tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post4957056804386068705..comments2024-03-26T06:17:49.527-07:00Comments on Had Enough Therapy?: Dave Barry Bids 2017 AdieuStuart Schneidermanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12784043736879991769noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-32092854306340741492018-01-01T14:26:19.499-08:002018-01-01T14:26:19.499-08:00“2017... I know you are not going to miss it.”
Ac...“2017... I know you are not going to miss it.”<br /><br />Actually, 2017 brought a lot of clarity. For that, I am grateful. <br /><br />I now realize that the institutional rot goes very deep. I would not have believed it in 2016. I believed the IRS scandal was an isolated event. Now the FBI, DOJ, CIA, NSA, etc. If bogus opposition research can serve as legitimate evidence to secure FISA warrants against political opponents in a presidential election, what does that mean for us as normal citizens? Is the surveillance state here to protect us or to stamp out political activism by citizens on one side of the political spectrum? These are important questions the mainstream news media is avoiding, and the reason seems clear — the consequences of such coverage would hurt their political allies. <br /><br />One side believes they have cornered the market on virtue, and therefore believe themselves exempt from true debate and exchange. Nietzche’s will-to-power is best expressed by today’s Leftist politics. Their use of language is astonishingly cynical, without a hint of self-awareness, shame, nor reflection. Harry the Hutt’s Hollywood disgusting deeds may have been unsurprising, but the things Matt Lauer is said to have done are wickedly brazen, a sign of great hubris. How Jeff Zucker still has a job is most curious. He must be colluding with the Russians, too. <br /><br />They all seem to be entangled in this together, without any anchor to the truth or self-control in the wielding of power. It’s power divorced from responsibility. In the end, the smart set ain’t looking so smart anymore. 2017 was the year of their unmasking. They learned that the ends justify the means in college, and clearly haven’t learned much since. I look forward to the practicality and pragmatism of 2018. I also hope Trump will begin to focus on the disgrace of today’s academy, and the extraordinary cost of a worthless postmodern liberal arts degree, which is not education — it Is indoctrination. These are the seminaries our Leftist priests-cum-overlords attended. Their sanctimony will be their undoing, assuming they have any shame or propriety remaining.<br /><br />This is the therapy culture writ large. Existentialism was originally allied with God’s will, as its creator (Soren Kierkegaard) first imagined it. Divorced from God, meaningful existence seemingly requires the fearful, trembling soul to create man as god, self as god, me as the supreme power. Like Freud, if reality doesn’t satisfy, one can just make it up. The human condition is real, and the perfectability of man remains the most foolish of idols. Yet so many have the answers for us, don’t they? Their hubris is their self-proclaimed exemption from the Fall of Man, buttressed their imagined godlike status. It’s the world of Mister Rogers Neighborhood. Had enough therapy, indeed...<br /><br />Happy New Year!Ignatius Acton Chesterton OCDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18222603717128565302noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-9563004101075955302018-01-01T10:11:31.760-08:002018-01-01T10:11:31.760-08:00Happy New Year!Happy New Year!sestamibihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03713681322114049960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-77936070312516772652018-01-01T10:11:01.643-08:002018-01-01T10:11:01.643-08:00"You can tune in to CNN any time, day or nigh..."You can tune in to CNN any time, day or night, and you are virtually guaranteed to hear the word “Russians” within 10 seconds, even if it’s during a Depends commercial."<br /><br />I think replacing "Russians" with "white truck" is more up to date.sestamibihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03713681322114049960noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8078379512095504946.post-12447848148278907652018-01-01T09:39:01.813-08:002018-01-01T09:39:01.813-08:00As I wrote at AmericanDigest.org, I lost interest ...As I wrote at AmericanDigest.org, I lost interest in Dave Barry yearrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrs ago, and can't get it back. <br /><br />It just ain't happening.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.com