tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post1175515146453939030..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: The Hilary Mantel / Kate Middleton KerfuffleStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-69798066964881644242013-02-24T10:03:30.240-08:002013-02-24T10:03:30.240-08:00Dennis:
Judge each faith by the principles it eng...Dennis:<br /><br />Judge each faith by the principles it engenders... and the reconcilable positions that it takes. That's the reason why I do not and cannot capriciously reject religion, including atheism and cults, or any other institution based on articles of faith.<br /><br />As for "good", it's the same issue as "moral", they are both subjective and malleable. There are two objective (i.e. causative) orders: natural and enlightened (i.e. conscious). Typically, identifying a mutually reconcilable position with each and within each leads to the "good" or "moral" outcome. For example, with the former, we have evolutionary fitness, and the constraint that "not everyone will enjoy a beachfront property in Hawaii." With the latter, we have individual dignity, the opportunity to respect our own and others, and improve the quality and quantity of our lives.<br /><br />Well, this is a broad topic, which in this virtual, framed context is likely better expressed through an evolutionary process. Besides, I am getting hungry and acceding to the natural order can never be denied, only delayed.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-62663287872719262232013-02-24T09:31:34.801-08:002013-02-24T09:31:34.801-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-34208526615091016212013-02-23T05:20:15.126-08:002013-02-23T05:20:15.126-08:00n.n,
I am in the process of reading one of Taleb&#...n.n,<br />I am in the process of reading one of Taleb's books and he alludes to Voltaire doing much the same thing. It was Voltaire that I was thinking about at the moment when I wrote the first comment. Another excellent book is "Intellectuals" by Paul Johnson.<br />There is an old adage that people do what they want to do and then find a justification for it. One cannot separate the ideas that a man or woman have from the man or woman and how they actually lived their lives. Their ideas were predicated on their experiences.<br />Most of the heroes of the modern left were terrible human beings who treated other human beings as if they were just so much "dirt" and easily dispensed with. What we do today and how we treat others is built on the ideas of these people. I have always found it humorous that those who consider themselves our betters readily tout the ideas of "intellectuals" and are aghast when someone speaks the words of Jesus who lived the philosophy he preached as opposed to the hypocrisy of almost every "intellectual."<br />Inside of each individual are two people fighting to be in control. The one that wins is the one we feed the most and it does seem that we are feeding evil at the expense of the good we can become.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-48164599070128086522013-02-22T10:06:14.081-08:002013-02-22T10:06:14.081-08:00Dennis:
That was my impression as well. However, ...Dennis:<br /><br />That was my impression as well. However, there is nothing new under the sun. Men and women have dreamed of material, physical, and ego instant gratification since time immemorial. Even the "new normal" of sacrificing human lives to preserve or consolidate wealth and welfare is not innovative. There are, apparently, quite a few people who will degrade themselves in order to gain leverage over their competing interests. This is the natural order untempered by morality, which is what we commonly describe as "evil."n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-6581070326391739632013-02-22T09:59:32.474-08:002013-02-22T09:59:32.474-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-90544933878469241292013-02-22T05:59:24.361-08:002013-02-22T05:59:24.361-08:00n.n,
Far from it. That she would use condescensi...n.n,<br /><br />Far from it. That she would use condescension as a marketing ploy demonstrates a lack of moral standing. That to improve her book sales she would attack someone is classic elitism and what has become of liberalism.<br />It is what happens when there exists this idea that education denotes intelligence or superior intelligent. There are some ideas that are so lacking in scholarship and intelligence that the only place they can find a home is in academe. That those who populate academe actually think they are superior reminds on of the days when poets thought they were the only ones fit to lead and they were our betters. It is instructive how many of the supposed elites were first poets. Their love for humanity was only exceeded by their hate for human beings.<br />Education is a tool and it is how one uses it to improve one's, and maybe help others, that counts. I can read every book I know of to learn to swim, but until I get in the water I do not really know how to swim. Far too much intellectual drivel masquerading as fact.<br />This woman is only the next demonstration of the degradation of humanity for her own selfish desires.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-78284953084761281142013-02-22T00:05:21.477-08:002013-02-22T00:05:21.477-08:00Misanthropic. As per usual. And I'm sure she m...Misanthropic. As per usual. And I'm sure she majored in the "humanities" at university, which are now anything but...<br /><br />Can you imagine the dialogue... "No need for further human beings, to be sure. I should be aghast at the thought... Though I will be at the baby shower of my second cousin, twice removed. Wouldn't miss it. Not never. Smashing food, delightful tea, though the company is a bit tiring."<br /><br />Shall we be honest about how upper-echelon feminine social competition usually rolls out? If the tart gets ahead or falls behind, let's just get on with it: behead her and move onto other amusements, shall we, mmmmmm?<br /><br />TipAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-71264147150736675322013-02-21T18:43:14.901-08:002013-02-21T18:43:14.901-08:00Dennis:
