tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post7544396051050035826..comments2024-03-28T16:58:17.705-04:00Comments on Grim's Hall: Six PrinciplesGrimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07543082562999855432noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-28995051196444357992016-05-11T18:33:14.129-04:002016-05-11T18:33:14.129-04:00Tom, act local, think global. Tactics < Strateg...Tom, act local, think global. Tactics < Strategy < LogisticsYmar Sakarnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-72022344389954904262016-05-09T17:27:22.073-04:002016-05-09T17:27:22.073-04:00Tom has said it. The reason that the politics hav...Tom has said it. The reason that the politics have changed is that our culture has changed. I think it's been said here before, and probably better than I can. What our culture values has changed. So many definitions have changed. There are no absolute standards being defended any longer. We can tax cigarettes and legislate to limit the size of soft drink cups in restaurants. We can talk about how certain minorities have a higher incidence of poverty which might be related to their higher prevalence of single parent families. We cannot draw any conclusions about all of the negative consequences of single parent families, such as that being married before having sex is the correct order. Because that is intolerant. We cannot (seemingly) prevent our society from being poisoned by the replacement of absolutes with self-gratification, at the risk of being judgmental.Larryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10649399719039087164noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-80469454190618661192016-05-08T16:48:39.840-04:002016-05-08T16:48:39.840-04:00My focus over the last year or so has increasingly...My focus over the last year or so has increasingly shifted to American culture. If we just look at politics, we may think America is going insane, but all our fellow citizens who vote for Trump or Clinton or Sanders are doing is following where our culture, our Pied Piper, leads.<br /><br />While I would consider changing to a new political party, that's not where this war will be won, or even fought. It is being fought first and foremost in the culture, in the movie theater, in fiction sales, in poetry readings, in TV series, in music, in video games. That's the most valuable terrain on the field. Second is the university, because that's where our experts are taught. Even our warrior leaders have to go through the universities. The third most important terrain is the obvious political arena.<br /><br />The crime of the citizens of Hamelin was refusing to pay the Pied Piper after he lured the rats away, and so he took their children. Ours, I think, has been failure to treat culture as something important. In a sense, we haven't paid attention to it as it deserves. And so many of us have lost our children as well, or have become lost ourselves.Tomnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5173950.post-16003760797880393012016-05-07T21:21:58.776-04:002016-05-07T21:21:58.776-04:00Wonderful. It's a pretty libertarian list. To...Wonderful. It's a pretty libertarian list. To differentiate it from that I think another set of ideas needs to come into the discussion. We like being a nation, <i>and we want to help our fellow-citizens when they need it.</i> Help them at some very minimal level when it's their own fault, more when it seems to be just bad luck, more still when they have demonstrated their reciprocity, as veterans/taxpayers/volunteers have. It may be less efficient than the strict free market, but it is who we are. <br /><br />We may or may not feel some obligation to non-citizens and people around the world under duress. We take those on a case-by-case basis and accept that it might not always go our way. But we emphatically do <i>not</i> insist that other Americans be world citizens. They can if they want, it's optional. Not our affair. <br /><br />Steve Sailer talks about being a "citizenist," as a reason to favor African-Americans over immigrants, especially illegal immigrants. I see the sense of that. I feel some obligation to those born her, but it's not unlimited.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.com