Quit Crying Wolf Over Katy Perry

Hello again my friends. Today I would like to talk about the noted activist, author and often quoted woman of the Feminist movement Naomi Wolf. This woman deserves to be chided with disgust for many reasons almost to numerous to name. But this most recent act can not go without a public shaming. What did Wolf do to get this ever so humble moderator’s blood a boiling? Quite simple – she has once again made not only herself but the feminist movement look even worse by calling for the boycott of Katy Perry’s new video Part of Me. She claims on her Facebook that, “it is a total piece of propaganda for the Marines.” She follows that statement up with “I really want to find out if she was paid by them for making it…it is truly shameful“. Just in case she deletes the post like most of her ilk would do to try to save face from a potential public backlash. I took a screenshot of it for you. Sorry Naomi it isn’t going anywhere now.

Is it Naomi? Is it really shameful that an American citizen paints the women of the US Marines in a positive light?  With her being an outspoken feminist I am kind of surprised by her stance on this. The video shows Perry after a bad breakup with her boyfriend in a convenience store when she sees a bumper sticker on the cork board that reads “All women are created equal, then some become Marines.” How is that not empowering to women? In fact the whole video shows women in the Marines and not in the kitchen. Ms. Perry, in discussing this video with MTV, stated “It’s an affirmation of strength, so I wanted to go the strongest route I ever could,” she explained. “Literally, I was like, ‘I’m gonna join the service. I’m gonna join the Marines.’ We used only Marines. … For three days, I was a wannabe Marine, which was so difficult.”

From what I have read on feminist forums and blogs showing a music video that paints women as strong is not a bad thing. I guess it is not a bad thing unless they are serving their country and risking their lives overseas so that people like you have the right to complain here.  While the video below is not showing a woman specifically joining the military and is promoting the National Guard, that I might add would help an ingrate like you in an emergency. I would like to dedicate this video to you Naomi may you choke on it.

Immigration: Sign the Guestbook.

Today I would like to share some thoughts on immigration. This whole immigration debate is starting to piss me off with groups like La Raza also known as the “Tan Klan” are screaming and putting a lot of money towards opening the borders completely. This idea is bad at best and completely foolish at worst. Just the costs that are accrued by illegal immigrants is staggering they use the medical and social services in this country and with few exceptions do not pay into it like the rest of us have to. Not only are they breaking the law by being here but also a whole myriad of other laws such as tax evasion. They get to live their lives doing what any of the rest of us would go to jail for. These people are  illegal not undocumented and the people that try to sugar coat it and say “Undocumented Worker” need to be slapped.

I have no problem with people coming to this country but there needs to be checks and balances. Oh wait we have those, they’re called Immigration Laws. You know those things that people don’t seem to think are important. Now, more than ever, they need to be enforced. With (Because of) an economy that is disastrous due to foolish decisions by all of us, we need to ensure that there are enough jobs for the people here and the people who want to come here legally. Not just let anyone who shows up stay. If you allow illegal immigration when there are not enough jobs, what happens is people turn to crime to survive, just look at Phoenix Arizona. Phoenix has a climbing crime rate due to illegal immigrants supporting the drug trade and other illegal activities such as international terrorism. This is due to the Government taking a lax approach to immigration. Unfortunately this same story is becoming more and more common through out the border states.

One major hot button that I have been hearing about a lot is “amnesty”. (Insert creepy echo here) Those on the Left are saying that it is a necessary step. Blanket amnesty is a terrible idea. What needs to happen is secure the borders and create a path to citizenship that won’t cost thousands of dollars and take up to a decade. Make it so that anyone who wants to become a citizen must pass a background check from their country of origin and be able to speak at least enough English to interact in society. I would not move to a country and not be able to at least speak enough of the language to get by. Here’s an idea if they pass the background check then there is a trial period where if someone got arrested for anything back you go no questions asked and barred from reentry. Those on the Right want them all rounded up and deported. This is just as foolish as blanket amnesty. For example look at the economy of California and other border states. Imagine if you will if one day poof we sent them all home. California’s economy may not survive, plus the increase of cost in goods such as fruits and vegetables which are picked and processed by large numbers of illegal immigrants through out the United States.

