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Egoism Individualism Sovereignty Splendor (These ideas are explicated in this sloppy manifesto) SplendorQuotes: Splendor is the interior experience of being so enthralled by the act of creating the values that contribute to and ultimately comprise your idealized perfect self that, while you are experiencing it, you are your idealized perfect self. Living is what you're doing when you're too enthralled to notice. Dying is what you're doing when all you can do is notice. Man is the only animal capable of comprehending what his life requires, and he is the only animal capable of failing to do what his life requires. Self-love is the joy and reverence you earn and deserve by the relentless pursuit of your deepest desire. Self-esteem is the high regard in which you presume to hold yourself in appreciation for the accomplishment of absolutely nothing. Greg Swann's writings Wild Cochise Gang: Our family pages and Christmas cards Read my free e-book about love, splendor and philosophy, The Unfallen My Myers-Briggs type is ESTJ: Administrator--Much in touch with the external environment. Very responsible. Pillar of strength. 8.7% of population. Take a free Myers-Briggs personality test. War with Iraq: The Cain Doctrine The 'wrest' of the story Taking a better grip Why the Bush Doctrine will prevail--and fail A Just and Libertarian war... Persephone's second coming... presence of the recent past Nick and Norm drive the point home A Costco family Christmas Hang tough The season's greetings Curing the incuriosity of the East A canticle for Kathleen Sullivan Colloquy with a goat Back-handing the sinister American left To Condi, with sweetness Reds Sacrificing Diana Defusing the Unabomber Let 'em eat steak Shyly's delight Anastasia in the light and shadow Archives Join the email update list 
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Wednesday, January 22, 2003
Cain's world: Iran as a two-for-one special with Iraq? From The Jerusalem Post Paradoxically, regime change in Iraq could accomplish what years of haphazard American policy could not the end of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. It should be a tantalizing possibility for an administration that, in the words of its National Security Strategy, is committed to creating "a balance of power that favors human freedom."If they house of Saud isn't shipping treasures to Biaritz, they might breathe deep and catch a clue, too... U.S. Army manufactures ideal Marin County SUV 
I have a young friend at Ft. Bragg. This photo is from him. This is what happens to a paratrooper Humvee when its parachute doesn't open. Tuesday, January 21, 2003
Now that's a glass ceiling... From The Jerusalem Post: An Islamic fundamentalist group has threatened to kill Muslim women in a northern Indian state if they don't give up their jobs, a newspaper reported Tuesday.Plus which, women can't play golf at Augusta National which is just exactly the same thing, only worse! Why are Feminists AWOL on Islam...? My friend Mike Arst pointed me to this City Journal article by Kay S. Hymowitz. The piece purports to tell us why Feminism is AWOL on Islam: As you look at this inventory of brutality, the question bears repeating: Where are the demonstrations, the articles, the petitions, the resolutions, the vindications of the rights of Islamic women by American feminists? The weird fact is that, even after the excesses of the Taliban did more to forge an American consensus about women?s rights than 30 years of speeches by Gloria Steinem, feminists refused to touch this subject. They have averted their eyes from the harsh, blatant oppression of millions of women, even while they have continued to stare into the Western patriarchal abyss, indignant over female executives who cannot join an exclusive golf club and college women who do not have their own lacrosse teams.Hymowitz has an answer, but it amounts to an apologetic: Feminism has lost its way. It hasn't. The capital-F Feminist Movement has always been the Ladies Auxilliary of the Communist Movement. When capital-F Feminists are silent about some issue, it means their Communist handlers believe that silence works to their advantage. The same is true for the Civil Rights Movement, which is utterly silent on black-on-black atrocities here and in Africa. It is gratifying, for once, to hear the word Communist associated with a 'popular mass movement,' as was done this weekend with respect to the 'anti-war protests.' Since the Hyamarket Riots, at least, all American 'popular mass movements' have been largely-unwitting fronts for the Communist Movement. It is simply wrong to say that Feminism has lost its way. Feminism is doing exactly what it is supposed to do: Undermining Western liberty. The political genius of the Communists is their deft ability to identify and exploit logical contradictions in Western social structures. In effect, the West is taken to account because it has not fully renounced the brutalities and inanities of its Eastern origins. Why in reason should skin color matter? There is no answer in reason. Why in reason should people be granted or denied opportunities according to their sex organs? There is no answer in reason. That the injustices occasioned by these vestigial Eastern contradictions are minute is irrelevant. The power of political leverage--a leverage only made possible by uncontradicted Western ingenuity--makes them seem enormous. Far from being concerned with the welfare of women, Feminism, the Ladies Auxilliary of the Communist Movement, will take us from the 'injustice' of private all-male golf clubs to the perfect socialist utopia of universal slavery and forced abortion. Feminism is silent on Islam for the simple reason that opposing Islam does nothing to advance Communism's goals, but opposing the forthcoming anti-Islamic war does... |
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