We Will Not Cave

“Nietzsche, who urges the depressed and demoralized individual to forge an entirely new path through the wilderness, one that is unique to him” This is not the full story on Nietzsche, and it cuts some corners on his thought. This statement about Nietzsche and individualism does not do justice to the whole of the Nietzsche’s project or life, but it can be a semblance of his thought, and that is all: I suppose I might accept that position.   It is important to see this quote within its context.   It comes from the work Conservatism: A Rediscovery by Yoram Hazony .   This is an excellent book describing Hebrew Bible (Christian OT) conservative nationalism.   This is not written from a position of hate, and cannot be indicated as anti-Semitic, and is written by this Jewish man who lives in Jerusalem.   Having gutted books, I intend to read it more carefully.   The challenge of Hazony’s work is his position on the roles of men and women.   Hazony states t...

"The modern bourgeois society that has sprouted from the ruins of feudal society has not done away with class antagonisms. It has but established new classes, new conditions of oppression, new forms of struggle in place of the old ones. Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses, however, this distinctive feature: it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes, directly facing each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletariat"  Are there class struggles in the US?  Are classes really hostile to one another?  Can classes be distinguished?  Can there be clear enough boundaries to determine classes from one another?  How many classes are there?  What makes someone middle class, for example, income, education, occupation , or what? Let's read the Communist Manifesto to determine its accuracy, ourselves . . .. . . 

This is from the Book of Common Prayer:    It is a most invaluable part of that blessed “liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,” that in his worship different forms and usages may without offence be allowed, provided the substance of the Faith be kept entire; and that, in every Church, what cannot be clearly determined to belong to Doctrine must be referred to Discipline; and therefore, by common consent and authority, may be altered, abridged, enlarged, amended, or otherwise disposed of , as may seem most convenient for the edification of the people,” according to the various exigency of times and occasions.” Colossians 2:8 reads:    See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.   The Communist Manifesto reads: The Socialistic bourgeois want all the advantages of modern social conditions without the struggles...

  According to Todd May “ It should not be surprising that progressive movements often fail, or that their gains are only partial. After all, progressive struggles are struggles by and for the oppressed ” I know it seems that the emphasis is on the dichotomy of oppressor/oppressed, but this is not the point I want to make.  I want to see Jacques Ranciere’s influence on contemporary world, particularly the US.  In the US we have seen excessive success by the agenda of the progressives or the Left. It is not a matter of there not being success for the progressives.  What has happened is that the Left has succeeded to influence and capture power in the US.  Using the word “capture” I intentionally aim to point out the war like tactics of the progressives, including hate-speech directed at conservatives, propaganda, and outright lies in the media the US people consume. There is a level of double speech and what George Orwell would identify as “news speak.” That whic...

We live in a REAL and EVIL world; you may be able to read fiction, and your preference may be CS Lewis, but I cannot stand fiction.  Metaphors and such conceptualizations are not good descriptors of this world.   We need to know the Evil ones that apply their theory to our ideas and distort the minds of children and young adults.  Generations have gone to the pit of Gehenna (yes, look it up).  We must rescue our children from the Evils that make haste at destroying young peoples’ minds.  Get your nose out of tales and learn about the destructive forces behind what students (when learning to think critically) are faced with and taught to regurgitate while confronting their, hate to use an overused word, worldview.

Carolyn J. Dean writes, “Most trace decentering to a general philosophical recognition of the other” That is to say, when they (most) identify the other, they do so as the other is in relationship to the self.   It is a subtle philosophical and epistemological move that throws the self in relief, noted as decentered.   The position of the self will always be in relationship to the other now that this move has been made in many, if not all our basic philosophical orientations (or disorientations). The situation is this: “the self has been decentered, but it has not been relocated in an ‘other’ awaiting liberation (as in surrealism) or abolished” So the self has not been shifted to the position of an-other, nor has either been dissolved. The decentered self and the other are only understood in relationship to each other or some outlying variable. Understanding one as being in a position relative to another allows for the speaking of the other through the self.   The self ac...

  decentred self or decentred subject  a  conception  of  the self , or  the   thinking   and   acting   subject , in  which  the   self  is no  longer   regarded  as  providing   the   kind  of  ultimate   grounding   for   epistemological thinking   that  is  often   assumed  in  traditional   forms  of  philosophy .  from:  https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/decentred+subject