I guess what I am trying to get at is: if hardliners on the Left and Right as well as these special interest groups keep bickering amongst each other instead of coming up with a workable solution to this issue, this issue will never be solved and the problem will persist and grow until somebody grows a pair and stands up and pushes for a workable solution.

Until Next Time: Courage

Affirmative Action: Time For Change

Over time I have heard a lot of arguments for and against Affirmative Action and after doing some research into Affirmative Action I feel that it had it’s uses in the past, but in today’s world has bred animosity between the races therefore Affirmative Action programs need to be weeded out.

First let’s take a look back at Affirmative Action. The first time Affirmative Action was used by the federal government was in 1961, when then president John F. Kennedy signed Executive Order 10925. This order instructed federal contractors to take Affirmative Action to ensure, regardless of race, sex, religion or national origin, all applicants would be treated equally -  creating the committee on equal employment opportunity.  In 1986 the supreme court in local 128 of the Sheet Metal Workers’ International Association v. EEOC, 478 U.S. 421 upheld a judicially ordered membership goal of 29% minority for the union due to intentional discrimination against minorities in it’s membership practices which confirmed that courts could order race conscious relief to (as they put it) correct and prevent future discrimination. From that time till 1998 numerous universities started to ban Affirmative Action plans that were in place since the main civil rights movements of the 60′s and 70′s and that is when the push for diversity education really got going.

So what is wrong with them passing those laws to prevent discrimination you might ask. Well the answer is simple. Nothing, because up through the 1980′s there were definite needs to help integrate sections of the workforce but since then all it has bred is mistrust and animosity due to the fact that it catered to hiring practices that didn’t help stop discrimination but merely shifted the discrimination from one race to another by forcing the hiring of some potentially under-qualified applicants over qualified applicants based on minority status, which in turn fed an entitlement mentality among the different minority groups. So now it was decided that as long as you are a minority you deserve a job which is wrong. You only deserve a job if you work hard and prove your capability to do that job. This helped lead to the push by progressives for a politically correct march on America. Now people are not only overlooked for jobs and promotions because they do not meet the required Melanin content but also it is now shoved down throats of  people in corporate as well as every employment sector that white people have to walk on egg shells so as not to offend for fear of their jobs or lawsuits brought against them.

From what I have read about Affirmative Action I feel that it needs to be repealed. My reasoning for this is not some half hearted, disingenuous argument like, “It would help lead a truly color-blind society,” or another one that I heard,” Affirmative Action lowers standards of accountability needed to push students or employees to perform better.” But because it along with diversity training have pushed us farther apart from each other and divided even further as a society. But that’s what legislators who are lining their pockets with activist money are doing by trying to force us to be condescending to each other by making us use useless titles for people and ethnic groups. While there are still pockets where this type of behavior persists, from my experience that is not the norm. However these oversensitive, apologetic, self hating activists are trying to promote an, “I am not as good so I need special consideration,” type of mentality and unfortunately they are succeeding.

Until Next Time: Courage

The Word Racist Means Nothing.

Over the last few years I have seen an amazing increase in the race baiting and primarily liberal minded people trying to intimidate others that do not hold their views by calling everyone and their dog racist. Well I would like to thank them because thanks to their astounding over use of the word it now holds no meaning anymore. What do I mean by that? Let’s take a look.

