‪The gathering storm‬

Posted on November 30, 2011 by KG


Add: ‘..The fix was also in in the Senate. Labor and the Greens combined their numbers to limit debate on dozens of pieces of legislation. The end result was that twenty Bills were passed into law without any debate whatsoever!
And Labor call this open and transparent government…’
Senator Cory Bernardi
And what flavour dictator would sir like today?

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23 Responses to ‪The gathering storm‬

  1. Steve says:
    November 30, 2011 at 17:11

    We all been disarmed YEARS AGO !

  2. mawm says:
    November 30, 2011 at 17:54

    “mutant statest corporate socialism” :shock:

    Soon the proverbial will be hitting the European fan and Rumpy Pumpy will be swinging from a lamp post.

    • Ronbo says:
      November 30, 2011 at 20:39

      In America, we patriots are saying, “The worse the economy gets, the better for us!”

      Of course, we realize the International Left has tanked the world economy in an attempt to use the chaos to seize total world domination, however, with the collapse of law & order the opportunity will present itself for the patriots of the world to kill all the Leftist traitors in one fell swoop, without recourse to long drawn out courtroom battles.

      The Left has opened the revolutionary door to their own destruction.

      • KG says:
        November 30, 2011 at 20:44

        Remembering, of course that the Left will also have the armed forces and the police….
        Which means that those who value freedom can’t afford to be fragmented and divided–they’ll have to act on a massive scale, more or less in unison.

  3. KG says:
    November 30, 2011 at 18:24

    “..and Rumpy Pumpy will be swinging from a lamp post.”
    I’ll raise a glass on that day.

  4. Seneca III says:
    December 1, 2011 at 01:16

    All is not yet lost. Michael Murray’s excellent new biography of Barzun, Jacques Barzun: Portrait of a Mind, ends with this:

    “Barzun ever held to his view that although Western culture was “going down fast,” decadence would be followed by rebirth. …”Someone will have a novel idea,” Barzun had said in another context in 1956 in The Energies of Art: “It will at last be possible for a new generation to start on new axioms. That generation will be in the position of Blake when he saw that the Augustan muse, having uttered an astronomical number of heroic couplets, was doomed to silence…Creation then is easy because the old gestures have become impossible.”
    What will be wanted is fresh young minds who will “turn their backs on analysis and criticism and reinvent – say – the idea of the university, and show what it can do; who, seeing that bureaucracy is inevitable, will rethink the art of administration and make it work. And when the energies of reconstruction revivify the landscape, the fine arts will spontaneously mirror the change.” Meantime, as long as the race exists, “civilization and all its works also exist in germ. Civilization is not identical with our civilization, and the rebuilding of states and cultures, now or at any time, is integral to our nature and more becoming than longing and lamentations.””
    Hat tip: ‘The Iconoclast’

    • Pascal says:
      December 1, 2011 at 01:56

      About turning our backs and starting over. You may find this piece, by Mike Gray, enlightening.

      The thesis is that it was Utilitarian John Stuart Mill who led us down this road — basically questioning, attaching an air of disreputability to tradition, even if it was reliable, simply because it was not new. Mr. Gray says Mills’ contentions (in “On Liberty”) were soundly trounced by British judge James Fitzjames Stephen in another book. Nevertheless Stephen was ignored as Mill became the patron saint of the “Progressives” who basically were in the ruling class, so to hell with the judge. And it was Mills’ words that have since been used as the siren call for generation after generation of libertines hiding beneath the cloak of “free-thinking.”

      Anyway Seneca, this piece just appeared a couple of days ago and I immediately thought you might find it offers something useful for your own thoughts (though maybe in counter-point.)

    • KG says:
      December 1, 2011 at 07:36

      Thanks Seneca. I think that’s a hopelessly Panglossian view–and in any case, I’ll be dead long before it could happen so it’s kind of academic from my viewpoint.

  5. Pascal says:
    December 1, 2011 at 05:17

    Crusader Rabbit Readers, FYI.

    Google Reader is not showing this thread at all. I did not spot it until I went to CR’s home page yesterday. And today Google Reader has still not caught up (and may never).

    That means if you use Google Reader (as I often do) to keep abreast of new threads, it’s unreliable as a catch-all.

    • KG says:
      December 1, 2011 at 07:32

      Thanks Pascal. I never use Google for anything (I think they’re a bunch of evil, politically biased, anti-privacy assholes) so I wouldn’t have known.

  6. Darin says:
    December 1, 2011 at 09:22

    I use Google for e-mail and searches only.Don’t trust them with anything else.Only reason I use them for what I do is they are better than Yahoo or America Off Line.

  7. KG says:
    December 1, 2011 at 11:37

    I use Ixquick for searches, Darin.

  8. jon says:
    December 1, 2011 at 12:13

    Mill states that it is rare that a new way will be better than the old but that old ways should not be unchallenged or unquestioned. Mill champions personal freedom of thought and action as the only true source of improvement for mankind.
    Go get educated Pascal.
    http://www.youtube.com/user/MrCropper#p/u/41/AeSltodPpZE

    • KG says:
      December 1, 2011 at 12:46

      If you think Mill is the last (or the best) word on the subject, then I suggest you tend to your own education before worrying about Pascal’s.

      • Pascal says:
        December 1, 2011 at 16:33

        Thanks very much KG. I went back to the Mike Gray link at the American Culture to see what comments Jon had left there, but the space was empty.

        Here’s a copy of my comment I just left there.

        Did a commenter named Jon leave a comment here that did not yet get published?

        Apparently my pointing to this thread accompanied by some small critique of the consequences that followed Mill (“Progressive” Incrementalist icon that he is) provoked a defensive condescension from Jon about my education here.

        It just seems appropriate that he’d have come here to get some more information before he responded. You can imagine my surprise to see this space empty. I figured an intellectual giant such as Jon would have certainly come to the source and come up with something to say that was contrary to what you or Judge Stephen had to say. I’m sure he has fine intrinsic arguments to counter your views. It’s only a matter of time.

    • Pascal says:
      December 1, 2011 at 16:48

      That’s a pretty good presentation by MrCropper jon, but it only presents one side of the argument. We see no condemnation that the people who would be allowed (i.e., meaningfully heeded so as to affect changes) to challenge the status quo would only be peers or renegades of whom the peers approved. In fact, we hear arguments that favor that view. It’s the “Progressive” Incrementalist way. We know.

      Oh, is there a counter critique of Judge James Fitzjames Stephen? Since you did not point to it, I have to assume it was an oversight on your part that you will shortly rectify. Thank you very much.

  9. Pascal says:
    December 3, 2011 at 04:37

    This commenter “Jon” provided a phony email address. Can you Imagine that?

    Thus I could not inform him that the video series, by Mr Cropper, to which he pointed in order to “educate” me, actually reinforces what real conservatives fear about those who hide behind JS Mill to legitimize their attacks on Western Civilization.

    Better even, in the first four minutes of part 13, Mr Cropper is demonstrating the kind of thinking that leads to my complete overview of why Western Civ is being destroyed from within. He is one step removed from asking this question,

    “If our “leaders” are so humanitarian, how is it that we never hear them direct a harsh word at the Malthusian, Utilitarian and Green nutcases?”

    for which the plausible answers are not comforting for individuals and any desire they have for their own life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.