Friday, July 1, 2022

How Do We Know What We Think We Know? "Sound Thinking Is An Acquired Skill, Seldom Possessed By Trump Followers" (Cultists Confuse Opinionization With Thinking. They Are, In Fact, Too Stupid To Know They're Stupid.)

 "Men Never Do Evil So Completely And Cheerfully As When They Do It From Religious Conviction." Blaise Pascal, Devout Christian | made w/ Imgflip meme maker

"Here Is Where Contemporary 'Conservatism' Ran Off The Rails
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/06/here-is-where-american-conservatives.html

In Aspiring To Be Like The Angels We Fall Lower Than The Beasts: The Seductive Allure Of "Too Pure Principles"

The Death Of Epistemology: Update

A Former Conservative Blogger On The Failures Of Right-Wing Media - A Brilliant Matthew Sheffield Interview With "On The Media" (Likely To Be The Best Broadcast You'll Hear This Month)


"It Has Come To This. How Do We Tell The Truth To 40% Of Americans?"

"The Decisive Distinction Between People Who Can Think And Those Who Can't"


"Nothing Makes Us Stupider Than Anger"

"Stupid People Are Too Stupid To Know They're Stupid"... And That's Just The Beginning


"When The Electorate Is THIS Stupid, Is ANY Delusional Thinking Out Of Bounds?"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/11/when-electorate-is-this-stupid-is-any.html 

"Pardon Him, Theodotus; He Is A Barbarian And Thinks That The Customs Of His Tribe And Island Are The Laws Of Nature." George Bernard Shaw On The Nature Of Personal Stupidity And Social Stupefaction


Can We Talk? 
"Most Stupid People Are Conservative"

"A Confession: I'm Starting To Write Off Stupid People As Incorrigible"


It Has Come To This: How Do Intelligent Citizens Deal With The Irredeemably Stupid, Ignorant And Self-Pithed People Who Have Taken Over? 

"Why The Past Ten Years Of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid... And It’s Not Just A Phase." By Jonathan Haidt, Illustrations by Nicolás Ortega


Here is where American conservatives ran off the rails.

"There are two ways of lying, as there are two ways of deceiving customers. If the scale registers 15 ounces, you can say: 'It's a pound.' Your lie will remain relative to an invariable measure of the true. If customers check it, they can see that they are being robbed, and you know by how much you are robbing them: a truth remains as a judge between you. But if the demon induces you to tamper with the scale itself, it is the criterion of the true which is denatured, there is no longer any possible control. And little by little you will forget that you are cheating." 
Denis de Rougemont

Earlier Today, I Heard A Trump Supporter Say: "You Don't Know What To Believe." Once Trump Gets You To Throw Up Your Hands, You Won't Be Able To Determine What's True. Instead, You'll Be More Willing To Accept Lies As Truth. This Is Why Trump Lies So Much And Says "Who Knows? We'll See" So Often. Hannah Arendt Has The Details

How Trump Trashes The Underpinnings Of Truth-And-Faith-In-Shared-Values So That The Resulting Chaos Creates Cultists Conditioned To Believe Falsehood Over Truth: 20th Century Intellectual Titan, Hannah Arendt, Analyzes This Corrosive Mechanism


"The New (Ab)Normal: Flood Every Media Platform With A Fire Hose Of Falsehood... And The Need For A New Journalistic Method"

Journalists Should Be In "Emergency" Mode: Journalistic Method Needs To Be Redefined To Deal With Trump's Re-Definition Of Bullshit As Normalcy 

Pat Buchanan, The Republican Presidential Candidate And Living American Who Has Served Longest As Senior White House Official, Says Republicans Are In It For "Power Only" And "To Hell With Principles"

"Daniel Webster Prompts A Review Of Conspiracism And Its Destructive Role In American Politics"


"Whom The Gods Would Destroy, They First Make Mad"

"Truth Infuriates People Whose Lives Are Lie"

"Trump Lies Shamelessly, Compulsively, Continuously... And His Followers Suck The Sludge"https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/10/trump-lies-beyond-any-bound-and-his.html

"Trump Is A Traitor By Virtue Of Normalizing Falsehood And Teaching Americans To Do The Same"

"The Case For Liberalism: A Defense Of The Future Against The Past," By George McGovern

"Dirty Trickster Lee Atwater: The GOP SOB At The Heart Of Republican Barbarism (Hidden Mic)"

"Whom The Gods Would Destroy, They First Make Mad"

Reprise: "The GOP Deliberately Crafted An Ignorant, Prejudicial, Hateful Consituency"

Deliberately created

"Don't Judge"
An Oscar-Winning Short Move (4 Minutes Long)

"General James Mattis Describes Trump As A Near-Nazi Turncoat-Enemy Of The American People" /// Other U.S. Generals Weigh In

U.S. Generals' Views Of Trump

In 2020 Obama Identified "An Epistemological Crisis" As America's Central Toxin. Here's How I Identified This Toxin In 2012 (This Post Has Been Updated)

"Obama Just Identified Our Biggest Problem Of All" 
 