Back when I was young the word racist actually meant something. It truly was seen as an insult and would cause some social stigmatization. However over the last decade or so liberals have used the term to try to quiet dissenters of hugely unaffordable social welfare programs that they claim are in place to help “Under represented minorities.” The truth of the matter is there really are no under-represented minority groups. In this case I am using the definition of this to mean black, Hispanic or any other non Caucasian person. If some supposed “racist” white person brings up the fact that this program or that entitlement is not cost effective over the long term and a liberal commentator hears it that person is automagicly labeled a racist the talked about by liberalisms favorite 12 year old boy Rachel Maddow who loves a swastika when making reference to non liberal dissenters. They make a foolish attempt to destroy said person’s reputation with foolish and poorly thought out accusations that generally do not seem to have a basis in provable fact. Lucky for them though the general population is so apathetic they won’t bother to actually look anything up.

From my observations the people that started this idiotic trend are the crybaby activist groups or as of late the progressive democrats in congress. A prime example can be seen in the last presidential campaign and first term of Barack Obama’s presidency. The recent set of lawmakers and liberal pundits were willy nilly throwing the word racist at anyone who disagrees with the President’s policies. Well I personally have disagreed with a number of the policies he has put forth and in my case as in the case of everyone that I have talked to who feels the same way genuinely say it has nothing to do with his color. Even though I just made it clear that my disagreement is in no way color based I will be called a racist because I disagree with a black man. Unfortunatly that is just how it is in America today. I can say that with some certainty because I have been called a racist a lot over the last 4 years and it means as little to me now as it did then.

A good personal example. I posted a Demotivational poster about adoption (See below) and I was called a racist for it. The only reason that I could come up with is that the person who called me a racist was reaching as far out on the proverbial limb as possible to try to discredit the message. That message was that there are hundreds of thousands of children that need adoption in this country so we should help them first. In fact the exact caption that I used for the picture was “Take care of American children first! We have plenty here who need families.” Notice I used the word American not white and I still got called a racist. Or maybe it is because the little girl in the picture is white and according to these same people white = evil.

One of the problems is that there are way to many people that pay attention to poverty pimps and the current Liberal/Progressive leadership whether it is self serving activist groups or University Professors who have gulped down the poisoned cool aid of political correctness and white guilt to the point that they are starting to believe their own propaganda. If you look at their rhetoric from a logical standpoint rather than an emotional “I don’t want to offend” standpoint. It really appears as though they are the ones that are not only being racist by pushing the agenda of one racial  group above the others. What these people show me is that they have an extremely misguided idea of racial equality.

To prove that point further and to show you that they are embracing the same ideology that they are accusing  others of having by looking at the actual definition of racism. Racism “A belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human races determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to rule others.” To me that sounds like just about everything that comes out of the NAACP, CAIR and a whole host of other racial “equality” activist groups. Yet many, many, people look to them as experts on racial issues. Which I suppose they are from a black liberation theology or a racial supremacist standpoint.

The point is that the word racist means nothing anymore except to those that are completely politically correct or people that have bought into the false idea that they should worry about ever offending someone. These people are generally extremely over-sensitive and very easily offended. Stop allowing these crybabies to try to force the rest of us to their narrow touchy feelly, everyone gets a pony view of the world. Because guess what the world is not fair and most of people’s personal failures are because of the poor decisions they make and has nothing to do with their race. Race is just a convenient way for them not to take personal responsibility for their failures and so the rest of us have to suffer for it.

Until next time: “Courage”

Field Guide To The Professional Victim.

Today I am feeling a bit jovial in my disgust and would like to give you my valued reader some tips and tricks on the Professional Victim. Professional Victims are known for their political correctness. Political Correctness is a way for oversensitive professional victims to try to dictate what everyone else can and can not do based upon the professional victims feelings, i.e. Butt Hurt whiners. But how can political correctness be funny you might ask? The answer to that is quite simple by refusing to be politically correct you can make large numbers of victims so angry that they will not know what to do with themselves except try to get the grand daddy of professional victim organizations, the ACLU involved.

