tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post2391652639718850326..comments2024-03-28T22:00:08.221-04:00Comments on Strangely Blogged: The Atlantic's New Hire Might Be ProblematicVixen Strangelyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01976594951225450413noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-45015785458262845652018-04-09T15:35:14.240-04:002018-04-09T15:35:14.240-04:00Hi Vixen, sorry your schedule is so messed up. (Wh...Hi Vixen, sorry your schedule is so messed up. (What ever happened to that trip to Italy to meet with relatives for some business venture?)<br /><br />Williamson is an idiot. He's a NeverTrumper which alienates him from most of the Republican Party, and he has made comments about Republicans that are not at all flattering. <br /><br />The old ways of looking at the right are no longer applicable. Big-government Republicans are not conservative, as your commenter points out, they just want to dish out pork to their constituents just as the left wants the parasitic sector to dish out pork to their constituents. Today the right is divided between those that are for Trump and those that are not. Ironically, those of us who like Trump are a collection of conservatives, leftists, libertarians, and others who primarily believe that government should solve its own problems. A keen analysis of some of Trump's initiatives shows that in some cases he applies a liberal solution, as in his trade initiatives. At this juncture we just want the problems to be solved and the debt cleared and ISIS to be destroyed. You realize that before Trump ran for president, he and his family were New York liberals. <br /><br />A vision of the extreme right would sort of be like a modern version of Little House on the Prairie, and a vision of the left would be sort of like the Soviet Union but where everyone was honest and the system worked fairly and the populace was happy. Naturally both of these ideas are completely absurd. Neither is going to happen.<br /><br />I still see us as basically being influenced by two possible trends. One is a change in the zeitgeist, which still seems to be viable to me. (In government as in other things, basically cycles just go back and forth) and the other is the Kali Yuga (we're deep into the Kali Yuga, having already started the counter-initiation phase).<br /><br />From the Qaballistic point of view the Kali Yuga is known as the Fall. The mythical Garden of Eden was in Atziluth; one of the titles for Atziluth is “the Nearness”. Naturally, absolute divine reality is what Atziluth is near to. The Fall is the descent from the enlightened level of consciousness in the garden of paradise to our present problematic situation stuck in Malkuth of Assiah. The way of return is Tikkun (too involved to go into) and the objective is to return to the high level of consciousness of Atziluth represented by the garden of paradise. The eastern perspective would regard this as becoming enlightened.Formerly Amherstnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436782247272162797.post-61049188627165666252018-04-06T14:05:43.749-04:002018-04-06T14:05:43.749-04:00It seems natural to me that an unholy alliance dev...It seems natural to me that an unholy alliance developed between ideological conservatives who want extremely limited government and "cultural" conservatives who want government help to be confined to those deserving folks who are on the right side of the color line.<br /><br />I'm open to the criticism that non-conservatives are wrong to conflate the two. I am bemused on occasion when a conservative publication commits the same sin.<br /><br />Or when a liberal magazine does it when trying for ideological balance.<br />Burr Deminghttp://fairandunbalanced.com/?p=10518noreply@blogger.com