Sorry for my lack of updates–I have been both busy and singularly uninspired and didn’t want to write increasingly poor filler posts just to keep updating. I will return as election season heats up
The man who took his own life on Harvard’s campus Saturday left a 1,904-page suicide note online.
According to the Harvard Crimson, Mitchell Heisman wrote “Suicide Note,” posted at http://suicidenote.info, while living in an apartment near the school. The note is a “sprawling series of arguments that touch upon historical, religious and nihilist themes,” his mother, Lonni Heisman, told the Crimson. She said her son would have wanted people to know about his work.
The complex note, divided into four parts, touches on Christianity, the Holocaust and social progress, among other topics, and mentions Harvard several times.
IvyGate calls the note “probing, deeply researched, and often humorous.”
Heisman was 35 when he shot himself on the steps of Harvard’s Memorial Church Saturday. He had a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Albany. According to the Crimson, he worked in area bookstores and lived on inheritance from his father, who died when he was young.
Here it is, Mitchell Heisman’s “suicide note”
Wow
It is more clear every day that there is no assuaging this poisonous snake we have harbored to our bosom. No possibility they will grasp it is NOT the words of the “Dead White Men” that ENSLAVED them, but that FREED them and ALL peoples of the West from the prospect of Feudalism and chattel slavery.
How much can you reach out to a group that is OPENLY intransigent and tells you every day there can in fact be no peace? What is it they want? Do they want us to hand over the US to them and leave? Just once I would like a black person to tell me what would satisfy them–what would finally bring it all to an end. You’ll never hear it though–because they don’t want it to end, they need to nurse their grievances forever in order to extort racial spoils from a White populace that will feel increasingly alienated from the Black experience of oppression. Does anyone think the generation who’s first presidential vote was cast for OBAMA is going to feel guilty about Blacks? Even WORSE for them will be the coming Hispanic power. Hispanics don’t have one iota of guilt for the Black experience and will devote their tenure in power to bending the racial spoils system to their benefit, leaving the now marginalized and uncared about Blacks out in the cold. Hopefully I won’t be watching it from Hong Kong.
By DAVID HOGBERG, INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY Posted 09/22/2010 07:17 PM ET
Early in his administration, President Reagan confidently asserted that “America’s best days lie ahead.” At the time it was true, but noted economist Thomas Sowell thinks it’s no longer the case.
In his new book, “Dismantling America,” Sowell argues that this nation is becoming one that many Americans no longer recognize as the country they grew up in or expected to pass on to their children and grandchildren. Rather, like Rome, America may be entering a prolonged period of decline.
Sowell sat down with IBD recently to discuss the political, social and economic forces that are leading to this decline and what, if anything, can reverse it.
IBD: What are the markers of national decline? What characteristics are different from a few decades ago that if they don’t improve will lead to this country falling apart?
Sowell: One of the most serious current signs is the governing style of this administration, which is to impose as many things as possible on the public from the top down, without even letting them know what’s going on.
Huge bills that fundamentally change the way the economy op erates have been rushed through Congress without hearings, without debate, and so fast that not even the members of Congress have a chance to read them. That’s circumventing the notion of a constitutional government, and that’s really at the heart of what the country is. The only analogy I can think of from history is when the Norman conquerors of England published their laws in French for an English-speaking nation. The utter arrogance — you’re not even to know what the laws are until it is too late.
Reckless spending is another. The deficit and the national debt, as a percentage of GNP, is higher now than it was during any time except World War II. Moreover, once World War II was over we stopped the spending and started paying off the existing debt. We’re going in exactly the opposite direction.
Of course, the one that trumps them all is on the international scene. That’s where Iran is moving toward nuclear weapons. I’m just staggered at how little attention is being paid to that compared to frivolous things. If a nation with a record of sponsoring international terrorism gets nuclear weapons, that changes everything and it changes it forever.
Someday historians may wonder what were we thinking about when you look at the imbalance of power between the U.S. and Iran, and we sat there with folded hands and watched this happen, going through just enough motions at the United Nations to lull the public to sleep. That, I think, is the biggest threat. Read the rest…
[note: These were cut-and-pasted directly from Netflix and are unedited--the spelling, punctuation and grammar errors have been left intact to preserve the white-hot rage in which these reviews were written]
In the post Why the Tea Party Candidate Gains in the Primaries Tell Us NOTHING About the Coming Election I briefly touched on my belief the US will break up into several different countries at some point in the near future, one of which will be a Whitopia. A commenter responded “What is “white”? Are Jews white? Are Roma white? What if one great-grandsomething was black?”. Do you understand the magnitude of this oddball perception of the universe? I casually mention the impending BREAKUP of the US and the ONLY thing this respondent can think of is “how will it effect the Jews?”
Oh. My. God. Stop. WHO CARES about tiny little outliers? Why is this obsession with how every little move we make effects some outlier stifling the West’s ability to function? If 1,000,000 Jews ever want to do something do they EVER once stop to ask “hey, how will this effect the remaining Kwakiutl Indians of the Pacific Northwest?” no, they don’t, let alone do they ever ask how it will effect the MAJORITY population of the US.
The US Military is becoming paralyzed over whether a miniscule number of homosexuals can openly serve, California is set to force the whole rest of the US to recognize 5 gay marriages as if that’s the MOST IMPORTANT THING IN THE WORLD. 10000 Christian students can’t have a moment of silent prayer in a school classroom because a Jew is there and now we have to tolerate the presence of victory mosques on what MOST people believe is hallowed ground in NYC whether YOU think it is or not, you chortling, smug, lefty academic who is so much better than the icky icky proles who care about the mosque issue that they make your delicate skin crawl.
