Suicidalism

[jordan179]

From wombat_socho, I learned of "Suicidalism," on Armed and Dangerous (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=218 and "Gramiscian Damage" (http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=260), which outline some very important ideas. I'm referring here to the former essay,

Comments

[zornhau]

I think "suicidalism" hits the nail on the head for this concept. Is there good evidence this came from the Ruskies?

[brezhnev]

I'm not 100% sure, but you might be able to get some of the details in Mitrokhin's The Sword and The Shield.

A lot of the PoMo stuff came from the Frankfurt School, though. And let's not forget drippy French philosophers like Derrida, Foucault, and Lacan.

[bojojoti]

Gays, feminists, and the cultural elite--artists, entertainers, and designers, would be the first to be killed, crushed, or hushed under a dhimmistic regime--and these are the very people spouting tolerance. They are blind to the peril they embrace.

[jordan179]

Gays, feminists, and the cultural elite--artists, entertainers, and designers, would be the first to be killed, crushed, or hushed under a dhimmistic regime--and these are the very people spouting tolerance. They are blind to the peril they embrace.

Yes, precisely. And I believe that they are blind to this peril because they subconsciously assume that Western culture is so superior to Muslim, so much automatically the background to and environment within all social life takes place, that they do not grasp that this culture could be supplanted by one less friendlier to them

[stauros]

Interesting you should bring this up on the same day as this quote in the WaPo: "During an interview with Woodward in July, the president said, 'We can absorb a terrorist attack. We’ll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever . . . we absorbed it and we are stronger.'"

If he actually said that, he is unfit for office.

[typewriterking]

If he actually said that, he is unfit for office.

Fixed.

[jordan179]

Aside from the fact that 9-11 did not make us "stronger" (it destroyed 3000 lives and valuable resources), the truly vapid assumption underlying this statement is that 9-11 represents an upper bound on the possible scale of attack. Does Obama imagine that some law of Nature prevents Terrorists from launching larger ones?

[unixronin]

Well, in a sense, it did.  The chances that any hijacker will be allowed by the passengers to seize another US airliner in the near future approaches zero.

Yet, at the same time, the Establishment, instead of channeling the fury of Americans to really make us stronger, has chanted a never-ending mantra of "No, be afraid, be afraid, be afraid!  More afraid than that!"  I've said before, and will say again, that inside-the-Beltway Washington DC has spent the nine years since 9/11 doing the terrorists' work for them.  Terror is a sword that many hands can wield at once.