But if I was to leave my explanation there it would make for not only a short but also boring post, so I will elaborate a bit on the professional victim and ways to get past their infuriating rhetoric and have a good time in the process with the side benefit of making them beat red with anger. So lets start shall we? First…

The professional victim and its sub species.

Have you ever just been talking to someone in a one on one conversation and legitimately referred to a person or job in a non politically correct way? Then from out of nowhere almost like an annoying superhero an overly helpful person shows their displeasure with your conversation that they are not a part of with something like. “You know it is not okay to say that it is offensive.” Then imagining that they are being helpful tell you that the correct term is some unnecessary hyphenation or insanely long job title. Well my friend you have just met a professional victim. Other ways to know if you have run into this politically correct species of human is if you are buying cigarettes and the helpful person selling them to you informs you that they will kill you, like that is information you were not aware of. However there are some definable sub species to the professional victim, some are easy to spot and avoid while others blend into the fabric of society with well developed camouflage to better infect society with its destructive politically correct ways. Some of these sub-species are:

The Hippie

The hippie is probably one of the easiest to spot of the victim subset not only are there visual warnings that one is around but often auditory and odor warnings are found in the general vicinity of these creatures. Some of the warning signs include an odor that seems to be a mixture of patchouli and feet. Because hippies have a belief that dowsing themselves with patchouli is just as good as a shower. Also if you are in a park and hear the rhythmic sound of a slowly beaten drum be on the lookout there may be a drum circle nearby which usually has 3 to 6 hippies gathered together. If you come across a drum circle make a hasty retreat otherwise you may be swarmed by these creatures looking for handouts of money or food. It is important to remember that the Hippie is a well know for hunting for handouts in packs. The visual cues that you may be coming up on a hippie are tie-dye shirt headband and long hair and or beard, a general unkempt appearance or a tee shirt with some blatantly communist or anti government slogan on it such as a shirt of Che Guevara. Watch these, hippies can be very dangerous. They are generally undereducated and don’t have jobs so they can pop up at anytime to try to tell you how “the man” is keeping them down while begging for a sandwich

The main danger of this subset is the music festival. Many a town has been decimated by a hippie music fest. They start out with just 3 to 6 showing up and looking around. These are generally the scouts of the pack and are looking to see if there is going to be much opposition. If the unfortunate locals do not take immediate steps to thwart these initial intruders they will generally form a drum circle. The drum circle is the que to the rest of the pack that the coast is clear. Then seemingly out of nowhere hundreds will start infesting the town. Once you allow a hippie infestation they are extremely hard to get rid of. A prime example of the devastation caused by these creatures is Woodstock. The costs of professional hippie removal services can run into the millions, and that is before the cost of the clean up.

How to combat the hippie. There are some safety devices that you may consider to ward off this threat: first carry a travel stick of deodorant with you – as one approaches take off the cap and point it at them, they are afraid of good hygiene so this may confuse them. Be careful with this tactic though it may anger them and being a pack animal they may gather for a protest. If they get close to you, one of your best bets for scaring them away is to offer them a job. The hippie is allergic to work so this ploy may frighten them off. What ever tactics you take be careful they are dangerous and idealistic.

The Feminist

This victim sub-species can be far more militant than its hippie cousin this sub-species has two main forms the feminist and the Radfem or Radical Feminist. The feminist is by far the hardest to spot because she blends in to her surroundings quite well and only attacks when there is a perceived threat to her ovarian superiority complex. A couple of things that are known set the subset off are a man holding the door open for her or a woman who looks better in a bathing suit than she does. The rallying cry of both the Feminist and the Radfem is “Patriarchy”. While this word made up and meaningless to actual society to the Feminist subset it is way to convince normal women to join their ranks and spark outrage. You need to be very careful of the feminist because she is known for claiming sexual harassment if you compliment her on the way she looks or claim sexism if a man gets any recognition for anything at anytime.

