Liberal Inconsistency with the Law

The LA Times article on the defacing of a Styrofoam wall at Loyola-Marymount College that was decorated with statements in support of illegal immigrants raises an interesting point.  While fully supporting a group in open violation of the law, they want everyone else to obey the law.  They were “dismayed.”  They have not thought about the implications of giving the law status as right only when we want to and being able to violate/ignore it when we want also.  If they openly champion ignoring the law, then everyone else is free in their world to ignore the law, also.  

We have seen this phenomena over and over with the left.  #blacklivesmatter disrupts events and takes over public and private areas expecting their ignoring the law and decency is just fine, but let someone challenge them , as at the Trump rallies, and wow where are those wonderful police to arrest those violators.  What is good for the goose is good for the gander, making a good reason to support the law in its forms.

The Information Diet Discussed

Comments on the book by Clay Johnson. The Information Diet.
 

Johnson’s basic premise is that we are so overloaded with information of such poor quality that our need to get away from it, limit it, and improve the quality of what we take in should be treated like going on a diet. We need to each reestablish our ability to find the true “facts” that relate to our life and society. We need a more traditional approach to obtaining knowledge that will give us a realistic picture of reality. He posits that postmodern media, and the technology they use, introduces bias and fails to provide a good view of reality.
 
Now on the question of too much information, one can hardly disagree. We hear of people walking into traffic and pools while texting, we hear of people disturbing movie viewers with smart phone lights and talk, and we even hear of people interrupting sex to answer a phone or email. We spend large amounts of time with email boxes filled with a few valuable messages among a lot of junk. These indicate trouble. He is right.
 
He does have a good hand on the problems of postmodern life. Information just exceeds our ability to take it all in. It becomes a race to try and do so. The more we try the less we truly get. To make it worse, media distorts information to make more and make it quick. To take our lives back by finding true “facts” the old fashioned way via our own research is laudable. This is all good in concept.
 
It is flawed in that he has gone in the wrong direction as to where to find those “facts.” He sees “facts” in an objective, scientific world that has never existed. All is subjective. Even a broadcaster that all agree is not subjective, has to edit news, thus introducing subjective values. Which news is important is not an element subject to some ultimate truth. This fact or story is relevant and this is not. That world does not exist. 
 
Nothing exists outside its societal and personal constructs. Experiencing something so simple as “black” cannot be interpreted outside its societal and personal references. Black is the color of mourning to some and excitement to others. It suggests death and the absence of color, yet can have tremendous meaning of a different nature as a element of race. It can be a mark of bigotry as well as a sign of a basic dress most women are in possess ion of and search for the perfect one. How can one be objective when people define even the words by different meaning in different contexts? 
 
Johnson suggests that if we only put aside the regular media and much of the new web media we will find “true” facts. His search for objectivity is only that he dislikes what he hears and assumes if he begins over with only self-discovered and research “true” “:facts” they will be objective, totally removed from the bias other place on them. Wrong. All they have is his subjectivity rather than those of others. There is no difference.
 
He makes this clear in his liberal bias. While he includes the liberal media, his wrath is hugely spent on FOX News. Because it is right wing it must contain bias. The left has bias too, but one has to read longer to pile up that sense in the book. Just where he goes with his plans suggests that with “true facts” one would take a liberal stance.
 
The question he refuses to realize is that FOX does not pick up watchers and readers because it offers something new to which one is converted. It touches a note in people’s own thought and world that brings them in. They see a world they do not identify with on NBC and ABC so they gravitate to FOX where the world is one they support. That world is as real as any other one. If one shares traditional values it must be that one has been sold these by charlatans. He fails to see that FOX has these values because people have them already. They find facts with truth there. They find a world they want no part of on ABC and NBC. 
 

The book is certainly a good read and restructuring one’s life to find better sources of more limited materials is a positive step to take. I have witnessed many students so devoted to their smart phones that one could see their grades flushing away, yet try and stop them and that they are addicted is the only conclusion one can make. Many need an information diet. But it must reflect their own world and not a new one that someone appreciates because it is his.

Cabaret is us

Cabaret [1972] follows the life of American Sally Bowles and her compatriots at the Kit-Kat Club in Berlin in the 1930s. Joel Grey, as the emcee in the stage show, states the purpose of the show as being that life outside is disappointing, but here everything is beautiful. Put that outside truly outside your mind and enjoy. While it is clearly Berlin in the 1930s, is it so much more, like America in 2014? The parallels are multiple and scary. Strictly as Germany in the 1930s it shows a world quickly being overtaken by totalitarian fascism with many ugly sides. The film has a giant elephant in the room throughout it and the cast is in the process of accepting and/or adjusting to it in a clear show of decadent behavior.
 
The Cabaret makes light and fun of the world for a mixed audience of damaged souls. It promotes and exposes the corrupt world while only hinting about the fascist elephant. Enjoy!, escape!, We the future looks changing and disastrous. “Money Makes the World Go Around” mimics the greed of America from bottom to top, Sally Bowles saying”…when I go I’, going like Elsie” forecasts enjoyment of a valueless life that was their fate and increasingly ours.
The Nazis singing in the park and the masses joining in as those more aware cringe. Americans cheer as their land of freedom becomes totalitarian. Totalitarian? Yes. Name an area of life that is not controlled or influenced by government, and ridiculed if ti is not? It is impossible actually as the question lacks an answer.
 
