Curtis Dahlgren
Standing on the precipice: Promising "hope" or opening Pandora's box?
By Curtis Dahlgren
"The most important human endeavor is striving for morality in our actions. Morality is what gives beauty and dignity to life. Following our animal instincts is not enough. Without high standards of right and wrong, men cannot live together in peace and friendship."— Albert Einstein
AND THEY ACCUSE US OF BEING "ANTI-INTELLECTUAL"? Who is accusing Whom of being "divisive," "intolerant," and "dumb"? If the Left understood the meaning of the word "tolerant," they wouldn't "put up with" their own stupidities!
"Broadcast television characters are almost three times as likely to have sex with a child, an animal or a corpse than with a spouse, a study released Tuesday by a clean-up-TV group said." — Miami Herald, August 6, 2008 [Parents Television Council]
It's a matter of public record than when the Left is in charge of the Federal Communications Commission, "standards" are even lower than under "compassionate conservatives." And Federal Election Commission and Justice Department "standards" are the lowest of all. This may be the last "free" election America ever sees. We are heading towards Venezeulan and Cuban "election standards" thanks to Barack Obama's ACORN and Pravda-style "journalism."
These following rules were seized in a raid in Dusseldorf Germany, in 1919.
The files were marked, "Communist Rules for Revolution":
"It originated in the early years of the reign of Alexander II, and the term [nihilism] was first used by Turnueniev in his celebrated novel, Fathers and Children, published in 1862. Among the students of the universities and the higher technical schools Turgueniev had noticed a new and strikingly original type — young men and women in slovenly attire, who called in question and ridiculed the generally received [traditions] of social life, and who talked of reorganizing society on strictly scientific principles. They reversed the traditional order of things even in trivial matters of external appearance, the males allowing the hair to grow long and the female adepts cutting it short, and adding sometimes the additional badge of blue spectacles . . .
"Thanks to Turgueniev, these young persons came to be known in common parlance as 'Nihilists,' though they never ceased to protest against the term as a calumnious nickname. According to their own account, they were simply earnest students who desired reasonable reforms . . . Among the antiquated institutions which had to be abolished as obstructions to real progress were, religion, family life, private property [etc] . . Religion was to be replaced by the exact sciences, family life by free love, private property by collectivism [etc]."
Sound familiar? Barack Obama says that his own "salvation" depends on the "collective" salvation of the country. He wants "change" of course (so did the Nihilists in Russia)!
"The programme of the government was extensive enough and liberal enough to satisfy, for the moment at least, all reasonable reformers, but the well-intentioned, self-confident young people to whom the term Nihilists was applied were not reasonable. They wanted an immediate, thorough-going transformation of the existing order of things according to the most advanced socialistic principles, and in their youthful, reckless impatience they determined to undertake the work themselves, independent of and in opposition to the government . . .
"They began, therefore, a propaganda among the working population of the towns and the rural population in the villages . . Some disguised themselves as artisans or ordinary labourers, and sought to convert their uneducated fellow-workmen in the industrial centres, whilst others settled in the villages as school-teachers, and endeavoured to stir up disaffection . . . Landed proprietors and officials, it was suggested, should be got rid of, and then the peasants would have arable, pastoral and forest land in abundance, and would not require to pay any taxes.
"To persons of a certain education the agitators sought to prove that the general economic situation was desperate . . . " [ibid, my emphasis]
BACK TO THE PRESENT: one of our candidates for the White House, a former "community agitator," says that his friend Bill Ayres is just a "teacher of English" in Chicago (disguised as such at least). "Socialist" is a "calumnious nickname" that is unfair to the well-intentioned young "Progressives" who are only trying to save us from "desperate" economic straits. They are going to bring in the national Utopia that has always failed in such places as Liberal, Missouri; Amana Colonies, Iowa; and Shaker Village, Kentucky (not to mention the USSR or the Cuban boat people).
CONCLUSION
In classical mythology, Pandora represented the first woman on earth, who opened a box-full of the challenges, problems, and sorrows that would plague the human race. The last item she found in the box was "Hope" [think Eve]. I guess we've come full-circle. All we have left as of this weekend is "hope" — which in and of itself is mostly useless (at least without the morality that Einstein maintained gives mankind "standards" a bit higher than our animal instincts).
NO WONDER our public school 'educators" don't want to teach history. They think, as did the Nihilists, that they can obliterate religion and the other antiquated traditions. Well, 70 years of "enforced atheism" failed to do that in the Soviet Union. This does not "discourage" them, however. They are still determined to culminate the "Youth Revolution" of the 1960s with a total "make-over" of society following the pattern of the Russian Nihilists (who were the pioneers of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917).
Our universities and much of the governmental bureaucracies are now being run by the aging hippies who were brain-damaged by drugs in the 60s and 70s, etc. As Rush Limbaugh says, this election is the last battle between those hippies and [the rest of us]. It took about 55 years and a World War to install the Communist regime in the USSR.
We are now about 50 years into America's so-called Youth Revolution. Will they succeed in destroying Freedom in this hemisphere this year? Or will it take a Great Depression and another World War to bring it about?
STAY TUNED. THERE'S MORE TO COME.
© Curtis Dahlgren
"The most important human endeavor is striving for morality in our actions. Morality is what gives beauty and dignity to life. Following our animal instincts is not enough. Without high standards of right and wrong, men cannot live together in peace and friendship."
