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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note #195,731 — The Frankfurt School –We’re Not In Kansas Anymore Toto
I used to talk about this on my nightly radio program on 2GB, probably a couple of times a week. The subject would arise or an example of society’s inexorable slide would be in the daily papers. Whenever people asked (as they are now) where the hell are we are going as a society and what’s driving it, I used to give a six word answer: The Frankfurt School, Critical Theory and Antonio Gramsci.
Unfortunately, to this day whenever I mention it, it usually draws a blank stare. They have no idea. They want to know but then all of a sudden it becomes too hard.
The words and phrases we hear a lot these days, words and phrases like tolerance, diversity, political correctness, cultural Marxism all have their contemporary derivations and meanings in the teachings and philosophy of The Frankfurt School and critical theory.
This is the well spring, this is the crucible of what passes for much that alarms citizens in society today. It’s about breaking down and smashing societal norms and dissolving the glue, the bedrock mores, values and traditions of society that underpin, bind and hold it all together. And so the long March Continues.
The Islam Deniers, Paul Collits — Quadrant
There is also queasiness at the thought of being called to fight a war in an age of comfort, endless distractions and, let’s be blunt, spinelessness. Top off that list with a simple lack of understanding of how to fight back and then, to complete the recipe, add the mandatory dash of “tolerance”, which apparently means we must tolerate the intolerant and intolerable
Then And Now
Random Note #198,652 — 4 Corners — Power and Influence
Viewers of the program will have deep seated suspicions about this which prima facie has the hallmarks of a deferred “consideration” amortised over time, into the future, dressed up as a post political sinecure, that is, a position requiring little or no work but giving the holder a financial benefit.
The Metastisizing Crisis — British Muslims reveal their plans for the UK
There’s freedom of speech and then there’s shouting “fire” in a crowded theatre.
There’s freedom of speech and then there’s insurrection.
This is the latter. But still, the political class, being clueless or gutless or both, just hit the snooze button as they deploy their Dusty Springfield strategy of Wishin’ and Hopin’
“..Shariah Law for the UK is coming. This is not an undercover movement – but out in the open..”
Random Note #187,573 — The Strange Death Of Europe — Douglas Murray
Indeed, Enoch Powell did try to tell us. But many decades before Powell, Sir Edward Grey, the British Foreign Secretary made the observation on the eve of WW1 that “the lamps are going out all over Europe and we won’t see them lit again in our lifetime.” He could well have been talking about Europe exactly 100 years later. And to think that today, the 6th of June, is the anniversary of the D Day landings in 1944 to save Europe from the tyranny of Hitler. Why did we bother?
No one can or will save it this time.
This time Europe is a pall bearer at its own funeral.
Random Note #187,461 — London Terror Attacks
The most crucial point is this. Our own mindset of “we can’t do that” or “that’s not who we are” is also not working. This also must change or at least, in a time of war, as we are, be temporarily suspended. People who cling to the “that’s not who we are” meme had better smarten up and should begin to understand that, “that is who we had better become” and fast if we stand any chance of defeating this scourge.
Random Note #189,631 — Aboriginal constitutional recognition
It is designed to be a never ending, rolling national guilt trip, a contrivance, to cement permanently in place a much broader agenda, that once embedded in the constitution, can’t be derailed or dismantled. As with previous attempts at bureaucratically and remotely righting previous wrongs, (both real and imagined) from Canberra, those living in regional and remote areas will derive absolutely no benefit whatsoever. The mere fact that it would be embedded in the Australian constitution in perpetuity, means that even at some theoretical point in the future, after all grievances are sorted, the Aboriginal parliament advising the Australian parliament would still have a place in our national life.
Why They Went After Margaret Court — Andrew Bolt
I’ve lost count of the times I’ve cited Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. It’s an easy read of only 195 pages. It wasn’t just rule 13, as pointed out by Andrew Bolt, being used against Margaret Court. It was also, as demonstrated by The Project, Alinsky’s rule number 5: Ridicule and Humiliation.
What’s required in Canberra and the ABC is a daily dose of Pat Condell
Perhaps the only way to educate, embarrass or shame the likes of Duncan Lewis, Tony Jones, Malcolm Turnbull, the political class generally and Islamist apologists is to beat them into submission with a daily dose of Pat Condell.