Conservatism Is The New Punk Rock
Kurt Schlichter (Twitter: @KurtSchlichter) was personally recruited to write conservative commentary by Andrew Breitbart. He is a successful Los Angeles trial lawyer, a veteran with a masters in Strategic Studies from the United States Army War College, and a former
stand-up comic.
Post Hill Press will publish his book “Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2013-2041” on July 15, 2014.
stand-up comic.
Post Hill Press will publish his book “Conservative Insurgency: The Struggle to Take America Back 2013-2041” on July 15, 2014.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e52cXCrm...
This is punk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om7XHuPA...
This is punk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dGYOd1Z...
This is punk.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aJdo2PM...
This is punk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UvfOu5y...
I'm not sure that Conservatives are really the punk rockers - but certainly the Tea Partiers can be seen as such, politically speaking.
it started here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJs_L7yq...
You might have to look up the lyrics but yeah, punk rock and libertarianism go hand in hand.
Joan Baez:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFvkhzkS...
Lindsey Stirling:
BAM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49tpIMDy...
BAM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55_bV4OR...
BAM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHdkRvEz...
Did I mention that she's also a motivational speaker? Unlike Baez, who's a demotivational bitcher.
Conservatism is as dynamic and alive as Lindsey Stirling is in her videos... and Liberalism is as insipid and effete as Joan Baez is in hers.
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ef·fete
adjective \e-ˈfēt, i-\
: lacking strength, courage, or spirit
: resembling a woman
Full Definition of EFFETE
1
: no longer fertile
2
a : having lost character, vitality, or strength <the effete monarchies … of feudal Europe — G. M. Trevelyan>
b : marked by weakness or decadence <the effete East>
c : soft or delicate from or as if from a pampered existence <peddled … trendy tweeds to effete Easterners — William Helmer> <effete tenderfeet>; also : characteristic of an effete person <a wool scarf … a bit effete on an outdoorsman — Nelson Bryant>
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in·sip·id
adjective \in-ˈsi-pəd\
: not interesting or exciting : dull or boring
: lacking strong flavor
Full Definition of INSIPID
1
: lacking taste or savor : tasteless <insipid food>
2
: lacking in qualities that interest, stimulate, or challenge : dull, flat <insipid prose>
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The violinist (and composer) IS Lindsey. The singer is Lizzie Hale.
Yes. It's almost like a parody of the nonsense that keeps libertarianism from succeeding. "Us conservatives want to beat on the brat with a baseball bat" Us just want to beat the other side? It almost sounds like the subject/object pronoun confusion is intentional, as if they're just making fun of the whole thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UqeBl0K...
The article did not say that conservatives like punk rock, but only that they are to mainstreams politics what punk rock was to the seventies. That thesis is weak; he offered no proof, just slams and cuts, and zingers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xmckWVPR...
If I'm allowed to generalize, people want the freedom to patronize any business, the freedom to express who they are wherever they are, and the freedom to not have to worry about their health and well being.
But freedom doesn't mean any of those things. Freedom means the ability do what you want with your life without force or fraud. And your life is defined by your property. The things you have spent your time and energy to create are all apart of your life. The body you inhabit, the vehicle you drive, the house you live in all define your life. Freedom is and always will be your ability to control your life.
But what's happening is people think there is more freedom in the world, when other people have their freedom restricted. It's always targeted at minorities, because if you give the majority control over the minorities life, suddenly the majority have more control. However, there is less freedom in the world at this point, because the majority are already at the highest level of freedom, they control their lives completely. All they do is reduce the amount of freedom in the world by taking it away from other for a net loss.
A growing number of people want those kinds of "freedoms" and collectively vote for them.
They shroud "freedom" in specialized privilege to the few that does not affect the many - directly. But as they gather control their influence over larger portions of the culture will grow. They will insist that religious tenets be eliminated as bigoted against some (this is already occurring). Next they will go after the majority as bigots for not reducing themselves to the same level as the minorities (this too is already occurring). Lastly, they will go after the minorities, who they will say are not living up to their potential and must thus be controlled for their own good.
