resistance at those mandrels of thought must be conscious and deliberate. It is necessary to show up pre-inoculated, or else going with the local flow is the path of least resistance, of social acceptance in the local established culture.

The Ivies aren't like Penn State; they are more like large high schools. The 'diversity' celebrated at these inbred places is some of the most strictly regimented and policed conformity imaginable, and both Mr. and Mrs Obama are classic products of these mills. For every John Stossel that escapes unscathed, they cookie cutter out a hundred Paul Krugmans. That is way more than passive absorption, that is deliberate, active and aggressive indoctrination.

Mrs Obama, whispering on the pillow; has anybody noticed that Obama's last two USSC picks were carbon-copy Princeton radical feminists-- just like Michelle Obama?

That's diversity? In what universe?

Is it really a great idea to have the last 2/9 of the USSC molded from that same cookie-cutter? (In fact...1/3 of the USSC in total, from the same tiny chokepoint of inbred indoctrination?

regards,
Fred

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Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 3:54pmSanction this postReply
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Teresa,

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You're very generous, Kyle.

Seeing that Obama spent a whole bunch of time surrounded by academics familiar with post modernism, including those at Harvard, I prefer to think that he is quite familiar with those ideas, and chooses to consciously adopt that particular brand of crazy.

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Yes, I agree, I didn't mean to imply that he didn't choose the ideas he currently holds (he chose to accept them, and chooses to hold them). What I meant by "passive absorption" is that he was uncritical of the ideas he was being taught. He didn't seriously examine his own ideas (let alone, other, more freedom aligned, ideas).

This brings me to a question: is Obama evil or just idiotic? I think the answer is: a little of both. As to the actual proportions, that's up to debate.

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Thursday, February 14, 2013 - 4:00pmSanction this postReply
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Fred,

The Left's mantra should be:

"Diversity of skin color, sex, sexual orientation, etc.,


uniformity of ideas."

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Friday, February 15, 2013 - 7:29amSanction this postReply
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Kyle:

It has literally become a single word: RaceGenderClass.

regards,
Fred

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Friday, February 15, 2013 - 1:21pmSanction this postReply
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RaceGenderClass is identity coalition politics. The idea is that you find angry or frightened groups who are identified by race, class or gender and then you do two things: 1) You encourage emotionalism over reason, 2) you address each of the groups with talking points intended to hit their particular emotional hot-spots.

Sometimes you don't "find" and angry or frightened group so much as you "create" fear, then anger in a group. Create opposition boogie men groups that are threatening the very ways of life, the dreams, the hopes of whatever group is being targeted.

You need work from the context of emotionalism since reason would let the people see the fraud being perpetrated, and be able to figure out what isn't being said. The fraud is that they are giving up liberty and opportunity and a sustainable system for short term hand outs and promises that amount to you can have YOUR cake and everyone else's, and eat it too.

With reason out of the equation, than you can engage in training conditioned responses, like you'd train an animal. Hand out the occasional treat, offer a warm, inviting presence as the alpha pack leader, act as if nothing is wrong, cultivate dependency, attack and cut out those that aren't willing to join with the rest of the group. (That last is why the most furious attacks are on people who should be part of one of an identity groups but aren't going along... Herman Cain, Marco Rubio, Sarah Palin - they didn't identify with their training group and set a bad example and needed to be publicly punished. Can't have a black or a Hispanic or a woman enter the political arena in opposition to RaceGenderClass politics - it would undermine the fraud of natural solidarity and common cause of the group.)

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