"The Death Of Epistemology": Update

What Happens When People Matter More Than Vacant Space: An Object Lesson In The Relationship Between Perspective And Meaning (A GIF)


Trump Cultists: I Understand Their Abjectly Submissive Fearfulness. I Do Not Understand Their Refusal To Get A Life - Or To Even Try

Similarities Between Hitler And Trump
   
Compendium Of Best Posts Concerning American Theocracy

"Aggressive Ignorance And Christianity's Failure To Champion Truth"

"Frank Zappa Prophesied A Fascist Theocracy. Barry Goldwater Agrees"


"This Phenomenon Explains What's Wrong With Trump Supporters' Brains"

Trolls... And The End Of Civilization As We Knew It
 
Why "Rugged Individualism" Doesn't Work

Compendium Of Posts About Socialism And Democratic Socialism: Harry Truman, Bernie Sanders And Western Europe's Democratic Socialism As Exemplified By Norway

Bill Maher Cuts To The Quick Of Birtherism/Conspiracism As An Infinite Regress "House Of Mirrors"
lizard people sentient beings
 
The American Right-Wing's Ersatz Theology: Ancient Gnostic Heresy Is A Key To Understanding QAnon 
(An Illuminating Interview From NPR's "On The Media")

In 2020 Obama Identified "An Epistemological Crisis" As America's Central Toxin. Here's How I Identified This Toxin In 2012 (This Post Has Been Updated)

Religion, Perfectionism, Savonarola and The Pending Apocalypse of The Republican Party (This Post Was Written In 2012)

Compendium Of Best Pax-Barbaria Posts On Education (With A Failsafe Proposal For National Restoration)

What The Good Guys Are Up Against: People Who Say, "I Wouldn't Believe That Even It Was True"


"Salus populi suprema lex esto" 
"The Health Of The People Is The Highest Law"

"Health is the supreme law" Yale Law Review

History As Bullshit - And What We Can Do About It: ""Human History Becomes More And More A Race Between Education And Catastrophe"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/10/history-as-bullshit-and-what-we-can-do.html

How history would be taught if we weren't fixated on bullshit...
"Do Wars Really Defend America's Freedom?" (Homage To Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler)

"How To Make Lasting Political Progress"
(Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler, Teaches Us To Win It All Through Our Persistent Determination To Keep On Losing)

"Federalists And Anti-Federalists Explained" (History As It Should Be Taught: A Mother Lode Of Superb, Dialectical Discussion At FactMyth.com)

(The above post - which illustrates how to teach history dialectically better than any other source I know - concludes with a compendium of all the links listed below... and more.) 

Originalism: A Short Course In American History - Who We Are And Where We Came From
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/10/originalism-short-course-in-american.html

Teaching Civics And American History: Humankind's Race Between Education And Catastrophe
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/teaching-civics-and-american-history.html

"The Paranoid Style In American Politics," The Definitive Essay By Richard Hofstadter

A Majority Of Republicans Hold Negative Views About Higher Education
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-majority-of-republicans-hold-negative.html

Reprise: Trump Is The Symptom Of A Broken Educational System. (Howard Zinn Is The Fix)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/03/reprise-trump-is-symptom-of-broken.html

"The Threat Of Violence Now Infuses GOP Politics. We Should All Be Afraid." By Michael Gerson, Lifelong Republican, Speechwriter For U.S. Presidents, And - According To Time Magazine - The 9th Most Influential Evangelical In America
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-threat-of-violence-now-infuses-gop.html

NPR's "1A" "Teaching Race And History In America’s Schools"

(Patriotic American History Teaching)

Native America: Why Don't Middle School And High School American History Texts Tell The Truth?

"Thanksgiving": One Person's Justification For Thieving Genocide Is Another Person's Rage At Being Ripped Off And Mass Murdered


Brigham Young: A Case Study Of The Corruption Caused By The Absolute Faith Of "True Believers"

Trump Is The Most Gifted Criminal Genius In The History Of The World - A Houdini Who Can Make Personal Responsibility Disappear. "Malignant Messiah" Can Shoot Someone On 5th Avenue -- In Broad Daylight -- And Not Lose Any Voters. But "Getting Away With Murder" Is The Least Of It. "Lingering Orange Fart" Attempted A Coup D' Etat And Then Persuaded Half The Nation That He Deserves A Mulligan
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/05/trump-is-most-talented-criminal-in.html

"Emo Philips Tells A Story About Heretic Scum. Trump Picks Up Where Emo Leaves Off"

To Proclaim That God Is On Your "Side" Is A Unique Blend Of Hubris And Self-Apotheosis  (What Do Jesus' Prostitute Ancestors Have To Do With This?)


"Bad Religion: A Compendium"

1 John 4:18, "There Is No Fear In Love." But Fear Is Fundamental To Every "Conservative" "Christian" Church

"Everything Jesus (And The Apostles) Had To Say About Rich People And Poor People"

Best Pax-Barbaria Posts On Mercy, Forgiveness, Retribution, Punishment

"The Pharisees Are Always With Us. They Are The People Who..."