The easier to spot the more dangerous of the feminist sub-species is the Radfem. The Radfem is easier to spot than the feminist because of the general outward appearance. This can include but is not limited to camo, combat boots, and overly butch appearance. However in recent times they have started to blend in like their Feminist counterparts so be wary, if you come into contact with either of these types of feminists there is no known effective defense against them reality and facts mean nothing to these victims.

If you are unlucky enough to come across either type of this victim subset have courage and stand your ground if confronted the most effective defense is not to speak to them at all. If you make the mistake of speaking you will almost immediately hear the aforementioned rallying cry and be called a cock male oppressor. If you do not speak they will generally go away on their own muttering about rape culture and the patriarchy without to much of an incident.

The Poverty Pimp

This is a very easily recognizable group. Two prime examples of this sub-species are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. The poverty pimp is generally a member of an imagined under-represented minority group who tries to incite social discontentment by exploiting the poor or specific minority groups for their own personal gain. This kind of Professional victim is quite dangerous because they are generally well funded by liberal organizations as well as very charismatic so they are able to get the easily led to follow them and believe their lies. Some of the more notable tactics of the poverty pimp is creating imaginary instances of racism to cover up their blatant separatist attitudes and racism. “”WARNING”” do not approach and or speak to this species under any circumstance or you risk law suits, inflammatory lies and character assassination.

Now that we have discussed some of the sub-species of the professional victim and purveyors of the disease of political correctness only one question remains: how can we annoy them for our amusement without getting called a racist or being sued? Here is one suggestion for those looking to combat the forces of speech codes and social restraints. Find a good politically correct protest and hold your own protest. Not a traditional protest but rather get a group of friends together and carry white placards with the word protest on it with a circle and slash chanting “we’re not going to protest.” By doing this you will draw attention away from their whining and aggravate the hell out of them without being insulting or infringing on their right to free assembly. Remember no matter what they say the constitution works both ways.

Until Next Time: Courage

Progressivism: What is it?

I would like to take a moment to take a critical look at Progressivism but don’t worry my loyal reader Conservatism is coming up soon. I am sick of seeing college fools and progressive ideologues wearing Che t-shirts and thinking he was just a freedom fighter and a good person or identifying themselves by one of these ideologies based on bumper sticker slogans and sideways rhetoric or as is more common, especially with cause heads and sudo-hippies because it is cool at the time.

Progressivism is probably one of the most widely claimed yet least understood ideologies on the scene today. So what are progressives and what do they believe? We have heard President Obama repeatedly call himself a progressive not a democrat. We have heard our secretary of state Ms. Clinton call herself a modern progressive. We have heard correlations between Liberals and Progressives but are they really the same? I hope to answer all these questions so you my lovely reader will truly know what those who say they are progressives really stand for. While progressives are more often then not associated with the democratic party you will see why that really is not the case and how the (R) and the (D) behind someones name means even less when it comes to Progressivism.

The term progressive has been adopted by people who are actually liberals which is misguided at best and foolish at worst. Let us start with how the dictionary defines Liberals and Progressives as. Dictionary.com defines Liberal as “favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, esp. as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.” And now the most truthful of the definitions for progressive as it pertains to political ideology would be once again from Dictionary.com: “going forward or onward; passing successively from one member of a series to the next; proceeding step by step.” I know that definition may sound a bit vague but as you will see it is right on the money. One of the main differences between classical Liberalism and Progressivism is that while classic liberals are for maximum individual freedom the progressive and current neo-liberals are for maximum government control at the cost of personal freedom. You will see why when someone refers to democrats as progressives they are not only stunningly wrong but also misguided as to the actual progressive movement.

When did progressivism really start? The progressives of today look back to the progressive era of the early 20th century. Progressivism is closely akin but different enough from National Socialism  and Communism to be mistaken for it. Progressivism as a term was really put into use in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and gained popularity during the evolution of industrialization. It was sought to be an almost midway point between traditional conservative views on economic and social issues and the radical ideologies of Socialism and Marxism.

