At least she's on the right track
"If we do not help to educate our friends, neighbors, co-workers, and family--" warns Karen DeCoster via the LewRockwell.com site, "via encouraging independent and critical thinking--we will see a fascist state that will far surpass the Hitlerian totalitarian system or Stalinist regime. We may not be starved and locked behind a fence, but the masses will be stripped of all self-sufficiency, freedom of choice, mental stamina, skepticism, and the ability to discern between what is morally right or wrong."
Hello! Hey, Karen, are you in there? Well, if you can hear me down there in that pitch black cave you're living in.........
Seriously, though, "stripped of all self-suffiency, freedom of choice, mental stamina, skepticism, and the ability to discern what is morally right or wrong;" sounds pretty much like she's summed up about, oh, say, 75% of Amerikans. And that's probably being a bit too generous. How else can we explain away the likes of Oprah? Or Survivor? Or that rythmic noise known as hip-hop? C'mon, "get a thousand dollars back when you buy a new Chevy!"???? Cocoa Pebbles? Or how about that new cultural staple: the award show of the week?i.e. grammys, emmys, mtv music awards, country music awards, and that biggest circle-jerk of all, the oscars (capitalization omitted out of disdain).
No, Karen, I submit to you that homo sapien sapien americanus has evolved (or been selectively bred, I'm not sure which) from the farmer/hunter-gather we once were---way back when our first hardy forebears clambered off their rickety little boats and began their multigenerational westward migration on their way to California, where men were men, so very long ago---into our present pathetically spineless, docile, begging subspecies known a Sheeple.
And like lambs led to the slaughter we don't even so much as put up a fight. No indeed, we just try to stay as close to the lamb in front of us, so as not to stand out and draw attention to ourselves from that Hitlerian Totalitarian regime guy loading up the boxcars.
Ms. DeCoster continues with what appears to be an at-least-mildly-sensible, albeit pragmatically meaningless, cliche. To wit:
"Arming the people with knowledge, however, is our best defense against a creeping totalitarianism that will otherwise go unimpeded."
I might add that arming the people...period (with deadly weapons), is actually the best defense against a creeping totalitarianism; for when a person (even a rooseveltian socialist!) arms himself, he begins to understand that he is ultimately responsible for his own pursuit, of life, of liberty, or security, wealth, sex, drugs, rock & roll, (maybe a big black SUV and a good christian school for the resulting progeny of those heady days of sex, drugs & rock'n'roll); then will he begin ceasing to be a sheeple. Which is where the knowledge must begin: learning about the history of freedom, resistance, uprising. Yet knowledge alone, sans practical application, will only produce yet more generations of sheeple, after their brief stint as libertarian-leaning republican youth, of course.
Jefferson
Hello! Hey, Karen, are you in there? Well, if you can hear me down there in that pitch black cave you're living in.........
Seriously, though, "stripped of all self-suffiency, freedom of choice, mental stamina, skepticism, and the ability to discern what is morally right or wrong;" sounds pretty much like she's summed up about, oh, say, 75% of Amerikans. And that's probably being a bit too generous. How else can we explain away the likes of Oprah? Or Survivor? Or that rythmic noise known as hip-hop? C'mon, "get a thousand dollars back when you buy a new Chevy!"???? Cocoa Pebbles? Or how about that new cultural staple: the award show of the week?i.e. grammys, emmys, mtv music awards, country music awards, and that biggest circle-jerk of all, the oscars (capitalization omitted out of disdain).
No, Karen, I submit to you that homo sapien sapien americanus has evolved (or been selectively bred, I'm not sure which) from the farmer/hunter-gather we once were---way back when our first hardy forebears clambered off their rickety little boats and began their multigenerational westward migration on their way to California, where men were men, so very long ago---into our present pathetically spineless, docile, begging subspecies known a Sheeple.
And like lambs led to the slaughter we don't even so much as put up a fight. No indeed, we just try to stay as close to the lamb in front of us, so as not to stand out and draw attention to ourselves from that Hitlerian Totalitarian regime guy loading up the boxcars.
Ms. DeCoster continues with what appears to be an at-least-mildly-sensible, albeit pragmatically meaningless, cliche. To wit:
"Arming the people with knowledge, however, is our best defense against a creeping totalitarianism that will otherwise go unimpeded."
I might add that arming the people...period (with deadly weapons), is actually the best defense against a creeping totalitarianism; for when a person (even a rooseveltian socialist!) arms himself, he begins to understand that he is ultimately responsible for his own pursuit, of life, of liberty, or security, wealth, sex, drugs, rock & roll, (maybe a big black SUV and a good christian school for the resulting progeny of those heady days of sex, drugs & rock'n'roll); then will he begin ceasing to be a sheeple. Which is where the knowledge must begin: learning about the history of freedom, resistance, uprising. Yet knowledge alone, sans practical application, will only produce yet more generations of sheeple, after their brief stint as libertarian-leaning republican youth, of course.
Jefferson
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