Happy Friday to you! Check out this article from 2010. This explains 2008 in more detail. It backs up my reasoning to not trust intellectuals or any other elitists. And might help someone understand why I'm serious when I say I am NOT a Democrat or Republican.
I used to think that a lot of the things that happened around that time (2008-2012) were an attempt to suppress dissent, but I was wrong. The intellectuals and the politicians were trying to encourage dissent. We had some good cultural things right up to 2009. Music, TV, Movies were still decent, literature and science were still progressing fairly well and public discourse was relatively civil. That stuff got chopped off pretty completely and for anyone who was paying attention, it was infuriating and confusing. The elites took advantage of that to polarize people. It worked on me, I'm sorry to say, for a long time, but from some of yourposts on this blog and a lot of other things I've read recently, I've come to know I was played and am trying to fix that.
For some reason the 2000s are a blur to me. Nothing memorable comes to mind as far as TV, movies and music, except that new take on Battlestar Gallactica. Best drama suspense mystery I've ever seen on television. The scifi was just okay, but the characters were great, the actors nailed it. And it wasn't polarizing.
Feel free to share the other things you've read recently, in case it helps someone else. Thanks for sharing. I never thought of that.
Indeed! Did you know Bill Clinton name dropped the author of Tragedy & Hope in his '92 acceptance speech at the Democratic national convention?
Apparently, Quigley was one of the professors he had in college. When I found that out, I went back and listened to Bill's whole spiel. He had a completely different speech pattern than I remember him having. Almost like he was mimicking JFK. Anyway, he essentially says America is great, we won, we beat "soviet communism" and then immediately says, "Now that we have changed the world, it's time to change America!" His message was a classic Bait & Switch! I have the benefit of hindsight here, but holy cow was that a mixed message, if not a red flag.
It's a long book that I didn't finish and skimmed a lot of, but from what I was able to understand, one of the foundations of Quigley's "hope" was that no single event can change the course of history. Ironically, it's rumored that he was about to finish writing the book when President Kennedy was assassinated, which might have changed the direction of it and the length. And that one event probably did change the course of America.
The other book, that guy noticed a pattern. I can relate. Not saying it's perfect, but he noticed something and shared some interesting things. But I haven't read it yet. Heard a bit about it from those that have though.
Happy Friday to you! Check out this article from 2010. This explains 2008 in more detail. It backs up my reasoning to not trust intellectuals or any other elitists. And might help someone understand why I'm serious when I say I am NOT a Democrat or Republican.
https://www.independent.org/publications/article.asp?id=4725
I used to think that a lot of the things that happened around that time (2008-2012) were an attempt to suppress dissent, but I was wrong. The intellectuals and the politicians were trying to encourage dissent. We had some good cultural things right up to 2009. Music, TV, Movies were still decent, literature and science were still progressing fairly well and public discourse was relatively civil. That stuff got chopped off pretty completely and for anyone who was paying attention, it was infuriating and confusing. The elites took advantage of that to polarize people. It worked on me, I'm sorry to say, for a long time, but from some of yourposts on this blog and a lot of other things I've read recently, I've come to know I was played and am trying to fix that.
Thanks for what you are doing.
Peace
For some reason the 2000s are a blur to me. Nothing memorable comes to mind as far as TV, movies and music, except that new take on Battlestar Gallactica. Best drama suspense mystery I've ever seen on television. The scifi was just okay, but the characters were great, the actors nailed it. And it wasn't polarizing.
Feel free to share the other things you've read recently, in case it helps someone else. Thanks for sharing. I never thought of that.
I've been reading the fourth turning and tragedy and hope and they're quite interesting in light of the things that are going on.
Indeed! Did you know Bill Clinton name dropped the author of Tragedy & Hope in his '92 acceptance speech at the Democratic national convention?
Apparently, Quigley was one of the professors he had in college. When I found that out, I went back and listened to Bill's whole spiel. He had a completely different speech pattern than I remember him having. Almost like he was mimicking JFK. Anyway, he essentially says America is great, we won, we beat "soviet communism" and then immediately says, "Now that we have changed the world, it's time to change America!" His message was a classic Bait & Switch! I have the benefit of hindsight here, but holy cow was that a mixed message, if not a red flag.
It's a long book that I didn't finish and skimmed a lot of, but from what I was able to understand, one of the foundations of Quigley's "hope" was that no single event can change the course of history. Ironically, it's rumored that he was about to finish writing the book when President Kennedy was assassinated, which might have changed the direction of it and the length. And that one event probably did change the course of America.
The other book, that guy noticed a pattern. I can relate. Not saying it's perfect, but he noticed something and shared some interesting things. But I haven't read it yet. Heard a bit about it from those that have though.