AND THEY ACCUSE US OF BEING "ANTI-INTELLECTUAL"? Who is accusing Whom of being "divisive," "intolerant," and "dumb"? If the Left understood the meaning of the word "tolerant," they wouldn't "put up with" their own stupidities!
"Broadcast television characters are almost three times as likely to have sex with a child, an animal or a corpse than with a spouse, a study released Tuesday by a clean-up-TV group said." — Miami Herald, August 6, 2008 [Parents Television Council]
It's a matter of public record than when the Left is in charge of the Federal Communications Commission, "standards" are even lower than under "compassionate conservatives." And Federal Election Commission and Justice Department "standards" are the lowest of all. This may be the last "free" election America ever sees. We are heading towards Venezeulan and Cuban "election standards" thanks to Barack Obama's ACORN and Pravda-style "journalism."
These following rules were seized in a raid in Dusseldorf Germany, in 1919.
The files were marked, "Communist Rules for Revolution":
- "Corrupt the young: get them away from religion. Get them interested in sex. Make them superficial; destroy their ruggedness."
- "Get control of all means of publicity. Get peoples' minds off their government by focusing their attention on athletics, sexy books, plays and other trivialities."
- "By encouraging government extravagance, destroy its credit; produce fear of inflation, rising prices and general discontent."
- "Divide people into hostile groups by constantly harping on controversial matters of no importance."
- "Destroy the peoples' faith in their natural leaders by holding the latter up to contempt, ridicule . . "
- "Always preach true democracy; but seize power as fast and as ruthlessly as possible."
"It originated in the early years of the reign of Alexander II, and the term [nihilism] was first used by Turnueniev in his celebrated novel, Fathers and Children, published in 1862. Among the students of the universities and the higher technical schools Turgueniev had noticed a new and strikingly original type — young men and women in slovenly attire, who called in question and ridiculed the generally received [traditions] of social life, and who talked of reorganizing society on strictly scientific principles. They reversed the traditional order of things even in trivial matters of external appearance, the males allowing the hair to grow long and the female adepts cutting it short, and adding sometimes the additional badge of blue spectacles . . .
"Thanks to Turgueniev, these young persons came to be known in common parlance as 'Nihilists,' though they never ceased to protest against the term as a calumnious nickname. According to their own account, they were simply earnest students who desired reasonable reforms . . . Among the antiquated institutions which had to be abolished as obstructions to real progress were, religion, family life, private property [etc] . . Religion was to be replaced by the exact sciences, family life by free love, private property by collectivism [etc]."
Sound familiar? Barack Obama says that his own "salvation" depends on the "collective" salvation of the country. He wants "change" of course (so did the Nihilists in Russia)!
"The programme of the government was extensive enough and liberal enough to satisfy, for the moment at least, all reasonable reformers, but the well-intentioned, self-confident young people to whom the term Nihilists was applied were not reasonable. They wanted an immediate, thorough-going transformation of the existing order of things according to the most advanced socialistic principles, and in their youthful, reckless impatience they determined to undertake the work themselves, independent of and in opposition to the government . . .
"They began, therefore, a propaganda among the working population of the towns and the rural population in the villages . . Some disguised themselves as artisans or ordinary labourers, and sought to convert their uneducated fellow-workmen in the industrial centres, whilst others settled in the villages as school-teachers, and endeavoured to stir up disaffection . . . Landed proprietors and officials, it was suggested, should be got rid of, and then the peasants would have arable, pastoral and forest land in abundance, and would not require to pay any taxes.
"To persons of a certain education the agitators sought to prove that the general economic situation was desperate . . . " [ibid, my emphasis]
BACK TO THE PRESENT: one of our candidates for the White House, a former "community agitator," says that his friend Bill Ayres is just a "teacher of English" in Chicago (disguised as such at least). "Socialist" is a "calumnious nickname" that is unfair to the well-intentioned young "Progressives" who are only trying to save us from "desperate" economic straits. They are going to bring in the national Utopia that has always failed in such places as Liberal, Missouri; Amana Colonies, Iowa; and Shaker Village, Kentucky (not to mention the USSR or the Cuban boat people).
CONCLUSION
In classical mythology, Pandora represented the first woman on earth, who opened a box-full of the challenges, problems, and sorrows that would plague the human race. The last item she found in the box was "Hope" [think Eve]. I guess we've come full-circle. All we have left as of this weekend is "hope" — which in and of itself is mostly useless (at least without the morality that Einstein maintained gives mankind "standards" a bit higher than our animal instincts).
NO WONDER our public school 'educators" don't want to teach history. They think, as did the Nihilists, that they can obliterate religion and the other antiquated traditions. Well, 70 years of "enforced atheism" failed to do that in the Soviet Union. This does not "discourage" them, however. They are still determined to culminate the "Youth Revolution" of the 1960s with a total "make-over" of society following the pattern of the Russian Nihilists (who were the pioneers of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917).
Our universities and much of the governmental bureaucracies are now being run by the aging hippies who were brain-damaged by drugs in the 60s and 70s, etc. As Rush Limbaugh says, this election is the last battle between those hippies and [the rest of us]. It took about 55 years and a World War to install the Communist regime in the USSR.
We are now about 50 years into America's so-called Youth Revolution. Will they succeed in destroying Freedom in this hemisphere this year? Or will it take a Great Depression and another World War to bring it about?
STAY TUNED. THERE'S MORE TO COME.
© Curtis Dahlgren
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