tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post5951323626939754194..comments2024-03-15T00:12:57.489-07:00Comments on Covenant Zone: Freak out your prof?truepeershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-74645000552349226602014-01-20T16:51:49.188-08:002014-01-20T16:51:49.188-08:00Or, in other words,
"Hey, kids, chop off yo...Or, in other words, <br /><br />"Hey, kids, chop off your nose to spite your prof! Join the CONs!"<br /><br />I doubt this con job is going over, the occasional campus careerist aside.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03478584067447488835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-47580595599383267162008-01-06T18:07:00.000-08:002008-01-06T18:07:00.000-08:00I don't need to gas anyone. Because I can talk abo...I don't need to gas anyone. Because I can talk about our differences, endlessly.<BR/><BR/>The problem is those whose only solution to human conflict is to cry victim and immediately move to invoke the Nazis. This response was once fresh and innovative and may have done some good. But it is no longer culturally productive. This means every time we try to rediscover the magic of the first postmodern cry of "genocide", we are left with fewer and fewer meaningful distinctions to organize around, and this lack of difference is the way to meaningless violence. Just because you keep telling yourself you are holier than thou doesn't mean you're not en route to mass murder.<BR/><BR/>Of course, it will be the nasty sons of bitches who do the killing, while the holy rollers continue to screech "Nazi", each time with less meaning or compulsion according to the inevitable law of diminishing returns.<BR/><BR/>Radical conservative orthodoxy is not "just my opinion", the moral equivalent of any other fantasy. It is an idea that comes out of a genuine intellectual conversation that expands our understanding of the human. But to see that, you have to be genuinely intellectually curious and test me to see if I'm not just bullshitting you. Don't confuse someone who always begins with the same basic questions about human conflict and the deferral of violence with a "one trick pony". My starting point can take us many places, if you care to dance... A one trick pony is the guy who always ends up in the same place: "Nazi!"truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-57522221892205289592008-01-06T17:30:00.000-08:002008-01-06T17:30:00.000-08:00ok man I GET IT geeze you're a one-trick ponyyour ...ok man I GET IT geeze you're a one-trick pony<BR/><BR/>your utopian fantasy: real freedom is achieved through "radical" conservative orthodoxy<BR/><BR/>good talk-- so who are we gassing firstAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-65218136678524420792008-01-06T15:56:00.000-08:002008-01-06T15:56:00.000-08:00Hi ziozio,Maybe you`re right and it is a bad ad. H...Hi ziozio,<BR/><BR/>Maybe you`re right and it is a bad ad. How can one "freak out" the permanently freaked out? The idea and the language does indeed become tiresome.<BR/><BR/>But as to your other point, in the context of the universities, the Gnostic left <I>is</I> the establishment, and it is the conservatives who are today truly radical in their concern for how a respect for certain constitutional, intellectual, or social orthodoxies might be a basis of real freedom and cultural renewal. <BR/><BR/>Remember, it is the left, in the French Revolution, that invented the left-right distinction, not today's conservatives who may have problems with it as a way of conceiving what we "reactionaries" are really all about. A conservative can be creative and even, dare I say it, "progressive".<BR/><BR/>The "us and them" thing can be made boring, sure. But at the end of the day we need to recognize it is inevitable on some level, and we should not buy into Utopian fantasies that would pretend to transcend it. That's the problem with the academic left; they avoid real debate through recourse to Utopian fantasy about unifying everyone under the rule of "diversity". The reality, however, is that conflict is inherent to the human condition and it's the task of those who embrace freedom to work with this reality and to discover how conflict can be made culturally productive. Conflict may be inevitable, but it need not be a zero-sum game.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-53086209979245654862008-01-06T13:28:00.000-08:002008-01-06T13:28:00.000-08:00ditch the partisanship for a second budyour us v. ...ditch the partisanship for a second bud<BR/><BR/>your us v. them shtick is borrrring <BR/><BR/>i'm talking about the ad here<BR/><BR/>a marketing team actually sat down and decided "we'll reach out to smart, disenfranchised young adults by appealing to their disdain for authority-- the anti-establishment thing is SO HOT right now"<BR/><BR/>reminds me of a tv spot by the canadian milk industry that incorporated a hip hop video and skateboarding dairy farmers-- "this ain't your daddy's milk!"<BR/><BR/>at least they knew who they were pandering to: 10-year-olds<BR/><BR/>anyways this is just a poor pitch: the status-quo attempting to pimp itself as an anti-establishment movement<BR/><BR/>"freak out your prof"? a tag line for the juvenile. evidence of a marketing team out-of-touch with the post-secondary demographic.<BR/><BR/>apparently tory student groups are popularizing across the country, why not consult with them for marketing advice?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-41865152335947308532008-01-05T19:11:00.000-08:002008-01-05T19:11:00.000-08:00Seems like we have another product of the academy ...Seems like we have another product of the academy visiting.<BR/><BR/>Sure, they vaguely acknowledge the presence of "diverse" points of view, before insisting for the quadrillionth time that the progressive magic is right and that it <I>knows</I> the reactionary on quick sight.<BR/><BR/>If I ever had the impression that they read and understood what conservatives write, I could at least write as if to begin negotiating our differences as free human beings in a free society might do.<BR/><BR/>But true "progressives" never really listen, never really negotiate, just ritualize their listening to a "diversity" of opinions, like the Gnostic true believers they are.truepeershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16401984575637492845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25624602.post-58862526645320700342008-01-05T18:05:00.000-08:002008-01-05T18:05:00.000-08:00hai thought this ad was a spoofgood luck recruitin...ha<BR/><BR/>i thought this ad was a spoof<BR/><BR/>good luck recruiting reactionary university students when you put out ads insulting their intelligence<BR/><BR/>these belong on juice boxes<BR/><BR/>nice try, nextAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com