[lit-ideas] Re: Trilling on T. S. Eliot, III, (the Christian State)

From: "Lawrence Helm" <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Lit-Ideas " <Lit-Ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 06:49:56 -0700
Or to put it another way, Consider a sociopathic Al Gore willing to follow
his arguments to their logical conclusion:  Unless the global warming caused
by excessive numbers of humans using excessive amounts of energy and
creating excessive amounts of pollution is reversed all life will be
destroyed.  Therefore, he would argue, let us go out and kill humans enough
humans during a revolution that replaces current civilization with one that
will not further foster global warming.  

 

The sociopathic "logical next step" is not being taught at Harvard and
Berkeley, but the other arguments are - and were in Kaczynski's day.

 

Lawrence

 

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Ted Kaczynski wrote that, and that is part of the reason he left Berkeley.
The Leftists he referred to were not active about anything that was
important in his view.  They were mostly talk and worried about correct
terminology and correct posturing.  As he goes on to say in his manifesto,
what is needed is a Revolution based upon the principles developed in his
tract.

 

Lawrence

 

 

 

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Lawrence wrote

Someone challenged me a bit about Kaczynski.  I read Kaczynski's Manifesto &
commented on it to some extent at the time.  I was amazed that anyone could
hold those thoughts in this present age.  Later, in 2005, I read Harvard and
the Unabomber, the education of an American Terrorist.  Kaczynski was
building himself a better revolution and working at Berkeley while he did
it.  He left the Berkeley milieu with the Leftist-Environmental mindset that
is probably still significant at that University (as well as at Harvard
where he was education).    

 


Robert Paul asks, who said the following?

 

 Those who are most sensitive about "politically incorrect" terminology are
not the average black ghetto-dweller, Asian immigrant, abused woman or
disabled person, but a minority of activists, many of whom do not even
belong to any "oppressed" group but come from privileged strata of society.
Political correctness has its stronghold among university professors, who
have secure employment with comfortable salaries, and the majority of whom
are heterosexual, white males from middle-class families. 

 Many leftists have an intense identification with the problems of groups
that have an image of being weak (women), defeated (American Indians),
repellent (homosexuals), or otherwise inferior. The leftists themselves feel
that these groups are inferior. They would never admit it to themselves that
they have such feelings, but it is precisely because they do see these
groups as inferior that they identify with their problems. (We do not
suggest that women, Indians, etc., ARE inferior; we are only making a point
about leftist psychology). 

 

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