History as Cynicism
June 28, 2011 Leave a comment
Imagine a popular American history book that never mentions Christianity or conservatism. Pull the lever and out comes the pellet – Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, 1492-Present.
Here is a passage from Michael Kazin’s article in Dissent Magazine, talking about this cynically myopic book:
“(Howard Zinn’s) failure is grounded in a premise better suited to a conspiracy-monger’s Web site than to a work of scholarship. According to Zinn, “99 percent” of Americans share a “commonality” that is profoundly at odds with the interests of their rulers. And knowledge of that awesome fact is “exactly what the governments of the United States, and the wealthy elite allied to them-from the Founding Fathers to now-have tried their best to prevent.”
History for Zinn is thus a painful narrative about ordinary folks who keep struggling to achieve equality, democracy, and a tolerant society, yet somehow are always defeated by a tiny band of rulers whose wiles match their greed. He describes the American Revolution as a clever device to defeat “potential rebellions and create a consensus of popular support for the rule of a new, privileged leadership.” His Civil War was another elaborate confidence game. Soldiers who fought to preserve the Union got duped by “an aura of moral crusade” against slavery that “worked effectively to dim class resentments against the rich and powerful, and turn much of the anger against ‘the enemy.'”
Nothing of consequence, in his view, changed during the industrial era, notwithstanding the growth of cities, railroads, and mass communications. Zinn views the tens of millions of Europeans and Asians who crossed oceans at the turn of the past century as little more than a mass of surplus labor. He details their miserable jobs in factories and mines and their desperate, often violent strikes at the end of the nineteenth century-most of which failed. The doleful narrative makes one wonder why anyone but the wealthy came to the United States at all and, after working for a spell, why anyone wished to stay.”
Cindy Wity 
Bureaucracy Speaks
September 1, 2011 Leave a comment
Paradise News Release (PNR):
On Thursday, Sept. 8th, 2011, Bureaucracy To Speak Before a Joint Session of Bureaucrats:
Using the core principles of Newspeak Barrack Hussein Obama or The Bureaucrat of the ruling class inner party, is expected to deliver a moving speech (hopefully avoiding teleprompter whiplash), before a joint session of bureaucrats. Directors of the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Plenty, The Ministry of Truth and the Ministry of Love will all be in attendance.
Before his fellow bureaucrats Obama will present the reasons for the economic problems at hand: you, me and a dog named Boo. Tilting at windmills, he will verbally attack the America-loving Tea-Party. He will blame them for making his bureaucracy so difficult to maintain. He will remind us just how hard he has worked for our benefit. And, with Big Brother love he will tell us that he only wants the best for us, that only he knows what is best for us. He is a community organizer after all, born and bred by the likes of Jeremiah Wright, Bill Ayers and a host of Radical Progressive myopians. He wants us to understand that he is just one of us born to rule.
Our Dear Leader will remind us that we the people even managed to interrupt his vacation with our concerns about Hurricane Irene.
In his ineffable non-partisan way Obama will pronounce that Republicans and Tea-Party Proles are to blame for the economic mess we are in. He will also invoke the force majeure clause in his contract with America. (BTW: for atheistic and agnostic Americans, it’s still God’s fault.) And, he will remind us that the bureaucratic buck should never stop long enough to stick to him. He’s from Chicago.
Obama will once again play the Bush card by telling us that he inherited his problems from W. He will say this while asking to pile on more debt via more stimulus money in a move reminiscent of his own first two years in office.
Obama won’t mention that his aunt and uncle are in the US illegally. He doesn’t want to inherit any of that.
In a nod to the Outer Party (those who have been under liberal university tutelage) Obama will tell them to continue to Lean Forward. A sign that he wants them to embrace the Rainbow Peacock just as he has done.
His speech will include class warfare indictments against those rich people with teleprompters of their own (not state-owned) and against those who use corporate jets to take vacations (this type of luxury is reserved only for bureaucrats of his stature and for those up and coming bureaucrats in the Outer Party).
On that night, our Beloved Leader, Barrack Hussein ‘Moses’ Obama will speak to us about the Progressive Land of milk and honey based on his dream of wealth re-distribution rationing.
In order to spur the damaged economy, he will offer higher taxation on taxes – if you pay taxes you must pay more taxes. He will clean up government waste by hiring only union sympathizing bureaucrats for any bureaucratic position. He will bring in a new economist to his financial team who will tell him he was right all along.
He will offer ‘Green’ jobs (actually, ‘greenbacks’ or patronage ) as a means to get our country (actually, those close to him) out of the economic mire it is in.
In typical grandiose fashion Obama will offer his own alternative energy jobs plan: build wind towers. (a project that he and Jeffrey Immelt of GE fully approve of)
Obama, confident in his appeal, will remind us that we need to create jobs to get people back to work. And, that we each need to do our part.
Finally, Obama is expected to talk down to the Prole class. After all, they are too stupid to know better than that Someone who has no experience but lots of campaign money and connections
Let the bureaucratic babble begin! After the speech, celebrate with some Victory-gin!
Your faithful and obedient reporter, Winston Smith.
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“Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me—“
from 1984 by George Orwell
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