At least with Jews this tendency was understandable at a certain point in history, before the advent of Israel. UNDERSTANDABLE, mind you–not RIGHT. Since they were always a minority in someone else’s country the worry that countries policies would negatively effect them and they would have absolutely no recourse was paramount. I have a message for my fellow Jews though, WE HAVE A COUNTRY NOW! Remember? That whole Israel thing? You don’t like what’s happening to Jews here? Don’t let the door hit you on the ass as you board El Al–sing a verse of Hatikva for me. Don’t get me wrong, I love being Jewish, its neat. I love the songs, the history, the languages, some of the less repellent food, the sense of self-satisfied superiority we pretend no one else can perceive and discuss secretly among ourselves–it’s great! But I am an AMERICAN and care about AMERICA and what ITS people thinks they want and need, irrespective of my interest as a Jew. The day I care more about the Jews than the whole of the Us I’ll be out of here so fast I’ll leave a cloud of dust and hairpins in the air like Witchypoo in a Bugs Bunny cartoon.
In discussion of why public schools even still exist at all, given how poorly they are serving their purpose: “come on man, single moms need SOME place to dump their kids so they can continue to party and get laid”
Nothing is inspiring me to write–there is an odd, choked dead feeling in the air of politics and the news cycle. Hopefully, this is the calm before a tsunami of Congressional unseatings. In the meantime, here’s some stuff to read!
Attenborough and Dawkins, together at last
Do Science and Religion conflict with each other? Roger Scruton on EvPsych
Further analysis of Environmentalism as Religion
David Gelernter on how to forestall a futue “machine rights” movement among robots
Ship of Fools: Why Transhumanism is the Best Bet to Prevent the Extinction of Civilization
On the “hostile wife” phenomenon in Cryonics or, Women are controlling bitches even after death!
Have a Great Weekend!
…or worse yet, tells us that Republicans will lose in a year they seemed destined to retake at least the House.
While it’s very exciting to see a new generation take over an ossified, out of touch party, the nationalization of congressional elections has become annoying. Didn’t anyone learn anything from the spectacle of conservatives flipping out because a guy with a truck and a square jaw won Kennedy’s vacant seat? How’s that voting record doing, Mr. Brown?
The Tea Party movement is not one of the general populace, but one of disaffected CONSERVATIVES in a time when the Republican establishment has moved so far to the Left it has truly become like the 50′s democrats. This shouldn’t surprise everyone, remember Reagan famously said “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. The party left me.” The party has increasingly become controlled by disaffected SOCIALLY conservative democrats of yore who have consistently moved our country to the left by compromising with the increasingly shrill and openly Marxist Democrats because they fundamentally agree with them on what the government should be doing, they just disagree on scale. They have traded our entire domestic policy for getting their way on defense. They haven’t even achieved any of the SOCIALLY conservative goals, Roe v Wade overturned yet? Uh, no. Good job wasting every particle of political capital a Republican was ever able to obtain on that one guys, lotta bang for your buck there.
That traditional US Conservatism LITERALLY has NOTHING to offer single women/NAMS is never addressed. What interest do they have in individual liberty and economic freedom? Women are naturally collectivist, conformist, altruist in general morality, possessed of low future time orientation and NAMS come from cultures that have no relationship to the Scottish Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution and Classical Liberalism. This is why all appeals to women and NAMS from the “Right” consist of saying Republicans will do the same things for them Dems Will do but BETTER and NEVER of explaining why traditional conservative principles of individual liberty and free market economics will benefit them more in the long run. Why were the centerpieces of George W Bush’s presidency Bigger Government, not less? No Child Left Behind? Prescription Drug Coverage? His attempt to grant amnesty to millions of NAM illegals? Wow, what a wild-eyed right-wing nut he was and he is STILL held up as some sort of conservative anti-government bugaboo by the insane Left–he was more liberal than CLINTON, for god’s sake.
The truth is as long as single women and NAMS have the full franchise there is NO possibility of fighting creeping socialism. They are the Welfare State’s chief beneficiaries. The Tea Party at best may be laying the groundwork for the political foundation of the coming Midwestern Whitopia that will follow the break up of the Federal Government.
In his entry on “Auschwitzphobia” today, one of Larry Auster’s readers offers up a new description of liberalism* as “fear of engaging in activity or thought that would lead to another Holocaust”. This is because liberals took the wrong lesson from the Holocaust, as they take the wrong lesson from everything. Where the lesson of the Holocaust should be to fear the totalitarian State, liberals instead fear nationalism and the military and continue to worship the State–again, that synecdoche error so rampant on the Left. What was Nazism composed of primarily? SOCIALISM, not military insignia OR antisemitism. What do liberals consistently associate with Nazis? the military.
The real problem that liberals have with rejecting Nazism is that they agree with it on almost everything. The fight in Europe between Communism and Fascism was one of scale, not fundamental first premises–should we have a universal collectivism thereby demolishing nationalism or have it on a state-by-state basis, thereby retaining it.
Because they agree with Nazism on almost everything they are continually trying to admonish THEMSELVES not to slip into the Nazi-like aspects of Progressivism under the guise of admonishing the NON-socialists, possibly because they simply do not recognize the existence of noncollectivists except as an aberration even though they are operating in a country founded on explicitly OPPOSITE principles. This guilt they feel for fundamentally agreeing with a philosophy that had such atrocious consequences and their subsequent misunderstanding of the GENESIS of those consequences is causing them self-destruct all over Europe and the US. They can’t bear the shame of what resulted from the full implementation of their beliefs and yet they also CANNOT let their beliefs go. The cognitive dissonance of this position is untenable and they seek to simply snuff themselves out as an entire race and culture as a result.
*like many in the US I do tend to use liberalism and leftism interchangeably. I am fully aware of the differences. Since Auster used “liberal” in his entry, I am continuing that usage here.
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