tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post6354408479007287660..comments2023-10-17T08:19:58.196-04:00Comments on FreeThinke: FreeThinkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-79273422707446044472012-07-04T08:41:51.537-04:002012-07-04T08:41:51.537-04:00"In a consumer economy, B and C are contradic...<i>"In a consumer economy, B and C are contradictory."</i><br /><br />I don't agree, Ducky. I think it's more a crisis of values and priorities that prevents individuals from doing well. When a licentious mentality devoted to promoting the worship of all that's pernicious, meretricious and spiritually enervating takes over the popular culture –– and is not in any way contradicted or edified by a perverted educational establishment ––, you get the crisis we face today.<br /><br />The one thing you fail to note about "consumerism" is that it is still VOLUNTARY. We can bemoan the average person's seeming inability or perverse unwillingness to RESIST the blandishments and seductive tactics of the amoral, purely self-serving advertising industry (i.e. Edward Bernays, <i>et al.</i>), but this generally morbid condition of Mind Spirit and Soul has been brought about by failure to promote and reinforce concepts of virtue and reward that stood us in good stead for a long while before show business, pop music and the ad industry too heavily influenced our thinking.<br /><br /><b>Ye shall know the Truth, and the Truth shall make you free."</b><br /><br />When we fail to serve the best interests of Truth and devote ourselves almost exclusively to the pursuit of instant gratification and sensual pleasure, we're bound to wind up on the rocks.<br /><br />"FREEDOM" takes a helluva lot of WRK to preserve, enhance and maintain. We've allowed ourselves to be seduced into adopting a ruinous mentality.<br /><br /><b>You can blame Capitalism, if you like. Capitalism –– like fire –– is morally neutral. I prefer, of course, to blame Cultural Marxism which has always had <i>DESTRUCTION through SEDUCTION</i> as its primary <i>raison d'etre.</i></b><br /><br />HAPPY FOURTH Ducky!<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-53596169647389547002012-07-04T06:51:32.066-04:002012-07-04T06:51:32.066-04:00Obama is a megalomaniac!
Romney has a chance to w...Obama is a megalomaniac!<br /><br />Romney has a chance to win in November, IMO. Of course, where I live, Liberal-land Northern Virginia, Obama will carry by a huge margin. Elsewhere in Virginia will be a different story.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-83494999855980023242012-07-03T22:37:25.638-04:002012-07-03T22:37:25.638-04:00In a consumer economy, B and C are contradictory.In a consumer economy, B and C are contradictory.Ducky's herehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14608115001116619877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-45768515226108384292012-07-03T11:26:12.275-04:002012-07-03T11:26:12.275-04:00Not only will it not be a cakewalk, SilverFiddle, ...Not only will it not be a cakewalk, SilverFiddle, I frankly don't think it will happen at all.<br /><br />I truly believe "the fix is in," and that both Republicans and Democrats are in on it.<br /><br />Call it a conspiracy if you like. It just seems obvious that nothing done in and by Washington, DC is on the up and up. Motives there are obviously not only impure but almost invariably ulterior. <br /><br /><b>The <i>true</i> Establishment –– those shadowy, heavily-moneyed puppeteers pulling strings behind the scenes –– is heavily invested in engineering our abject failure, so they can rush in, take over and function as dictators.</b><br /><br />If you knew Ivy League elites, as I do (I <i>grew up</i> with the bastards, so I <i>ought</i> to know, by God!), you would be FORCED to realize that almost to a man "they" no longer believe "democracy" is capable of functioning. <br /><br />They'll tell with a perfectly straight face, <b>"Democracy is too inefficient. It's a stumbling block to getting things done."</b><br /><br />Their assumption, of course, is that they know better than 'we" ever could what's <i>really</i> best for us.<br /><br />May God save us from the scourge of these incredibly arrogant, SELF-APPOINTED EXPERTS who suffer mightily from delusions of grandeur!<br /><br />~ FreeThinkeFreeThinkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16682678301019952436noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-145653764764266444.post-36039879404202487952012-07-03T09:02:51.023-04:002012-07-03T09:02:51.023-04:00Yes, it will take a positive message to beat him. ...Yes, it will take a positive message to beat him. It won't be a cakewalk like many think.Silverfiddlehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13541652236676260219noreply@blogger.com