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22 June 2023

  • 14:2014:20, 22 June 2023 diff hist +544‎ N Woketopia ‎ Created page with "An effort to declare [https://www.dictionary.com/browse/wokeism wokeism] as the key to a Utopian existence. Never mind that ''Utopia'' is a parody by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More Thomas More], who was the Lord High Chancellor of England who refused to bow to King Henry VIII's idea of a Utopian kingdom. The latest version of that fantasy is invented and pushed by the ''woke''. See, in particular the critique [https://www.mindingthecampus.org/2020/11/02/go..."

15 June 2023

1 June 2023

  • 13:4713:47, 1 June 2023 diff hist +118‎ N Stochastic Terrorism ‎ Created page with "Check out [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_wolf_attack#Stochastic_terrorism Stochastic Terrorism] in ''Wikipedia''." current

26 March 2023

  • 23:0423:04, 26 March 2023 diff hist +8‎ Digital blackface ‎No edit summary current
  • 22:5622:56, 26 March 2023 diff hist +361‎ N Woke ‎ Created page with "As of this posting, you will not find the postmodern definition of this term in Dictionary.com. You will, however, find it in definition 1 in the Merriam-Webster online dictionary, the adjective form in the Oxford online dictionary and in definitions 2 and 3 in the Wiktionary online dictionary. There is major agreement in these more “woke” dictionaries." current
  • 22:4222:42, 26 March 2023 diff hist +520‎ N Digital blackface ‎ Created page with "In a recent op-ed, CNN’s John Blake asks [https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/26/us/digital-blackface-social-media-explainer-blake-cec/index.html “What’s ‘digital blackface?’ And why is it wrong when White people use it?”]. He gives the following answer: “Digital blackface is a practice where White people co-opt online expressions of Black imagery, slang, catchphrases or culture to convey comic relief or express emotions.” I presume that includes a “white pe..."

