Tag: Plato

A Postmortem on Postmodernism

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

My first article this year was entitled  “The Abolition of Man Amid the Consequences of Reality” and referenced the book “The Abolition of Man” by C.S. Lewis as a means to critique the devastation of postmodernism.

The next article, “Gnostic Parasitism in the Post-Modern Simulacrum”, reviewed the first installment of the “Mere Simulacrity” video series posted at SovereignNations.com  which summarized the conjuring of the postmodern world.

This post will serve as my third installment on postmodernism and summarizing the sixth (6th) video in the “Mere Simulacrity” series called “Breaking the Spell of the Postmodern World”, by writer and researcher Michael Young.

Although the second (2nd) video in the “Mere Simulacrity” series entitled “Hermeneutics and Perspectivalism” , by Dr. William Roach, provided a more comprehensive look at the chain of philosophers that ultimately fathered postmodernism, I chose to review Michael Young’s video because he emphasized three main philosophers, along with other relevant writers, who explain our current times quite effectively, in my opinion.

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MARCH OF FOLLY: FALL OF AMERICAN EMPIRE

“Folly is a child of power.” ― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

The March Of Folly - Repeated?

“A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests. Mankind, it seems, makes a poorer performance of government than of almost any other human activity. In this sphere, wisdom, which may be defined as the exercise of judgment acting on experience, common sense, and available information, is less operative and more frustrated than it should be. Why do holders of high office so often act contrary to the way reason points and enlightened self-interest suggests? Why does intelligent mental process seem so often not to function?” ― Barbara W. Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

The term “folly” is particularly apt at this stage in the decline of the great American empire. Folly is defined as: criminally or tragically foolish actions or conduct; an excessively costly or unprofitable undertaking. If ever a word captured the actions of American political leaders in the 21st Century and reflect the tragic downfall of an empire borne out of the ashes of the Second World War, it is the term “folly”.

For the last two decades I’ve been befuddled by the inane foolishness of our leaders, as they have driven the nation into a bottomless pit of debt at an astoundingly ridiculous pace, initiated military conflict across the globe, and in the last three years initiated anti-human policies guaranteed to destroy our economic system, depopulate the planet, increase human suffering, and turn the world into a techno-gulag where we will own nothing, eat bugs, and bow down to the commands of globalist overlords.

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Plato and The Big Picture

Guest Post by Robert Malone

Logic, structure and rationale underpinning my upcoming book.

For the vast majority of us, COVID-19 has been experienced as a river formed by the confluence of mass media and government-promoted stories, infectious disease threat alerts, and economic disruptions (at times disasters) which has flowed by and through our daily lives since the early months of 2020.  Only a small minority have been carefully, perhaps obsessively following every twist and turn of the ebb and flow of subsequent events, and among these are a few that have been able (for whatever reason) to perceive the mis- dis- and mal-information which has been propagated globally. The majority have willingly consumed and believed the story line of the “Great Reset” and “Great Narrative” (titles of two books authored by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret) which has been so aggressively promoted since the start. Almost all, whether or not they have accepted an inoculation labeled as a vaccine, have been infected by SARS-CoV-2 at some point.

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.”

H. L. Mencken

“It’s not a matter of what is true that counts but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”

Henry Kissinger

“The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.”

Alexis de Tocqueville

“You should not honor men more than truth.”

Plato

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.”

Jonathan Swift

“Make men wise, and by that very operation you make them free. Civil liberty follows as a consequence of this; no usurped power can stand against the artillery of opinion.”

William Godwin

“Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.”

Plato

“The whole idea of our government is this: If enough people get together and act in concert, they can take something and not pay for it.”

P. J. O’Rourke

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“The IRS! They’re like the Mafia, they can take anything they want!”

Jerry Seinfeld

“No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: But what would you replace it with? When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?”

Thomas Sowell

“Guns are dangerous. The only thing more dangerous is not having them.”

G. Edward Griffin

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”

Plato

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“The cure for evil and disorder is more liberty, not suppression.”

Alexander Berkman

“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”

Thomas Charlton

“Avoid compulsion and let early education be a matter of amusement. Young children learn by games; compulsory education cannot remain in the soul.”

Plato

“The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.”

Jeffrey Tucker

QUOTES OF THE DAY

“The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have.”

H. L. Mencken

“All wars are fought for the sake of getting money.”

Plato

“The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, ‘See if it weren’t for the government, you wouldn’t be able to walk’.”

Harry Browne

“Conservatism is only as good as what it conserves.”

Friedrich Hayek

Full Circle: Lessons of the Lost City in the Sands of Time

By Doug “Uncola” Lynn via TheBurningPlatform.com

This post will be a little “outside of the box” so to speak. It’s more of an afterthought, really.  Therefore, it may not tie into current events and, specifically, the upcoming midterms and aftermath.  Or, in a roundabout way, it could be exactly about those coming events. Regardless, as always, it is the reader’s choice to tag along while simultaneously, and at your whim, possessing the power of the click.

Of course, that’s just one of the bonuses of being an internet animal.

Another includes the occasional morsels discovered when hunting and gathering online. These may often be feel-good stories that reassure one’s belief in humanity. Other examples might include new scientific breakthroughs that, at the time, are only reported on the shadowy fringes of the interwebic blogosphere.  Or maybe the tidbit is about a social, or health, tip that enriches one’s life. And, oftentimes, other postings are historical; even connecting antiquity with modernity in ways that resurrect the imaginations of childhood.

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Got a Sociological Imagination?

Greetings, TBPers… I ran across something I wrote about 10 years ago and a friend suggested I post it here.   There are many on this site that throw shade at the discipline of Sociology and me for varying reasons. I believe some of it is justified while some of it might come from misrepresentations of the field in general.  I understand that most assume the only job someone with a degree in sociology does is act as a social worker , reinforcing the establishment and government over the people; the antithesis to much of what we discuss on this site about government corruption, graft and hierarchies of power.

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QUOTES OF THE DAY

“There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.”

Plato

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

Plato, The Republic

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

Plato, The Republic

“When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.”

Plato