Comments on: Starting a Conversation http://redstatethemovie.com/2006/08/28/starting-a-conversation/ Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 05 Sep 2010 02:14:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Ryan http://redstatethemovie.com/2006/08/28/starting-a-conversation/#comment-1905 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:09:18 +0000 http://redstatethemovie.com/2006/08/28/starting-a-conversation/#comment-1905 "One of the great goals of education is to initiate the young into the conversation of their ancestors; to enable them to understand the language of that conversation, in all its subtlety, and maybe even, in their maturity, to add to it some wisdom of their own. The modern American educational system no longer teaches us the political language of our ancestors. In fact our schooling helps widen the gulf of time between our ancestors and ourselves, because much of what we are taught in the name of civics, political science, or American history is really modern propaganda. Our ancestral voices have come to sound alien to us, and therefore our own moral and political language is impoverished. It’s as if the people of England could no longer understand Shakespeare, or Germans couldn’t comprehend Mozart and Beethoven." http://www.sobran.com/articles/tyranny.shtml “One of the great goals of education is to initiate the young into the conversation of their ancestors; to enable them to understand the language of that conversation, in all its subtlety, and maybe even, in their maturity, to add to it some wisdom of their own.

The modern American educational system no longer teaches us the political language of our ancestors. In fact our schooling helps widen the gulf of time between our ancestors and ourselves, because much of what we are taught in the name of civics, political science, or American history is really modern propaganda. Our ancestral voices have come to sound alien to us, and therefore our own moral and political language is impoverished. It’s as if the people of England could no longer understand Shakespeare, or Germans couldn’t comprehend Mozart and Beethoven.”

http://www.sobran.com/articles/tyranny.shtml

]]> by: Ryan http://redstatethemovie.com/2006/08/28/starting-a-conversation/#comment-1904 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 15:56:47 +0000 http://redstatethemovie.com/2006/08/28/starting-a-conversation/#comment-1904 "Donald Miller lives in the state of Washington and is a cardiac surgeon in Seattle." I think he feels the same way about red folks that I do.... http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/miller1.html “Donald Miller lives in the state of Washington and is a cardiac surgeon in Seattle.”

I think he feels the same way about red folks that I do….

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig2/miller1.html

]]> by: Ryan http://redstatethemovie.com/2006/08/28/starting-a-conversation/#comment-1885 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 08:12:33 +0000 http://redstatethemovie.com/2006/08/28/starting-a-conversation/#comment-1885 In all fairness...I have only one question: Why should those not affiliated with the military be permitted citizenship? If one isn't prepared to die for his/her family, then why should one deserve to even have one? And if America isn't a family, then on what basis does it exist? On what basis should we fight and die, if not for family? Why do we let non-military folks vote and be citizens? Seriously!?!? So they can use as cannon-fodder in THEIR wars? Why not rule the country ourselves? In all fairness…I have only one question:

Why should those not affiliated with the military be permitted citizenship? If one isn’t prepared to die for his/her family, then why should one deserve to even have one?

And if America isn’t a family, then on what basis does it exist? On what basis should we fight and die, if not for family?

Why do we let non-military folks vote and be citizens? Seriously!?!? So they can use as cannon-fodder in THEIR wars? Why not rule the country ourselves?

]]> by: Ryan http://redstatethemovie.com/2006/08/28/starting-a-conversation/#comment-1882 Wed, 20 Dec 2006 07:40:15 +0000 http://redstatethemovie.com/2006/08/28/starting-a-conversation/#comment-1882 I consider myself an Orthodox Darwinian Materialist (follower of Richard Dawkins). I fully subscribe to the notion of a naturalistic origin. But if the blue folks really feel the way they seem to do about the red folks (I'm only going on the information provided via this blog), then I can only wish them utter demolition and eradication. I only have the capacity to hate because I've experienced hate towards me and my own people first, and within that context I feel that it is only retaliation of the same nature. If they can't tolerate us, then why should we be expected to tolerate them? They've been ramming their culture down our throats for over 130 years; what more do they want? Extermination? Fuck that! I love my family and the red states and the South! If they have a problem with my love then they can all just fuck off and die. We're human beings too! Our culture has a right to exist ... even if that means independently from theirs ... and by every honorable means necessary! If they can't respect our right to exist as a people...well, then...on what basis do they have to expect the same courtesy in return? I consider myself an Orthodox Darwinian Materialist (follower of Richard Dawkins). I fully subscribe to the notion of a naturalistic origin. But if the blue folks really feel the way they seem to do about the red folks (I’m only going on the information provided via this blog), then I can only wish them utter demolition and eradication. I only have the capacity to hate because I’ve experienced hate towards me and my own people first, and within that context I feel that it is only retaliation of the same nature.

If they can’t tolerate us, then why should we be expected to tolerate them? They’ve been ramming their culture down our throats for over 130 years; what more do they want? Extermination? Fuck that! I love my family and the red states and the South! If they have a problem with my love then they can all just fuck off and die. We’re human beings too! Our culture has a right to exist … even if that means independently from theirs … and by every honorable means necessary!

If they can’t respect our right to exist as a people…well, then…on what basis do they have to expect the same courtesy in return?

]]> by: Daniel http://redstatethemovie.com/2006/08/28/starting-a-conversation/#comment-1453 Wed, 06 Dec 2006 13:00:58 +0000 http://redstatethemovie.com/2006/08/28/starting-a-conversation/#comment-1453 <strong>Linked</strong> Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone