tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post8835661385867002061..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Orwell: "Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations."Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger63125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91044233790293873102012-09-17T08:00:39.199-07:002012-09-17T08:00:39.199-07:00>That verse by Eliot is bad poetry: little or n...>That verse by Eliot is bad poetry: little or no rhythm or rhyme, unclear meaning, effete & academic tone.<<br /><br />Here is a good poem for you.<br /><br />Fleas<br /><br />Adam<br />Had 'em.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89077287036646431392012-09-17T07:34:16.210-07:002012-09-17T07:34:16.210-07:00Re Creationism:
According to this poll, 58% of Re...Re Creationism:<br /><br />According to <a href="http://www.gallup.com/poll/155003/hold-creationist-view-human-origins.aspx" rel="nofollow">this poll</a>, 58% of Republicans and 41% of Democrats believe something like young-Earth creationism (humans were created by God in the last 10,000 years). This is a belief that absolutely cannot be squared with physical reality--you have to basically postulate that God set up a really elaborate practical joke to trick us all about pre-creation history. (He didn't just plant fossils, He made sure to get the isotope ratios right.)<br /><br />This was easy to find. What I'm curious about is whether there's poll data which says how many Republicans vs Democrats think black/white differences in outcomes represent differences in innate ability. My impression is that this is a much more rare belief than young-Earth creationism. And that's ironic, because while that belief may be right or wrong, it's at least broadly consistent with observable reality. <br /><br />My guess is that the ratio of Republican to Democrat hbd-believers is comparable to the ratio of Republican to Democrat young Earth creationists, but I'd love to see some data. NOTAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21679597643223425182012-09-16T19:35:04.092-07:002012-09-16T19:35:04.092-07:00"The old WASP establishment certainly had no ...<i>"The old WASP establishment certainly had no problems playing dirty (overthrowing democratic governments in Latin America that were trending Communist, for example) to get their way. The Jewish Ivy Leaguers just happened to be a teensy bit better at it than the Episcopalians--and from what I've seen of the Northeast's upper echelons, the two groups aren't awfully separate anymore."</i><br /><br />There's at least one other possibility. Perhaps the establishment (not completely WASP) actually believed in American Exceptionalism, the American Dream, American the Shining City on the Hill, America the Beacon of Liberty, and all that. This meant practicing sort of an Enlightenment utopia, where all was based on the individual and the individual, unfettered, owed allegiance to this proposition, and not to a mere tribal group. American really would let each individual rise as far as possible, get the best out of him. All could participate, it would be for the betterment of all mankind. Episcopalians, and others, didn't think of themselves as Episcopalians first, Americans second. They didn't think of the elite as being closed. All could be elite, the more the merrier. The world has so many problems, who could tie themselves down to thinking of themselves as just a member of a group? A much nobler calling was possible, all those old problems would dissolve away. But, as someone once said, if you really want to see if you can trust someone, trust them. This experiment tested whether old historical groups could rise above their old tribal allegiances. Putting people in power puts them under a microscope, you find out what they really are. It seems the result of the experiment is in, with the result largely negative, to little surprise of those attentive to HBD. It may seem hard for many to believe, but perhaps they really did think this way, insanely naive though it may seem. Lots of things people believe seem pretty odd from afar.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30510765970775503082012-09-16T17:50:34.985-07:002012-09-16T17:50:34.985-07:00From Ferguson article recommended earlier:
It mus...From Ferguson <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/obama-delusion-cont_652392.html?nopager=1" rel="nofollow">article</a> recommended earlier:<br /><br /><i>It must be said that in addition to his tireless industry and gift as a teller of tales, Lewis is often played for a chump by the people he writes about. In the early 1990s, for a book called Pacific Rift, a group of Japanese and American capitalists convinced him of the Japanese economy’s indomitable strength, just as the Japanese economy began its long descent.<br /><br />In Moneyball a baseball executive convinced Lewis that he had turned the sport into a “social science,” deploying statistics to assemble winning teams as no one had done before. It wasn’t true, as the subsequent failure of the teams showed. It made for a cracking good yarn, though, and a hugely popular book.<br /><br />In the late 1990s, an entrepreneur named Jim Clark convinced Lewis that American capitalism, thanks to digital technology, was entering an unprecedented era of “pure possibility.” All that the era really was, was a tech bubble, which popped just as Lewis’s book about Clark was published. We could go on.</i><br /><br />Sounds like Malcolm Gladwell as described by Steve. Enthusiasm, a graceful prose style, and above all gullibility: pillars of a stellar career in journalism.<br /><br />Harry Baldwinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29152053136006417732012-09-16T14:23:36.156-07:002012-09-16T14:23:36.156-07:00When Eliot published a book of light verse, it wou...When Eliot published a book of light verse, it wound up, decades later, running on Broadway for 15 years as "Cats."Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-50760792512792274502012-09-16T12:35:30.456-07:002012-09-16T12:35:30.456-07:00"I was reading a lot of Kerouac and a lot of ..."I was reading a lot of Kerouac and a lot of Ginsberg....And . . . and I thought, If you're going to be an intellectual in New York, you gotta be Jewish."<br /><br />Wasn't Kerouac of Breton ancestry?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-37652872654657415092012-09-16T12:29:21.873-07:002012-09-16T12:29:21.873-07:00"It is astonishing that Romney is behind Obam..."It is astonishing that Romney is behind Obama in the polls in the midst of a depression."<br /><br /><br />Why so? Look how long Americans stuck with FDR. There's a very good chance all his programs did was prolong the Depression and as for his being a great war President? Just as likely to be myth as reality.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-48218076384912251422012-09-16T12:24:21.392-07:002012-09-16T12:24:21.392-07:00"Anonymous said...
So there's no reason ..."Anonymous said...<br /><br />So there's no reason for the GOP to even consider changing their policies to represent the mass of their voter's rather than their donor's economic interests until after they are convinced they can no longer win using things like " the war against terror" and social issues to distract people from the economic betrayal."<br /><br />It's not really the case that the GOP uses social issues, like gay marriage and the "culture war", to distract people from their economic betrayal, because the GOP betrays its constituents on those social issues as well as on the ecnomic ones.Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-34890045136999023632012-09-16T08:18:48.234-07:002012-09-16T08:18:48.234-07:00speaking of orwell the BBC declined to put a statu...speaking of orwell the BBC declined to put a statue of him outside the offices, claiming they wanted to be 'fair' and not seem like they had a liberal bias...<br /><br />... now, talk about Orwellian!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38464697010812210172012-09-16T06:49:08.382-07:002012-09-16T06:49:08.382-07:00SFG said "And guys like you want to kill us, ...SFG said "And guys like you want to kill us, and almost did in Germany in the 30s. Growing up in pre-Giuliani NYC, I was pretty afraid of the NAMs, and wanted to join the Klan until I found out they hated Jews too!"<br /><br />SFG, thank you for your post. You perhaps inadvertently confess to what agitates so many of us non-Jews about you guys: The paranoia that you then use to justify your behavior. What shred of evidence do you have that "guys like you want to kill us"? Jews have been extremely well treated in the US, likely better treated here than any other Western nation. Yet you still remain convinced that there is a vast group of people waiting to kill you. So you (you in aggregate, not you personally) do everything you can to undermine institutions and foment racial strife. But heaven forbid any of "us guys" find that offensive or its "guilty of hate" and a file in the $PLC is opened. <br /><br />Yeah, I'm posting this anonymously for a reason. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64729658463843333842012-09-16T04:24:27.529-07:002012-09-16T04:24:27.529-07:00That verse by Eliot is bad poetry: little or no rh...<i>That verse by Eliot is bad poetry: little or no rhythm or rhyme, unclear meaning, effete & academic tone.<br /><br />I think he's overrated.</i><br /><br />Eliot's verse was intellectually elitist but not academic. No-one who wrote 'Prufrock' can be considered over rated.<br /><br />Eliot was perfectly capable of writing the kind of conventional poetry with rhythm and rhyme that pleases middle-brow Ogden Nash fans. He chose not to. His style was the consequence of a rigorous intellectual approach to his craft, combined with reading Spengler's ideas on culture transitioning to civilisation and, later, High Church beliefs.<br /><br />You can not like Eliot's style and believe all poetry should be musical life lessons that appeal to the average person with the minimum amount of explanation. But you cannot say Eliot was a 'bad' poet. Unless you're an idiot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-26926995325494220562012-09-16T03:55:14.659-07:002012-09-16T03:55:14.659-07:00Steve,
If you won't let us link to Hillbuzz o...Steve,<br /><br />If you won't let us link to Hillbuzz or Ulsterman - because you think they're beneath the dignity of this forum - then doesn't that kinda serve to undercut the sincerity of the complaint you used to start this thread in the first place?<br /><br />God forbid that a David Brooks or a Matt Yglesias should surf over here and see a link to a trailer-trash site like Hillbuzz or Ulsterman.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /><b>*COUGH*</b> <i>hypocrisy</i> <b>*COUGH*</b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83861216624771768952012-09-15T22:56:33.891-07:002012-09-15T22:56:33.891-07:00"It is astonishing that Romney is behind Obam..."It is astonishing that Romney is behind Obama in the polls in the midst of a depression."<br /><br />Everyone somehow connected to the banking system i.e. all the elite, is hugely wealthier since the banking crisis as they've all had a taste of the vast sums poured into the banks.<br /><br />So there's no reason for the GOP to even consider changing their policies to represent the mass of their voter's rather than their donor's economic interests until after they are convinced they can no longer win using things like " the war against terror" and social issues to distract people from the economic betrayal.<br /><br />Even then as long as they keep getting richer at the top tier they might have to lose multiple times before they consider changing policies.<br /><br />A gradual replacement of the GOP from the bottom up is more likely than any change at the top.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-64456992075137448342012-09-15T22:26:38.896-07:002012-09-15T22:26:38.896-07:00http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1hqHo6lyUU&fea...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1hqHo6lyUU&feature=relatedAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36068274657167873912012-09-15T21:53:47.364-07:002012-09-15T21:53:47.364-07:00"Alan Stewart said...
