This entire article is filled with what Orwell called Newspeak - a change in language that is necessarily vague or meaningless because it is intended to hide the truth rather than express it.
Progressive? Is it progressive or regressive to intentionally destroy the nuclear family, the building block of a well ordered society? Is it progr…
This entire article is filled with what Orwell called Newspeak - a change in language that is necessarily vague or meaningless because it is intended to hide the truth rather than express it.
Progressive? Is it progressive or regressive to intentionally destroy the nuclear family, the building block of a well ordered society? Is it progress when a child is raised without a father at home who is seen to do the responsible things in life such as go to and come home from work daily, provide both discipline and example?
Is it progress to make excuses for people who,defecate,on the street and walk around naked? To,accept,public nakedness because, after all, we see it every day in the Tenderloin?
Is it progress to divide people into racial cubbyholes?
Is it progress to eliminate merit in the selection of official positions and enhanced education schools for gifted children? Why is it progress to deny such schools to gifted children and progress to trap other children in crime riddled neighborhoods with poor schools?
What did San Franciscans expect when they came up with all these Lewis Caroll through the looking glass policies?
Why does anyone plant tomatoes and expect corn to grow?
The term "progressive" is the most narcissistic and bigoted term in political history. It defines itself as "our beliefs are progress and theirs aren't."
The people using this term are smug and proud, and deserve history's richest mockery.
AOC is the personification, the perfect embodiment of their condescending, entitled and superior "our beliefs are progress and theirs aren't", attitude.
I was going to reply to Nellie but you said it perfectly. It breaks my heart as I loved San Francisco but it is a zombie city. I won’t even go visit now. When people come to visit CA we go straight to Napa/Sonoma. We skip the cesspool that is SF.
Yes this is true all over the planet where these technocrats take over. Larry Ellison has taken over Lanai and has informed the residents they may essentially become servants or leave. These snowflakes will continue to fail at life. Knowing how to make money is one thing, knowing how to live is yet another.
I would second someone else's recommendation of Brave New World. Your modern world is Huxleyan, not Orwellian. The final scene between John and Savage and Mustafa Mond always brings me to tears (warning - spoilers if you haven't read the book):
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John: "I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.’
Mond: ‘In fact, you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.’
John: ‘All right then. I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.’
Mond: ‘Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.'
John: ‘I claim them all.’
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We respect John because most of us will live by lies before surrendering our middle-class comforts. I sometimes wonder if the homeless we ignore on the streets are our John the Savages, refusing to conform to our plethora of petty rules, and therefore reclaiming their freedom.
Also look at "Brave New World" for Huxley's incredible prescience. And Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead," while ridiculously long and wordy, magnificently chronicles the mind set of Manhattan in the 1930s, so parallel to Manhattan today. And if you really want an insight into the Bolshevik mindset a few years before the Russian revolution read "Vekhi." All will make today's woke mindset more familiar and understandable.
I am reading that right now. I see it the same, and it rang so incredibly like the strategy of the Davos crowd with their puppets and useful idiots. Of course they cannot be as honest as Toohey, at least not yet. Altho the recent Davos report and many Dems are almost talking the truth about their true intensions. Toohey was brilliantly evil as are the Davos puppeteers.
"Vekhi" is a collection of essays written by "red-pilled" Russian intellectuals several years before the revolution. Their descriptions of the intellectuals and students of their day could have been written today.
Those who we call San Franciscans have undergone a most radical shift in recent years. The present residents are not those who built this fine city - immigrants and fortune seekers, adventurers and artists. The present residents are WEF/Bilderberg TechnoFacists who are fully capable of ruining any city they choose. It’s not alone who is governing who makes the laws but we the people who make the real decisions.
Nonsense. The present residents were attracted to the liberal and comparatively (to other places) regressive politics and attitudes of San Francisco. I’m not a child - I grew up before the summer of love and the flower children. Even then SF was an outlier of a town when it came to traditional values necessary for a well ordered and healthy society.
Look at “the Tenderloin” district. It dates back to the middle of the 19th century and relates to the soft underbelly of a city where one finds crime, graft vice and corruption. Yet during my long lifetime, SF has actually celebrates the depravity that goes on there.
And you actually think you can limit the depravity going on there to that district? As if there’s a magic wand to say that the bizarro stuff that goes on there won’t affect its environs?
