Since Rousseau, Marx and all the rest wrote the basis of modern Political Correctness, every assumption they made has been destroyed. In fact, just repeating what their concept of human nature was based on is like telling people about bleeding and Galen in medicine.
Two or three centuries ago modern medicine would seem to be a hopeless cause. Since any step forward required a rejection of EVERYTHING medical teaching was based on then.
We are trying to do the same thing in social science, so do not despair.
Rousseau, Marx and Political Correctness are all based on the concepts that “Animals do not fight wars,” “You have never seen an animal ask for another animal’s passport, “The class System is a purely human invention.” and so forth.
We all have seen POPULAR documentaries that make hash of this nonsense.
No, chimps do not ask for passports. They silently patrol their borders together and tear apart any chimp who is caught crossing them.
The animal class system not only gives the upper class absolute power, it often forces all males outside it to be sterile.
War? Watch two sets of meerkats go after each other.
And so forth.
You tend to look at the world from the point of view of the latest buzz. I look at the world from the point of view of the surprisingly many doctors who recognize the germ theory three centuries ago and are now forgotten.
This is a very important distinction. Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis tried to get doctors to wash their hands when they came to deliver babies STRAIGHT FROM THE DISSECTING ROOM. He was so overwhelmed by the number of women and babies dying in agony from the rejection of his deduction that he died insane.
And Semmelweis is the only martyr to such a cause THAT WE KNOW ABOUT.
If I thought the world’s future was as this century’s buzz makes it out, I would probably be giggling to myself in a cell right now.
#1 by backbaygrouch5 on 07/21/2009 - 6:14 am
Razib Khan did an insightful piece on this issue about six months past. A link follows. Am not as sanguine as either Razib or Bob for the usefulness of social sciences. My favorite anecdote on it concerns the Dow Theory. During the great stock market crash in the early thirties its practitioners started getting bad results and, after a study, concluded the Theory worked, except for a new factor, lots of people using the Dow Theory. Mutaitis Mutandis. Man’s behavior will ever be a moving target. This not a reason for despair, but for caution or, as Bob’s old boss, Ronaldus Magnus advised.cautious optimism.
http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_limits_of_certitude/
#2 by Tim on 07/21/2009 - 8:53 am
People tend to promote WHAT they are good at doing.
Marx was NOT good at making money. So he promoted a theory that made his inability to make money the ultimate in morality.
Now GoldmanSachs does the same thing in the other direction. Goldman and Company have made derivatives trading the ultimate in morality. Why? Because they are good at it.
There is a certain group on this planet that wants total war with everyone. But they try not to fight through direct confrontation. They attack asymmetrically through social science and immigration and speech laws. Why don’t they want direct war with their enemies? Because they will loose.
I have heard my whole entire life that WOMEN DON’T START WARS. I say BS. Give’em a chance and they will. There are plenty of YouTube videos of Women coming to blows shopping for sale merchandise etc. Anyone question the ability of women to be aggressive has never shopped or worked with them.
No one EVER wants war with ARYANS. WHY? Because we are damn good at it.
#3 by Simmons on 07/21/2009 - 9:35 am
Bob you want to see animals warring there is a hour long show on one of those channels detailing the conflict between one hyena group and a lion pride, and it is all about war and alpha male dominance, spectacular.
The old buzz is breaking and ironically within your lifetime you have seen the old, old white supremacy die, the new old white liberal supremacy begin its crackup and the new battle formation take shape. Tonite’s v-dare is as about as Mantra as I have seen it, basics.
#4 by Simmons on 07/21/2009 - 9:43 am
As a warning I read that there is a new, new honey pot program from the FBI targeting “hate” sites and groups. So it behooves us to be on the look out for the “secret nazi plan” types posting stuff that was out of date by May 1945.
I doubt BUGS will receive any attention, but SF is probably crawling with Hoover building “extremists” wanting to build the Fourth Reich. My advice to Don is to invite the government employees in for a free ranging discussion on how “anti-racism” means anti-white. I’m quite sure the Fed government is stuff full of whites being discriminated against in the name of “anti-racism.”
#5 by Tim on 07/21/2009 - 12:07 pm
Simmons,
Good call. If there was a 4th Reich it was wildly successful.
Gee Meine Furher lets make sure the the third worlders like the Muslims hate Jews. Then lets make sure whites everywhere are getting harassed and discriminated against for being white (that will radicalize them racially). Then we will sit back and watch as the joos destroy America (they will do so on Auto-pilot —which will bring out antisemitism naturally of course).
I saw a book called the 4th Reich. The author was claiming it was well in the works. LOL. If there is such a thing —-well it has already past and the 5th would be in the works. (people always underestimate whites….especially those tricky Germans).
What is funny about these FBI sting operations that target ‘white nationalists’. There have been so many that any ‘white nationalist’ is considered by the Alex Jones type to be a government spy! LOL
#6 by shari on 07/21/2009 - 12:21 pm
A sound mind comes from having one’s sanity tested. From the way so many anti-white racists are behaving, their sanity is going to be SEVERELY tested. It’s already started. It’s their turn.
#7 by Simmons on 07/21/2009 - 3:07 pm
As Horus would put, this “buzz” is a farce. PC the religion is a farce kept alive by the semis and respectables by their shrieking over details.
Ask a lib kid for details, they haven’t a clue beyond their little old talking points that are decades out of date.
#8 by Simmons on 07/22/2009 - 10:31 am
Shari read last nite’s commentary by Ms. Kerry of her review of Craig Bodecker’s documentary “Conversation About Race.” It dovetails nicely with what you said in your post about the sanity of those who have taken “anti-racism” to its religious conclusion.
#9 by shari on 07/22/2009 - 4:46 pm
Simmons, I saw some of Bodecker’s documentary. The ones who I think are going to have their sanity REALLY tested are those who have spent decades succeeding. Becoming phd’s, lawyers,judges, professors, priests,teachers etc. because they aren’t so innocent. Time and again they HAD to notice that they were promoting evil and chose to ignore it and pretend they weren’t. They probably aren’t the MOST evil, the ones who do things deliberately,out of pure hatred. So I think they are going to do some real suffering for what they have bought into because it was so rewarding.
#10 by Simmons on 07/23/2009 - 3:21 pm
They also promote the raceless world which non-whites reject with a passion. I personally know the respectables are more than likely useless over the long run, but in the meantime they serve as good martyrs. Now our African king the lord of the cult mau maus the cops when his back is against the wall over some side issue, so I can see where this is going and how all those raceless conservative wordsists will be useful in the near future, as punching bags for the FCCs.