Progressives, as their actions dictate, stand for the betterment of society regardless of personal liberty. For example the Prohibitionist movement of the early twentieth century in America. While that movement was its own, it was firmly backed by progressives and progressive ideology. The prohibition movement was a multi-political background effort that even had a presidential candidate, Joshua Levering in 1896. (NY Times article July 28th 1896) eventually through political intimidation ultimately caused the creation of the 18th amendment to the constitution that was a wonderful blow for personal liberty overturned in 1933 by the 21st Amendment to the Constitution.

Progressivism gained a lot of ground in the political arena with the formation of the progressive party in 1912 by Republican President Theodore Roosevelt and to this day was the most successful third party in American Politics. Other progressive presidents included Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson. Let’s take a look at the two worst progressive presidents shall we and in this humble moderators opinion those were Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson.

What made these presidents Progressives? Well let’s start with President Roosevelt shall we. President Roosevelt held ideas of large government control and anti-capitalist ideologies. But he was a Republican right? Yes he was in name only, not in ideology; for example let’s look at a couple of quotes. “Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.” or how about “Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe.” and last but not least  in his Speech at Osawatomie, August 31, 1910 “Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it.” In other words you only own your property as long as it is not decided by the government that your property should be used for a purpose that they decide is for the betterment of society. This idea is held today and is law in one way or another in every state. You may have heard of it, this little demon of government power is called “Eminent Domain”.  This is a very progressive idea that you own only that which is not needed by the collective society.

Now for Woodrow Wilson (D) who most progressives consider one of the greatest presidents of all time, but to those who value those few words “Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” consider him one of the most damaging of progressive presidents. In the official polls he is considered number 4 in the list of top ten presidents behind Washington, Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. I will show you why he should be next to the bottom and not the top and you will see how dangerous progressivism can be. Good ole Woodrow created the first official United States propaganda ministry which was called the “Committee on Public Information.” If you think that is Orwellian just wait it gets better. And remember this is common practice by Progressives. President Wilson, using the Justice Department, created an organization called the American Protective League that employed 250,000 badge-carrying government employees who were allowed to beat people up in the street, perform mass arrests, break into peoples homes and search without warrants, spy on American citizens, and do government background checks. Hmmm, they had a similar thing in another country… Oh yeah the Ministerium für Staatssicherheit commonly known as the Stasi of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany in East Germany But it doesn’t stop there it gets better.

This Progressive Fascist of a President also was one of the most detrimental to the 1st amendment as well. At the urging of Wilson he along with the justice department passed the Sedition Act of 1918 which forbade Americans from criticizing the government in a time of war. Citizens could not “utter, print, write or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language” about the government or the military. This act also gave the Postmaster General a mandate to revoke the mailing privileges of those who disobeyed by his discretion. About 75 periodicals were shut down by the government with this section of the act and many others were given warnings. Yeah who needs free speech right? The government knows best don’t they…

Now this is just the tip of the iceberg when you look at Progressivism it is more closely related to Marxism than liberalism and so I will stop short of showing you the parallels between then and now any farther because this post is meant for information not so much political rhetoric on the current political climate in the US that will come later.

Until Next Time: Courage.

Zeitgeist Movement: Anarcho-Communism at its Laziest

Wow, just wow! I was surfing right along on the interwebs enjoying my day when I came across a wonderfully self absorbed movement for the lazy communist. That movement is called Zeitgeist or “the spirit of the age”. For those of you who have not had the pleasure of finding this in your own virtual travels I shall explain.

This movement is for lack of a better term Uber Hippie Communism.  Here is an excerpt from their Technology section to show you that people don’t need to work. “machine automation is constantly challenging the role of general human labor. This doesn’t mean that humans will have “nothing to do” as time moves on. Quite the contrary… this implication denotes the freeing of humanity from jobs which humans do not care to engage in, so they will have time to pursue what they choose to. As an aside, it is important to point out that society today assumes a very negative posture towards humanity, retaining the belief that if human beings were not “required” to do something, they would just sit around, be lazy, and do nothing. This is absurd propaganda.” Really? Is that absurd propaganda or potentially social fact? Case in point: welfare – make it so people don’t have to contribute and there will always be a portion of the population that will choose to be spoon fed lazy. This point has been proven over and over again since the inception of social programs.

