tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post8521426778787125932..comments2024-03-28T09:59:13.754-07:00Comments on bionic mosquito: Cultural Marxism and Critical Theory Today bionic mosquitohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-1323583619454660982021-11-15T03:51:45.321-08:002021-11-15T03:51:45.321-08:00Chuck Baldwin is also right on many of the right i...Chuck Baldwin is also right on many of the right issues. But I don't know about reach.bionic mosquitohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12002548958078731031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-58398057868296887402021-11-10T09:00:47.851-08:002021-11-10T09:00:47.851-08:00Good comments all. I will give further thoughts.
...Good comments all. I will give further thoughts.<br /><br />I think for the Christian, natural law is simply a study of the Bible. There will need to be some work to distill principles which apply to all and then extend also to get some agreement with nonbelievers.<br /><br />Natural law answers the questions around what is the best kind of life to live. What gives meaning, purpose, joy, prosperity. Bionic gives a word, beatitudo, or other regarding and loving action. That is the seed. But the idea needs to sprout, grow a trunk, branches, and leaves.<br /><br />Then natural rights answers what has to be removed from society to protect natural law or the ability for people to live their best "beatitudinal" lives. I think Christians more or less had it right in the 17th and 18th Centuries. <br /><br />I can give more thoughts once I read the Ethics of Liberty by Rothbard. But I have several projects I have to finish first.RMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603112499567064214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-2302844836958900682021-11-10T07:19:24.816-08:002021-11-10T07:19:24.816-08:00I think the idea of 'natural rights' is mo...I think the idea of 'natural rights' is more convincing to the political, liberty-minded person, and 'natural law' is more convincing to the cultural, faith-minded person. Merging these two is, I'm convinced, the key to creating and sustaining a good society with limited governance. <br /><br />We need to know what we should not do to others, what is our duty to do for others, and what should be the consequences for failing with regard to either the 'not-dos' and the 'do-fors'. <br /><br />What decides these very important questions should not be a massive democratic vote or a representative elected by such a process, but decentralized or polycentric natural authority, the ability to choose it for yourself, and the reserve to allow others to do the same.<br /><br />Achieving this, however, will be an iterative process, since many will have to have some foundation in natural rights before any polycentric authority structure can arise. And perhaps many will have to have an idea of natural law before natural rights will gain a foothold.<br /><br />I think one pertinent question to ask is: what is the best strategy to achieving both? Is it best to push natural law to achieve natural rights or vice a versa? Or do they both need to be pushed at the same time? I'm willing to entertain the idea that natural law needs the prominent position since it has more bearing on culture and culture is the foundation of politics. But natural law, without regard for natural rights, can go off the rails too. Maybe some sort of balance between the two with natural law deployed to the cultural front and with natural rights deployed to the political front would be best? <br /><br />This is all confused though when you bear in mind the obvious truths that natural law has something to say about good politics; natural rights has something to say about good culture; and in most real world battle fields and in the minds of most combatants, the political and the cultural are all wrapped up and inseparable. A Texas Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980539931923054404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-5580859988026801742021-11-10T06:37:54.511-08:002021-11-10T06:37:54.511-08:00Archbishop Vigano is the most promising candidate ...Archbishop Vigano is the most promising candidate to be that leader in my assessment. Please let me know if you've found someone with more reach who's taken a more courageous stand on all the right issues.A Texas Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980539931923054404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-66594063924456874062021-11-10T06:35:43.920-08:002021-11-10T06:35:43.920-08:00It's probably why Jesus taught us to pray &quo...It's probably why Jesus taught us to pray "Our father.." instead of "My father..."<br /><br />I've thought about this as well. Too much thinking without any doing becomes mental masturbation. But too much doing without any thinking is also often a waste of effort, or worse. As in most (if not all) things, we have to find the right balance in our own lives for taking on these big concepts, solidifying our principles, and trying to apply them to our lives and those in our care in a meaningful way. But I'm sure I'm probably choiring to the preacher here.A Texas Libertarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02980539931923054404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-16365064467061996872021-11-09T14:15:54.022-08:002021-11-09T14:15:54.022-08:00To your point BM. We need to get the church in or...To your point BM. We need to get the church in order around natural law and how that leads to and protects liberty.