Worthwhile Things To Think About 3

This item deals with the subject of "Cultural Marxism".   Quote: "It’s true that Frankfurt School thought is influential in many university humanities departments. But that’s not the same thing as saying that it represents a menacing consensus that’s out to destroy civilisation. Needless to say -- having written a book on the subject -- I beg to differ. Marxism, despite have failed so signally on the economic front, never died, it just molted. In The Devil's Pleasure, I laid out the Frankfurt School's profound animus against Western civilization, and how they launched their attack via the medium of "Critical Theory" and its unholy offspring, "political correctness." But it's just like contemporary cultural Marxists to take refuge behind the Frankfurt School's "relative obscurity" and "unreadability" as a way of downplaying the profound influence Marcuse and others have had on the American educational system and thus on several generations of college students. But that obscures the real point of Marxism, which is not to create a "dictatorship of the proletariat" but to destroy the existing order of things -- a typical mid-19th century fantasy shared by Wagner and Marx, among many others. Communists and Socialists will claim they want to create a "classless society" but what they really want is a pyramid scheme of workers lorded over by a nomenklatura consisting entirely of themselves."    https://pjmedia.com/trending/cultural-marxist-left-doesnt-like-term-cultural-marxism/ 

This item contains twenty questions that deserve responsible answers but our current left wing culture forbids them even being asked. Quote: "As politics has become more tribal and geared toward demonization instead of debate, it’s amazing how many important questions don’t seem to be asked any more. Instead of discussing issues rationally, people are stuck in little boxes based on where they fall on an issue. Whatever happened to actually assuming that there are two potentially legitimate sides to a debate and hashing them out based upon which one makes more sense? Of course, to do that, you’ve got to get beyond political correctness to ask the basic questions — questions that are deemed racist, sexist, fascistic, etc., etc., as part of an effort to shut down necessary conversations. At the end of the day, if you want to actually prove someone wrong, you’ve got to engage him on his ideas and make better, more logical points. If you can’t even handle the basic questions so many people have, then maybe you don’t have the best ideas."    https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/03/31/20-questions-youre-not-supposed-to-ask-in-2018-america/  

Read this and tell me our government is looking out for our best interests.  Quote: "The runaway freight train of government growth increases its ominous speed with each passing year. It is recklessly insane, grotesque, unjustifiable. Yet the statist establishment and many of America’s citizenry, both Democrats and Republicans, remain adoringly supportive of this modern curse."  And, "What perverse rationale has brought about this kind of fiscal insanity? To understand how this has come about, we must go to the root of the problem. It all began in 1913. The first country in the history of mankind to enshrine objective law (i.e., law that is the same for everyone) abandoned its courageous commitment to it with the creation of a “progressive rate” income tax. Such a tax flagrantly violated the fundamental ideal given to us by the Founding Fathers, which is law that does not convey favors and privileges to special factions. In other words, OBJECTIVE law is the legal basis of our entire system. It is the reason why we are free. It is the opposite of ARBITRARY law, the basis of all dictatorships. Progressive tax rates destroyed this pillar of our free society. Combined with this violation of the “objective law” principle of our Founding was the second institution enacted in 1913 – the Federal Reserve Banking System. This violated the fundamental “right to property” principle of our Founding because it allowed the government to continually inflate the currency and, thus, steal the property of the American people."  https://afr.org/spending-our-way-to-despotism/Democrats think they have a hold on immigrants as a strong voting block.  However this piece suggests that legal immigrants are abandoning Democrats left and right.  Quote: "It’s amazing how distracted Americans get. The left has been so up in arms about gun control that they largely missed noticing that the deadline for DACA extensions has come and gone. On Capitol Hill, negotiations are continuing. Trump and the GOP haven’t forgotten about the now stranded recipients of Obama’s poorly formulated relief plan. Those who need DACA’s protection haven’t forgotten either. The result is a major shift in popular opinion. Immigrants are no longer the staunch Democrats we’ve all been told they should be."   http://www.americanlibertyreport.com/articles/are-immigrants-turning-against-the-democratic-party/
I have many times praised the wisdom of Walter Williams.  His common sense understanding of the human condition makes for good reading and helps us think rationally.  This is one example.  In this piece he highlights just how ignorant most of us really are. Quote: "The bottom line is that ignorance is omnipresent. The worst kind of ignorance is not knowing just how ignorant we are. That leads to the devastating pretense of knowledge that’s part and parcel of the vision of intellectual elites and politicians."   https://www.theburningplatform.com/2018/03/28/how-ignorant-we-are/







Transgender movement and left wing driven efforts to change the culture of our country.  Quote: "Transgenderism participates in this modern gnosticism in a two-fold response to an apparently indifferent nature. The activist that would object to Anderson's title by saying that Harry always was Sally, is Sally, is a female trapped in a male body, is declaring—implied gender essentialism aside—the self to be other to the material order, elsewhere than the body, more than animal chemistry. But, in so far as, limited by the physical world as we all are, Harry becomes Sally, the activity of transitioning, the social and chemical and finally surgical manipulation of biology is a technological rejection of the restraining natural order. In the finest Baconian tradition, in transitioning Nature is subject to the forceful application of art, and in this process of becoming, unwanted givenness is rejected and with it, in theory, the feeling of having been thrown into life as accident. The paradox and tension inherent to transgender ideology is the paradox and tension inherent to life in liberal modernity. The desire for perfect freedom and autonomy will always come into conflict with nature, and it is nature's laws, far more than the laws of the land, that transgender activists are at war with. But there is nothing liberal about allowing children to be caught up in this combat, too young as they are beneath the age of majority to make decisions for themselves. No amount of enthusiasm for chemical and surgical alteration by such a child can be considered consent. In When Harry Became Sally, Anderson asks society to have a conversation before continuing the fight, to stop the flag-waving and pause for a moment to think. He does this in charity, without acrimony. We must do the same."    http://freebeacon.com/culture/review-when-harry-became-sally-by-ryan-t-anderson/?