tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post2998205140815392698..comments2024-03-24T17:01:24.541-04:00Comments on Crazy Eddie's Motie News: The Archdruid on Objectivism as civil antireligionPinku-Senseihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-89553887626029407732020-08-13T17:38:32.361-04:002020-08-13T17:38:32.361-04:00Congratulations, you found a flaw in the applicati...Congratulations, you found a flaw in the application of Pournelle's theoretical framework to the real world.Pinku-Senseihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-80067464058724720082013-12-26T00:05:20.483-05:002013-12-26T00:05:20.483-05:00Thanks for pointing that out. I added that to my ...Thanks for pointing that out. I added that to my response to The Archdruid below--Pinku posting as his daughter.<br /><br />In fact, you pointed out the Satanic nature of the GOP's beliefs in an entry from August of 2011, "The Twilight of Meaning." I don't think many Republicans have noticed, so the message definitely bore repeating.<br />2nd City Paranormalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13363742450444885786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-45667150683276004312013-12-25T23:58:14.750-05:002013-12-25T23:58:14.750-05:00I'm leaving this comment here from my daughter...I'm leaving this comment here from my daughter's account. It's meant as a response to The Archdruid's Christmas entry.<br /><br />And so you and your readers come back full circle to your first entry in April, "The Fate of Civil Religion," in which you identified both Satanism and Objectivism as anti-religions, Satanism to Christianity and Objectivism to Communism. I'm not the least bit surprised you brought the two together, as Anton LaVay himself called what he offered Rand with trappings.<br /><br />As for the current crop of Christianists AKA Dominionists being willing, active Satanists, I think they are a bunch of easy dupes for the Devil or some other equally evil diety pretending to speak for the Holy Trinity. A friend of mine has gone so far as to propose that that while the Dominionists think they're worshiping Yahweh, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, they've been hoodwinked, and Huitzilopochtli and a couple of his buddies from the Aztec pantheon are receiving the Dominionists' devotion instead.<br /><br />As for why they're such willing dupes, it's because they think they're making American Christian in preparation for the return of the vengeful Jesus of the Left Behind books and movies. Instead, they're making Christianity more American (actually more Southern) and then trying to convert America to that vision. Few ideas are more American in that view than anti-Communism, so slipping Satanism in via Ayn Rand was child's play.<br /><br />Finally, you noted that Lust was not getting its due in the current Satanic/Objectivist vision, despite its central position in the life and fiction of Ayn Rand. That's because the American Right has tried to make two works of science fiction into reality simultaneously, "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Handmaid's Tale." The only way that combination works is if one is working for a bunch of religious fanatics in service to a kleptocracy. That's definitely Satanic.<br /><br />2nd City Paranormalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13363742450444885786noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-76761697547044844382013-06-25T18:14:18.328-04:002013-06-25T18:14:18.328-04:00Why are Communists more rational than socialists?
...Why are Communists more rational than socialists?<br /><br />You'd think, if rationalism includes an empirical component, the fact that mixed economies work better than 100% state-controlled ones would count in the socialist's favor. Lindsayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10860246538349067232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-23181783659323663872013-05-04T17:52:04.183-04:002013-05-04T17:52:04.183-04:00Thanks for finding that. I missed it the first ti...Thanks for finding that. I missed it the first time.<br /><br />My take on that paradox involves two science fiction allusions. For the past 30 years, the American Right has been trying to make both "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Handmaid's Tale" into reality. It doesn't deter them in the slightest that the two are mutually exclusive.Pinku-Senseihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16247618351725715844noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8752611264465083204.post-25097969744305058912013-05-04T17:29:12.837-04:002013-05-04T17:29:12.837-04:00Greer himself noted something similar:
I wonder h...Greer himself noted something similar:<br /><br /><i>I wonder how many of the devout Christians who back the Republican Party, for example, realize that the current GOP approach to social welfare issues is identical to the one presented by Anton Szandor LaVey in The Satanic Bible. (Check it out sometime; the parallels are remarkable.) It may seem odd that believers in a faith whose founder told his followers to give all they had to the poor now by and large support a party that’s telling America to give all it has to the rich, but that’s what you get when a culture’s central narratives dissolve; of course it’s also been my experience that most people who claim they believe in the Bible have never actually read more than a verse here and there.</i><br /><br />http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2011/08/twilight-of-meaning.htmlescapefromwisconsinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369565788469048090noreply@blogger.com