Almost everything I've ever written on BG is retarded and I regret it

[Cadsuane]

I'm sorry

[Conrad]

cads, no

[Mertron]

almost?

[Mertron]

you need to go full retard like me

[Blarg]

As long as the US military are still welfare queens I don't hold it against you

[Ksandra]

As long as the US military are still welfare queens I don't hold it against you

does this make abandon gay?

[Cadsuane]

As long as the US military are still welfare queens I don't hold it against you

Incidentally, the thread that inspired me to use that avatar has some of the non-stupid things I wrote.

[Kuya]

What

[Kuya]

Did u actually make that title or did perm edit it

[Cadsuane]

I searched my username, read this, and got embarassed.

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Maybe not the right way to characterize it, since even anti-capitalist sentiment takes on banal forms. Zizek's example of BP and legalistically conveyed anti-capitalism (many BG liberals conform to the stereotype put forward here), seemed to drive more at the cheapness of the dialogue surrounding issues, whatever their underpinning ideology; that they're more about the trivialities of specific circumstance and not the abstract systemic inevitabilities.



I laughed at this one, because it's true. The spectre of McCarthyism, and by McCarthyism I don't mean specifically the anti-socialist progroms that took place in the last century but the cultural and moral revolutions that shook our political sensibilities of which that ideological persecution was but a symptom, haunts us still. It's not that leftism is no longer really about class politics (though it certainly isn't, and maybe it shouldn't be) but that merely the suggestion of that sort of populism sounds so reminiscently Bolshevik that it triggers a Freudian gag reflex in anyone with remotely mainstream political sensibilities. The British New Labour party typifies this idea better than I could explain it; it's not just that they're unable to reverse Thatcher era policy, they've come to agree with her.



I laughed at this one too! It's a core tenet of conservative philosophy, and it's a bloody good one that we should as new age leftists embrace. I would interpret it different than you though, and somewhat less magnanimously since I think this is where leftism fails and the solution is found in right wing thought. Liberal notions of multiculturalism are no more than cultural relativism which is nothing more than the absence of integrity and conviction. Zizek pretty much parrots Edmund Burke here, and I think this sort of right/left dialectic bodes well.



Right, politicizing academia turned it into a trade school for policy advisors. In a word: Sophistry (in the ancient Greek sense).



I think he intentionally left the answer to that question, how exactly 20th liberalism is responsible for our current perdicament, a little more vague than that, or he says that we need new paradigms of leftism and here is how we might go about that etc. etc. Certainly I don't think what you've said is an adequate explanation. In particular I definitely think that a "back to the basics" approach for left wing liberalism would be absolutely disastrous. We've already covered an example of a relevant but traditionally right wing idea.

[Cadsuane]

SYSTEMICALLY ERGO VIS A VIS CONCORDANT AXIOM SCHEMA SPECIOUS BULLSHIT

[Kuya]

Oh man, i hate reading everything i posted from 3 years ago

[Kuya]

You certainly were wordy back then

[Mizango]

Cads, dont say things we cant take back.

[Mizango]

Can we unban Neosutra, BREP and Beckwin, those were the golden days of trolling and arguing.

[Mizango]

Sweet, sweet nostalgia.

[Blarg]

Do you vociferously repudiate your prior indiscretions.

[Rhyis.]

[Kuya]

Can we unban Neosutra, BREP and Beckwin, those were the golden days of trolling and arguing.

dream come true

[Cadsuane]

Can we unban Neosutra, BREP and Beckwin, those were the golden days of trolling and arguing.

Oh god please