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• 02:27, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:26, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:25, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:23, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:22, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:21, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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?).")
• 02:20, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:19, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:18, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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.")
• 02:17, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:16, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:15, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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.")
• 02:14, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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."")
• 02:13, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Supersidiarity (Created page with "A forbidden term. The opposite of subsidiarity, another forbidden term.")
• 02:13, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:11, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:10, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:09, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:07, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:06, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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,...")