tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post2673674602814512333..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger36125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-41529019509391638062012-11-10T10:49:58.083-05:002012-11-10T10:49:58.083-05:00... and well suited to one of your generation .... and well suited to one of your generation .Greenhttp://buyphentermine375hq.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-15852995350699889152012-09-03T23:36:13.968-04:002012-09-03T23:36:13.968-04:00I understand, and agree. Perhaps it is why at 60 ...I understand, and agree. Perhaps it is why at 60 and having time (being unemployed temporarily) I have started powerlifting training again, am contemplating a MAJOR career change, have changed political affilatoon, and will continue to fight the bastards on my blog and every way I can.<br /><br />I simply refuse to be spoon fed the BS by the two fascits parties of American. If I eventually go down I will do so in a flaming blaze of resistance.<br /><br />Simply put I've had it with the BS from leaders in both mAjor pArties. Until America wakes up, gets back to basics, and realizes leaders like Ron Paul and Gary Johnson should be taken seriously NOTHING is going to change.Rational Nation USAhttp://rationalnationusa.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-25852565084223393112012-09-03T11:59:31.029-04:002012-09-03T11:59:31.029-04:00that works in a free, laissez-faire society, Les, ...that works in a free, <i>laissez-faire</i> society, Les, but not in a Marxist Dictatorshit.<br /><br />What we seem to have now is weird sort of Crypto-Marxist Plutocratic <i>Oligarchy</i>. <br /><br />I can't stand it anymore. Frankly, I'm burning out. Very very few seem to have the faintest grasp of what's going on. It's beyond frightening.<br /><br />I did everything right, saved, invested carefully, made a good deal in real estate, inherited a considerable fortune a few years ago, and <i>should</i> be "sitting pretty," but the dirty bastards have conspired to pull the rug out from under the feet of people like me who have acquired a modest-but-significant degree of wealth, and <i>should</i> by all that's holy be able to live out the remainder of our lives with no greater concern than the [considerable] problem of staying alive as long as possible -- <i>outside the confines of a nursing home</i>.<br /><br />If the Oligarchs get away with robbing us of all we have, I won't want to live any longer. I'm 72, nearly blind, arthritic, and very VERY tired.<br /><br />~ FT<br /><br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-83638690412403613542012-09-03T10:47:36.774-04:002012-09-03T10:47:36.774-04:00I still say self reliance, personal responsibility...I still say self reliance, personal responsibility, and hard work dedicated to achieving ones goals is the recipe for a fruitful and rewarding life. IMO it is one of the universal truths Free Thinker. Some, perhaps a majority of progressives might disagree.Rational Nation USAhttp://rationalnationusa.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-16564675348163353922012-09-03T08:05:57.008-04:002012-09-03T08:05:57.008-04:00Nothing new under the sun, Thersites.
Endless reh...Nothing new under the sun, Thersites.<br /><br />Endless rehash with a few "stylistic" variations, that's all.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-55628803913721651682012-09-03T07:19:00.477-04:002012-09-03T07:19:00.477-04:00As I think I just pointed out....
Sartre’s repres...As I think I just pointed out....<br /><br /><i>Sartre’s representation of the Furies differs from that of Aeschylus in that, instead of attempting to avenge the crimes committed, <b>they try to evoke guilt</b> from those who committed them. Sartre does this to reiterate the importance of amenability; he wants to prove that <b>remorse should only be felt if one believes the act committed is wrong</b>. By <b>acting in what he believes to be a righteous way</b> and killing the king and queen, <b>Orestes takes responsibility for his actions without feeling any remorse for them.</b></i><br /><br />Responsibility w/o remorse...<br /><br />...of course, disavowing ALL responsibility is the opposite of existentialism.<br /><br />Critical Theory that disavows responsibility is simply a destructive and self-indulgent conceit.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-79436373093871142532012-09-03T05:54:38.723-04:002012-09-03T05:54:38.723-04:00" ... this video was so effete, so polysyllab...<i>" ... this video was so effete, so polysyllabically hyper-intellectual that while the ultra-libs stay busy congratulating themselves on its magnificence, it has no impact on the voting masses and, if it actually got distributed, would simply work against Democrats and play into the right wing's well-founded Hollywood and Media Elite themes."</i><br /><br />This is in many ways an apt criticism of the video. However, I would not call it :hyper-intellectual." Instead, I would call it an orgy of spiteful, childish, self-indulgent denigration."