(CNU Lecture Hall. Special Lecture, Saturday. Must remember to thank librarian for the pleasant time and great info. Special thanks to the students for the lunch.)
(A lecture given at the Cascadian National University, 2517)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMVmW0k9jZI]
Morning, Class. Hope everybody had a decent BBQ Day. I didn't do much, just had a few ciders and the block splurged on a deer. Which got me thinking about the old cults and how they used to worship BBQ day. So, you'll have to forgive me if my notes are a little fuzzy this morning.
Liberal Moonbat just posted The Incoherence of the Philosophers, which referred to Islam's retreat from rationalism in the twelfth century. I wrote about exactly that ten years ago, and the history rhyme is even more obvious today. So, without further ado, here is my version:
The Destruction of Philosophy (February, 2008)
I don't get this continued attraction to the Democratic party by some on the left. Then again I do, it's like a cult, cults are hard to leave. Notice I didn't say, "the" left? I saw that in a Salon article posted here at C99 earlier where the author generalized that the left was the democratic party and vice versa. Time to end that bullshit.
As the government of brainwashed, drugged out, iphone addicted and thoroughly conditioned Americans rampages throughout the planet trying to spread democracy and keep everyone safe rule the world by murder, mayhem, and destruction, many wonder how the criminal mafia ruling class can get away with it's increasingly brazen crimes.
(top line attributed to Walter Benjamin and the bottom one to Louis Pasteur.)
Until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunters.
African Proverb
Napoleon once said, "What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
(paraphrasing ~François-Marie Arouet de Voltaire (1694–1778), "Jeannot et Colin”)
People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them.
James Baldwin, Notes of a Native Son
“One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The obscurest epoch is today.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Across the Plains
I have a uniquely American family tree.
One of my ancestors, a poor farmer named James Farren, joined the Illinois Calvary in 1862. He fought in every major battle in the western front for the Union Army, and remained enlisted until his company was disbanded in 1864.
Omigod we're advocating the erasure of history!
-- or so they say.
So here's a different perspective: The Confederate General Who Was Erased.
you know, from an actual historian and all that. Do you want to know what real erasure from history is about?
In what might shock the GOS, it turns out that liberals are in a minority on the issue of tearing down statues and blowing up Mount Rushmore.
Three polls came out, an NPR/PBS Newshour/Marist University poll and a Economist/YouGov, both conducted a few days ago.
From Karl Marx:
(also available as PDF: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/18th-Brumaire.pdf )
