Pondering the Imponderables

Or not.

Yesterday, NickM @ CCinZ posted up a couple things that’ll make your eyes cross.

In a bad way.

Behold “Thinking about Whiteness and Doing Anti-Racism”.

There is an instructor, so I guess you could call it a class. I’d call it a cause for justifiable homicide if I were made to sit through it.

If you handled that one well enough, you can click on this and read about a member of the Global Warming Death Cult who thinks that AGW will make the days longer in Scotland. Supposedly she’s a “Chief Science Advisor” somewhere. She also has the title of “Professor”. Of what, I dare not ponder.

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That’s a First

Getting RickRolled in your Facebook status comments.
FTW!

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Where Free-Market Economists Get It Wrong

They don’t understand the way a lot of the business world works nowadays. And in a nation where the societal pressures against crime are rapidly falling away they’ll be even more wrong.

(On the social acceptance of crime now, versus as recently as twenty years ago: how many of your neighbors falsified their mortgage applications? How many could you see engaging in auto-insurance fraud? Cheating on their taxes? It’s spreading. In California, almost everybody breaks the speed limit laws multiple times a day. Think elites are any different? Think again.)

I used to think the epidemic of speeding in California was a sign of a healthy libertarian disrespect for the State. Now I’m thinking it’s the most visible symptom of massive decay in the social structure.

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RNS Quote of the Day, 04/06/10

At the present-oriented end of the scale, the lower-class individual lives from moment to moment. If he has any awareness of a future, it is of something fixed, fated, beyond his control: things happen to him, he does not make them happen, Impulse governs his behavior, either because he cannot discipline himself to sacrifice a present for a future satisfaction or because he has no sense of the future, He is therefore radically improvident: whatever he cannot use immediately he considers valueless, His bodily needs (especially for sex) and his taste for “action” take precedence over everything else and certainly over any work routine, He works only as he must to stay alive, and drifts from one unskilled job to another, taking no interest in his work.

–Edward Banfield, The Unheavenly City

Note this is NOT about money. For example, how many rich Hollywood types can you think of that fit the quote above? It’s about cultural traits that promote survival of a civilization versus those that do not.

Harvard professor Banfield’s ideas were controversial (I found out about Banfield through reading the, er, interesting Gary North, for example), and from a quick perusal of his work I can already see some whoppers with which I disagree — but….

I think our entire public culture has morphed into such a present-oriented state. Long-term thinking is increasingly not evident in public discourse except among small groups of like-minded folks. It used to be you could rely on business and political elites to be a reservoir for long-term worldviews, but when elites are becoming infected by the present-oriented worldview as well, things start to fall apart.

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More Daily Geek – Oh Give Me A Drone, That Can Print Me A Home Edition

3D Printer can lay down your house in a day (using sand and a binding agent).

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Your Daily Geek – The New Sweatshop Product Edition

Textile Batteries

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The Laptop…

…that won’t die.

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Violent Rhetoric

At around the 04:50 mark.

I can’t waiting until someone in the MSM says that this guy is a racist.

I just wish Washington State had someone like this guy I could vote for. Hmmm, Allen West for President…….?

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The US could use a guy like this

It is a good thing it’s Sunday, because this is NSFW.

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Campus Warfare: Updated and Bumped

Guerrilla style!

I found this on da internets.

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I’m very tempted to make a few 8.5×11 copies and place them on bulletin boards around campus in the early AM before anyone shows up.

Dare me?

UPDATE: Dare accepted!

Unfortunately, my college has no Wymins Studies department. The only thing listed in the catalog’s “W” section is “Welding Technology” and I’m sure it would go over quite well there. But that is not the point.

However, OPPORTUNITY has arisen from the fires of my imagination.

Seattle Central Communist College is not too far from my work and sits on Broadway in Seattle’s Capital Hill neighborhood. I am not known there. My visage being posted from any security cameras that I happen to not spot would raise no flags. It DOES have a Wymins Studies department. It is also the college that gives students class credit for attending protests. Most notably, the WTO riots of 1999. But any protest will do for them (except a Tea Party, unless you’re counter protesting).

So, let me look into printing costs and then I’ll give said print shop a couple of weeks to erase any security tapes they may record and I think I can camouflage myself in the native garb well enough not to stand out and see how it goes.

Anyone local want to join in the fun?

A couple questions from the comments: First, “Hate Crime”? Really? Is it the “Sanctimonious Scolds” that puts it over the top? And second, there is caution and then there is paranoia. It is a fine line but some folks walk right along it. This is a pasted handbill, not a Molotov Cocktail.

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