I tell you what I’m REALLY sick of. I heard this endlessly from the The Greatest Generation, and it is popular on SF. It comes in three parts:
!) “Me Tough Guy, me SUFFERED, me know REALITY.”
2) “Reality always BAD!”
3) He then shows he’s a Tough Guy by sitting there and blubbering about how hopeless everything is.
He says I’m not a Tough Realist because I don’t blubber.
I hope I NEVER get that “Tough.”
#1 by AFKAN on 09/14/2007 - 2:37 pm
Some quick thoughts on self-selected impotence:
Everyone that does the “me combat veteran! me TOUGH” is automatically announced their moral EQUALITY to everyone else, and their moral SUPERIORITY to most others, as the tool that compensates for their subsequent failure in virtually all other areas.
It is easier to moan, than it is to actually DO SOMETHING, no matter how small or trivial it may seem.
What we see as the most militant of those near to White Nationalism/Western Nationalism, the “Militia Movement,” is people who realized the game is rigged. They then went about exactly the wrong way to change the game, declaring their debts to be illegal (unConstitutional currency), and dressed up in camo “uniforms,” waved their old squirrel rifles in the air, and talked of overthrowing the government with force.
ALL of them were men who spoke of their great deeds during WWII/Korea/Vietnam, the great glorious deeds of a glory-filled youth.
In their impotence, they adopted the Forms of a Glorious Past that never was, without adapting the Forms to the Substance of a new day, a new world.
They accepted the Terms and Definitions of their implacable RACIAL Enemy, without realizing it, and fell into traps of their own, unwitting, devise.
Their impotence is projected outward onto us, and our situation, saying, in effect, “Don’t try, Son. I’ve established my moral credentials and superiority, and I KNOW it can’t be done. After all, I couldn’t do it, and for me to admit that it is possible would place the balme for failure on me. If you were to succeed, even slightly, you would be seen as my better, and my excuses would be removed. I can’t have that.”
This is called Human Sacrifice.
#2 by Tim on 09/14/2007 - 3:30 pm
I have come across these old defeatists. They are always Christians. I don’t have a problem with their faith as long as they are LOYAL TO MY TRIBE. With that being said, the biggest problem I have with these old pessimistic Christians is that they NEVER read their book.
“I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither bread yet to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill, buttime and chance happeneth to them all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:11)
#3 by Mark on 09/14/2007 - 4:32 pm
“Me Tough Guy, me SUFFERED, me know REALITY.”
My brother who is an ultra – jehovaist – defeatest – christian tried this slant on me once. He’s 17 years older than me and grew up “suffering” during the Viet Nam era.
He told me that when he was young he had done stupid things — so I shouldn’t do the stupid things he did because they were not smart. He said since he had done stupid things and suffered he was smarter than me.
Being a smart ass I asked him how could he be so god-dammed smart if he had done stupid things in the first place?
He had no intelligent answer for that stupid question. I’m still wondering, 20 years later, if he gained intelligence by being stupid or if he just wanted to sound intelligent and worldly wise by saying he had done stupid things that made him smart.
And yes, that’s a rhetorical question.
#4 by Pain on 09/14/2007 - 6:27 pm
Mark:
Jehovah’s Witnesses aren’t Christians. They don’t even believe that Jesus is God. They are always anti-patriotic, do not vote, and do not celebrate holidays because they hate everybody. They are a waste of time. Conveniently for them, they do not believe that evil people go to hell.
#5 by Mark on 09/14/2007 - 10:16 pm
Thanks Peter, but I think you missed the point of what I was saying. Good info, tho.
#6 by Hardric on 09/15/2007 - 10:58 am
Stormfront is Internet Democracy in action.
Get computer, speak piece.
Me tough, Me religious, Me believer, Me skeptic, Me moderate, Me sincere, Me troll, Me this, Me that.
Not easy to focus, filter the chaff, find the wheat.
I’m there, nevertheless. There is another poster there called Lord Nelson. He seems to have his act together. 🙂
Were there some tough women in the Donner Party or what?
Soldier on!