We, as human beings, ask many questions and attempt to garner substantive answers through deduction. This is science. I recently found an ad in a Lefty propaganda magazine attempting to portray itself as a scientific journal. The magazine is titled "Discover" and has, over the years, gradually devolved in little more than a tabloid-like Liberal tool. I subscribe to it because 1. its main readership is in California, and 2. it gives shreds of arguments mocking the format of talk radio. The particular ad published is for the Alpha Publishing House and based around what a man, Richard W. Wetherill, wrote awhile back.
***Note, Wetherill was one of the most prominent socialist theorists in his time. The Alpha Publishing House markets his works not as socialist print rags but as real books on how to run your life.
The headline of the ad states: "Picture a society in which there is no conflict, no jealousy, no unkind words. A society in which people think, say, and dowhat is rational and honest, resulting in behavior that is trustworthy and productive." The full-page text underneath details the underlying theory, called the Law of Absolute Right, which is based on the assumption that nothing in today's society is 'right' and that it's the fault of "mankind's teachings, religions, [and] governments." They say that these institutions have created the "societal chaos" which, in turn, has led to punishments, scoldings, sickness, death, pollution, unemployment, conflict, poverty, crime, locks on doors, addictions, the "tyranny of judgment and prejudice," and the kicker: deprivation. It states that the answer is adhering to their law, rebuking all other beliefs but that of their form of 'science', and, thus, becoming one of the "survivors who brings to fruition a perfectly performing society."
It's a religion! People actually believe this. Liberals believe this. If you're saying now, "Well, Wicker, I just think that's a bit too much" just take into consideration what they want: "Change, change, change, change! Nothing going on now is good. Those in power are dishonest people that cheated to get where they are." They may not even know it themselves but modern liberalism implicitly is linked to this.
According to the ad, the original sin is obeying the status quo, following the way of the law of nature is the path to salvation, something will happen where only the faithful survive, and a "perfectly performing society."
This is why the liberal establishment is against any and all faith for it violates the rebuking of all "supernatural ideas" requirement for their salvation. Their radical base, shown for what they are in this ad, has infected the rest of what would otherwise be a good establishment with these principles. This religion is not the way of peace and harmony as they say, but of a world revolution where they kill us and win. It is a sick fantasy dreamed up by Karl Marx and extended by V. I. Lenin, defeated by Reagan and the spirit of America, and living on virally in today's society. Its followers have yet to be thrown out by the Democrat's leaders and many of them are embraced today by those such as Barack Hussein Obama (as he has a "friendly relationship"-Obama camp has said- with Bill Ayres, one of the Weatherman Underground).
It scares me so I thought I'd write a bit about it.
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Note for future posts: I hope to do another Liberal Religion one and will get some data about the upcoming State Rep Election (Boorsma, Leatherman, Farnsworth) in the next few days.
Saturday, June 14, 2008
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Well, I am at a loss for words. Discover a Liberal tool? What planet are you from? It is nearly as conservative in aspect as Scientific American.
There's little to be gained by replying further, as you are whacked out on lables.
BTW, Iam so Conservative, I maske YOU look like a "New Deal"-er. You need to apply a little clarity and a lot of Occam's Razor to your bogeymen.
...and I should spell more carefully before sending. Sorry.
I bet a lot of things scare you.
Wetherill's a quack. I'm pretty sure msot readers understand that. It's no accident that his ads end up next to auto-parts websites and the exerciser 2000. I'm a liberal, but I'm far more likely to buy the exerciser 2000 (read not bloody likely) than I am to buy his book. It's just another junk product thrown at the end of a magazine. Every magazine does it, even the conservative ones.
Ultimately what he describes is secular humanism, albeit a very specific and supposedly scientific version of it. Now, as I am not only a liberal, but also a godless heathen (well, neo-pagan, so I've got more than one, but I'm pretty sure they don't count in your book), I have little issue with secular humanists. They feel that morality need not have a creed and that there is morality inherent in the universe. This is opposed to true atheism which holds more that morality is 100% choice and has no origin in the world around us. From your side of the fence, that should be a good thing. Keeps them damn godless commies in check having a moral code, ya know.
Before I sign off, I thought I'd make something perfectly clear. Not all atheists/secular humanists are socialists. Nor are all socialists inherently atheists. Indeed, Sweden has one of the oldest, largest, and most well-respected christian denominations in the world, fourth in size after the Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and Anglicans. And Sweden, as we all know, is unabashedly socialist. They're also happy. Funny that.
First, Discover isn't a scientific journal, it's a non-peer-reviewed for-profit magazine. I read it, and I'm super frustrated by the ads for pseudoscience, the Wetherill one in particular. No one intelligent actually believes this. It's an ad. And a misspelled ad at that. I wish Discover would stop selling ad space to publishing houses hocking B.S., but they apparently need the revenue to keep publishing half-way decent science stories.
And since when does Science = Liberal? Most of the loony new-age anti-science people describe themselves as "liberal" - look at Jenny McCarthy and the anti-vaccination movement. Stupidity is rampant on both sides of the political spectrum.
CHRIS WICKER: YOU'RE OFF THE WALL.
THERE IS NO ARGUING WITH THE FACT THAT EVERYTHING MUST CHANGE. LOOK AROUND.. WHAT IS THE SAME AS IT WAS SAY 200 YEARS AGO? NOT MUCH. TO RE-EVALUATE ^ ADJUST.. CHANGE FOR THE BETTER .. IS HOW YOU IMPROVE. DOING WHAT IS SANE,RATIONAL, RESONABLE & HONEST IS A BAD THING? I THINK NOT.
TO TAKE THE BALL & RUN TO EXTRAPOLATE THIS APPROACH TO LIFE & END UP WITH A WORLDWIDE CONSPIRACY.. PLEASE. JUST REMEMBER: WHEN YOU GET BAD RESULTS, YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG.FIGURE OUT WHAT IT IS, & CHANGE UP. THIS WILL HELP YOU IMMEASURABLY IN YOUR LIFE.
okaaaay, you do realize this is a post from 2008 for a blog that hasn't seen any new material since 2010, right? I only looked here because I'm on the email notifications for this post. I expect there may be one other person who will ever see what you just posted.
I do not think Mr. Wetherill was a 'quack' in the sense that he was promoting a false theory of life in order to defraud others or feed his own ego. However, I think he and his followers neglect the dfficulty of knowing, in an increasingly complex environment, what RIGHT choices really are as opposed to other choices available. Having said this, their message appears to me to contain a large chunk of truth: in seeking the wisdom required to make RIGHT choices (those that make the world better (and, how does one tell what is better, though it is often possible to identify outcomes that are clearly bad) there is no substitute for honesty in dealing with others. Rationality, however, is very much in the eye of the beholder, and is therefore far more difficult to come by. If Mr. Wetherill was a socialist, this undercuts his position, since socialism has proven neither honest (ignoring as it does the truth that objects or duties that belong to everyone in fact belong to nobody) nor sustainable as an 'absolute truth'.
If there is a 'law of absolute right' out there it likely lies neither in liberalism or conservatism as we understand them but somewhere in between...possibly somewhere up in Canada, the realm of obsessive political moderation.
This shit is giving me a headache.
Actually, up here in Canada we're obsessed with not appearing as doggedly socialist as we are. Sure, we have a conservative federal government; but it eschews big C conservative social policies, and continues to hike taxes (while plumping the banks to insure against the next financial meltdown). Accordingly perhaps the followers of the late Mr. Wetherill, would like to recast his thought in terms of Machiavelli: 'to retain power, avoid appearing to do the WRONG thing'.
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