Fake quote alert!
Dev..."Alan Stewart said...<br /><br />Fake quote alert!<br /><br />Devout Orwellians will note that this quote doesn't sound like Orwell, and recall no instance of his using the term "public relations"."<br /><br />I thought that looked off. Thanks for pointing that out. "Public Relations" is an American term, I think. Orwell would have used the word "propaganda".Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32159470310723643962012-09-15T21:33:11.013-07:002012-09-15T21:33:11.013-07:00Good piece by Andrew Ferguson on Lewis' butt-...Good piece by Andrew Ferguson on Lewis' butt-up-the-rear piece on Obama from the Weekly Standard.<br /><br />My favorite line: "The White House staff, surely smitten, never suspects that the president is a windbag."<br /><br />http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/obama-delusion-cont_652392.html?nopager=1<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4851541754117524222012-09-15T21:05:32.394-07:002012-09-15T21:05:32.394-07:00Reagan had convictions, Clinton had slickness. Ro...Reagan had convictions, Clinton had slickness. Romney has neither.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45720746626808461502012-09-15T19:58:55.957-07:002012-09-15T19:58:55.957-07:00Anybody who seriously cares about I.D. Or Evolutio...Anybody who seriously cares about I.D. Or Evolution or "Creationists" is an idiot.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-60518537010455673362012-09-15T19:04:45.606-07:002012-09-15T19:04:45.606-07:00Slavery and the Bible<a href="http://www.religioustolerance.org/sla_bibl2.htm" rel="nofollow">Slavery and the Bible</a>David Davenporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03315090179595817174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-23448070101690551862012-09-15T19:02:42.286-07:002012-09-15T19:02:42.286-07:00That verse by Eliot is bad poetry: little or no rh...<i>That verse by Eliot is bad poetry: little or no rhythm or rhyme, unclear meaning, effete & academic tone.<br /><br />I think he's overrated.</i><br /><br />You, me, and anyone else who didn't drink the New Criticism koolaid in college. No one did more damage to literature. alexishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14958611059030729965noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-5762260034639553712012-09-15T18:51:18.125-07:002012-09-15T18:51:18.125-07:00and believes all people were created equal in the ...<i>and believes all people were created equal in the eyes of God<br /><br />...<br /><br />--that says all races and peoples are equal in the eyes of God... </i><br /><br /><br /><br />No, the early Christian was view that all <b>souls</b> are equal in the eyes of God and have equal opprtunity in final judgment, but that there is no equality in this Earthly life. For example, the three different passages in the New testament approve of slavery. <br /><br />As St. Paul, previously Rabbi Saul of Tarsus said, "Slaves, be faithful to youir masters."David Davenporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03315090179595817174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27868016040032680092012-09-15T18:26:50.759-07:002012-09-15T18:26:50.759-07:00???
We're not allowed to link to HillBuzz?
?...???<br /><br />We're not allowed to link to HillBuzz?<br /><br />???Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-59551552681062185462012-09-15T18:04:59.954-07:002012-09-15T18:04:59.954-07:00Sailer keeps on pointing to how stupid or delusion...Sailer keeps on pointing to how stupid or delusional liberals are about race, but why is he--and others like him--so silent about the bigger stupidity among so many conservatives who reject evolution altogether or go for stuff like 'intelligent design'? If liberals cannot be smart about evolution, shouldn't conservatives be? But the vast majority of conservatives diehard morons of the evanjellical mold. <br />Is it okay to be stupid as long as one votes for the GOP? This is why American conservatism sucks. It's too political-centric, i.e. it's okay to be stupid about evolution as long as one goes for the GOP. <br /><br />The way I see it, most Jews are actually glad that so many conservatives are creationists or IDers. If most conservatives accepted evolution, they will interpret and use it for 'right-wing' reasons, and that will terrify Jews. So, even though Jews mock and laugh at stuff like creationism--and pretend that they'd like to see everyone accept evolution--, they'd rather have all those white american gentiles with guns to believe in creationism--that says all races and peoples are equal in the eyes of God--than believe in something that can lead to ... RACE.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38946229468108159892012-09-15T17:52:21.328-07:002012-09-15T17:52:21.328-07:00"The old WASP establishment certainly had no ... "The old WASP establishment certainly had no problems playing dirty (overthrowing democratic governments in Latin America that were trending Communist, for example) to get their way. The Jewish Ivy Leaguers just happened to be a teensy bit better..."<br /><br />Wasps never hid their power, and they also took steps to reform their power. I don't see any such from Jews. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-33160926338975449452012-09-15T17:36:47.744-07:002012-09-15T17:36:47.744-07:00Voters wanna see a man of strength. The only thing...Voters wanna see a man of strength. The only thing Romney is strong about is Israel but that is really a sign of weakness. He's a running dog of Zionists, and most Jews hate the GOP. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com