19 March 2023

6 March 2023

  • 14:5114:51, 6 March 2023 diff hist +14‎ Main Page ‎No edit summary
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  • 14:3814:38, 6 March 2023 diff hist +7,081‎ N Postmodern Dictionary:About ‎ Created page with "About Page: The Postmodern Dictionary is a conservative's look at postmodern progressive doublespeak. This politically incorrect postmodern dictionary is a repository of postmodern usage of modern terminology. Its purpose is to explain such usage to modern people who have failed or decided not to cross over into the heady territory of anything-goes postmodernism. It is not to be confused with the postmoderndictionary.com, which has been discontinued. It was a site that..." current
  • 02:2702:27, 6 March 2023 diff hist +3,163‎ N White Supremacist ‎ Created page with "Intended to be a pejorative term, but without having a specific definition so that its use is easier to defend. The term is composed of two somewhat neutral terms. White refers primarily to the Caucasian group of ethnicity, Hispanics excluded (according to post-modern nomenclature). There is nothing in the definitions of these terms to imply inherent badness. Negative connotations creep in as a result of the progressive movement's judgments of European and American hist..." current
  • 02:2602:26, 6 March 2023 diff hist +3,163‎ N White Nationalist ‎ Created page with "Intended to be a pejorative term, but without having a specific definition so that its use is easier to defend. The term is composed of two somewhat neutral terms. White refers primarily to the Caucasian group of ethnicity, Hispanics excluded (according to post-modern nomenclature). There is nothing in the definitions of these terms to imply inherent badness. Negative connotations creep in as a result of the progressive movement's judgments of European and American hist..." current
  • 02:2502:25, 6 March 2023 diff hist +1,115‎ N Weak Theology ‎ Created page with "Weak Theology is a term invented by a postmodern theologian to describe how he wanted to think of God. Not to be confused with the mathematical term "weak topology" which is a valid and significant study of dual vector spaces, weak theology appropriately reflects the intellect of its chief exponent even if it doesn't say much about God that is true or hasn't already been said in a deeper context before. (Not happy with the transcendence of God? Then join the ranks of the..." current
  • 02:2302:23, 6 March 2023 diff hist +1,045‎ N Virtue Signaling ‎ Created page with "''Wikipedia's'' article on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling virtue signaling] traces its history to its use by academics, but then notes :Virtue signaling rose in popularity as a pejorative term, denouncing empty acts of public commitment to unexceptional good causes. In Bartholomew's original article, he describes virtue signaling as a public act with very little associated cost that is intended to inform others of one's socially acceptable alignment on..." current
  • 02:2202:22, 6 March 2023 diff hist +2,445‎ N U.S. Constitution ‎ Created page with "There has always been a powerful, even existential, tension between the established principles of the U.S. Constitution and natural law and our better human aspirations, especially the humanitarian aspirations of elites. Historically, the U.S. Constitution began its life as an attempted formal written expression of the latter two. Yet, over time, American executives, legislators and jurists have found that their perceptions of what should be and what is codified in law..." current
  • 02:2102:21, 6 March 2023 diff hist +167‎ N Tyranny ‎ Created page with "20th century definition: cruel and oppressive government or rule (OED). 21st century definition: government by people who pretend to be what they aren't. (Why not?)." current
  • 02:2002:20, 6 March 2023 diff hist +3,057‎ N Two Party System ‎ Created page with "The preferred political system by which the will of the people is expressed and/or shaped. The principle purpose of the two party system is to give voters a sense that they have something to gain from participation in the electoral system. As long as that participation never threatens the oligarchy, great latitude is to be permitted in the selection of candidates and the adoption of party platforms. All forms of social permissiveness or rigor are acceptable provided tha..." current
  • 02:1902:19, 6 March 2023 diff hist +934‎ N Truth ‎ Created page with "Truth is that protean quality of self-determined affirmation of a putative state of reality which is exemplified by Steven Colbert's term "truthiness." Truth takes on the pseudo-tautological form "what's true for you is true for you. What's true for me is true for me." The protean character of "truth" was brilliantly exemplified in Major General David Meade's declaration, in a 1994 recap of a U.S. "peacekeeping mission" to Haiti, "...our reality changed..." Reality and..." current
  • 02:1802:18, 6 March 2023 diff hist +411‎ N Totalitarian ‎ Created page with "A person raised in an authoritarian environment who decided to take the ultimate revenge. Or, as Prof. Robert P. George put it (See [https://www.facebook.com/RobertPGeorge/posts/10155417655377906 totalitarian].)... : Ordinary authoritarians are content to forbid people from saying things they know or believe to be true. Totalitarians insist on forcing people to say things they know or believe to be untrue." current
  • 02:1702:17, 6 March 2023 diff hist +707‎ N Tolerance ‎ Created page with "Tolerance has come to imply a systematic effort to alter one's own natural or cultural reaction to someone else's culture or practice from a state of negative critique to positive affirmation. If one doesn't think, for example, that a homosexual, profligate, polygamous, transgender, materialistic, life-negligent, ephebophilic, or artificially egalitarian lifestyle or regime is morally acceptable, one acquires the positive duty to alter one's world view to accommodate the..." current
