It wasn’t just to keep down the darkies, but also to protect and preserve the street gangs.
Works great in Chicago.
Category Archives: Social Commentary
The Intrinsic Violence Of The Left
Andrew Klavan, with some thoughts on the invisible (and voluntary) versus the very visible hand of the Left, as most recently demonstrated by L’Affaire Chris Dorner:
The left has never bought into the central revelation of the Enlightenment: things are made to work perfectly fine without much control from above. This Enlightenment insight was inspired by the earlier work of Isaac Newton who discovered that God didn’t have to move the stars around in the sky or cause the apple to fall to earth. The Big Dude had cleverly put machinery in place that worked pretty much on its own. The economist Adam Smith translated this insight into economics when he pointed out that individuals working in their own interest frequently promote the interest of everyone as if by an invisible hand. The founders translated the idea into politics by creating a system in which individuals could act without too much government interference. These geniuses didn’t trust in individual goodness, not at all. They trusted in the handiwork of the Creator — that is, they trusted the overall human system was built to work without kings and aristocrats — or a democratic mob — forcing people to do what they wanted.
Jean Jacques Rousseau, the founding saint of modern leftism, rejected that Enlightenment wisdom. He hated the modern world and thought humanity had been better off in a state of noble savagery. In that state, Rousseau believed, men were truly free because their laws naturally followed the general will. If people in the corrupt modern age violated the general will, they had to be “forced to be free.”
The logic of Rousseau led to the guillotine.
As it led to the deaths of tens of millions over the past century. And of course, it is one of the reasons (but of course by no means the only one) that they don’t want us to have guns. They assume that they are as willing to kill for their ideology as they are, and we (or rather, they) can’t have that.
[Monday morning update]
More Huffpo readers who support mass murder. See, he’s got a grievance, so it’s perfectly understandable why he’d kill innocent people.
Boba Fett
Sorry, Gen-Xers, but not everything, or everyone, has a back story. And that’s particularly not the case with one of the most overrated movie franchises in history.
Han Solo you might be able to make a movie about, but Boba Fett? Really? If so, it’s just a final demonstration of cultural and moral decline.
A Crisis I Don’t Care About
A potential coffee shortage? It grows in a lot of other places.
I could happily live in a world without coffee, except for having to put up with all of the grumpy undercaffeinated whiners about it.
The Memory Hole At NPR
What strikes me about this story is that it’s supposed to be taken as a given that the NRA and Wayne LaPierre should be remorseful and contrite about Newtown, even though it and he had nothing to do with it.
America’s Car Culture
Four reasons it’s dead or dying.
Amen especially to number two. I was looking in the shop manual for what’s involved in tuning our BMW 323i, and I couldn’t see that there was anything I can do to it other than changing plugs. And there’s just no room to work under the hood. I remember when I was a kid, you could almost walk around in the engine compartments.
Michelle Rhee
“My break with the Democrats.”
Most of them don’t recognize the cruelty of their policies and “solutions.”
Asteroids
Greg Bear says that we’re too complacent. I agree.
[Update a few minutes later]
Earth is going to get a close shave next week.
The Virtual Presidency
The inaugural address.
[Update a few minutes later]
It strikes me that Bill is the anti-Obama. That is, his complete antithesis.
The Inconvenient Facts Of A Cop Killer
I woke up this morning and turned on local news, as we almost always do, for weather and traffic. But it was non-stop breaking news about someone I’d never heard of named Chris Dorner, though the newscasters discussed him as though we were supposed to know who he was. Well, it turns out that he’s a hate-filled Leftist nutbag. That is, he parrots the mainstream media:
Dorner also lamented the fact that George Zimmerman was not murdered by Trayvon Martin. NBC injected race into that story, and may have helped drive a disgraced cop over the edge.
It’s pretty clear that Dorner is disturbed. It’s also pretty clear that the media and left have fueled his madness. His writing reads like a regurgitation of media narratives he could pick up on any mainstream leftist web site or media outlet. The same media are now censoring his manifesto. This comes just a day after news broke that another leftist gunman used leftwing propaganda to launch an armed attack on the conservative Family Research Council. Most media have ignored that angle, too.
A couple of days before that, a mass killer confessed to being taught to hate white people in college. That hasn’t become a media narrative, either.
If there’s no Tea Party angle and the media can’t make one up, they’re just not interested in reporting all of the facts.
Because everyone knows that the only “haters” are the Tea Partiers. Can’t disrupt the narrative.
[Update a few minutes later]
Sooper Mexican has the whole story, which the media, including apparently even KFI, don’t want you to know.
You’d think that John and Ken would be all over this. I guess we’ll find out this afternoon.