tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post2011736112622174047..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger55125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-49734484709704857882012-10-15T21:55:41.414-04:002012-10-15T21:55:41.414-04:00"My suggestion, learn to dance and have fun.&...<i>"My suggestion, learn to dance and have fun."</i><br /><br />Why the hell else do you think I write limericks, Ducks?<br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-76293685321945380602012-10-15T21:49:27.132-04:002012-10-15T21:49:27.132-04:00There once was a Jew named Adorno
Whose colleagues...<i><b>There once was a Jew named Adorno<br />Whose colleagues, promoted much porno,<br />To make young people drool,<br />Then reject every rule,<br />Leaving Capitalist countries forlorno!</b></i><br /><br />~ FT FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-23276381150402170632012-10-15T20:58:30.702-04:002012-10-15T20:58:30.702-04:00"All are free to dance and enjoy themselves..... "All are free to dance and enjoy themselves..but freedom to choose an ideology, since ideology always reflects economic coercion, everywhere proves to be freedom to choose what is always the same."<br /><br />--- Theodor W. Adorno<br /><br />Well, not entirely but this election demonstrates the point well enough.<br /><br />My suggestion, learn to dance and have fun.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-24703005834420767362012-10-15T16:21:51.292-04:002012-10-15T16:21:51.292-04:00The Statue of Liberty's gender
'Snot clear...<b><i>The Statue of Liberty's gender<br />'Snot clear. I fear "she"'s a pretender.<br />Hordes of kids -- and the press --<br />Have been up in her dress,<br />And found nothing to goose or surrender.</i></b><br /><br />~ FT (1986)FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-58002896331896467152012-10-15T16:08:00.405-04:002012-10-15T16:08:00.405-04:00Does she look friendly and welcoming, or formidabl...Does she look friendly and welcoming, or formidable and challenging to you?<br />-----<br />Do a little work with the base photo in Lightroom and you can make it look any way you like.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-713859535773563462012-10-15T15:21:35.694-04:002012-10-15T15:21:35.694-04:00There was an FT from Nantucket
...There was an FT from Nantucket<br />...Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-9908387317762425852012-10-15T13:41:41.221-04:002012-10-15T13:41:41.221-04:00At the moment, she appears quite disinterested...At the moment, she appears quite disinterested...Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-89871253798776253582012-10-15T09:55:51.266-04:002012-10-15T09:55:51.266-04:00No one attempted to answer my question about the S...No one attempted to answer my question about the Statue of Liberty.<br /><br /><b>Does she look friendly and welcoming, or formidable and challenging to you?</b><br /><br />~ FTFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-66427253061782051342012-10-15T09:42:53.079-04:002012-10-15T09:42:53.079-04:00I one knew a high-toned non-starter,
A mental and ...<i>I one knew a high-toned non-starter,<br />A mental and spiritual farter,<br />He'd walk down the street<br />In dirty bare feet<br />Whistling tunes by Elliot Carter!</i><br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-75419094652639063882012-10-15T09:38:45.268-04:002012-10-15T09:38:45.268-04:00Poor Ducky suffers from steatopygia of the mind.
...Poor Ducky suffers from steatopygia of the mind.<br /><br />Go figure that one out.FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-79684440446693833242012-10-15T09:32:42.327-04:002012-10-15T09:32:42.327-04:00Loved one of the comments, "what do you think...Loved one of the comments, "what do you think of Cecil Taylor?"<br /><br /><i>Unit Structures</i> is a great recording. It only made sense in a post industrial world for the music to become more complex. At least it seems so to me.<br /><br />As for "unruly children", AOW. When children got enough money to monopolize the culture it was a death knell. Literature replaced by "graphic novels" and the like. They can hardly sit still for Satie, let alone Carter.<br />Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-52243447105160054502012-10-15T09:31:49.299-04:002012-10-15T09:31:49.299-04:00erratum- "exhibiting" for "experien...erratum- "exhibiting" for "experiencing", above.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-64373618947984790672012-10-15T09:29:48.454-04:002012-10-15T09:29:48.454-04:00"Smugness" and "I Know better than ..."Smugness" and "I Know better than you do" raised to "high art".<br /><br />The aristocracy was always wary of experiencing hubris. Evidently hubris is no longer a concern to the Left.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-5280743006136853422012-10-15T09:24:03.923-04:002012-10-15T09:24:03.923-04:00...and tracks like a duck...
