tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post6140746852168549293..comments2023-10-21T08:02:56.571-07:00Comments on No Dhimmitude: You are the GoodDaghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-34399888800845266672010-09-24T22:40:55.837-07:002010-09-24T22:40:55.837-07:00When I was a kid living in New Orleans I used to s...When I was a kid living in New Orleans I used to stop by an art gallery on the way home from work to look at the paintings and pictures on display. The owner took an interest in my interest and showed my things and explained a bit here and there, a generous thing to do given my lowly state in the world and unlikelihood of ever becoming an artist myself and certainly not one of his customers. He had a series of Goya drawings, "The Horrors of War," that I loved. I spent some time and learned much from the man, whose name I now forget, but I am thankful for the experience, which has left me with a life-long interest in Art History. <br /><br />Not just books: I am a total Art junkie. <br /><br />Glad you like the pics.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-39911767421698440552010-09-24T21:51:44.700-07:002010-09-24T21:51:44.700-07:00Fantastic art.Fantastic art.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-50823144339572212652010-09-16T11:29:57.417-07:002010-09-16T11:29:57.417-07:00I take a lot of my ideas about life from writers, ...I take a lot of my ideas about life from writers, (particularly) whom I really do not like at all, people who are not just wrong about things of the world and man but who are just wrong as people. In many ways, Eric Fromm is one of those people. His book, Escape from Freedom is one of those books I take many of my ideas from about the nature of things. It's not that he gets things right so much as that some of his ideas are as good as one will find anywhere. The ideas are good enough. And to me, they sometimes seem very good. One idea is that people often, and many people often, hate their own freedom, and that of others. They flee from it. To a great extent that observation informs this enormous book I'm nearly done writing. People want the security of a protective state. One must give up freedom for it. I live in Canada, and I've lived in other places more oppressive, and I know the allure and the danger. I at least make noises if nothing else, that freedom is The Good. <br /><br />So, yes, I totally agree with you.Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-41578179379494136052010-09-16T10:39:54.447-07:002010-09-16T10:39:54.447-07:00The people now are taught to run to the government...The people now are taught to run to the government. Taught to escape freedom and to surrender.rasphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06565471609105459997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-61035787641704431582010-09-11T15:14:00.067-07:002010-09-11T15:14:00.067-07:00I wonder if our people, i.e. Modernists living in ...I wonder if our people, i.e. Modernists living in market economies and republican democracies, really like living this way. I wonder if there a "call of the wild" in a sense, a call to a return to collectivism and a more natural state of social relations in which people are herded like animals by dogs, a life of "security" in a cold cosmos. I wonder, in short, if most people are actually hoping all the world of Modernity will somehow slowly fade away and people can again live in huts and shiver as they go hungry in the dark, feeling as they do so that all is right with the world, that order is restored. <br /><br />H.L. Mencken, not a favourite among many to be sure, claims that people don't want freedom; they want security. What do we make of that in light of our daily realities?Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-47490907664063009252010-09-11T04:50:58.245-07:002010-09-11T04:50:58.245-07:00Great post.
Islam is our punishment for the sins ...Great post.<br /><br />Islam is our punishment for the sins the Left has decided we are guilty of.Pastoriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03169561459129778670noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-61229869825659976432010-09-11T02:52:56.429-07:002010-09-11T02:52:56.429-07:00I see our own as the menace we face. Our own peopl...I see our own as the menace we face. Our own people act as if they are gods of the Moral, and that the rest of us belong in Hell. They act like this from a frenzy of hatred of people like themselves they must somehow rise above to think themselves interesting and valuable and good. They can only be anything in relation to those like themselves, and to rise, they must lower us. Too many people respond to this pseudo-religious haranguing from self-worshipping freaks. Too many take it to heart, feel ashamed of their good lives, are bullied into shame by petty, moralistic, hate-filled idiots who preen. It's long past time to fight back, by which I mean fight. <br /><br />Leftists, of whom there are actually few in number, the rest who carry on as such being conformity hippies doing what's popular, just being fools following. The few, they must be stopped. I long for Colossus. <br /><br />(My best wishes to the Always on Watch family.)Daghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10664271893389366772noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13144649.post-10018108852174308982010-09-11T02:33:52.884-07:002010-09-11T02:33:52.884-07:00Islam is a flea, poisonous and deadly and spreadin...<i>Islam is a flea, poisonous and deadly and spreading with the help of rat-people.</i><br /><br />Excellent analogy.<br /><br />Bubonic plagues carriers don't even know that they're carriers. <br /><br />The left knows, however, that they shill for Islam and do not care whom they infect. They somehow think they are immune from the effects of the plague they carry.Always On Watchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08192688822955022541noreply@blogger.com