I think he's saying in mob rule in general. The majority already have freedom. When they oppress unpopular ideas/people, net freedom decreases.
But how is it free for the cake baker to be forced to bake a cake for a couple whom they would freely choose to refuse payment for their service? How is it free for a person in fairly good health to decide that they do not need healthcare insurance yet is forced to purchase the same, merely as a consequence of living - not as a requirement for some other behavior. How is it freedom for less than 50% of the populace to pay any portion of income taxes, and the top 10% pay nearly all of the income taxes, while the bottom 50% pay nothing and many actually receive transfer payments.
been there, done that all over this site. new playbook please.
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"Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input."
— E. O. Wilson
"A FEW YEARS AGO the city council of Monza, Italy, barred pet owners from keeping goldfish in curved goldfish bowls. The measure’s sponsor explained the measure in part by saying that it is cruel to keep a fish in a bowl with curved sides because, gazing out, the fish would have a distorted view of reality. But how do we know we have the true, undistorted picture of reality? Might not we ourselves also be inside some big goldfish bowl and have our vision distorted by an enormous lens? The goldfish’s picture of reality is different from ours, but can we be sure it is less real?"
— Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow, "The Grand Design"
"In the history of science we have discovered a sequence of better and better theories or models, from Plato to the classical theory of Newton to modern quantum theories. It is natural to ask: Will this sequence eventually reach an end point, an ultimate theory of the universe, that will include all forces and predict every observation we can make, or will we continue forever finding better theories, but never one that cannot be improved upon? We do not yet have a definitive answer to this question...
— Stephen Hawking & Leonard Mlodinow, "The Grand Design," p.8
http://www.philosophylounge.com/perceive...
http://content.time.com/time/arts/articl...
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Ayn Rand may have rejected Anarchism on an emotional level, but her ideology is nevertheless build on the same logical foundation as Anarchism — that is, Anarchism and Objectivism are both built on the idea that it is possible for men to unite without coercion under a binding legal order for peaceful cooperation. They both reject coercive social organizations, and repudiate coercion as a social technique. Ayn Rand said some very nasty things about Anarchism, but she never specified how her ideal utopia (Galt's Gulch) was any different from the ideal utopia of an Anarchist. In fact, her descriptions of Galt's Gulch which she provides in Atlas Shrugged cannot be called anything else except the descriptions of an Anarchist society. Ayn Rand may have vehemently repudiated Anarchism, but her own ideology points in the same direction. And ultimately it is direction, not intention, that determines destination.
I believe we've had this debate before, haven't we? I've been thinking over why we had so much trouble reaching a consensus the last time we had this debate, and I think I've figured it out. See, the last time we discussed this topic, I believe you were opperating on the premise that the terms "Non-Aggression Principle" and "Non-Initiation Principle" referred to two different concepts, when in fact they are actually two different labels for the same concept. Here's the definition provided by Ludwig von Mises Institute:
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Principle of non-aggression
The non-aggression principle (also called the non-aggression axiom, or the anti-coercion or zero aggression principle or non-initiation of force) is an ethical stance which asserts that "aggression" is inherently illegitimate. "Aggression" is defined as the "initiation" of physical force against persons or property, the threat of such, or fraud upon persons or their property. In contrast to pacifism, the non-aggression principle does not preclude violent self-defense. The principle is a deontological (or rule-based) ethical stance.
http://wiki.mises.org/wiki/Principle_of_...
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This is why you and I couldn't understand each other last time. We were each operating under different definitions of the same terminology. THAT'S how language shapes the way we perceive the world. So you see, Noam Chomsky's stance on language is really not so far off the truth after all.
Yes!! Bringing libertarianism into the supposed left/right battle, is a win for rightwing politics and a losing proposition for libertarianism. It's a win for enjoying the empty calories of condemning particular politicians. It's a lose for the cause of liberty.