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Random Notes - Idle ThoughtsRandom Note — Brutopian Notes, Giles Auty, The Spectator
What post-modernism constitutes is purely and simply left-wing totalitarianism by stealth. Likewise the tutors and so-called academic boards which so happily reject the idea of degree courses in Western Civilisation are simply neo-Marxist fronts whether they care to admit this or not. Like termites in wood, Marxist teachers burrow tirelessly, chewing away at the vital organs of our democracy with the openly avowed intention of causing its structural collapse.
Random Note — ‘Sick of’ and mad as hell 2.0
They’re sick of seeing their society and culture being trashed and unravelling at warp speed. Becoming frayed and stressed and like a concave and convex, side-show alley, whacky hall of mirrors where everything is twisted, distorted and bent out of shape. At least in the mirror maze, you know that you will at least exit at some point. Not so anymore. In this postmodern, dystopian world, the twisted, stretched, distorted and bent out of shape has become the new normal. The hall of mirrors is the new fixed reality.
Sharia By Stealth, Quadrant — Augusto Zimmermann
You may not be interested in Islam, but Islam is interested in you. What we‘re looking at is nothing less than a blasphemy law by stealth. A blasphemy law via the unlocked back door of our democracy designed to shut you up and allow Islam to go about its work.
University regulator TEQSA has lost its way on political matters, Matthew Lesh — The Australian
The guidance note discusses all types of diversity — including racial, ethnic, religious, national and sexual — except the diversity necessary for a functioning university: viewpoint diversity
Random Note — The ABC. To sell or not to sell.
Rather than selling the ABC, an administrator should be appointed for two, three or five years or as long as it takes to rein it in, bring it under control and close down or merge various aspects and sort out the embedded bias and groupthink ingrained in the organisation. A new board and a revised charter with teeth could then be established.
Random Note — A Declaration of War
In plain english this is an official declaration of war by the far left academic elites. They are just letting us know officially, that having incrementally taken the high ground over many, many decades, that they control it and they have no intention of giving it up or ceding a centimetre of territory. They will do whatever it takes. Pour boiling oil and stomp on the fingers and feet of any one trying to get so much as a foothold or toehold, to scramble over the top and subvert their authority.
Climate Change Is Over — Steven F. Hayward, Wall Street Journal
The descent of climate change into the abyss of social-justice identity politics represents the last gasp of a cause that has lost its vitality. Climate alarm is like a car alarm—a blaring noise people are tuning out. Causes that live by politics, die by politics
Random Note, Idle Thought — White Privilege
The boilerplate, put down line by the left is to refer to those with whom they disagree as ‘angry, white and privileged’
Far better to be angry, white and privileged than usefully idiotic, ignorant and beige.
Random Note — Energy, Data and the IPhone
Can you imagine what the IPhone would look like, what it’s capability, availability and cost would be, if it were designed by a government bureaucracy with no skin in the game? No, I can’t imagine it either. The truth is that if left to government the IPhone would reflect the clunky, unimaginative, unmotivated torpor of the Soviet style, nine to five, bureaucratic design committee. Come to think of it, if left to the government and bureaucracy the IPhone wouldn’t even exist.
Random Note — The Great ‘Uglification’ of Western Civilisation. Our day out at Kylemore Abbey, Ireland
It’s a basic and fundamental law of physics that if you create a vacuum, including a values or cultural vacuum, something else will rush to fill it. What we need is less tolerance of this kind of ‘free speech‘ abuse, more judgement and greater discrimination, not less. That is partly at least, what has led us to where we are. Our standards have dropped because we have become less judgmental and less discriminating and as they say, ‘the standard you walk past is the standard you accept.’