In a sense, the S.F. vis a vis the Tenderloin reminds me of the Florida city of Jacksonville.
Jacksonville was a moderate city until it couldn’t support itself anymore. It then used the Florida process of “annexation” of surrounding communities so it could broaden its base up to the point that it now contains ALL of Duval county and is the single largest city by geography in the US.
But it’s median income is $32K a year. Almost 40% of residents live below the ALICE standard - Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed people. People who are a car repair away from poverty, an illness away from homelessness.
Talk about spreading the “wealth”.
I use Jacksonville because it resembles SF. California is so afraid of showing the spread of societal illness that it doesn’t even provide a measure of ALIVE for the state let alone SF.
But the real point here is that the rot spreads. Just like Jacksonville consumed Duval County, the rot that started out in the Tenderloin has spread to the entire city.
They hypocrites who can afford the high life there have actually support it forever. But like every slippery slope, it’s reached their front yards and streets.
They created it and supported it as long as it was a curiosity that didn’t really affect them, or which they could visit as an amusement park.
Now they don’t like what they allowed to happen. Tough luck. You reap what you sow,
Yep the seeds of destruction were always planted in our midst. I grew up there as things like the tenderloin grew as a recognised big part of what was wrong with it all - the systemic rot at the heart of it. We cowered under our desks as we underwent bomb drills and overhead drifted the nuclear fallout from the desert test sites. Our classmates forced to fight and die in VietNam or rot in jail as the Great Satanic aristocracy plowed on ahead. History is how we arrived here.
This entire article is filled with what Orwell called Newspeak - a change in language that is necessarily vague or meaningless because it is intended to hide the truth rather than express it.
Progressive? Is it progressive or regressive to intentionally destroy the nuclear family, the building block of a well ordered society? Is it progress when a child is raised without a father at home who is seen to do the responsible things in life such as go to and come home from work daily, provide both discipline and example?
Is it progress to make excuses for people who,defecate,on the street and walk around naked? To,accept,public nakedness because, after all, we see it every day in the Tenderloin?
Is it progress to divide people into racial cubbyholes?
Is it progress to eliminate merit in the selection of official positions and enhanced education schools for gifted children? Why is it progress to deny such schools to gifted children and progress to trap other children in crime riddled neighborhoods with poor schools?
What did San Franciscans expect when they came up with all these Lewis Caroll through the looking glass policies?
Why does anyone plant tomatoes and expect corn to grow?
You people made your beds. Sleep in them.
The term "progressive" is the most narcissistic and bigoted term in political history. It defines itself as "our beliefs are progress and theirs aren't."
The people using this term are smug and proud, and deserve history's richest mockery.
AOC is the personification, the perfect embodiment of their condescending, entitled and superior "our beliefs are progress and theirs aren't", attitude.
Particularly considering that AOC's ideas are as vapid, ignorant and absurd as she is.
POTUS AOC around 2036.
I was going to reply to Nellie but you said it perfectly. It breaks my heart as I loved San Francisco but it is a zombie city. I won’t even go visit now. When people come to visit CA we go straight to Napa/Sonoma. We skip the cesspool that is SF.
Bullseye!
San Francisco has become the country’s toilet and the drain is clogged. Too bad for them none of the meta verse snowflakes know how to turn a wrench.
If San Fran is the toilet, what do you call Chicago and Philly?
How about urinal and septic tank?
Too kind tbh.
Yes this is true all over the planet where these technocrats take over. Larry Ellison has taken over Lanai and has informed the residents they may essentially become servants or leave. These snowflakes will continue to fail at life. Knowing how to make money is one thing, knowing how to live is yet another.
Maybe it’s time another Kamehameha showed up
Time for good hearted people who own their personal power to show up for certain.
To paraphrase a line from one of my favorite movies, “praise the country that has heroes, pity the country that needs them”
And “Hawaiian by birth, American By Force.”
No they sure don't.
You missed the irony in the article.
Even "progressive" is Newspeak. I just reread "1984" this week after a very, very long time, decades. ”WOW" seems to be a good one word review.
I would second someone else's recommendation of Brave New World. Your modern world is Huxleyan, not Orwellian. The final scene between John and Savage and Mustafa Mond always brings me to tears (warning - spoilers if you haven't read the book):
-----
John: "I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.’