  • 02:1602:16, 6 March 2023 diff hist +2,702‎ N Thought Control ‎ Created page with "Thought Control was a hot topic in the mid 20th century, due to the legacy of mass socialist movements such as Nazism and Communism, and to the writing of important dystopian novels, such as ''Nineteen Eighty-Four'', ''Brave New World'', ''Animal Farm'', ''Fahrenheit 451'', ''Lord of the Flies'', and ''Catch 22''. It's related to terms like "brain washing", "thought police" and even "nudge". See [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainwashing Brainwashing]. Actual thought..." current
  • 02:1502:15, 6 March 2023 diff hist +341‎ N Theocracy ‎ Created page with "Government by folks who believe that God is the ultimate lawmaker. In the narrowest sense, theocracy is government by folks who have a very limited notion of what God's law is all about but who, nevertheless, believe that their idea of God's law must prevail over everyone else's. An example is a Caliphate operating according to Sharia Law." current
  • 02:1402:14, 6 March 2023 diff hist +172‎ N Supremacist ‎ Created page with "A term which is permitted only in the context of the complete term "White Supremacist", thereby ensuring that it can be used interchangeably with the term "Racist."" current
  • 02:1302:13, 6 March 2023 diff hist +76‎ N Supersidiarity ‎ Created page with "A forbidden term. The opposite of subsidiarity, another forbidden term." current
  • 02:1302:13, 6 March 2023 diff hist +2,664‎ N Subsidiarity ‎ Created page with "A forbidden term. The only reason people are not attacked for using terms like "subsidiarity" and "supersidiarity" is that they are complex enough (having 6 and 7 syllables, respectively) that most people's eyes glaze over when they are mentioned. And, for those few people who are capable of a partial comprehension of such terms, there's always the progressive semantic dodge that effectively nullifies their effect as useful terms. For those of you who, out of curiosity..." current
  • 02:1102:11, 6 March 2023 diff hist +497‎ N Spox ‎ Created page with "A search of Wikipedia for "spox" turns up [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/spokesperson Spokesperson], which is already "gender neutral", but is unsatisfactorily polysyllabic. This mindset is typified by a line from the movie "Amadeus". Disturbed by the complexity and subtlety of Mozart's music, the Emperor Joseph II (so ably played by Jeffrey Jones) comments "Too many notes." It's an example of the postmodern modification of language that erases etymology and other h..." current
  • 02:1002:10, 6 March 2023 diff hist +1,682‎ N Solipsism ‎ Created page with "Solipsism, in the traditional sense, is a theory that reality consists solely of a single person (the solipsist) and all of the apparent surrounding reality, including other persons, is nothing more than products of imagination. Postmodern solipsism is the end reality of postmodern moral relativism, the belief that all moral reality is egocentric, i.e., subject to personal whim. There is an intermediate stage, which we can term aggressive progressivism, in which the su..." current
  • 02:0902:09, 6 March 2023 diff hist +2,100‎ N Sociopath ‎ Created page with "People used to use the term "psychopath." Although dictionaries often give slightly different definitions for these two terms, there does not seem to be a substantive technical difference. The term psychopath entered the vernacular in the 60s with the release of Alfred Hitchcock's movie, ''Psycho'', a name that strikes me as having a more compelling ring than ''Socio''. This cultural/psychological difference between the terms helps to explain why the preferred term toda..." current
  • 02:0702:07, 6 March 2023 diff hist +618‎ N Situational Ethics ‎ Created page with "A forbidden term. In the antiquated sense, "situational ethics" denotes the idea that different ethical principles apply to different circumstances, and that there are no universally applicable moral rules, except, of course, for the rule that says there are no such rules. As such, the moral philosophy of "situational ethics" is not purely relative (so a situational ethicist is not, per se, a moral relativist), but only situationally so. Thus, instead of saying "Don't i..." current
  • 02:0602:06, 6 March 2023 diff hist +2,086‎ N Sexual freedom ‎ Created page with "Gertrude Stein's famous line about roses was intended to heighten the reality of the sense of a rose in the imagination of her reader. These days, the modern psycho-sophist has other aims. Aiming to regain control of a debate that is lost when normal discourse and normal sanity prevails, the psycho-sophists invent specialized terms that mean something quite different than one might expect from the meanings of the words from which they are composed. Hearing such terms,..." current
  • 02:0502:05, 6 March 2023 diff hist +527‎ N SIXHIRB ‎ Created page with "I had to look this one up. It wasn’t on Wikipedia, but I found it in the Urban Dictionary. Here we go: * Sexist * Intolerant * Xenophobic * Homophobic * Islamophobic * Racist * Bigoted I’m quite sure this list will only grow longer with time. Why? Because the “woke” are inherently narcissistic and believe they’re better than others. To try to prove that to themselves, they compile a list of traits they consider to be negative and that people who disagree..." current
  • 02:0302:03, 6 March 2023 diff hist +2,536‎ N Ruling Oligarchy ‎ Created page with "Extremists in every national political contest in the U.S. tend to blame their failures on the putative existence of a ruling elite, or oligarchy. This is generally regarded as a crazy conspiracy theory, for the obvious reasons that no such cabal has ever declared its existence, there is no discernible stable pattern of success for either political party, and, most important of all, no rational cabal would ever take the country along the political path it has evidently t..." current
