tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post5720425255271112155..comments2023-06-21T10:26:47.525-05:00Comments on ("RAM").........Red Alert Moderates: One Cosmic NeedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-81214040668925624122011-11-20T18:40:45.404-06:002011-11-20T18:40:45.404-06:00Is the Left primarily subjective-emotive, while th...Is the Left primarily subjective-emotive, while the right is objective-rational. I partly agree, but I think it generally depends on whose ox is being gored. The rub arises in that indifferent empiricists, aka objective-rationalists, can become quite "caring about their indifference," while subjective-emotives can posture as principled logicians. I think this is because Reality does not consist only in one realm or the other. Rather, Reality consists in the experience of both the immeasurable subjective and the measurable objective. Indeed, the measure of objective reality seems often to depend on purpose, point of view, and context of reference.<br /><br /><br />In any given situation, people tend to be most concerned about what they subjectively ought to do next, as opposed merely to objectively documenting what the situation is. An American-Conservative ought to have an ideal: to establish and defend civilization that avails decent freedom and dignity. That is an Ideal, not an objective reality. Without that emotive ideal, America would never have been founded. So, to my lights, the choice is not between a parallel universe of subjective-emotive Platoism versus objective-rational Aristotleism. Rather, the choice for Americans is whether to preserve the ideal we were founded on versus the default ideal of history: rule under elite oligarchs who play the masses off against themselves by objectively toying with their emotions. We carry with us the germ of power to "define the ought" of THIS world-universe. If we allow America to be swamped by those who have come to prefer the default ideal of history, America will sink back into that pit. To avoid that, we need inspiration. That is, Idealism. So I reject that Conservative Americans are not Idealists.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5320826620507241679.post-13452034136244516052011-11-20T12:28:52.967-06:002011-11-20T12:28:52.967-06:00If government didn't choke with b.s. regulatio...If government didn't choke with b.s. regulations, open borders to cheap labor, and connive to sell out and kick back resources to hedgers and foreign trade cannibals, there would be less need for government to act as safety net. If the market were more effective in allowing people and encouraging charities to push out from under thumbs of oppression, there would be less need for government to act as safety net. However, that kind of market for market idealists has long gone.<br /><br /><br />Both the socialist and the capitalist market are through-andthrough replaced by a new kind of socialism and capitalism --- cronyism. Cronies who market the buying and selling of corruption, politicians, even regimes. It hardly matters whether you call these cronies socialists or capitalists. Either way, they're out to make a NWO that will put all but a very few under thumbs ... forever. Who are the useful idiots enabling this? They come in at least two flavors of true believers: (1) OWS alinskyites, anarchists, and Marxists and (2) Free Traders who think despotic regimes will become more friendly to human rights if their economies are allowed to enrich themselves (while we choke and cannibilize ourselves and force our labor force to compete with third world slave labor).<br /><br /><br />This trend will be non-stoppable so long as neither the OWS people nor the Free Trade people get a clue about what is needed if America is to preserve a land for human freedom and dignity. Hell, many think freedom, dignity, morality, and higher values are meaningless drivel. It would be well if they could live a year in some hell hole by themselves. Maybe they would figure out that liberty is more than just a word. Meantime, our leaders remain essentially mute or impotent concerning this plague of cronyism. Actually, there never was and never will be a socialist utopia or a free market. At best, there was faith-based American practicality. But the old faith is dead, replaced by the New Enlightened Faith: All's fair in love and cannibalism. How's that working out?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com