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6 March 2023
- 01:5901:59, 6 March 2023 diff hist +100 N Red State Created page with "One of the 50 states which tends, predominantly, to vote Republican in state and national elections." current
- 01:5801:58, 6 March 2023 diff hist +252 N Red Pill Created page with "An expression featured in the movie "The Matrix", used, in the movie, to represent a decision to live outside of the Matrix, a programmed virtual reality, or, alternatively (interpreting the metaphor) a decision to embrace and live in reality as it is." current
- 01:5801:58, 6 March 2023 diff hist +96 N Red Created page with "An outdated political term, referring to a member of the Communist Party or one of its cognates." current
- 01:5701:57, 6 March 2023 diff hist +402 N Reality Created page with "The word has two primary meanings. 1) Reality is a figment of the imagination (of, for example, a philosopher, a scientist or a theologian). 2) Reality is whatever the top politician (for example, a president, a king, an emperor or a chairman) says it is. There is, of course, an antiquated meaning of the word, something like "reality is what hits you in the face when you're not paying attention."" current
- 01:5601:56, 6 March 2023 diff hist +1,324 N Realist Created page with "A forbidden word. In the antiquated sense, a realist is someone who believes reality (in the antiquated sense) is coherent, governed by mathematical laws. There are three kinds of realist, the classical, the modern and the post-modern. The classical realist is someone who believes reality was created by an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-wise God, who invented the laws of reality, including the laws of nature. The modern realist is an agnostic, who believes that natur..." current
- 01:5501:55, 6 March 2023 diff hist +960 N Racist Created page with "Someone who disagrees with the social or political innovations of ethnic minority life mandated by the progressive movement. This definition supersedes that of Merriam-Webster, which is "a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race." The main problems with this definition are: (1) it levies two determinative requirements where one would suffice, (2) it uses t..." current
- 01:5401:54, 6 March 2023 diff hist +1,086 N Progressivism Created page with "Progressivism denotes the political philosophy that leads to human progress. It is forbidden to question what this means or to ask for a coherent list of principles that characterizes it. (You can ask for a list of such principles. You just can't demand that they be self-consistent.) Progressives will insist on the moral purity of their historical genesis, emphasizing the role played by classic muckrakers, like Lincoln Stephens, Ida Tarbell or Upton Sinclair, political..." current
5 March 2023
- 23:0923:09, 5 March 2023 diff hist +1,887 N Pro-life Created page with "One of those elusive terms that is claimed by almost everybody. Consider the following opposition positions: Conservative "pro-life": Finding important - possibly even essential, inherent or sacred (as in blessed by God) - value in innocent human life, in particular the life of an unborn or recently born child. Progressive "pro-life": Finding important - as in supported, desired or sacred (as in blessed by Government) - value in any human life, at any age. In particula..." current
- 23:0623:06, 5 March 2023 diff hist +355 N Presentism Created page with "Judging the past by the standards of the present. ''Wikipedia'' has two articles on "presentism". The term here refers to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_(literary_and_historical_analysis)| Presentism - literary and historical analysis] Bill Maher commented on this in a "Real Time" episode... <center><youtube>schuzjknjYE</youtube></center>" current
- 23:0523:05, 5 March 2023 diff hist +3,019 N Postmodern Fable 3 Created page with "'''Biblical Prolog (''Luke 10:30-34'')''' A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was; and when he saw him, he had compassion, an..." current
- 23:0223:02, 5 March 2023 diff hist +13,885 N Postmodern Fable 2 Created page with "'''Biblical Prolog (Genesis 11:1-4)''' Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scatte..." current
- 22:5822:58, 5 March 2023 diff hist +2,966 N Postmodern Fable 1 Created page with "In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel out on campaign; and they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbat. But David remained at Jerusalem. It happened late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking upon the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired about the woman. And on..." current
- 22:5722:57, 5 March 2023 diff hist +717 N Post-structuralism Created page with "So, what do you do if you flunked philosophy and science? If you have a political/ideological bent, and perhaps a flair for glib phrases, you invent "post-structuralism", a substitute for hard knowledge which excuses its ignorance with claims that "no one really understands anything anyway, because they just can't, that's why." If you find the work of Derrida, Foucault, et. al., too difficult to endure because of its imprecision, you might take refuge in the work of Wit..." current
- 22:5622:56, 5 March 2023 diff hist +1,404 N Polysemantic Created page with "Having multiple meanings. This is one of the more obscure words in the English language. This is the adjective form. The noun form, polysemant, is even more obscure. Examples of polysemantic words include the following * Liberal * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism Neoliberal] * Conservative * Progressive * Tolerance * Homophobic * Xenophobic * Pro-Life * Freedom * [https://en.wi..."
- 22:5422:54, 5 March 2023 diff hist +363 N Political Correctness Created page with "Political correctness is a term used generally by skeptics who stand at least partly aloof from post-modern progressivism. True believers regard the term as hostile and its usage politically incorrect. Since if you are reading this you probably have personal experience giving or receiving a charge of political incorrectness, I see no further need to elaborate." current
- 22:5422:54, 5 March 2023 diff hist +58 N Plutocracy Created page with "Rule by the class of people who have the most possessions." current
- 22:5322:53, 5 March 2023 diff hist +4,756 N POE Created page with "There are surely many other possible acronyms and many possible names for the Party of Empire. That we should end up with an acronym like POE is perhaps coincidental. We could not reasonably call its platform poetic, though we might consider its ideological underpinnings manifestly macabre. In truth, it is not clear that it has an official structure, like most parties do, but may exist purely as an abstraction of important phenomena or as an hypothesis advanced in an at..." current
- 22:5122:51, 5 March 2023 diff hist +4,713 N PAC Man Created page with "If you happen to be a geek, or know one well, you may know that the Japanese company, Namco, created one of the first arcade games, known as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man Pac-Man]. Arcade games, once transitioned into an electronic digital media environment, were the first video games. Pac-Man was a rudimentary eating-head (as opposed to "head-eating") icon. It preceded the talking heads idea (which was pioneered by the Sci-Fi character known as [https://en.wiki..." current
- 22:5022:50, 5 March 2023 diff hist +93 N Oligarchy Created page with "Rule by a small group of people who agree with each other that no one else should have power." current
- 22:4922:49, 5 March 2023 diff hist +2,023 N Obamoncology Created page with "Obamoncology is the sub-discipline of Oncology devoted to excising the cancer of capitalism from society. In a brilliant alliance between Mr. Glibb and Dr. Prepper, the American economy has been brought under sedation through the application of local anesthetics applied to various and sundry economic organs. The subject is not yet comatose, but is already largely unaware of what is happening. Some of those organs have been removed, and replaced by government agencies. t..." current