tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post114590808850818919..comments2023-10-21T08:02:56.571-07:00Comments on No Dhimmitude: Flight of the Dhimmi (Reprint.)Daghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-1145945484681897842006-04-24T23:11:00.000-07:002006-04-24T23:11:00.000-07:00[N]o where does Heidegger say that any other group...[N]o where does Heidegger say that any other group is more authentic; authenticity is purely up to the individual and in to way associated with any group; nor does Heidegger ever express any appreciation for Islam or a "fascist dhimmi Left". Any notion of dhimmitude would be by defintion inauthentic."<BR/><BR/><BR/>That is a failed attempt at slipperiness. Yes, groups are "authentic." What part of Heidegger's work don't you get? Consider, name- calling aside, that the volk are "authentic." They are only authentic as a group and only so through the expression of the native genius as an expression of the blood and soil and language.<BR/><BR/>Nowhere to my knowledge did I I express any idea that Heidegger is sympathetic to Islam, not because I don't feel that he is but because I didn't write any such thing. <BR/><BR/>To conclude, I have to ask for some evidence that you understand Left dhimmi fascism in its components and as a general concept. If you care to continue with some indication that we are arguing from the same texts, then I'm happy to engage.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-1145931321062092342006-04-24T19:15:00.000-07:002006-04-24T19:15:00.000-07:00"Modernity, particularly science, is written off b..."Modernity, particularly science, is written off by Islam and the fascist dhimmi Left, as a pursuit of philistines, a pursuit that negates the humanity of Humans. We are 'materialists,' meaning, one must guess, consumerists as well as non-Idealists in the Platonist sense. We are 'inauthentic,' as Heidegger would have it."<BR/><BR/>But no where does Heidegger say that any other group is more authentic, authenticity is purely up to the individual and in to way associated with any group, nor does Heidegger ever express any appreciation for Islam or a "fascist dhimmi Left". Any notion of dhimmitude would be by defintion inauthentic.<BR/><BR/>So what we have here is a failed attempt to sound "deep" or "intellectual" by invoking Heidegger. Is that authentic, then?enowninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12287486840371546648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-1145928592637743432006-04-24T18:29:00.000-07:002006-04-24T18:29:00.000-07:00Well, you can fight for the historical purity of t...Well, you can fight for the historical purity of the word, fascist, if you want. But i think Dag's larger point is sound. History, since at least 1989, if not sooner, has revealed that the old distinction of left and right no longer holds any water. All totalitarianisms are cut from the same evil cloth. <BR/><BR/>You can talk about private ownership of the means of production, but under, say, the Nazis, there was little security in property, just a variety of gansterism, perhaps very slightly different from the Russian variety, if you care to finesse academic niceties that no one suffering under such a regime would care much about. And what "leftist" totalitarianism hasn't also been nationalist and racist (and I would not exclude today's race and victim baiting pc leftists in the west from this charge)?<BR/><BR/>I think a model of politics that sums up people in terms of their attitudes towards capitalism, freemarkets, and democracy is where we should be headed. Then we would have conservatives and liberals, but any distinciton of left and right would be largely pointless. We would identify some people as more resentful and destructive towards the system (and it would not be very useful to dig for root causes, or contrast utopian solutions, once you understand the anthropological nature of resentment), and others who did their best to promote the system, resisting it in ways to be sure, resisting in the short to promote its viability over the long term.<BR/><BR/>Any system that calls for the establishment and expansion of a Caliphate, or more generally, as the Koran and Sunna does, calling countless curses on the non-believer, would have to be weighed on the resentful side of the equation. Is it just another resentful cult? Maybe somethings distinguish it from others. And maybe some individual Muslims have developed a loving relationship to God and humanity, despite the resetnemtns in their texts. BUt on the whole, it would surely be correct to say that most Muslims today identify with a resentful and totalitarian cult in opposition to the western-led market system.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-1145925799781308672006-04-24T17:43:00.000-07:002006-04-24T17:43:00.000-07:00Dag, imho if you're going to try to equate the lef...Dag, imho if you're going to try to equate the leftists to fascists, you ought to at least have a good working definition of what IT IS. And I submit such a definition is nowhere in the piece. <BR/>...lots of name-calling to be sure. <BR/><BR/>BlippoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-1145916486882356872006-04-24T15:08:00.000-07:002006-04-24T15:08:00.000-07:00Thanks, genius. It never occured to me to read the...Thanks, genius. It never occured to me to read the dictionary.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-1145915749134468762006-04-24T14:55:00.000-07:002006-04-24T14:55:00.000-07:00ZZzzzzz! Yo' puttin' me to sleep here, arguing th...ZZzzzzz! Yo' puttin' me to sleep here, arguing that today's leftists are fascists. Let's look at the Webster's dictionary definition of fascism: (A system of gov't characterized by rigid one-party dictatorship, forcible suppression of the opposition, retention of private ownership of the means of production under centralized gov't control, belligerent nationalism and racism, glorification of war) This sounds like the Right Wing the whole way. <BR/>In fact, there's a amazing similarity between fundamentalist Christians and Moslems...<BR/>-Intolerance against alcohol, pornography, drugs, abortion, other religions<BR/>-Subjugation of women<BR/>Hell, these groups ought to like each other. <BR/><BR/>BlippoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com