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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsWho Are Wise, Who Not? — Victor Davis Hanson
For now, Donald Trump has proved that the animal cunning necessary to survive in the jungle of Manhattan real estate — duplicitous and venal politicians, all-powerful unions, incompetent and vindictive regulators, fair-weather bankers and investors, and dozens of special-interest crusaders — trumps the definition of traditional political wisdom: finding a young hip graduate from the right school with the right résumé to hire the right people to run the right sort of campaign.
Democracy trumps the victim generation: Janet Albrechtsen — The Australian
Make America great again? The starting point ought to be making America tough again. And we could aim to do the same in Australia. A few hundred years ago, colonial pioneers forged a new home in a daunting but beautiful country. Less than 100 years ago, postwar migrants sought out a new and free country, laboured through a Depression to build lives for their families. A few generations ago, resilient young men went to war to fight against Nazi Germany. Now, a pampered generation of men and women, many of whom don’t have much regard for democracy, seek out therapy for themselves and their children when an election result doesn’t go their way. Few things mark the worst of modernity as clearly as this rush among highly educated professionals to be victims of a democratic election on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking — About The Misery Industries
Bingo!!!! Now where have I heard these sentiments before? Noel Pearson has nailed it again (“Racist ABC eager for us to live in misery”, 22/11). Like all industries, the grievance industry needs an ongoing market in order to thrive. ... The ABC, the human rights...
Prof. Jordan Peterson: “Bloody neo-Marxists have invaded the campuses
Prof. Jordan Peterson: “Bloody neo-Marxists have invaded the campuses
America Called Bullshit on the Cult of Clinton: Brendan O’Neill — Reason.com
We have now reached peak insanity. This is one hell of a blistering broadside. The cult of Clinton is approaching, if it hasn’t already arrived at 1978, Jonestown and Kool Aid dimensions. “…As with all saints and prophets, all human manifestations of light itself, the problem is never with them, but with us. We mortals are not worthy of Hillary. “Hillary didn’t fail us, we failed her,” asserted a writer for the Guardian. The press, and by extension the rest of us, “crucified her,” claimed someone at Bustle. We always do that to messiahs, assholes that we are…”
Ship of fools who cry for open borders — Piers Akerman, Sunday Telegraph
Ian Rintoul, the most quoted RAC (Refugee Action Coalition) figure, was according to Margot O’Neill’s book 2009 book Blind Conscience, a founding member of the International Socialist Organisation in the 1970s, and left it in 2013 to become a founding member of Solidarity. The ISO boasted on its website that it wanted to smash the capitalist system and Rintoul didn’t rule out using force to do so. O’Neill wrote: “He’s the personification of the ageing revolutionary, still dreaming of a workers’ paradise.”
Higher education is awash with hysteria. That might have helped elect Trump. — George Will — Washington Post
Remember the mindless. automaton like Eloi in H G Wells Time Machine? “…The compound of childishness and condescension radiating from campuses is a reminder to normal Americans of the decay of protected classes — in this case, tenured faculty and cosseted students. Institutions of supposedly higher education are awash with hysteria, authoritarianism, obscurantism, philistinism and charlatanry. Which must have something to do with the tone and substance of the presidential election, which took the nation’s temperature…”
What Thinking Australians Are Thinking
I haven’t had so much fun for years watching the mass meltdown of those who would impose their moral superiority on us and who can’t comprehend how Donald Trump could possibly have won the US presidential election. From the condescending Penny Wong and Richard Di...
It’s all the fault of the thick, ill-informed, irrational mob — Brendan O’Neill
This isn’t an extreme view anymore. Being anti-democratic has become positively fashionable among the chattering classes “..We have become “too democratic”, says Sullivan. The “passions of the mob” have become too great a player in political life. We need a better “elitist sorting mechanism” to prevent people’s “untrammelled emotions” from dominating political discourse…” “….Never before has the fate of a country been changed by the swing of such a blunt axe, wielded by poorly informed citizens…” Belgian writer David Van Reybrouck wrote in an essay hilariously titled “Why elections are bad for democracy”.
A right-on-point reality check. It really is this simple. Have a look.
A Right-on-point, reality check. It really is this simple...