America's Ruling Class- great read

[ElKabong]

my apology if this has been linked before here. Excellent take

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the

[Steve 'StatMan']

my apology if this has been linked before here. Excellent take

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/07/16/americas-ruling-class-and-the

Interesting in what I've read so far. But beware it is 6 web pages long. I hope to return to it later.

[boxcar]

Interesting in what I've read so far. But beware it is 6 web pages long. I hope to return to it later.


Elk has hit a grand slam by posting this. (This has gotta be the Thread of the Year!) It is a fantastic read, as the author nails so many things down perfectly. He's so on the mark (at least up to the 4th page where I'm am currently), it's scary.

Boxcar

[Pell Mell]

Elk has hit a grand slam by posting this. (This has gotta be the Thread of the Year!) It is a fantastic read, as the author nails so many things down perfectly. He's so on the mark (at least up to the 4th page where I'm am currently), it's scary.

Boxcar

But mosty, cap, zilly, nj, etc will show you how to blow holes in it.:lol:

[boxcar]

But mosty, cap, zilly, nj, etc will show you how to blow holes in it.:lol:

Well....they'll try. But...I will keep them honest. ;) In fact, chances are quite good that very few liberals would have the stomach to face the brute, relentless force of the article's truth. For that matter...not many conservatives will either because central to understanding the rationale behind Elitism, Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism -- whatever label you want to pin on the Ruling Class -- was summed up succinctly on page Two under the heading "Faith" when the author wrote:

Its attitude is key to understanding our bipartisan ruling class. Its first tenet is that "we" are the best and brightest while the rest of Americans are retrograde, racist, and dysfunctional unless properly constrained. How did this replace the Founding generation's paradigm that "all men are created equal"?

This statement ties everything back to God (as we see later on in the article). Several weeks ago, I asked this very question when easily refuting Mosty's inane notion that "equal outcomes", "social equality" or "equality for all" were realistic goals by showing that these "ideals" mitigate so violently against Reality as we all know it, that it would not be a stretch to call "progressives" anti-Realists -- anti-Reality. So, I asked the next logical question: How is it, then, that the Founders could believe that "all men are created equal"? Not one person on this forum could answer this. But the writer of this piece nailed it right on the head when he essentially said all men are equal because all men are created in God's image. And this statement carries with it even other profound implications, such as the whole concept of "inalienable rights", for starters. And its these rights that "progressives" categorically and unabashedly deny, which has all these many decades given them every excuse to create their own rights. After all, how can there be such a thing as "God-given rights" when it's no longer fashionable to believe in God -- most especially the God of the bible? To a progressive's way of thinking, God doesn't exist, so how can there be any such animal as "inalienable rights"?

This nearly universal denial of God is why Progressivism has gained such widespread bipartisan support. How can the godless on either side of the aisle believe in God? (And this is not the same as asking, how so many can still be "religious"?)

And when the godless deny God, they can only turn inward to find a moral authority. And that moral authority can only be found in SELF. Read again the "first tenet" to Liberalism or Progessivism or Statism -- "we are the best and the brightest...". And anyone who does not hold to this ideology is branded as "stupid, incompetent, racists, bigots, homophobes, xenophobes, unenlightened, uneducated, undereducated, ignorant, anti-science, anti-progress, etc. etc. In short, to disagree with Progressive Ideology is very uncool -- very untogether and any opponent to Progressivism must immediately be marginalized in any way possible.

But these godless forms of government are doomed to fail. They must fail because they are built upon the sifting sands of self-defeating ideologies. Again, the writer of this excellent piece nailed it solidly on the head when he partially quoted from either Luke of John this passage, which I'll quote in its full context:

Luke 18:11-14
11 "The Pharisee stood and was praying thus to himself, 'God, I thank Thee that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-gatherer. 12 'I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.' 13 "But the tax-gatherer, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!' 14 "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, but he who humbles himself shall be exalted."
NASB

What we have with Statism is the classic case of the fox guarding the chickens. But who is guarding the fox? Well...according to the foxes, they need no guarding. If we are to believe them, they are our intellectual and moral superiors. Really? Says who? Oh...they're our SELF-proclaimed superiors, is that it? But the question still needs to be asked: What makes these self-professed elitists differ from those who they claim are morally and intellectually inferior (i.e. the "country class")? How did they acquire a better human nature than the rest of us mere mortals? Has science, somehow, improved our human nature? Have I missed something? Was there some great scientific discovery that fundamentally transformed human nature? Or have some men through the mere acquisition of knowledge obtained through higher education been able to fundamentally alter their human nature?

But these are all rhetorical questions to which we all know the only correct answer. All we have to do is recall all the hypocrisy of virtually all our political leaders to know that no such fundamental transformation of the human nature has taken place. There's nothing new under the ol' sun. These elitists put their pants and skirts on the same way we "peons" do. And from a moral or spiritual perspective, they are just like the hypocritical, God-denying (but very religious, mind you!) Pharisee in the above Lukian passage. (And was not this Pharisee, in this prayer [to himself] as fond of the pronoun "I" , as someone else we know today who is famous in politics? And was not this Pharisee as presumptuous and arrogant as this politician is? ) Therefore, we can safely and logically conclude that Progressivism is a thoroughly self-defeating political ideology and, therefore, is doomed to fail.

In closing, all these elitists, all these ruling classes throughout the entire world, who are so enamored with themselves and fond of exalting themselves by lording it over the masses will come to naught because none of these godless governments have any real answers to address the universal problem of the Human Condition.