Do you think her condescension is merely ...Dennis:<br /><br />Do you think her condescension is merely a marketing ploy? That there may be an individual of integrity lurking beneath the intellectual detritus she publicly evinces?<br /><br />I am growing impatient with men and women who presume to possess superior dignity, but who demonstrate the most base and undesirable traits of inferior, opportunistic cretins.<br /><br />I am underestimating Mantel? She seems to be of the class who long ago lost mental coherence in the rarefied atmosphere of ivory towers.<br /><br />Anyway, I just read an article in Time, which proclaimed the consequences of normalizing fanatical behaviors which constitute evolutionary dysfunction. They seem to believe it is an epiphany to notice that women who choose abortion, women and men who choose promiscuity, and others who are simply confused, are incompatible with evolutionary fitness.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-39853070476524870182013-02-21T18:25:03.154-08:002013-02-21T18:25:03.154-08:00I saw Kate becoming a jointed doll on which certai...<i>I saw Kate becoming a jointed doll on which certain rags are hung. ... she is a mother-to-be, and draped in another set of threadbare attributions. ... They will find that this young woman’s life until now was nothing, her only point and purpose being to give birth.</i><br /><br />It's telling when someone chooses to reduce someone's life to the period of several years or a decade. It's degenerate when the criticism is directed to a fundamental responsibility of men and women.<br /><br />What is the significance of human life and under what circumstances does it acquire value?<br /><br />Does Mantel prefer homosexual behavior, unproductive heterosexual behavior, or does she simply envy women who are capable of discovering balance in their lives?<br /><br />I have noticed that many people are confused about reality and elect to drown their anguish in the exploitation of people who they envy or hate.<br /><br />Neither intelligence nor, apparently, a "distinguished and decorated writer," provide insight into individual character.n.nhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04252447117532342957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-19813796655226960952013-02-20T13:04:47.576-08:002013-02-20T13:04:47.576-08:00One wonders whether Mantel's book sales were d...One wonders whether Mantel's book sales were doing well. She would not be the first writer who created a situation like this to up their book sales, which this does seem to have done.<br />To ask the question is to answer it.Dennishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14962996070458991675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-51101947062264313872013-02-20T12:47:18.567-08:002013-02-20T12:47:18.567-08:00Diana was 19 and sheltered when she became engaged...Diana was 19 and sheltered when she became engaged to Charles, Kate 29 and worldly - that is difference enough! 19 year olds cry in public, make faces (and at 35 years old do so to manipulate the press in her favor in divorce). 30 year old emotionally healthy people like Kate do not. Plus, Charles proposed after 4 months to a teenager, William and Kate were together for 8 or 9 years when they wed at 29 (and friends before that). I don't know how people make a comparison. There is none.<br /><br />I don't know why airing your dirty linen in public and embarrasing your family and in laws is a good thing. Kate all the way.CatherineMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04909616844180482228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-33817833683008616972013-02-20T10:21:21.576-08:002013-02-20T10:21:21.576-08:00"Do women find some special virtue in diminis..."Do women find some special virtue in diminishing other women?" If not virtue, joy. Or amusement, fun, superiority, etc., etc.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-5445193120933687752013-02-20T10:03:45.131-08:002013-02-20T10:03:45.131-08:00"Do women find some special virtue in diminis..."Do women find some special virtue in diminishing other women?"<br />Do ducks quack?<br /><br />It's primal; women exist to produce and nurture children and men exist to fertilize them and protect women and children. Everyone knows this, but it's a disease of affluence to lie about it. There are a few hobbies we get up to like writing historical novels, but if a woman's evolutionary drive to motherhood is thwarted, resentment is natural. Hence Mantel v Middleton.<br /><br />Re Diana: The famous interview with the execrable Martin Bashir surprised me; Diana was one intelligent woman with a unique vantage point. She might have written wonderful, acerbic comic novels. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VkEnGQ1n9k<br /><br />Wise words from another lady novelist, Alice Thomas Ellis, mother of seven: “Men love women, women love children; children love hamsters - there is no reciprocity."Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11610216459168823816noreply@blogger.com