"American Insurrection," A New Documentary By PBS-Frontline (Streams Freely Online)

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2021/04/american-insurrection-new-documentary.html

"Conservative" "Christianity" Is A Decerebrate Death Cult Led By Armageddon Cheerleaders

"Compendium Of Best Pax Posts On Trump, Toxic Christianity And Cruelty As A Moral Obligation"

Lies As The Newly-Fabricated Gold Standard For "Truth"

"The Thing About Propaganda And Disinformation Is That It Works," Jamelle Bouie, The New York Times

Chronic Incivility: Is It Time To Divide The United States Into Two Separate Nations - One For Red States, And One For Blue States?

"Magnificent Storyteller Soldier Reveals What He Saw In Vietnam" (This YouTube Video Has Had More Than Thirteen Million Hits)

The Incipient Unraveling Of The Western World As Seen By Visionary Spanish Philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1929)

American Conservatives And Oppositional-Defiant Disorder (Edited And Re-Posted From My 2013 Original)


"You Have NO Choice," A New Frame For George Carlin's Classic Shtick "The American Dream"

The Pillow Guy's Election Fraud Delusions: Wherever You Are On The Political Spectrum, This Post Will Prove To YOUR Satisfaction That There Was No Meaningful Voter Fraud In Either Of Trump's Presidential Elections

CNN's Erin Burnett: Superb Video Documentary Of Trump's Month-Long Lead Up To The January 6th Insurrection - And Its Immediate Aftermath (Eleven Minutes Combined Run Time)


This Is How Q-Crazies (And Other Self-Terrorized "Conservatives") Promote Falsehood, Representing It As "God's Truth"

A Faithful Christian Consults With Jesus... And A Pertinent Parable


Trump Cult's January 6th Insurrection And Lincoln's Prophecy Concerning The Seditious Treachery Of The "Mobocratic Spirit": A Compendium

"3 Videos To Help De-Program Trump Cult Christians"

The Republican Party Is Determined To Destroy Democracy And Replace It With Flag-Waving Autocracy

Frank Zappa Prophesied A Fascist Theocracy. Barry Goldwater Agrees

"60 Minutes": "Facebook's Whistleblower Moment"

Lord Of Darkness Steve Bannon Calls For "Shock Troops" To "Deconstruct" State When GOP Re-Takes Oval Office

It is high time to start calling The Autocrat Party a clusterf*ck of power-hungry seditionists, dead-set on terminating American Democracy as a sequel to snuffing The Party of Lincoln. New Rule: "The Slow-Moving Coup" | Bill Maher Provides Trump's Playbook For Replacing American Democracy With Plutocratic Autocracy

Eisenhower Reveals THE DEEP STATE: Ike's Farewell Address Televised From The Oval Office Sounds The Alarm That The "Military-Industrial Complex" Comprises The Greatest Threat To American Democracy By Making Us A Murderous Corporatocracy

Facebook Thread About Big Pharma Malfeasance, And The First Ever Woman Editor Of "The New England Journal Of Medicine," Maria Angell's Spot-On Criticism Of The Pharmaceutical Industry

"There Is Neither Nobility, Nor Kindness, Nor Uplift In Trump's America"

Christianity: A Compendium Of "What Went Wrong" And Current Worship Of The Wrongness

Boston College Historian Heather Cox Richardson's Daily "Letter From An American", October 26, 2021, Probes The Replacement Of Substantive Democracy With Zomboid "Showcase" Democracy

How Carl Sagan Predicted Today’s USA 26 Years Ago: "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark"

"In The Coming Second American Civil War, Which Side Are You On?"

"The Solution To Just About Everything: Working Less"


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Why The Bible Belt Is Not Only Lawless, But Bloodthirsty

A BRILLIANT Animation About German Lutheran Pastor Deitrich Bonhoeffer (Hung For His Role In A Plot Against Hitler) Who Concluded That 'Stupidity Is More Difficult To Remedy Than Malice'

"Deceased French Philosopher Explains Trump's Political Success: The Role Of Wrestling"

What Donald Trump Has Said About People Who "Take The 5th" (And How The "Conservative" "Christians" Who Put A Cruel, Vengeful Autocrat In The White House Now Suck His Sludge As If It Were Sacramental Wine)


What Is Success?

Even God Can't Save You From Hatred, Resentment And Carrying A Grudge

Truth, Treason And Trump (This Is A Long Read But The Opening Meme Expresses The Essence)

"Too Pure Principles" Make Things Worse, Not Better

"Tolkien, Lewis, Rowling and The Redemption Of The Modern World"

Biblical Literalism And Bibliolatry Are Open Invitations To Self-Righteousness, Wrath And Hatred

The Mystery Will Never Be Solved, And This Inability To Know -- With Absolute Certainty -- Is Cause For Celebration


C.S. Lewis' "Puddleglum" Proclaims My Favorite Declaration Of Faith

The History Of Corporations: The Founding Fathers, Ronald Reagan And Elizabeth Warren Converge On Stakeholder Capitalism - "Get Back To Where You Once Belonged, America!"

White Christian Despair Disguised As Fervent Supplication That Jesus Return - And Armageddon As A Self-Fulfilling Prophecy



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