tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post513502129871156113..comments2024-02-24T00:37:43.087-05:00Comments on The Other McCain: Advanced Demonstrations In Not Getting ItRobert Stacy McCainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03084541621503669804noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-53843071296033034942009-11-02T06:33:55.981-05:002009-11-02T06:33:55.981-05:00Smitty
No, I’m not Pascal and I might make my poi...Smitty<br /><br />No, I’m not Pascal and I might make my point clearer by noting that it was Thomas Jefferson who wanted America run by a natural aristocracy rather than an entrenched ELITE. <br /><br />The main problem with the left wing group ideology (see the Shadow University) is that the groups they elevate to ELITE status are alienated from the traditions that gave birth to America and the civilization it was heir to. Check out Kirk’s book The Roots of American Order for a survey of the civilization that should be our inheritance. One of Kirk’s last books is also good if one can find a copy, Our British Culture.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-85476987075963437982009-11-02T06:11:40.882-05:002009-11-02T06:11:40.882-05:00Dear Smitty:
I’m not objecting, just adding a l...Dear Smitty: <br /><br />I’m not objecting, just adding a little perspective. I guess what I’m really saying is that we shouldn’t miss the forest for the trees. It isn’t Congress that is the problem as such, but rather the social organization based on left wing elite ideology which ends up controlling what Congress does and who is in it. <br /><br />Recall that James Burnham who basically ran the intellectual side of National Review from the 50s to the late 70s taught us that Congress should be in charge of the government, not the President or the permanent civil service. <br /><br />We need to destroy by exposing as fraudlent, the left wing cultural dominance in order to establish a permanent conservative old style American government. Once we have a conservative culture the politics will mostly be taken care of automatically. People will simply think in traditional ways and reject out of hand left wing crazy talk. <br /><br />Check out the Shadow University too, by Alan Kors.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-77877262884103246512009-11-01T05:06:13.733-05:002009-11-01T05:06:13.733-05:00@Anonymous (Mr. Pascal?)
Thanks for the Russell Ki...@Anonymous (Mr. Pascal?)<br />Thanks for the Russell Kirk recommendation. It's on the Wish List.<br /><br />Your objection to the post is unclear. Was the United States founded as a 'better moustrap', to effect the good things in the Preamble, or was that just a toss-off for a few Dead White Dudes, so that now we can return to more historically hierarchical modes of societal organization?<br /><br />Are we packin' the gear or not, sir?smitty1ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559464300318848169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-91069558161224929782009-11-01T04:16:16.850-05:002009-11-01T04:16:16.850-05:00Dear Smitty1E:
This is a big topic, so just let...Dear Smitty1E: <br /><br />This is a big topic, so just let me say that if you look into the work of Sir Henry Maine you might see what I’m talking about. Maine noted that pre-modern societies were based on “status” rather than “contract”, and by contract Maine meant “merit.” By status Maine meant “who” someone is rather than what they achieve. Russell Kirk has a good summary of this in his book The Conservative Mind, brief and excellent as always. <br /><br />Note that both Michelle and Barack Obama obtained “patents of nobility” from Harvard and Princeton and Columbia. I’m not picking on them because of race preference as I’ve met and observed plenty of “whites” who have received similar patents of nobility. Think of the attempt to hand a Senate seat over to Caroline Kennedy as an example of what I’m talking about. And contrary to the lies of those in the current ELITE, we are at the opposite ends of a “meritocracy” today. <br /><br />In the book the Shadow University, around page 218, the authors sum up the Politically Correct ideology as holding that an individual’s merit depends on his ancestry, and thus a white heterosexual male is bad, whereas the other categories are generally deemed to be good (with exceptions made of course for the children of the leftist ELITE). It is a return to a pre-modern primitive way of looking at the world and will take us back to a more primitive material condition as it has already with our intellectual life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-60023223914336945552009-11-01T02:31:35.913-05:002009-11-01T02:31:35.913-05:00"...the Ying and Yang of our unique history....."...the Ying and Yang of our unique history..."<br /><br />It's Yin and Yang. Sorry, Mark Pascal, I didn't read the rest of your article because I figured if you're too illiterate to know the difference, your article wasn't worth my time.Steven Givlerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09092840809322567030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-61785701361976020472009-10-31T20:17:47.194-04:002009-10-31T20:17:47.194-04:00@Anonymous,
I find your distinction interesting, b...@Anonymous,<br />I find your distinction interesting, but theoretical at best.<br /><br />A better objection is that they're not handing out titles, except that Senator and Representative are now seen as career titles. Stand by for seeing them become hereditary, if we hold the current course.smitty1ehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559464300318848169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-67033953670178201542009-10-31T20:11:38.131-04:002009-10-31T20:11:38.131-04:00Smitty is right of course to raise the issue of “a...Smitty is right of course to raise the issue of “aristocracy” except that the label is wrong. In truth what we are seeing is the rise and entrenchment of an ELITE. The difference is that an aristocracy is based on merit whereas an ELITE is based on the opposite of merit, whether it be birth or some other marker of unearned privilege. <br /><br />Also note that as Aristotle observed, a genuine aristocracy rules in the Common Interest whereas an ELITE rules only in its own illegitimate interests.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-77141340710556926492009-10-31T15:50:31.718-04:002009-10-31T15:50:31.718-04:00Domestically, the whole point of the government is...<i>Domestically, the whole point of the government is to support people figuring out their own destiny, de-conflicting as required.</i><br />Not bad.<br /><br /><i>I'd re-state the last 30 decades (Reagan onward) as: ....</i><br />As awesome as Regan was, I don't think he was a time-traveler.CayleyGraphnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-80972461723779945552009-10-31T15:17:24.343-04:002009-10-31T15:17:24.343-04:00Heck, after the end of the Federalists we had one ...Heck, after the end of the Federalists we had one party. It took a while for the Whigs to develop to counter the Democrat Republicans. It wasn't until slavery boiled over in the 1850's that the Republicans emerged to counter the Democrats. The Democrats also were really two parties then with the whole pro-slavery portion making up a minority.<br /><br />Pascal's article is pretty low level analysis of US political history.Dagpotterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01032925391588159146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4223398383609158624.post-57157182742246719992009-10-31T11:11:01.080-04:002009-10-31T11:11:01.080-04:00The Democrats do very well with Senator Bernie San...The Democrats do very well with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Sanders and Obama campaign together (video): http://tinyurl.com/y9xt9umJeremayakovkahttp://jeremayakovka.typepad.comnoreply@blogger.com