So Americans party in ignorance of the impending doom. In Cabaret they find illumination too late. Will we?
 
Of course a major difference is that the Nazis beat up the opposition while in America they are just marginalized via ridicule. Publically ridiculed they are disenfranchised. They are a silly or worse part of an equation where they work out to a zero. You can tell it easily because it is the place the fascists violate their pc rules. They are supporters of women’s right yet national insult and degrade any woman not in line with fascist policy. Note the disenfranchisement of the Tea Party as racist or stupid for not wanting to spend into the ground.
 
“Tomorrow Belongs to Me” is the key. The elites tell the lower classes of the rewards if American belongs to them while making their deals with business.
 
And in America. The dancing girls dance as the band plays on as the fascists’ wreak their damage. Cabaret is Berlin in the 19030s and Chicago in the 2010s.

The Choice

Robert Graves, in I, Claudius, had Emperor Claudius, when looking over the mess around him him and feeling powerless, say “Let all the poisons in the mud hatch out.” 

This is the strategy the Conservative side should take.  Do nothing but let the impending failure and mess happen.  The biggest possible mark against the program will be to let it happen as written.  Even the Obama regime has admitted things are not going well in some areas (hence the waivers and delay of imposing on business).  If the Congress itself does not want it, how awful can it possibly become.  They point to successes only by using their interpretation of data that others see the other way (many see costs of insurance up while Obama looks at numbers to talk down in the face of up).  If they misdefined the affordable in terms of individuals so some families will have to forgo subsidies.  Let it all happen.  They wrote it and they connived to pass it (if what they did counts as legal passing). 

The abomination’s worst enemy is itself.  Look at the writers of the bill.  Look at the ignorance of those voting on the bill of the bill.  As Pelosi said, “We have to pass this bill in order to find out what it says.”  Let is happen.  “Let all the poisons in the mud hatch out.”

"There is a sucker born every minute" --P. T. Barnum (possibly David Hannum)

 
Old P.T. was right then, and certainly right today. So much of the American public is easily described as suckers. The buy the bilge the criminals in Washington put out as policy and legislation. The ony issue is tha they must be born faster than one a minute. 

Another government debt limit crisis without any serious solutions to the problem. If we gave a credit card to a 12 year old, they would display more sense than 80% of the elected criminals in Washington D.C. 

I have heard more and more people saying good shut it down, including Jay Leno. Myself I just say replacement the elected criminals with totally new people. Do not shut it down, replace it or them. Only then can an intelligent discussion of the coming destruction of the United States be accomplished. Senator Tom Coburn's (R0OK) book The Debt Bomb leads to that conclusion. While he continues to try, the suckers will buy any bilge the criminals put out, so total replacement is the only answer.
But sadly the suckers will buy another run at fraudulent statesmanship of making that last minute deal to save us all while really selling us down the tubes. When the suckers suddenly find that overspending is being handled by a future destruction of the dollar--when the suckers have to pay $10 for that gallon of gas and $15 for a hamburger--will they begin to come out of their stupor and toss the criminals out. The criminals believe the suckers will accept their claim that Bush did it, but many will no longer remember Bush and the criminals might be exposed for they shysters they are. A pox on all their houses.

The People Ignored

Funny how the Washington elites can turn on the people.  They want to serve the people and the people are important until the survey says the people do not agree with them.  Boxer showed that on Sunday TV by pointing out that the people have not seen what she has seen, even if Obama has be quite open about showing things, and she knows better.  What elitist  trash.  What she has seen is useless compared to a public not wanting another war that will up the charge card some more with hardly a person in Washington with the sense to look and say hey we are going down the tubes.

Unless the chemical weapons stash is gone, bombing anything cannot make our world safer.  Just Obama into the moral compass he wants to be buts fails.  Brings out the children being killed propaganda, but parties when we kill 7000 babies here a day.  Moral when it suits his purpose.  That means you cannot trust his sense of morality, he is making it up as he goes.

All troops from all continents, home now!  Hey that is what the liberals have wanted for decades unless their district sells something to the military.

Government Can’t Do It says Obama

An amazing press conference visit [July 19] by Obama brought the startling revelation, for him, that racism cannot be fought by politicians, hence government, but has to be dealt with among people, families, etc.  This runs counter to everything he and his party believe.  Government has all the answers in their normal talk, but suddenly it cannot do something.  Look back at Clintons' It takes a village to raise a Child book, the  family cannot do it, well in line with earlier Marxist writers.  It almost seems the man is giving up on his goals by just saying such a thing.  He did look tired.

Of course, he is right this time.  How often does that happen?  It must indicate some shift in his thinking.  To just show up by surprise and make such a reversal of philosophy is beyond belief.  One is free to wonder if he really believes what he said or did not think it out as those of his party do?