Boxcar

[TitanSooner]

Well....they'll try. But...I will keep them honest. ;) In fact, chances are quite good that very few liberals would have the stomach to face the brute, relentless force of the article's truth. For that matter...not many conservatives will either because central to understanding the rationale behind Elitism, Progressivism, Socialism, Marxism -- whatever label you want to pin on the Ruling Class -- was summed up succinctly on page Two under the heading "Faith" when the author wrote:

Its attitude is key to understanding our bipartisan ruling class. Its first tenet is that "we" are the best and brightest while the rest of Americans are retrograde, racist, and dysfunctional unless properly constrained. How did this replace the Founding generation's paradigm that "all men are created equal"?

This statement ties everything back to God (as we see later on in the article). Several weeks ago, I asked this very question when easily refuting Mosty's inane notion that "equal outcomes", "social equality" or "equality for all" were realistic goals by showing that these "ideals" mitigate so violently against Reality as we all know it, that it would not be a stretch to call "progressives" anti-Realists -- anti-Reality. So, I asked the next logical question: How is it, then, that the Founders could believe that "all men are created equal"? Not one person on this forum could answer this. But the writer of this piece nailed it right on the head when he essentially said all men are equal because all men are created in God's image. And this statement carries with it even other profound implications, such as the whole concept of "inalienable rights", for starters. And its these rights that "progressives" categorically and unabashedly deny, which has all these many decades given them every excuse to create their own rights. After all, how can there be such a thing as "God-given rights" when it's no longer fashionable to believe in God -- most especially the God of the bible? To a progressive's way of thinking, God doesn't exist, so how can there be any such animal as "inalienable rights"?

This nearly universal denial of God is why Progressivism has gained such widespread bipartisan support. How can the godless on either side of the aisle believe in God? (And this is not the same as asking, how so many can still be "religious"?)

And when the godless deny God, they can only turn inward to find a moral authority. And that moral authority can only be found in SELF. Read again the "first tenet" to Liberalism or Progessivism or Statism -- "we are the best and the brightest...". And anyone who does not hold to this ideology is branded as "stupid, incompetent, racists, bigots, homophobes, xenophobes, unenlightened, uneducated, undereducated, ignorant, anti-science, anti-progress, etc. etc. In short, to disagree with Progressive Ideology is very uncool -- very untogether and any opponent to Progressivism must immediately be marginalized in any way possible.

But these godless forms of government are doomed to fail. They must fail because they are built upon the sifting sands of self-defeating ideologies. Again, the writer of this excellent piece nailed it solidly on the head when he partially quoted from either Luke of John this passage, which I'll quote in its full context:

Luke 18:11-14
11 "The Pharisee stood and was praying thus to himself, 'God, I thank Thee that I am not like other people: swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-gatherer. 12 'I fast twice a week; I pay tithes of all that I get.' 13 "But the tax-gatherer, standing some distance away, was even unwilling to lift up his eyes to heaven, but was beating his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, the sinner!' 14 "I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself shall be humbled, but he who humbles himself shall be exalted."
NASB

What we have with Statism is the classic case of the fox guarding the chickens. But who is guarding the fox? Well...according to the foxes, they need no guarding. If we are to believe them, they are our intellectual and moral superiors. Really? Says who? Oh...they're our SELF-proclaimed superiors, is that it? But the question still needs to be asked: What makes these self-professed elitists differ from those who they claim are morally and intellectually inferior (i.e. the "country class")? How did they acquire a better human nature than the rest of us mere mortals? Has science, somehow, improved our human nature? Have I missed something? Was there some great scientific discovery that fundamentally transformed human nature? Or have some men through the mere acquisition of knowledge obtained through higher education been able to fundamentally alter their human nature?

But these are all rhetorical questions to which we all know the only correct answer. All we have to do is recall all the hypocrisy of virtually all our political leaders to know that no such fundamental transformation of the human nature has taken place. There's nothing new under the ol' sun. These elitists put their pants and skirts on the same way we "peons" do. And from a moral or spiritual perspective, they are just like the hypocritical, God-denying (but very religious, mind you!) Pharisee in the above Lukian passage. (And was not this Pharisee, in this prayer [to himself] as fond of the pronoun "I" , as someone else we know today who is famous in politics? And was not this Pharisee as presumptuous and arrogant as this politician is? ) Therefore, we can safely and logically conclude that Progressivism is a thoroughly self-defeating political ideology and, therefore, is doomed to fail.

In closing, all these elitists, all these ruling classes throughout the entire world, who are so enamored with themselves and fond of exalting themselves by lording it over the masses will come to naught because none of these godless governments have any real answers to address the universal problem of the Human Condition.

Boxcar
:ThmbUp: :ThmbUp:

[plainolebill]

He's right on the money as far as I can see. I laughed about the French (because of the merit based Civil Service running the show) having intelligent leadership as opposed to ours.

I don't know about the French but I'm fairly certain we don't have an overabundance of intelligent leadership. :lol:

[boxcar]

He's right on the money as far as I can see. I laughed about the French (because of the merit based Civil Service running the show) having intelligent leadership as opposed to ours.

I don't know about the French but I'm fairly certain we don't have an overabundance of intelligent leadership. :lol:

No, we do not. Our system is meritless-based. Only loyal drones are awarded jobs. That's essentially the only qualification.

Boxcar