The Stupid Obamamaniacs.

13 Comments

1. 

   zee

   Mar 3, 2009

   From your first link:

   There are different streams of ideas on today’s political left than there were in the 1930s. There is the idea that prosperity and growth are bad: bad for the “planet”, hostile to the environment, vulgar, and linked to immoral individualism. There is the idea that a humbler, poorer, less powerful America would be a good thing.

   It is just so unreal to imagine that Americans, too many, have become a people who prefers weakness over strength, servitude over power,poverty over wealth,impotence over fecundity,death over life. How does suicide infect a nation?
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   zee

   Mar 3, 2009

   And might I add that anyone who believes individualism to be immoral ought to put out of their misery.
3. 

   Just Another Richard

   Mar 4, 2009

   Zee, I believe it is all a lot simpler than we realize. What motivates most people is fear, fear of having to face the truth of just who and what they are. What we are witnessing is the intellectual contortions of people so terrified of facing their own true self, they will go to any lengths to hide that gnawing truth, most especially from themselves.

   The human psyche, stripped of its trappings of faux intellect, is a barren place, terrifying in its extreme emptiness. It is a no go zone for most of humanity, for the simple reason…that it is the individual soul staring straight into the abyss, not a pretty sight, and what is more, with nothing and no place to seek comfort and redemption. It is the ultimate place of personal responsibility, a place to be avoided like the plague. Yes, there are some exceptions, but they are so very rare. No, what we are witness to is an entire culture which has lived on borrowed time, playing the immature student revolutionary, all the while, hiding from the real truth, for at heart, humanity is scared stiff of real consequence, and its attendant usher – death.

   People seek refuge in an escape from the actuality of their own, very bleak existence. This may appear a cold and hard opinion, but the Roman writer Lucretius recognized it in its simplicity 2ooo years ago, when he wrote …

   “That fear of Acheron be sent packing which troubles the life of man from its deepest depths, suffuses all with the blackness of death, and leaves no delight clean and pure”.

   The weak run from themselves, for courage is a commodity in short supply where narcissism crowds out all other considerations, and blinds virtue to its own corruptions.
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   Just Another Richard

   Mar 4, 2009

   Acheron was of course the ferryman on the river Styx.
5. 

   Just Another Richard

   Mar 4, 2009

   I would like to add, that I think Brigitte Gabriel is a genuine heroine, who has gazed into the face of Acheron and laughed, I tip my hat to a real woman of courage and plain old common sense.

   Her resolution in the face of the adversities of her own life, leaves the petulant vanities of our celebrity culture, very vulnerably exposed for what they are….nothings.
6. 

   Just Another Richard

   Mar 4, 2009

   I like my avatar…the system has captured my likeness to a tee.
7. 

   ligneus1

   Mar 4, 2009

   You say it well JAR, and Obama is the slave driver [ha ha] driving the people into dependency on the gov which further alienates them from religion and from themselves, but don’t worry, there will be a great awakening in about six months from now. Working against that assertion of course is how come it didn’t happen six months ago? The difference of course is that people will have the results of Obamism in plain sight, it will become less and less easy to deceive themselves.
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   Just Another Richard

   Mar 4, 2009

   The only problem Ligneus1, is that the majority are simply not paying any real attention to just what is going on…it’s all so boring man, doncha know. Today’s youth, just isn’t interested…too wrapped up in doing their own thing. I should know, I’ve got two sons, who are at least vaguely aware, though that’s not saying too much, (they think their old man is a bit nuts), but as for their friends, forgetaboutit.
9. 

   zee

   Mar 5, 2009

   No, what we are witness to is an entire culture which has lived on borrowed time

   I have thought about that phrase off and on these past few years. I heard an expert on jihad use it shortly after 9.11 in reference to the inroads Islam was making. At the time I brushed it off, but the thought lingers… Really, by the time I was born (50′s), my first breath was likely borrowed, if the rot began in the early 1900s, as I am learning.

   And they swoon with it Richard. It is as if their delirium grows more extreme with each passing week and it reminds me of the fervency of denial, the compulsion to ululate and dance and drown out all portent of evil and it is exactly as you say-

   The weak run from themselves, for courage is a commodity in short supply where narcissism crowds out all other considerations, and blinds virtue to its own corruptions.
10. 

    zee

    Mar 5, 2009

    Her resolution in the face of the adversities of her own life, leaves the petulant vanities of our celebrity culture, very vulnerably exposed for what they are….nothings.

    Her’s is a beauty, grace, and resilience that sins chills down the backs of the Courics,Walters,and Sarrandons, in turn producing the “the intellectual contortions of people so terrified of facing their own true self” that you speak of, faced as they are with their comparative emptiness. They are husks of human beings, dust glittering with broken baubles….
11. 

    zee

    Mar 5, 2009

    I like my avatar…the system has captured my likeness to a tee.

    you’re funny….
12. 

    zee

    Mar 5, 2009

    The difference of course is that people will have the results of Obamism in plain sight, it will become less and less easy to deceive themselves.

    I do so hope you are right Ligneus but , Lord, I do think, anymore, that they do wish to deceive themselves. Very, very much.
13. 

    ligneus1

    Mar 5, 2009

    the majority are simply not paying any real attention to just what is going on

    they do wish to deceive themselves. Very, very much.

    Six months of Obama screwing up the economy and the Iranians, Russians etc. strutting the world stage like stag turkeys while Obama does his Jimmy Carter doing Uriah Heep impression, I think a few of them might start to notice.

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