I chose Trump as the lesser evil. Essentially I hated Clinton and wanted to derail her gangster regime. I did not expect Trump to have his family make decisions. I also expected better choices in his Cabinet picks and rather hoped as a Billionaire he would have been stronger in saying NO. He was a great disappointment and proved to my satisfaction the government of criminals cannot be stopped by one man. His great mistake was not building a mass base of support. Of course this presumes he was MAGA in fact and not in talk.
Yup. I too noticed how writers seek to avoid owning their ideas. Perhaps this arises due to fear of litigation. Perhaps to be able to have plausible deniability.
Great post. Let us indeed get this straight - tyranny lives, tyranny works, tyranny specializes in the details w/o the ability to simplify. Tranny creeps bin on little cat burglar feet before anyone knows but worms their way into the woodwork before they can be eradicated. Cockroaches - they’re not worth a fancier term. Eradicate them. We simply don’t have a choice.
With admirable pith and clarity, Berdiaev lays bare the poverty and the narrowness of thought embedded in the culture of several generations of Russian radicalism, from Belinsky to the Marxists. He discloses a virulent strain of pseudo-religious beliefs, barely concealed under the professions of atheism that united the various factions of that schismatic sect. The prime example of this is the elevation of the moral imperative of social justice as the highest category of truth (pravda), above and beyond the criteria of intellectual integrity associated with truth as veritas. He attributes this root phenomenon to “the orientation of their will,” rather than to a defect in thinking.5
But in his conclusion, Berdiaev mitigates his indictment of the misguided rebels by laying the blame squarely on those who still held the reins of power in Russia and ruled it in the name of a debased version of Christianity. He writes: “The Russian intelligentsia has been what Russian history has made it. The sins of our morbid history, of our historical system of government, and of eternal reaction are reflected in its psychological make–up.”6It is a very self-revealing assessment, showing Berdiaev’s irreducible sympathy for the gesture of human liberation, no matter how flawed. It also raises the question of responsibility for the evils in Russian society from the arena of politics to a meta-historical level.
As Berdiaev saw it, the course of historical Christianity, with its sins of omission and commission, can be traced back to its fall away from Christ and His gift of freedom into the trap of the temporal world. That conversion of freedom into necessity is perennially repeated in the tragic fate of creativity in human culture, which reifies every inspired act into an objective value or, worse still, degrades it into a commodity. Formed in the crucible of his personal experience of Christianity, the tragic sense of life is fundamental to Berdiaev’s philosophical outlook. But unlike for Nietzsche, who shared that sense with him, it is not an aesthetic but a spiritual value.
Unfortunately, since I'd choose TRUMP over XIDEN any day, I think that you are right about this one for sure. Read "A Plague Upon Our House" by Atlas, who was a doctor on the committee for awhile, and it laid out how Kushner was pretty incompetent regarding what happened with the plandemic. He did not go against whatever was recommended and did not question any of it. Trump trusted him to do right by the public and he failed.
I believe the UK elite viewed him after WW1 as too close to the Arab. Which makes me ponder Harry St John Bridger Philby, CIE (3 April 1885 – 30 September 1960), also known as Jack Philby or Sheikh Abdullah (Arabic: الشيخ عبدالله), was a British Arabist, adviser, explorer, writer, and Colonial Office intelligence officer.
I chose Trump as the lesser evil. Essentially I hated Clinton and wanted to derail her gangster regime. I did not expect Trump to have his family make decisions. I also expected better choices in his Cabinet picks and rather hoped as a Billionaire he would have been stronger in saying NO. He was a great disappointment and proved to my satisfaction the government of criminals cannot be stopped by one man. His great mistake was not building a mass base of support. Of course this presumes he was MAGA in fact and not in talk.
Yup. I too noticed how writers seek to avoid owning their ideas. Perhaps this arises due to fear of litigation. Perhaps to be able to have plausible deniability.
Great post. Let us indeed get this straight - tyranny lives, tyranny works, tyranny specializes in the details w/o the ability to simplify. Tranny creeps bin on little cat burglar feet before anyone knows but worms their way into the woodwork before they can be eradicated. Cockroaches - they’re not worth a fancier term. Eradicate them. We simply don’t have a choice.
https://isi.org/modern-age/nikolai-berdiaev-and-spiritual-freedom-a-reconsideration/
With admirable pith and clarity, Berdiaev lays bare the poverty and the narrowness of thought embedded in the culture of several generations of Russian radicalism, from Belinsky to the Marxists. He discloses a virulent strain of pseudo-religious beliefs, barely concealed under the professions of atheism that united the various factions of that schismatic sect. The prime example of this is the elevation of the moral imperative of social justice as the highest category of truth (pravda), above and beyond the criteria of intellectual integrity associated with truth as veritas. He attributes this root phenomenon to “the orientation of their will,” rather than to a defect in thinking.5
But in his conclusion, Berdiaev mitigates his indictment of the misguided rebels by laying the blame squarely on those who still held the reins of power in Russia and ruled it in the name of a debased version of Christianity. He writes: “The Russian intelligentsia has been what Russian history has made it. The sins of our morbid history, of our historical system of government, and of eternal reaction are reflected in its psychological make–up.”6It is a very self-revealing assessment, showing Berdiaev’s irreducible sympathy for the gesture of human liberation, no matter how flawed. It also raises the question of responsibility for the evils in Russian society from the arena of politics to a meta-historical level.
As Berdiaev saw it, the course of historical Christianity, with its sins of omission and commission, can be traced back to its fall away from Christ and His gift of freedom into the trap of the temporal world. That conversion of freedom into necessity is perennially repeated in the tragic fate of creativity in human culture, which reifies every inspired act into an objective value or, worse still, degrades it into a commodity. Formed in the crucible of his personal experience of Christianity, the tragic sense of life is fundamental to Berdiaev’s philosophical outlook. But unlike for Nietzsche, who shared that sense with him, it is not an aesthetic but a spiritual value.
Unfortunately, since I'd choose TRUMP over XIDEN any day, I think that you are right about this one for sure. Read "A Plague Upon Our House" by Atlas, who was a doctor on the committee for awhile, and it laid out how Kushner was pretty incompetent regarding what happened with the plandemic. He did not go against whatever was recommended and did not question any of it. Trump trusted him to do right by the public and he failed.
The first sentence in the sixth paragraph of Jeffrey Tucker's article can easily be missed.
"We cannot say for sure but Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner played an important role."
We cannot say for sure.... but. Is this how "evidence" is presented? I don't think so.
Beeb sez-https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-32622465
The leopard cannot change his spots and he is a 60's CIA asset. https://visupview.blogspot.com/2017/10/goodfellas-hidden-history-of-resorts.html
I believe the UK elite viewed him after WW1 as too close to the Arab. Which makes me ponder Harry St John Bridger Philby, CIE (3 April 1885 – 30 September 1960), also known as Jack Philby or Sheikh Abdullah (Arabic: الشيخ عبدالله), was a British Arabist, adviser, explorer, writer, and Colonial Office intelligence officer.