Now what do they have to say about human nature? This is what I like to call reaching for the cracked limb. According to them humans competing with each other is not a natural state of human instinct but purely a socially driven and taught ideology as expressed here in their Sociology section. “most people have been taught that human beings are naturally competitive with each other, along with the assumption that social stratification or hierarchy is also a “natural human tendency”. This is a fallacy. If you look to, say, a pack of lions, you will see social hierarchy and violent competition for food in most cases. This comparison is what leads people to think it is a natural occurrence in human society as well (war, greed, ego, etc.).”

They continue using lions in an attempt to explain that the reason there is competition and hierarchy is because Lions live in a world of scarcity. If this point were true then said lions who live in a world of plenty in zoos and reserves would not form social hierarchies and would live as one big happy lion family with dreadlocks and peace pipes. However, anyone who has spent any time around these or any other animals (Humans included) know this assertion is false at best. Even when there is an abundant food and resource supply animals will naturally and instinctively form group hierarchies and a social structure that is at times violent. Spending 30 minutes watching Animal Planet will prove this point.

This continues on the sociological idea that “There is no difference between a Ghandi baby or a Hitler baby… it is the environment that shapes the person and hence the society (and vice versa). Therefore, true Sociological change will come from removing the conditions that cause the aberrant behavior patterns which pollute our societies. Prison, Police and Laws are mere patchwork and, in fact, tend to make things worse over time. Ultimately, it is going to take a redesign of our culture to change human behavior for the better.”

Okay, let’s run with this point and try not to trip. Essentially what I gather from this is if we make a society exactly like or similar to Aldus Huxley’s vision in A Brave New World then society will  be all better and we will all be skipping down the road drugged up on Soma, holding hands and smiling. Taking the point that there is no difference between a baby Gandhi and a baby Hitler is absurd. The reason I say absurd is because this whole thing is seeming to base itself on the scientifically infeasible ideology that we are all born exactly the same with the exact same brain and mental capacity. Spend 5 minutes with Google and the term neuroscience and you will see how full of holes this bucket is. The only way that this could be close to a reality is if we run with the ideas of eugenicists and genetically engineer a perfect person and then clone them over and over again, taking into account that we have been able to solve the problem of  genetic decay in the cloning process.

They try to make the point a global socialist utopia is hard for people to envision because “we have been conditioned by society to think that crime, corruption and dishonesty is “the way it is” and that there will always be people who want to abuse, hurt and take advantage of others. Religion is the largest promoter of this propaganda, for the “us and them” or “good and evil” mentality promotes this false assumption.”

Wow!, okay where to start on this. They are saying that in our society today we are conditioned to think that there will always be people who do bad things and believe that if that social conditioning were not present than there would be no crime. Maybe there wouldn’t be, but we have over 100,000 years through the evolution of our species, through every genus and every society from Australopithecus to Homo Sapien that says otherwise. So with all do head scratching  respect. I think I will go with proven science rather than socialistic Utopian ideology that says get rid of money and go to a resource based global economy, get rid of nations and make machines so we don’t have to work. So we can all be happy and equal sitting around a drum circle having Rosy from the Jetson’s wait on us hand and foot until we are so fat and lazy that we go extinct from our own hubris. Thanks, but as imperfect as our social structure may be,I think I will stick this one out and continue to live in the real world rather than a Star Trek fantasy land. (No offense to Star Trek I like the show too.)

Zeitgeist Fantasy Realized

In the interest of fairness don’t just take my word for it here is their website. http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/

Until Next Time: Courage