...then it must BE a......and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yWy-rCKDdk" rel="nofollow">tracks like a duck</a>...<br /><br />...then it must BE <a href="http://youtu.be/gN2zcLBr_VM" rel="nofollow">a DUCK</a>!<br /><br />Harvard... indeed.-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-76659238906078700142012-10-15T09:17:01.299-04:002012-10-15T09:17:01.299-04:00...and if it quacks like a duck......and if it <a href="http://youtu.be/q95lLj9_Y8c" rel="nofollow">quacks like a duck</a>...-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16745768408538827278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-32995686558788052762012-10-15T04:27:08.107-04:002012-10-15T04:27:08.107-04:00FT,
I agree with what you have said about the vul...FT,<br />I agree with what you have said about <i> the vulgar excesses of the modern era</i>.<br /><br />Often, as I watch such displays, I think, "Unruly children!"<br /><br />I try to avoid unruly children. I don't invite them over to my house -- that's for sure.<br /><br />In my view, the 60s wrought incredible damage. So many people are all about "Me, me, me, and to hell with you!" Life isn't much pleasure when we don't do something for someone else. Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-36209995168176256862012-10-15T00:41:22.068-04:002012-10-15T00:41:22.068-04:00Yes indeed, one of the unrepentant "children ...Yes indeed, one of the unrepentant "children of Marx and Coca-cola".Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-31022447918609444982012-10-15T00:35:47.219-04:002012-10-15T00:35:47.219-04:00If so you have forgotten -- or chosen to ignore th...If so you have forgotten -- or chosen to ignore that these abrasive, derisive elements you dislike and disdain arose as a long delayed, and absolutely necessary reaction to the complete dominance the "Marxist-socialist-liberal-progressive" ethos had enjoyed unopposed over all major organs and avenues of communication for several decades.<br /><br />-----------<br /><br />You've got the age right, Freethinker.<br />Which made me an impressionable youth when all that crazy stuff hit in the sixties.<br /><br />Coltrane started playing modal, the French New Wave was in the theaters, pop and minimalism in painting. They hadn't quite said goodbye to the beats:<br />"The wheel of the quivering meat conception<br />Turns in the void expelling human beings..."<br /><br />Eliot Carter and John Cage were over at Harvard.<br /><br />It was happening and I knew that my teachers had lied through their teeth. For a while it was absolute Jackson until the money machine got control. It was your precious "free market"(LMFAO) that reduced everything to the least common denominator.<br /><br />Didn't last too long but it sure felt good.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-58226962341526349992012-10-15T00:26:05.222-04:002012-10-15T00:26:05.222-04:00@Freethinker -- We can't have freedom without...@Freethinker -- We can't have freedom without DISCIPLINE<br /><br />-----<br />Nonsense.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-75695120146142242042012-10-14T22:31:26.260-04:002012-10-14T22:31:26.260-04:00" ... I firmly believe the right has allowed ...<i>" ... I firmly believe the right has allowed itself to be consumed by the fringe and takes it tone from the likes of Breitbart, Limbaugh, Savage, Coulter and the like.<br /><br />The best strategy in the face of that is to return humiliation, disdain and insult. No conversation is possible."</i><br /><br />I don't know ho old you may be, Ducky, but I think it's safe to assume you are past the first blush of youth. I suspect you are probably "fiftyish."<br /><br />If so you have forgotten -- or chosen to ignore that these abrasive, derisive elements you dislike and disdain arose as a long delayed, and absolutely necessary reaction to the complete dominance the "Marxist-socialist-liberal-progressive" ethos had enjoyed unopposed over all major organs and avenues of communication for several decades.<br /><br />The mindset you favor had had an unfair advantage for so long most of you regarded it as normal, right and well-deserved.<br /><br />Those who have successfully challenged this dominance and made some headway in neutralizing the death grip it had on power have infuriated your kind, and given you what-you-think-of-as a good reason to behave badly in return.<br /><br />I regard it as a great pity that the likes of Rush, Ann, Hannity, and poor dead Andrew had good reason to emerge as a force to be reckoned with. It never would have happened but for the wretched excessive of the left who committed too vast an overreach while drunk on power they vainly regarded as unassailable.<br /><br />You forgot one of the elemental laws of Physics which apples also to human Psychology:<br /><br /><b>To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.</b><br /><br />~ FTFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-60383285866082646412012-10-14T20:59:38.687-04:002012-10-14T20:59:38.687-04:00Les said,
