Comments on: The people lack virtue https://thenewneo.com/2020/07/28/the-people-lack-virtue/ A blog about political change, among other things Thu, 30 Jul 2020 05:26:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 By: JimNorCal https://thenewneo.com/2020/07/28/the-people-lack-virtue/#comment-2508952 Thu, 30 Jul 2020 05:26:58 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=98116#comment-2508952 Yeah, it’s fun to read vdl. 🙂 🙂

]]> By: Strange Daze https://thenewneo.com/2020/07/28/the-people-lack-virtue/#comment-2508942 Thu, 30 Jul 2020 04:35:49 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=98116#comment-2508942 […] The people lack virtue – It’s not surprising that now the Founders’ names are being tarnished … It takes a group of people without virtue to do it, and a larger group without virtue to allow it. The irony is that these same people think of themselves as the most virtuous of all. […]

]]> By: AesopFan https://thenewneo.com/2020/07/28/the-people-lack-virtue/#comment-2508921 Thu, 30 Jul 2020 03:02:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=98116#comment-2508921 “The arts as a whole are in a state of tremendous across-the-board decline.” – Neo

I was looking for a get-well card yesterday (for the first of my personal friends to go into hospital with Covid), and noticed (not for the first time) the vulgarity, and sometimes even obscenity, on greeting cards displayed in public for children to see — I can’t even imagine buying one of them for anyone I know, but obviously a lot of people do.
What kind of value system does that kind of commercial enterprise presuppose?

(And I won’t even apologize if that hurts the feelings of anyone here who likes those cards; you can’t complain about the decline of culture if that only includes everyone’s taste but yours.)

]]> By: Dnaxy https://thenewneo.com/2020/07/28/the-people-lack-virtue/#comment-2508863 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 21:54:08 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=98116#comment-2508863 It’s probably a truism that humans should never join movements that lack humor or beauty or love. Our DNA must have these fine emergent qualities within else we would not be so successfully social. Thus a movement totally absent these is missing some truth.

]]> By: DNW https://thenewneo.com/2020/07/28/the-people-lack-virtue/#comment-2508861 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 21:45:09 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=98116#comment-2508861 Neo,

You like an occasional break. I stumbled across this guy quite some time ago with regard to a video he did on why pop music is so crushingly bad, and …. stupid.

Purely by accident I now see this one done on cinema. Although he self-deprecatingly adverts to being part of a generation currently being supplanted, it’s clear he is a couple “generations” – as generations (or emotional cohorts) are figured nowadays – younger than most commenting here.

Might cheer you up to see the level of critical thinking manifested by one of his relative youth in cultural matters not directly related to politics.

“The Truth Why Most Modern Movies Are Terrible”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI9RSlHqu-w

]]> By: Sergey https://thenewneo.com/2020/07/28/the-people-lack-virtue/#comment-2508850 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 20:29:55 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=98116#comment-2508850 Nowdays conservatism is impotent, and is doomed to be so. There is pretty nothing left to conserve, so to restore normalcy it is simply not enough to be a conservative: one need to be a true retrograde, a counter-revolutionary, and a rather radical in that. To acheive now true conservative values the whole edifice of cultural establishment must be dismantled and overthrown, and it is possible only by using executive powers more wide than Constitution allows. To restore liberty, we now need an authoritarian government, probably, even a dictatorship. As an example, see Chile. We need an American version of Pinochet to stop Leftists when they were at the brink of seizing power completely and irreversibly. If it sounds like “to liberate a village we need first to destroy it” – sometimes this is true.

]]> By: neo https://thenewneo.com/2020/07/28/the-people-lack-virtue/#comment-2508840 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 19:41:15 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=98116#comment-2508840 Ben David:

I mentioned the decline of religion in my post.

]]> By: Sonny Wayz https://thenewneo.com/2020/07/28/the-people-lack-virtue/#comment-2508838 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 19:34:50 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=98116#comment-2508838 …many modern descendants of Robespierre and the Jacobins who imagine themselves possessed of a superior progressive morality (as in today’s SJW/Antifa/BLM obsession with “woke” moralizing regarding diversity, multiculturalism, identity politics, anti-fascism, anti-racism, etc) …
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Also called ‘self-licensing’

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licensing

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2020/07/28/the-people-lack-virtue/#comment-2508836 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 19:07:16 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=98116#comment-2508836 On the Freemont Lenin statue from Wickedmedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Lenin_(Seattle)

It is a privately owned hunk of bronze on private property so that makes it all good, onward progressives for justice!

]]> By: om https://thenewneo.com/2020/07/28/the-people-lack-virtue/#comment-2508794 Wed, 29 Jul 2020 18:22:53 +0000 https://www.thenewneo.com/?p=98116#comment-2508794 David Foster:

Not to quibble (too much) but the statue of V. I. Lenin that was brought to the Freemont neighborhood of Seattle in the 1990’s from a formerly Soviet puppet state was rescued from destruction because of it’s “artistic merit.” It is still there and still “valued” for it’s artistic significance (LOL).

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