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(I am comfortable using a paraphrased Latin expression for the title of this post, because most of the maggots at whom my ire is aimed are probably illiterate in the Classics and would understand neither the language nor the context of its origin.)
Victor Davis Hanson has written often (and most recently, here) about the death of Western Civilization, but in truth, the death blows are not actually being delivered by the Democrats, but by their philosophical supporters in academia.
Spoiler: Western Civilization is a load of old racist rubbish, and shouldn’t be taught in today’s tertiary education systems.
From the Renaissance until the 1960s, the humanities, derived from the expression ‘studia humanitatis’ or the study of humanity, made it their purpose to make sense of and understand the world through the great traditions of art, culture and philosophy. There appeared in the 1970s and 1980s however, a range of ‘new humanities’ subjects which rejected this tradition. The new humanities were underpinned by a range of radical post-structuralism and post-modernist theories which had been conjured up in the previous decade by a predominantly French group of philosophers such as Jacques Derrida, Louis Althusser, Michel Foucault, as well as the psychiatrist, Jacques Lacan.
The new humanities maintain that for the last 500 years, Western Civilisation has got it wrong when it comes to knowledge, truth and science. These fields tend to claim that both knowledge and truth are not absolute, but are relative. For example, there is no objective truth and truth is dependent on who is speaking it and in what context. Insofar as science is concerned, they claim that scientific theories don’t really provide us with what we could call knowledge but are actually “invented” rather than discovered.
History as a discipline best exemplifies the influence of the postmodernists and their ilk on the humanities. Many historians have enthusiastically embraced the idea that truth is no longer within the historian’s grasp and that it’s impossible to use history to add to knowledge about humankind. This is the kind of thing which would normally signal the death knell for any discipline, but historians have risen from the ashes and have forged for themselves a new purpose—the attainment of social justice.
This is not social justice in the Enlightenment sense, which meant equality before the law and equal rights, but social justice in the activist sense, where the ultimate goal is to achieve perfect equality by destroying ‘oppressive’ institutions and rearranging society. The historians’ new role is to tell the inequality narrative of the oppressed and the oppressor through the lens of class, gender, and race.
Here’s my “modern” take on their attitude:
MFCS Commies… the sooner their whole rotten edifice falls over like the statue of Ozymandias, the better. (They’re not going to get that reference either, the bolshie bastards.)
I should also point out that the university system per se was a creation of medieval European society (100% White people) and therefore as the university has its roots in racism, academia should probably be abolished in its entirety — just to be logically consistent. However, logic is also inherently racist, it being an outcome of classical Greek thought, and we all know what racists the Greeks were (“Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes” was the Turks’ Trojans’ opinion of the Greeks, although the actual expression was coined by a Dead White Man — Vergil — so that should probably be discounted as well).
I could do this all day. But frankly, I’d rather pay a visit to a liberal arts faculty meeting at an Ivy League university. Carrying a flame-thrower. (What the hell: none of them would be armed, right?)
And in the final irony: the flamethrower was also an invention of White Europeans.
From some SJW / Millennial ingenue named Hannah Yasharoff:
National Lampoon’s raunchy frat house comedy “Animal House,” which celebrates its 40th anniversary Saturday, is widely regarded as an all-time great movie. But four decades later, it feels less like a comedy classic and more like a toxic showcase of racism, homophobia and jokes about sexual assault.
As the title of this post suggests, Animal House actually feels more and more (not less) like a comedy classic precisely because it does make fun of racism and jokes about sexual assault*. (Remember that Dean Wormer’s the mayor’s 13-year-old daughter is the one who comes to the toga party and gets pass-out drunk — and then much later, only after she finally has sex with Larry Kroger, does she shockingly admit her true age. That’s what was so goddamn funny, you pearl-clutching asswipe.)
Animal House aimed at so many sacred cows it’s difficult to know where to start. Now that the Left has created its own sacred cows, however, they’ve decreed somehow that while it’s perfectly okay to make fun of (say) religion or patriotism, heaven forbid that anyone make fun of (say) transgenderism (despite the latter’s self-identified social deviancy).
And duh! National Lampoon’s entire raison d’être was toxic comedy in that they skewered and made fun of everything. (The word “lampoon” right up there in the title should be sufficient warning, but clearly our SJW children’s liberal education never got that far in the lexicon.)
Good grief. I need a gin & tonic. Oh wait: my love of booze would make me future SCOTUS Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s spiritual [sic] sidekick.
Excellent.
*I don’t recall any homophobic jokes in Animal House, but I could be wrong.
In less than one month, three different women each gave birth to a baby. [#NotNews]
However, all three babies had the same father. [#BusyLittleBeaver(s)]
Impregnating three different women in a single month? Dude…
But then we have this guy, who took shagging to a whole new level before dying on the job with a woman just over a third his age. Perhaps the “bad boy / animal” look had a little to do with it…
In fairness, let’s give a little nod to the fact that he was operating in a Mediterranean nightclub, giving rise to the formula:
young women + booze + vacation mood + away from home = easy shag
I would suggest that any halfway-decent-looking man might have nailed at least a thousand or so, under the same circumstances and over the same time period.
Nevertheless, 6,000 women sounds like a lot (and it is). So let’s do the rough arithmetic, shall we? Assuming he started his shag-a-thon at age 23, and assuming that he took off about three months a year when the club would have been closed for the winter, and assuming no threesomes (a bad assumption), that’s:
6,000 (women) / 40 (yrs) x 52 (wks) x .75 = ~ 4 (different) women per week, every week.
I played in a rock band during the 1970s, and take it from me: that’s impressive.
Bravissimo, signor Zanzi. He makes our footballer’s hat-trick impregnation quite modest by comparison.
1) Candy bars lose sugar, also taste — FFS, if you think a candy bar is unhealthy or bad for you, then eat something else. Don’t moan and complain until the manufacturer brings out a watery, tasteless variant of the classic. (see: lite beer)
2) Man fucks with black mamba, with predictable results — there is a good reason why snake handlers in South Africa cannot get life insurance, no matter how much they’re prepared to pay.
3) Cold weather causes vag-freeze — as we’re heading into winter, you may want to get yer Missus a box-warmer (don’t ask).
4) Freaks and pervos hit the streets — where else but in San Francisco? (Never an errant daisycutter bomb when you need one.)
5) Italy to become the “new Argentina” — as long as they don’t invade the Falklands, we’re cool.
6) Tropical Storm Rosa will not wash the entire state of California out to sea — and a nation mourns.
From Greece comes this tale:
Edward Gibson, 24, and Jessica Frank, 22, were enjoying a getaway in Crete when they found a bag containing 7,000 euros in cash in a street.
They handed the money in to police, who reunited it with its owner, a local shopkeeper who was very relieved to see it again.
‘When police took us to meet the lady she was crying and blessing us. The money was her livelihood.’
She said they were ‘called heroes’ by locals, who gave them free taxi rides and offered them a hotel upgrade.
The shopkeeper, who was in her 60s, is believed to have dropped the bag, which contained the business’s takings, on the way to the bank.
Nice to see that there are at least a couple of decent people in today’s amoral world. Conversely, that a simple act of honesty should make the newspapers is a comment of a different sort.