"Individual rights bear great ind...Les said, <br /><br /><b>"Individual rights bear great individual responsibility."</b><br /><br />And there, ladies and gentleman is keystone or linchpin of this entire argument.<br /><br />I've often observed that life, itself, is a paradox -- or rather and endless SERIES of paradoxes.<br /><br />We can't have freedom without DISCIPLINE, but to work properly it must be <i>SELF</i>-DISCIPLINE fostered from infancy and throughout the formative years.<br /><br />The inroads made by the incursions of Cultural Marxism into our value system have all but done way with the idea that we must be RESPONSIBLE for our OWN behavior and that we have implicit DUTIES towards others which MUST be exercised sedulously in order to avoid falling backwards towards CHAOS and BARBARISM.<br /><br />Understanding that one has a DUTY to others is what it means to be an adult.<br /><br />The Cultural Marxists (for want of a better term! Use "modernists," instead, if you like it better)) have craftily arranged the prolongation of childhood well into middle age and beyond. The result is what we see all around us -- an infantile society with degraded tastes, values and amibtions.<br /><br />~ FT<br /><br />FreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-59922925242645818842012-10-14T20:45:12.202-04:002012-10-14T20:45:12.202-04:00Thanks to all for making honest, thoughtful commen...Thanks to all for making honest, thoughtful comments most of which mad a lot of sense to me.<br /><br />Jez, believe it or not, I agree with or at the very least respect most of your thoughts. It's possible I've misjudged you as being primarily combative and coldly intractable in the past. <br /><br />You and I got off to a poor start, because I felt you attributed motives to much of what I've said that I don't hold. I can understand, however, how you and many other more modern men and women might think ill of me because of my penchant for colorful and incisive overstatement.<br /><br />I believe the Founding Fathers, as we call them, were true libertarians, but the vulgar excesses of the modern era have so blurred the distinction between liberty and license we no longer seem have a functioning moral compass to guide us, and no linger know where to draw the line.<br /><br />The disappearance of once-agreed-upon standards of right and wrong, appropriate and inappropriate behavior, good taste and bad taste has done incalculable harm. <br /><br />I've never understood how it could have been, but when I was a very small boy, I somehow KNEW <i>INSTINCTIVELY</i> what was acceptable to the adults in my world, and what would likely be frowned upon -- or worse -- earn me a thrashing.<br /><br />Since extreme permissiveness became the order of the day, children no longer feel there are any boundaries or constraints. As a result too many simply go wild.<br /><br />The pseudo-ethos of the 1960's ushered in <b>The Culture of Incessant Critique and Complaint</b> (i.e. Critical Theory developed by The Frankfurt School) which turned everything upside down.<br /><br /> Suddenly "students" were encouraged to Challenge, Question, Criticize, Condemn and refuse to COOPERATE with all representatives of Authority and Tradition, going even so far as to commit acts of theft, vandalism and mayhem with an air of militant self-righteousness that all-but destroyed the concepts of restraint and self-control as virtuous. <br /><br />I am just old enough to have witnessed this sudden, startling transformation firsthand. I was appalled by it then, and have remained disturbed, disoriented and angered by it ever since. <br /><br />Whatever its INTENTIONS may or may not have been, I cannot help but see the effect on society as entirely deleterious.<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-7161941359009996982012-10-14T19:42:00.392-04:002012-10-14T19:42:00.392-04:00I won't be holding my breath... ;)I won't be holding my breath... ;)Thersiteshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15751286903359745316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-62848690301472481532012-10-14T19:02:42.551-04:002012-10-14T19:02:42.551-04:00Joe,
Maybe Duck will return to this thread and tel...Joe,<br />Maybe Duck will return to this thread and tell us about those Leftist lines?<br /><br />Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-12051087338058465852012-10-14T18:33:09.591-04:002012-10-14T18:33:09.591-04:00You trotskyites kill me...You <a href="http://youtu.be/gb_qHP7VaZE" rel="nofollow">trotskyites</a> kill me...Joe Conservativehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02696367580635901992noreply@blogger.com