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General Discussion / NY Times calls antisemitic rants "Dancing and Pizza"
« Last post by ItalianZionist on April 22, 2024, 05:30:43 PM »3
Torah and Jewish Idea / Re: Ticket to Heaven Daily Dose
« Last post by Hrvatski Noahid on April 22, 2024, 04:54:43 PM »Aside from Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, one of the most famous critics of the Soviet system was Ayn Rand, who emigrated to America in the early twentieth century and became one of the most influential philosophers of her generation. One of the focuses of her work, which she saw as a continuation of the Romantic tradition, emphasized humankind’s free will and our ability to choose values, to work towards them, and to gain satisfaction from achieving those goals. The position that she took in her opus, which seemed bombastic or exaggerated to many until recently, was that anybody who even remotely espoused leftist and collectivist ideals was a villainous looter who refused to take part in the rational process of valuation and productive labor.
The heart of the issue, to Rand, was a metaphysical and ethical one. The looters in her stories wanted to deny reality and expected others to pick up the tab – much like the collectivist neo-Marxists are expecting society to do now. By denying reality, Rand said that they were attempting to steal from other people and exploit their good faith. The righteous person, in Rand’s philosophical framework, can be described as a trader, an inventor, a laborer, an artist, and an intellectual to whatever degree they are able – vocations that are often idealized or featured in her work.
Additionally, Rand’s diagnosis of Marxists remains that they were afraid of being individuals, which caused them to conform radically to outlandish and irresponsible ideas. Indeed, in the overstructured and colonized environment many Western children inhabit, lacking sufficient developmental supports in childhood and the kinds of life coaching only available to wealthy elites, it can be difficult to explore one’s own values, develop a consistent philosophy by which to live life, and develop a plan to work towards those goals and values.
Underlying Rand’s ideas is a belief in a definite and knowable reality, a product of the Enlightenment and scientific project she championed in her work. This stood in stark contrast to the postmodernist position, which holds that reality is socially constructed and nobody can ever know anything objectively. In such a subjective and quicksilver-like world, one’s ability to get their needs met is not based on productive labor, which would implicitly require interactions with reality and a consistent philosophy to support them, but rather one’s ability to manipulate others into meeting their needs.
This is the fundamental mindset behind Marxism, which rejects the outright competition of the free market and replaces it with social competition based on conformity to increasingly complexified values. This is also the key driver behind the continual expansion of the queer demographic to include disturbingly specific sub-identities such as the ampukodo, someone who believes they are a child amputee. Failure to adhere to social conventions when addressing such demographics results in expulsion from the group, akin to the Soviet gulag treatment or the public confessions favored by the Chinese communists. (Ticket to Heaven by Zachary R.J. Strong, PDF version, p 91)
The heart of the issue, to Rand, was a metaphysical and ethical one. The looters in her stories wanted to deny reality and expected others to pick up the tab – much like the collectivist neo-Marxists are expecting society to do now. By denying reality, Rand said that they were attempting to steal from other people and exploit their good faith. The righteous person, in Rand’s philosophical framework, can be described as a trader, an inventor, a laborer, an artist, and an intellectual to whatever degree they are able – vocations that are often idealized or featured in her work.
Additionally, Rand’s diagnosis of Marxists remains that they were afraid of being individuals, which caused them to conform radically to outlandish and irresponsible ideas. Indeed, in the overstructured and colonized environment many Western children inhabit, lacking sufficient developmental supports in childhood and the kinds of life coaching only available to wealthy elites, it can be difficult to explore one’s own values, develop a consistent philosophy by which to live life, and develop a plan to work towards those goals and values.
Underlying Rand’s ideas is a belief in a definite and knowable reality, a product of the Enlightenment and scientific project she championed in her work. This stood in stark contrast to the postmodernist position, which holds that reality is socially constructed and nobody can ever know anything objectively. In such a subjective and quicksilver-like world, one’s ability to get their needs met is not based on productive labor, which would implicitly require interactions with reality and a consistent philosophy to support them, but rather one’s ability to manipulate others into meeting their needs.
This is the fundamental mindset behind Marxism, which rejects the outright competition of the free market and replaces it with social competition based on conformity to increasingly complexified values. This is also the key driver behind the continual expansion of the queer demographic to include disturbingly specific sub-identities such as the ampukodo, someone who believes they are a child amputee. Failure to adhere to social conventions when addressing such demographics results in expulsion from the group, akin to the Soviet gulag treatment or the public confessions favored by the Chinese communists. (Ticket to Heaven by Zachary R.J. Strong, PDF version, p 91)
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General Discussion / Earth Day Hijacked By Church of Climatology
« Last post by Binyamin Yisrael on April 22, 2024, 03:36:25 PM »5
General Discussion / Blessed passover to my jewish brothers and sisters
« Last post by ItalianZionist on April 22, 2024, 02:26:56 PM »Success and happiness to all on this holy time of year.
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General Discussion / Germany the only one arresting fakestinian protesters/hoodlums????
« Last post by ItalianZionist on April 22, 2024, 01:19:14 PM »I just saw a story on fox saying that Germany is the only country arresting protesters that chant," To the river to the sea." What irony...Really even they are arresting them and this stupid country let's them roam wild threatening people's lives???:
https://novaramedia.com/2024/04/17/germanys-anti-palestine-crackdown-has-reached-a-new-low/
https://novaramedia.com/2024/04/17/germanys-anti-palestine-crackdown-has-reached-a-new-low/
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General Discussion / Re: Is Hilltop Youth violence forcing Arabs to emigrate? Knesset elections in Sept.?
« Last post by Nachus on April 22, 2024, 12:55:24 AM »
Halevai, fantastic as always!
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General Discussion / Re: Israel under renewed attack
« Last post by Nachus on April 22, 2024, 12:46:15 AM » Exactly right, good points!
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General Discussion / Dubai's 'apocalyptic' floods cause $1bn of damage in a DAY after worst storm
« Last post by Hrvatski Noahid on April 21, 2024, 11:41:06 PM »https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYCh2NVNeis&t=235s
I did business with Dubai and I lost my company because of their disgusting Arab lies.
Blessed be Hashem who avenges my suffering.
I did business with Dubai and I lost my company because of their disgusting Arab lies.
Blessed be Hashem who avenges my suffering.
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General Discussion / Re: Now let’s pick on the Nahal Yehudi unit (Netzakh Yehuda)
« Last post by Dr. Dan on April 21, 2024, 11:17:25 PM »Waging war against Amalek is a milchemes mitzvah, obligatory war.
Are you certain the influence goes in one direction only? Can't the Haredim influence the IDF?
Except with the mix of the nations we biologically don’t know who Amalek is. So today the concept of Amalek are those who distract Jews from being in top of their spiritual game. Unfortunately, this could include fellow leftist Jews.
The haredi are controlled by the secular left government and media. They are hated by many.