SHAKING OFF LEFTIST PHILOSOPHY
The whole Progressive, Leftist enterprise can be characterized as the astonishing practice of trying to improve things by making them worse. It has always been so.
Today, Lenin’s heirs insistently promote equity and anti-racism, even as the results of their policies look like chaos. Border control is non-existent, vagrancy is explained away, crimes have been de-criminalized, and everyone must be injected with substances that are not entirely safe or effective. But rejoice brothers and sisters in the struggle, for we’re eradicating inequalities and disparities.
How is it, though, that despite the wretched examples of Soviet Russia, Cuba, Venezuela, and other experiments in political and social ruin, up to and including the Biden administration, we can’t shake this ever-failing philosophy?
DEFUND THE EDUCATION DEEP STATE
Don’t want this to happen to your state’s schools? Here’s a suggestion or two to prevent that.
Until quite recently, American parents thought of public schools as democratically accountable local institutions. But the pandemic revealed how much of K-12 education is controlled by teachers’ unions, unelected bureaucrats, and non-governmental organizations.
This reality, considered alongside the apparent collusion between the Biden White House and the National School Boards Association to create a pretext for a federal law enforcement intervention to chill parental opposition to critical race theory (CRT), will raise the specter in many parents’ minds of a public education “deep state.” This has to be stopped.
THE RIGALEIRA INITIATION WELL
Do an internet search for “25 Most Mysterious Places on Earth” or similar listing, and almost always the Regaleira Initiation Well in Sintra, Portugal will be there. Since the photo is almost always looking from the top down, I thought you might like to see one from the bottom up, which is just as dramatic.
The Regaleira is a spectacular Gothic mansion with acres of gorgeous gardens built by a 19th century Portuguese-Brazilian millionaire, Carvalho Monteiro (1848-1920). I love it that his exotic eccentric extravaganza, his Regaleira Palace, was built by private capitalist with his own money – not some feudal king with money extracted from the peasantry.
I took this picture today (10/25) with fellow TTPers on our Portugal Exploration. Portugal really is a land of wonders, which I hope you’ll someday experience yourself. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #167 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
KEEPING YOUR SANITY THROUGH BEING A POWERFUL ALLY
Since the dawn of time, parents have wanted the best for their kids. They are our link to the future beyond our own time here on earth. But more importantly, we feel a connection with our kids, a visceral bond. When they’re happy, we feel delight; when they hurt, we feel pain. When they succeed, we feel proud; when they fail, we feel the loss.
It’s natural to want good things for our kids. We want them to grow into strong, good people; we want them to have work they love that enables them to live well; we want them to find good friends and a wonderful mate with whom they can grow a wonderful, loving life. We want them to succeed.
There’s an expression of this natural sentiment, though, that is growing across a larger spectrum of our population, and it troubles me. This is why.
FLASHBACK FRIDAY – QARI BABA
Afghanistan, 1984. Yes, that’s me with the legendary Qari Baba, Commander of the Harakat Mujahaddin waging a war of liberation against the Red Army of the Soviet Union – and my dear friend. I told him he looked like a combination of Genghiz Khan and Buddha, and he couldn’t stop laughing. We had so many extraordinary experiences together – like blowing up the Soviet High Command of Bala Hissar in Ghazni.
After the war was won with the final Soviet retreat in February, 1989, Qari Baba became the Governor of Ghazi Province. Then Pakistani Intelligence (ISI) created the Taliban to seize control of the country. Qari Baba had to take up arms anew against them. In March of 2006, he was assassinated by a Taliban hit team on orders from the ISI. I will never ever forget him. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #111 photo ©Jack Wheeler)
DEMENTIA JOE WISDOM
HALF-FULL REPORT 10/22/21
The Fourth Quarter, 2021
On May 16, 2020, President Trump said in his “Opening of America” speech that 2021 would be an amazing year and would have a great transition in the fourth quarter.
Situation Analysis: Historic Anomaly & Revaluation of All Values
An anomaly is a phenomenon that defies understanding and explanation based on the existing paradigm (theoretical framework and practice). An anomaly reveals critical aspects of reality hitherto unrecognized and exposes the theoretical limitation of the current paradigm or the outright fallacy of the current belief systems or “narratives”. Today we live in a highly anomalous time.War Front: Turning Point
is the name of a real-time strategy videogame set in an alternate World War II in which Hitler is assassinated in the early days of the war.Currently, we are at a real war front in a real war, facing a historic turning point with two basic alternate scenarios and outcomes—global totalitarian tyranny or planetary restoration and expansion of liberty.
CRT & Woke vs. Wake
The “Woke” ideology typified by the Critical Race Theory (CRT), and the other kindred postmodern ideologies have their modern philosophical root in the Hegelian Dialectics, of which Marxism is a philosophical offshoot.... All this in this week's edition of the Half-Full Report.... 🙂
SKYE’S LINKS 10/21/21
Trying to bully people like this? Really?
Did the CCP order China Joe to do this?
Biden Admin Threatens To Make Unvaxx'd Navy SEALs Repay Their Training Costs
This looks like a major tipping point in our direction:
People change their minds on government involvement amid pandemic: Poll
This is a powerful reason why the 'Crats need to keep the pandemic fear porn going; they need scapegoats for double digit inflation, shortages, declining percentage of people working, unfilled jobs, failing businesses, and so much more - and the unvaxed are their targets of choice:
[Note by JW: Look at Adeyemo’s bio: he’s nothing but a Dem government hack with no business or real world economics experience whatever, yet he’s DepSec of the Treasury!]
FOR THE TRIUMPH OF LIBERTY
[As a prelude to his HFR tomorrow, Yasuhiko wrote this introductory note for your consideration ---JW]
A war is being waged between the destructive forces of Tyranny and the creative forces of Liberty.
This war is as much political as psychological. A tyrannical program has been enrooted and infixed into the governance and the constitution of human consciousness, depriving it of its innate longing for liberty, for freedom, and for evolution.
For millennia, the powerful forces of tyranny have triumphed over the feeble forces of liberty, politically and psychologically. An entire new way must be created in the human mind and consciousness that will bring about a victory of liberty over tyranny.
THE ISLAND OF SARK
There are five Channel Islands in the English Channel. Best known are Guernsey and Jersey. Least visited is Alderney, along with tiny Herm. Most fascinating is Sark, Europe’s only remaining feudal fiefdom. No motor vehicles are allowed, excepting a few farmers’ small tractors. The governor and chief constable is called the Seneschal. He rides to his office on his bicycle.
It’s an ancient office with a tradition of many centuries. When I was there in 2010, it was held by Reginald Guille, a very friendly fellow as all Sarkese are. We rode our bikes around the island, even along La Coupée, the connecting path along the razor sharp high isthmus connecting two parts of the island – it’s pictured above.
There are gorgeous pocket beaches here, and beautiful natural swimming pools. Flower gardens are everywhere, the island could not be safer, cleaner, calmer, and more exquisitely charming. A few days here will do wonders for you. (Glimpses of Our Breathtaking World #131 Photo ©Jack Wheeler)