Mond: ‘In fact, you’re claiming the right to be unhappy.’
John: ‘All right then. I’m claiming the right to be unhappy.’
Mond: ‘Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.'
John: ‘I claim them all.’
-----
We respect John because most of us will live by lies before surrendering our middle-class comforts. I sometimes wonder if the homeless we ignore on the streets are our John the Savages, refusing to conform to our plethora of petty rules, and therefore reclaiming their freedom.
Whether it's Orwellian, Huxleyan, Randian or Bradburian, whichever way we're f**ked. Lol.
I’m thinking of dusting off an old copy of Lord of the Flies
Also look at "Brave New World" for Huxley's incredible prescience. And Ayn Rand's "The Fountainhead," while ridiculously long and wordy, magnificently chronicles the mind set of Manhattan in the 1930s, so parallel to Manhattan today. And if you really want an insight into the Bolshevik mindset a few years before the Russian revolution read "Vekhi." All will make today's woke mindset more familiar and understandable.
I read fountainhead as a design student in college. Definitely worth dusting off again. Thanks for the tip in Vekhi. I’ll check it out.
Toohey's speech near the end of "The Fountainhead" is 7 or 8 pages of pure evil and what we see practiced in today's world.
I am reading that right now. I see it the same, and it rang so incredibly like the strategy of the Davos crowd with their puppets and useful idiots. Of course they cannot be as honest as Toohey, at least not yet. Altho the recent Davos report and many Dems are almost talking the truth about their true intensions. Toohey was brilliantly evil as are the Davos puppeteers.
"Vekhi" is a collection of essays written by "red-pilled" Russian intellectuals several years before the revolution. Their descriptions of the intellectuals and students of their day could have been written today.
I reread it last year. Yikes.
"Yikes" is another excellent one word review.
Those who we call San Franciscans have undergone a most radical shift in recent years. The present residents are not those who built this fine city - immigrants and fortune seekers, adventurers and artists. The present residents are WEF/Bilderberg TechnoFacists who are fully capable of ruining any city they choose. It’s not alone who is governing who makes the laws but we the people who make the real decisions.
Nonsense. The present residents were attracted to the liberal and comparatively (to other places) regressive politics and attitudes of San Francisco. I’m not a child - I grew up before the summer of love and the flower children. Even then SF was an outlier of a town when it came to traditional values necessary for a well ordered and healthy society.
Look at “the Tenderloin” district. It dates back to the middle of the 19th century and relates to the soft underbelly of a city where one finds crime, graft vice and corruption. Yet during my long lifetime, SF has actually celebrates the depravity that goes on there.
And you actually think you can limit the depravity going on there to that district? As if there’s a magic wand to say that the bizarro stuff that goes on there won’t affect its environs?
In a sense, the S.F. vis a vis the Tenderloin reminds me of the Florida city of Jacksonville.
Jacksonville was a moderate city until it couldn’t support itself anymore. It then used the Florida process of “annexation” of surrounding communities so it could broaden its base up to the point that it now contains ALL of Duval county and is the single largest city by geography in the US.
But it’s median income is $32K a year. Almost 40% of residents live below the ALICE standard - Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed people. People who are a car repair away from poverty, an illness away from homelessness.
Talk about spreading the “wealth”.
I use Jacksonville because it resembles SF. California is so afraid of showing the spread of societal illness that it doesn’t even provide a measure of ALIVE for the state let alone SF.
But the real point here is that the rot spreads. Just like Jacksonville consumed Duval County, the rot that started out in the Tenderloin has spread to the entire city.
They hypocrites who can afford the high life there have actually support it forever. But like every slippery slope, it’s reached their front yards and streets.
They created it and supported it as long as it was a curiosity that didn’t really affect them, or which they could visit as an amusement park.
Now they don’t like what they allowed to happen. Tough luck. You reap what you sow,
Yep the seeds of destruction were always planted in our midst. I grew up there as things like the tenderloin grew as a recognised big part of what was wrong with it all - the systemic rot at the heart of it. We cowered under our desks as we underwent bomb drills and overhead drifted the nuclear fallout from the desert test sites. Our classmates forced to fight and die in VietNam or rot in jail as the Great Satanic aristocracy plowed on ahead. History is how we arrived here.
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