<br /><br />I have found that most believers that I know are ignorant on the issue. They just haven't been informed. Some may not accept it once told. But I have noticed, those who interested in studying the Bible and thinking through apologetic issues, are receptive to ideas of natural law, at least in the abstract.<br /><br />God's design is evident to those who are looking. Mankind couldn't live on a planet not created by Him for us, otherwise known as the anthropic principle. Parallel to the design seen in physics we can observe Gods' design in human minds, needs, and society. That's natural law in abstract. It is just one more step from there to natural rights. At that point liberty is in play.RMBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13603112499567064214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-42257696078497910432021-11-09T07:36:54.884-08:002021-11-09T07:36:54.884-08:00SJWs believe their lies because they are ignorant ...SJWs believe their lies because they are ignorant of any rational argument to the contrary. <br /><br />They are ignorant, but I have found,in exchanging with them, that they are so invested in their false beliefs that they have absolutely no interest in even considering a different point of view. <br /><br />Steven Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-80956857735376482142021-11-09T06:20:26.548-08:002021-11-09T06:20:26.548-08:00Word-gaming "total dependence on a communist ...Word-gaming "total dependence on a communist state" into "individualism" is so rhetorically perverted that it is reminiscent of a quote attributed to Lenin with regard to revolution: "First, confuse the vocabulary". The moron, Noam Chomsky enjoys labeling himself a "libertarian socialist". Socialists are thieves and thieves are always liars, so Chomsky does not surprise. <br /><br />Wrecking the language in pursuit of intellectual attention appears to be trending. John Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09826480541002960583noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-89686553733671345742021-11-08T05:56:31.449-08:002021-11-08T05:56:31.449-08:00Every "revolution has burned brightly until a...Every "revolution has burned brightly until arrested the times/circumstances give rise to a strongman (i.e. Stalin) that co-opted the movement due to his accumulated power. That change altered the path of the ideology to some other end. So it go the Wokeist dream, ending with their destruction and the rise of totalitarianism.<br /><br />I agree with your assessment that the Church must lead the way forward, but the lack of effective leadership is astounding given the Source to which we have access.Bob Parishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12035056505595113844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-87699268006813100992021-11-08T03:03:17.225-08:002021-11-08T03:03:17.225-08:00"My thought: deconstruction as a means cannot..."My thought: deconstruction as a means cannot be satisfied merely with the communism as its end. Deconstruction is not merely a means; it is the end, the purpose. It will not be satisfied, as if to say “here, we have reached our goal.” <br /><br />There is no goal to reach, because every “achievement” only leads to a new hierarchy that must be deconstructed. This will be the undoing of this era,..."<br /><br />Not only this era, but every future one in which destruction and chaos are sought after in order to build utopia on Earth, in the same manner that all past efforts have shown us. <br /><br />Out of the distant, foggy recesses of memory, I dredged up Gary North's book, "Marx's Religion of Revolution" which I read (but didn't understand) long ago. It is a lot more clear today. <br /><br />"...there is a continuing philosophical tension between chaos<br />and order. One side will dominate men’s thinking for a period,<br />and then the other will dominate. It has always been thus in the mind of the covenant-breaker.5 [footnote] God-defying man has always seen the origins of cosmic order in an original chaos."<br /><br />This tension (conflict) will always be with us. As you say, every achievement will be met with a concerted effort to destroy it. The end result of destructive chaos will be the loss of everything, including power, over anything held dear.<br /><br />Would the last person alive please turn out the lights before committing suicide? This seems to me to be the logical conclusion of Marxist/deconstructionist thought if held to consistently. Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08156823478509665137noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-648884752216444797.post-28439125391191948392021-11-08T02:26:37.637-08:002021-11-08T02:26:37.637-08:00Bionic,
I clicked on the link in the last paragr...Bionic, <br /><br />I clicked on the link in the last paragraph and found myself wandering. <br /><br />If I could choose my own way without thought or regard to any other (or myself, for that matter), I would start with that link and follow the trail wherever it led, no matter how long it took or how much it cost, in the never-ending attempt to gain knowledge and increase my understanding. I have to work, however, so every excursion down the "rabbit hole" will have to be of short duration. <br /><br />Come to think of it, that life would be extremely selfish unless it was used to produce something of lasting value for others to learn and benefit from. John Donne was right--"No man is an island.", to which I might add, "...nor totally individual." Rogerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08156823478509665137noreply@blogger.com