<br /><br />The performers are excellent as performers. Too bad their talents have been put to such poor use!<br /><br />Didn't anyone notice the expression of conceited, self-absorbed, pseudo-righteous wrath on their faces? The aura of militancy in their demeanor?<br /><br /><b>Once again, this is Cultural Marxism's CRITICAL THEORY at work <i>gnawing away at your vitals</i> in one of its many guises.</b><br /><br />Didn't you notice that there is not ONE positive, CONSTRUCTIVE idea or sentiment in the entire -- much-too-lengthy -- musical diatribe? <br /><br />This is the essence of CRITICAL THEORY -- incessant, relentless, unyielding, unreasoning, uncompromising VILIFICATION. The Hallmark and primary <i>modus operandi</i> of the LEFT.<br /><br />~ FTFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-57650993832972751532012-09-02T20:27:27.437-04:002012-09-02T20:27:27.437-04:00A tribute to the duckman. May he never settle on ...A <a href="http://thersitescampsite.blogspot.com/2012/09/back-to-future.html" rel="nofollow">tribute</a> to the duckman. May he never settle on a sticky surface.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-75268286635829803072012-09-02T17:48:53.175-04:002012-09-02T17:48:53.175-04:00...but then again, what was I thinking? How can o......but then again, what was I thinking? How can one who never takes responsibility ever be expected to experience regret?<br /><br />sorry for wasting your time, duckman.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-37970867696598139072012-09-02T17:40:34.306-04:002012-09-02T17:40:34.306-04:00A canon w/o its former "authority" to co...A canon w/o its former "authority" to compel its' universal adoption and study will do nothing to reinvigorate the rot that the Spirit of '68 has left in its wake.<br /><br />The tide has ebbed, and naught but rotting flotsam remains, stinking up the beaches.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-11041508042356562812012-09-02T17:37:23.183-04:002012-09-02T17:37:23.183-04:00John Searle, the Berkeley philosophy professor and...<i>John Searle, the Berkeley philosophy professor and former proponent of the ’60s radical Free Speech Movement wrote in The New York Review of Books in 1990. Searle also noted a “certain irony” that the Western canon, from Socrates to Marx, which had once been seen as “liberating,” was now seen as “oppressive.” “Precisely by inculcating a critical attitude,” Searle wrote, “the ‘canon’ served to demythologize the conventional pieties of the American bourgeoisie and provided the student with a perspective from which to critically analyze American culture and institutions. ... The texts once served an unmasking function; now we are told that it is the texts which must be unmasked.”</i><br /><br />Searle wasn't Leo Strauss' cabana boy... and unlike yourself seems a bit "regretful".Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-53056822934694523812012-09-02T17:27:37.962-04:002012-09-02T17:27:37.962-04:00... or better yet, Farmer, create your own.
... or better yet, Farmer, create your own.<br /><br />Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-34720377810402263102012-09-02T17:25:00.896-04:002012-09-02T17:25:00.896-04:00Well Farmer,I don't think Leo Strauss' cab...Well Farmer,I don't think Leo Strauss' cabana boy is the last word although we can give him credit for dumping all over John Locke.<br /><br />To me, the likes of Nietzsche and his low rent popularizer Rand have done more to destroy imperatives than an liberals you can name.<br /><br />But as I say, the canon's still there. Just have to seek it out and do your best to ignore what the market sells as culture. Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-48547039692732630902012-09-02T16:08:49.931-04:002012-09-02T16:08:49.931-04:00... and well suited to one of your generation.... and well suited to one of your <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/books/review/Donadio-t.html?pagewanted=all" rel="nofollow">generation</a>.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-34565102604361079362012-09-02T15:33:11.465-04:002012-09-02T15:33:11.465-04:00Dumb too, now i see.
ducky is certainly your name...Dumb too, now i see.<br /><br />ducky is certainly your namesake.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-61039668200618283892012-09-02T14:06:30.944-04:002012-09-02T14:06:30.944-04:00I'm sorry, Ducky, but I dutifully went to many...I'm sorry, Ducky, but I dutifully went to many "foreign" films, and suffered along with the invariably depressed and depressing characters on the screen. It wasn't the subtitles that bothered me so much as the tone.<br />--------<br />Then you never went to many. Unless you were a total Bergman freak.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-81740730923403238902012-09-02T12:23:15.342-04:002012-09-02T12:23:15.342-04:00What is the spirit of '68, Farmer?
How can yo...What is the spirit of '68, Farmer?<br /><br />How can you destroy the canon? It's still there, Farmer.<br /><br />To many people listening to junk like Les Mis is the problem.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-65645259750938388472012-09-02T11:43:00.984-04:002012-09-02T11:43:00.984-04:00Take from the best and make it better.... perfect....Take from the best and make it better.... perfect.<br /><br />Don't take from the base and repeat their mistakes.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-11241844208078897012012-09-02T10:58:54.982-04:002012-09-02T10:58:54.982-04:00The best music could never improved upon or surpas...The best music could never improved upon or surpassed. It's value is ETERNAL.<br /><br />The error of "Progressive" thinking is that the present ought to function with such dynamism as to make the past "irrelevant."<br /><br />I'm not sure Ducky really qualifies as a true "Progressive," because he does -- occasionally -- show understanding and appreciation of established classics.<br /><br />He couldn't be more wrong, of course, in his appraisal of my "mentality." No one has been more pleased than I to see regularly scheduled performances of American operas written within the last fifty years beautifully produced and performed by our local opera company -- a significant "provincial" house.<br /><br />And few people have spent more time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York than I, who have been completely absorbed with wonder, fascination and occasionally a measure of delight during my many visits there.<br /><br />The food in the cafeteria there was the only disappointment. It was always extraordinarily ordinary and uninteresting in direct contrast to its surroundings.<br /><br />I'm sorry, Ducky, but I dutifully went to many "foreign" films, and suffered along with the invariably depressed and depressing characters on the screen. It wasn't the subtitles that bothered me so much as the <i>tone</i>.<br /><br />Sundays and Cybele was one of the notable exceptions. <br /><br /><b>Life is NOT what happens to us, it's what we choose to MAKE of what happens to us.</b><br /><br />In case you haven't noticed, I am sick and tired of all the puffed up outrage and indignation however well deserved it might be. That is why I spend more time these days using poetry, music and anecdotes and less in political diatribes.<br /><br />~ FT<br /><br /><br /><br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-75620767911712207902012-09-02T10:13:48.118-04:002012-09-02T10:13:48.118-04:00...and music in the last 10 years (alternative ind......and music in the last 10 years (alternative indie) has never been better.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-30613887307050997662012-09-02T10:12:27.260-04:002012-09-02T10:12:27.260-04:00As for the mausoleum, hey, send the university pro...As for the mausoleum, hey, send the university profs overseas and allow THEM to select foreign ideas to be imported and retransmitted to students... but to import it DIRECTLY viaconema and let the masses choose... THAT is a recipe for thecultural confusion that we're drowning in today.Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-26855272539961714392012-09-02T10:08:39.067-04:002012-09-02T10:08:39.067-04:00I didn't know that you were such an Egyptian, ...I didn't know that you were such an Egyptian, ducky... DeNile, DeNile, DeNile.<br /><br />The Spirit of '68 destroyed the Western canon. Are you repudiating it now?Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-80745938427870902452012-09-02T08:57:03.294-04:002012-09-02T08:57:03.294-04:00"And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swep...<i>"And we are here as on a darkling plain <br />Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, <br />Where ignorant armies clash by night."</i><br /><br /><br />AMEN, Matthew! AMEN!<br /><br /><br />As I've been blest to know for several decades, there is more truth in [good] poetry and music than in statistics.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-92002627026410167882012-09-01T22:44:08.053-04:002012-09-01T22:44:08.053-04:00I think America has often done music right.
The l...I think America has often done music right.<br /><br />The last fifteen years or so have been pretty barren.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-19035437019175976482012-09-01T22:41:31.231-04:002012-09-01T22:41:31.231-04:00"Many voters can play the complete Bach canon..."Many voters can play the complete Bach canon but have never seen a foreign film or listened to Coltrane.<br /><br />Coltrane rocks! Miles Davis was the man, and Dizzy Gillespie... Oh man how I loved the be-bop!<br /><br />And Big Band Jazz... Maynard Ferguson, the Chairman of the Board of jazz trumpeters. <br /><br />Damn how I miss my days of of old plating jazz trumpet. Jazz... America's only true original artistic musical art.<br /><br />Huh Ducky....<br />Les Carpenterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01120280762698472496noreply@blogger.com