Stumbled across this in my boredom a few weeks ago. I actually compiled this list when I was 16, still in high school, and thought it was the perfect insight to my weird and wonderful world. Also not really a comfort to know I haven't changed. At all.
(WARNING: Narcissism ahead. Wear protective gear).
Lesson One: Power is an inescapable part of all human interactions. Either you have it, or your opponent does.
Lesson Two: Life isn't fair.
Lesson Three: Every circumstance offers us a choice.
Lesson Four: I am a depraved bitch, get used to it.
Lesson Five: Retaliation is well and good, but one is better off revealing ahead of time the horrors people will face if they divulge a confidence.
Lesson Six: Never assume anything.
Lesson Seven: Continued nagging will get you nowhere.
Lesson Eight: Listen to what is not said as carefully as to what is.
Lesson Nine: The former is usually more correct than the latter; trust your instincts.
Lesson Ten: Always look below the surface.
Lesson Eleven: Few are clever enough to know when they are being dense, but even fewer know in what way or why.
Lesson Twelve: You would do better to be slightly naïve.
Lesson Thirteen: Say what you mean, mean what you say.
Lesson Fourteen: Once in a long while, what's right is wrong and what's wrong is right.
Lesson Fifteen: There is a fine line between likeing a challenge and being compulsive.
Lesson Sixteen: One should not attempt to bite a snake.
Lesson Seventeen: Take advantage of a situation whenever possible, despite the consequences.
Lesson Eighteen: It is always smarter to align yourself with a more powerful person.
Lesson Nineteen: Don't try my demonstrably limited patience.
Lesson Twenty: Always hear an opponent out. He may give you ammunition by accident.
Lesson Twenty-One: It is impossible to reason with an irrational thinker.
Lesson Twenty-Two: It is much safer to be feared than loved.
xXx
(A/N: Lesson Twenty-Two was lifted right out of Machiavelli's "The Prince")
(A/N: Also have Deeble to thank)
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Modern Anarchists: Why the likes of Noam Chomsky should be silenced.
You are no greater than, and nothing should humble you as much as the place you consider home, especially if it has provided for you opportunities not available in other nations. It is where you grew, and in the case of developed democratic nations, it has given you the luxury of freedom and human privilege. I love Australia, and although I am at odds quite frequently with our government, it is our ability to grow, learn and therefore evolve that I will always remain loyal to. Australia is the true land of opportunity, and I don’t blame so many foreigners for wanting houseroom here. No matter where you live, if your country has given you health, freedom and happiness, you should not devote your life to criticising it.
Then you have jackasses like Noam Chomsky, a man so revered in the US he has literally become the one of the most cited intellectuals in history, right behind Sigmund Freud (rightly so). In the sub-Ivy League universities of America on the west coast especially, he is literally bigger than the death of MJ, poisoning the minds of up-and-coming academics and providing a one-sided view on the state of modern America. He makes the writings of Dr. Peter Van O look completely impartial.
As put by Bernard Goldberg, he is the world’s most important anti-American American Intellectual. He attacks everything about America; its values, behaviour and generally everything in American society. In his words: “When you come back from the Third World to the West –the U.S in particular, you are struck by the narrowing of thought and understanding, the limited nature of legitimate discussion, the separation of people from each other” and “The Cold War? All America’s fault... (then begins comparing America to Nazis)”. This man has never met an American or American policy he liked, claiming after 9/11 that America’s foreign policy was “far more extreme terrorism”. If there is one thing this man has ever been successful at, it has been systematically dismantling intellectual support for a nation in control of much of the free world. This man should be gagged.
For much the same reason, I give a dishonourable mention to Michael Moore, often cited as “Chomsky for children”. His far more public open hostility towards America has made him more notorious than famous. His arguments are dripping with bias, with his facts often so far spun he is succeeds even John Howard. Take my advice; never see his docos, never read his books (I own them all, and they’re all rubbish), never listen to the dribble spat from his fat mouth. He doesn’t just target politicians, but citizens (circa “Stupid White Men”) and everyone else he considers sub-par. It isn’t even like he’s educated – he’s a college drop out. He isn’t an intellectual, he isn’t an academic, he isn’t anything. If I get strung up by my heels for what I write in a simple blog, then this ass should be strung up by his neck. There is nothing but virulent garbage spitting from behind his teeth; he too needs to be gagged.
What honestly got me started on this rant was a woman at a second-hand book store in Fremantle, who when noticing me buy political texts, questioned if I had read anything by Chomsky or Gore. I of course replied they’re both rubbish (Gore not as much, but I hate is desperate spotlight-grabbing. He lost, he should get over it and stop trying to return himself to the front bench), and left. I have read essays by Chomsky, own three of Al Gore’s books and three of Michael Moore’s. I have earned the right to criticize, because they all need to step back and stop being so high and mighty. It’s spin at its finest, and these dicks doctor themselves out of experience. I don’t buy it, and neither should anyone else. Seriously, bend over, grab a hold of the stick, and pull it out of your ass. People hate you.
