Sunday, November 13, 2011

ABSOLUTELY MUST READ AND LISTEN TO!



Apollo and Dionysius Meet Again

By Mike Razar

In a lame attempt to counter the refreshing grass roots spontaneity of the Tea Party, the leftist AstroTurf machine of head puppeteer George Soros has spewed forth a toxic brew of anarchists, communists, fascists, criminals, and aging hippies.  In the former shadow of the World Trade Center, they gather to compete in anti-Semitic poster art and self-serving demands for handouts. These ignorant slobs don't even realize that their odd mixture of leftist philosophy and Sharia-inspired racism is old hat. Nobody did it better than Goering last century or than the Islamists do today.

Does history really repeat itself?  Do prophets really exist?  Or, are some people just gifted with an ability to see through the forest to identify the important trees? No modern philosopher has been more ridiculed and despised by mainstream intellectuals than Ayn Rand. Indeed, they barely concede that she was a philosopher. They have no problem with Kant, Marx, and Nietzsche. That evil triumvirate has been poisoning young minds for centuries.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose.

Miss Rand gave some inspiring lectures at Ford Hall in Boston in the 1960s. Luckily, they were recorded and can be heard online. My two favorites are:

The Fascist New Frontier (1961)  

Apollo and Dionysius (1969)

In FNF, she compares the platform of Kennedy's new frontier to the Nazi party platform in Germany from the 1920s. In less than an hour she manages to dissect both documents and shows them to be nearly identical. Jonah Goldberg's well-researched book, Liberal Fascism", which makes much the same point, shows that it is a constantly recurring theme in modern politics.

Her lecture Apollo and Dionysius could have been comparing the Tea Party gatherings to the occupying mobs but for the fact that it preceded those gatherings by half a century. Instead, she compares the enormous well-behaved crowds and orderly traffic jams in or near Cape Kennedy for the Apollo moon landing of Neil Armstrong, to the dirty and undisciplined mob at Woodstock later that summer.

People came to Cape Kennedy to witness an event unique in human history, a symbol of all that humankind can achieve with reason and cooperation. Those who came to Woodstock wanted sex, drugs and rock 'n roll. Her incisive analysis of the two crowds exposes the stark difference between men and women as creatures of reason or as blobs of emotion detached from reality. Her words remain powerful and relevant to this day.

Are you not convinced? Imagine polling Tea Partiers and OWSers as to which of those events from the 1960s they would have attended. Not much question, is there?

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4 comments:

  1. Very good comments at the end of the article. The listening part will be later... need nap.

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  2. Take it easy, Phoo--Sundays are for naps. 'Wog's doing a couple dishes and I'm trying to get through the Rand and update my Celtic music--I wouldn't call it warm out... Feel free to call me any old time whenever you are comfy and feel like it, or if you don't feel like being on the phone, just write me a PhooFrog hey-y'all here--love ya!

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  3. Hi Froggy and Phoo,

    I went to the article and read the comments too. Very interesting! The OWS fiasco scares me, because can't you see things getting out of hand (even more so than they are now) and the current administration will use this crisis to jump in and fix it all; which would be to all our detriment! I am worried about this, but just keep praying that the people will wake up before it's too late.

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  4. I DO think of the Reichstag Fire, more and more...

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