  • 02:0302:03, 6 March 2023 diff hist +2,702‎ N Right-Wing ‎ Created page with "The terms "right-wing" and "left-wing" derive, according to Wikipedia (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics#History history of right-wing politics]) from the time of the French Revolution, when the main constituencies of the Estates General (a consultative body to the French monarchy) were, primarily, the nobility (termed the "Second Estate") and the commoners (termed the "Third Estate") sat, respectively, to the right of the king or to the left of the..." current
  • 02:0202:02, 6 March 2023 diff hist +994‎ N Republican ‎ Created page with "In contrast to a Democrat, a Republican is someone who believes in maximizing opportunity, even at the expense of increasing disparity of lifestyle. While many other principles of life and/or governance have been associated with the label "Republican," no convincing case can be presented that any such auxiliary belief or principle is a requirement for membership in the Republican Party. Bear in mind, of course, that there are big government Republicans (who believe in g..." current
  • 02:0102:01, 6 March 2023 diff hist +651‎ N Reproductive Health Services ‎ Created page with "Any medical services that pertain to human reproduction, especially its enjoyment and its suppression. See Reproductive Health. The most commonly used forms of reproductive health services are, in order of most popularity to least popular, contraception, abortion, sterilization, performance or pleasure enhancement drugs, prostate surgery or anti-cancer therapy connected with the prostate, hysterectomy, oophorectomy and other anti-cancer therapy connected with ovaries, f..." current
  • 02:0002:00, 6 March 2023 diff hist +522‎ N Reproductive Health ‎ Created page with "The ability to have sex without consequences, like having children or catching a venereal disease. In psychology it refers to the ability to have sex as one chooses without suffering either the complications of guilt or the anxieties that stem from separation or the "dying of the flame". See Reproductive Health Services. Reproductive health is a relative term, like physical fitness. Top reproductive health entails things like maximum pleasure, maximum performance, an..." current
  • 01:5901:59, 6 March 2023 diff hist +100‎ N Red State ‎ Created page with "One of the 50 states which tends, predominantly, to vote Republican in state and national elections." current
  • 01:5801:58, 6 March 2023 diff hist +252‎ N Red Pill ‎ Created page with "An expression featured in the movie "The Matrix", used, in the movie, to represent a decision to live outside of the Matrix, a programmed virtual reality, or, alternatively (interpreting the metaphor) a decision to embrace and live in reality as it is." current
  • 01:5801:58, 6 March 2023 diff hist +96‎ N Red ‎ Created page with "An outdated political term, referring to a member of the Communist Party or one of its cognates." current
  • 01:5701:57, 6 March 2023 diff hist +402‎ N Reality ‎ Created page with "The word has two primary meanings. 1) Reality is a figment of the imagination (of, for example, a philosopher, a scientist or a theologian). 2) Reality is whatever the top politician (for example, a president, a king, an emperor or a chairman) says it is. There is, of course, an antiquated meaning of the word, something like "reality is what hits you in the face when you're not paying attention."" current
  • 01:5601:56, 6 March 2023 diff hist +1,324‎ N Realist ‎ Created page with "A forbidden word. In the antiquated sense, a realist is someone who believes reality (in the antiquated sense) is coherent, governed by mathematical laws. There are three kinds of realist, the classical, the modern and the post-modern. The classical realist is someone who believes reality was created by an all-powerful, all-knowing, all-wise God, who invented the laws of reality, including the laws of nature. The modern realist is an agnostic, who believes that natur..." current
  • 01:5501:55, 6 March 2023 diff hist +960‎ N Racist ‎ Created page with "Someone who disagrees with the social or political innovations of ethnic minority life mandated by the progressive movement. This definition supersedes that of Merriam-Webster, which is "a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race." The main problems with this definition are: (1) it levies two determinative requirements where one would suffice, (2) it uses t..." current
  • 01:5401:54, 6 March 2023 diff hist +1,086‎ N Progressivism ‎ Created page with "Progressivism denotes the political philosophy that leads to human progress. It is forbidden to question what this means or to ask for a coherent list of principles that characterizes it. (You can ask for a list of such principles. You just can't demand that they be self-consistent.) Progressives will insist on the moral purity of their historical genesis, emphasizing the role played by classic muckrakers, like Lincoln Stephens, Ida Tarbell or Upton Sinclair, political..." current

5 March 2023

  • 23:0923:09, 5 March 2023 diff hist +1,887‎ N Pro-life ‎ Created page with "One of those elusive terms that is claimed by almost everybody. Consider the following opposition positions: Conservative "pro-life": Finding important - possibly even essential, inherent or sacred (as in blessed by God) - value in innocent human life, in particular the life of an unborn or recently born child. Progressive "pro-life": Finding important - as in supported, desired or sacred (as in blessed by Government) - value in any human life, at any age. In particula..." current
  • 23:0623:06, 5 March 2023 diff hist +355‎ N Presentism ‎ Created page with "Judging the past by the standards of the present. ''Wikipedia'' has two articles on "presentism". The term here refers to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentism_(literary_and_historical_analysis)| Presentism - literary and historical analysis] Bill Maher commented on this in a "Real Time" episode... <center><youtube>schuzjknjYE</youtube></center>" current
  • 23:0523:05, 5 March 2023 diff hist +3,019‎ N Postmodern Fable 3 ‎ Created page with "'''Biblical Prolog (''Luke 10:30-34'')''' A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was; and when he saw him, he had compassion, an..." current
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