The honest fact is that criticism of governments is necessary, it keeps parliament in check and keeps the power bases spread. These men are not criticising their governments, they are criticising their country, their culture. They judge their nation based on what it should be, rather than what it is. I am a Liberal, and therefore am a sworn enemy of the Labor government, but I am not stupid enough to actually believe the Liberals should be in power right now, especially after the last few weeks and the party splits being made extremely public. These men see the world from their own narrow-minded eyes and are too stubborn to shift their ideologies and see the greater picture. They are not rational.
America is a great, however misled nation. But until the high horses are tied up and the ass-sticks are extracted, the world will never be analysed through impartial eyes. These men are anarchists; they will feed off sedition and chaos until the modern Liberal Democratic tradition is bled dry.
So next time you see a Sicko on television, or feel the need to cite On Nature and Language, remember what these men represent, and find another source of information. You’d have better luck with Charles Firth, at least you’d get a good laugh.
xXx
Then you have jackasses like Noam Chomsky, a man so revered in the US he has literally become the one of the most cited intellectuals in history, right behind Sigmund Freud (rightly so). In the sub-Ivy League universities of America on the west coast especially, he is literally bigger than the death of MJ, poisoning the minds of up-and-coming academics and providing a one-sided view on the state of modern America. He makes the writings of Dr. Peter Van O look completely impartial.
As put by Bernard Goldberg, he is the world’s most important anti-American American Intellectual. He attacks everything about America; its values, behaviour and generally everything in American society. In his words: “When you come back from the Third World to the West –the U.S in particular, you are struck by the narrowing of thought and understanding, the limited nature of legitimate discussion, the separation of people from each other” and “The Cold War? All America’s fault... (then begins comparing America to Nazis)”. This man has never met an American or American policy he liked, claiming after 9/11 that America’s foreign policy was “far more extreme terrorism”. If there is one thing this man has ever been successful at, it has been systematically dismantling intellectual support for a nation in control of much of the free world. This man should be gagged.
For much the same reason, I give a dishonourable mention to Michael Moore, often cited as “Chomsky for children”. His far more public open hostility towards America has made him more notorious than famous. His arguments are dripping with bias, with his facts often so far spun he is succeeds even John Howard. Take my advice; never see his docos, never read his books (I own them all, and they’re all rubbish), never listen to the dribble spat from his fat mouth. He doesn’t just target politicians, but citizens (circa “Stupid White Men”) and everyone else he considers sub-par. It isn’t even like he’s educated – he’s a college drop out. He isn’t an intellectual, he isn’t an academic, he isn’t anything. If I get strung up by my heels for what I write in a simple blog, then this ass should be strung up by his neck. There is nothing but virulent garbage spitting from behind his teeth; he too needs to be gagged.
What honestly got me started on this rant was a woman at a second-hand book store in Fremantle, who when noticing me buy political texts, questioned if I had read anything by Chomsky or Gore. I of course replied they’re both rubbish (Gore not as much, but I hate is desperate spotlight-grabbing. He lost, he should get over it and stop trying to return himself to the front bench), and left. I have read essays by Chomsky, own three of Al Gore’s books and three of Michael Moore’s. I have earned the right to criticize, because they all need to step back and stop being so high and mighty. It’s spin at its finest, and these dicks doctor themselves out of experience. I don’t buy it, and neither should anyone else. Seriously, bend over, grab a hold of the stick, and pull it out of your ass. People hate you.
The honest fact is that criticism of governments is necessary, it keeps parliament in check and keeps the power bases spread. These men are not criticising their governments, they are criticising their country, their culture. They judge their nation based on what it should be, rather than what it is. I am a Liberal, and therefore am a sworn enemy of the Labor government, but I am not stupid enough to actually believe the Liberals should be in power right now, especially after the last few weeks and the party splits being made extremely public. These men see the world from their own narrow-minded eyes and are too stubborn to shift their ideologies and see the greater picture. They are not rational.
America is a great, however misled nation. But until the high horses are tied up and the ass-sticks are extracted, the world will never be analysed through impartial eyes. These men are anarchists; they will feed off sedition and chaos until the modern Liberal Democratic tradition is bled dry.
So next time you see a Sicko on television, or feel the need to cite On Nature and Language, remember what these men represent, and find another source of information. You’d have better luck with Charles Firth, at least you’d get a good laugh.
xXx
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