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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,...")
• 02:05, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:03, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:03, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:02, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:01, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 02:00, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 01:59, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Red State (Created page with "One of the 50 states which tends, predominantly, to vote Republican in state and national elections.")
• 01:58, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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.")
• 01:58, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Red (Created page with "An outdated political term, referring to a member of the Communist Party or one of its cognates.")
• 01:57, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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."")
• 01:56, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 01:55, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 01:54, 6 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 23:09, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 23:06, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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>")
• 23:05, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page 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...")
• 23:02, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Postmodern Fable 2 (Created page with "'''Biblical Prolog (Genesis 11:1-4)''' Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scatte...")
• 22:58, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Postmodern Fable 1 (Created page with "In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, David sent Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel out on campaign; and they ravaged the Ammonites and besieged Rabbat. But David remained at Jerusalem. It happened late one afternoon, when David arose from his couch and was walking upon the roof of the king's house, that he saw from the roof a woman bathing; and the woman was very beautiful. And David sent and inquired about the woman. And on...")
• 22:57, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Post-structuralism (Created page with "So, what do you do if you flunked philosophy and science? If you have a political/ideological bent, and perhaps a flair for glib phrases, you invent "post-structuralism", a substitute for hard knowledge which excuses its ignorance with claims that "no one really understands anything anyway, because they just can't, that's why." If you find the work of Derrida, Foucault, et. al., too difficult to endure because of its imprecision, you might take refuge in the work of Wit...")
• 22:56, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Polysemantic (Created page with "Having multiple meanings. This is one of the more obscure words in the English language. This is the adjective form. The noun form, polysemant, is even more obscure. Examples of polysemantic words include the following * Liberal * [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism Neoliberal] * Conservative * Progressive * Tolerance * Homophobic * Xenophobic * Pro-Life * Freedom * [https://en.wi...")
• 22:54, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Political Correctness (Created page with "Political correctness is a term used generally by skeptics who stand at least partly aloof from post-modern progressivism. True believers regard the term as hostile and its usage politically incorrect. Since if you are reading this you probably have personal experience giving or receiving a charge of political incorrectness, I see no further need to elaborate.")
• 22:54, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Plutocracy (Created page with "Rule by the class of people who have the most possessions.")
• 22:53, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page POE (Created page with "There are surely many other possible acronyms and many possible names for the Party of Empire. That we should end up with an acronym like POE is perhaps coincidental. We could not reasonably call its platform poetic, though we might consider its ideological underpinnings manifestly macabre. In truth, it is not clear that it has an official structure, like most parties do, but may exist purely as an abstraction of important phenomena or as an hypothesis advanced in an at...")
• 22:51, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page PAC Man (Created page with "If you happen to be a geek, or know one well, you may know that the Japanese company, Namco, created one of the first arcade games, known as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Man Pac-Man]. Arcade games, once transitioned into an electronic digital media environment, were the first video games. Pac-Man was a rudimentary eating-head (as opposed to "head-eating") icon. It preceded the talking heads idea (which was pioneered by the Sci-Fi character known as [https://en.wiki...")
• 22:50, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Oligarchy (Created page with "Rule by a small group of people who agree with each other that no one else should have power.")
• 22:49, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Obamoncology (Created page with "Obamoncology is the sub-discipline of Oncology devoted to excising the cancer of capitalism from society. In a brilliant alliance between Mr. Glibb and Dr. Prepper, the American economy has been brought under sedation through the application of local anesthetics applied to various and sundry economic organs. The subject is not yet comatose, but is already largely unaware of what is happening. Some of those organs have been removed, and replaced by government agencies. t...")
• 22:47, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Nomocracy (Created page with "The standard definition of Nomocracy is "government by the rule of law or a legal code." It should be noted, however, that the interposition of a large bureaucracy interpreting law effectively diminishes the purpose and intent of the rule of law, since the interpretation, if the legal code is overwhelmingly complex (the standard raison d'être for the bureaucracy) the interpretation becomes increasingly arbitrary. On might plot a graph of the relationship between the si...")
• 22:45, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Nominalist (Created page with "A forbidden word. A nominalist, in the antiquated sense, is someone who believes that the laws of nature are figments of a person's imagination. In that sense, they are purely arbitrary. Reality, itself, to the nominalist, has no such laws governing it. The idea of nominalism arose when philosophers noticed that not all humans (or dogs, or cats or horses) are exactly alike, and that it is deucedly difficult to define precisely what a human being is, so they stopped tryi...")
• 22:43, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Newspeak (Created page with "Newspeak is an archaic term, invented by George Orwell, to prophesy our post-modern linguistic usage, whose fundamental purpose is to control the social and political narrative. One may view the purposes and, to some extent, the form of Newspeak as a likely endpoint for post-modern language. By the time this endpoint is reached, of course, society will be in a process of economic implosion and ultimately degenerate into social chaos. Orwell was not a social economist and...")
• 22:42, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Mother (Created page with "A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, the term "mother" meant something. Or so the story goes. Few people, today, are sure what that meaning may have been. There is a rumor that an endangered species of humans, called Christians, have a concept of "mother" that is connected in some mysterious way with another concept they call "Church." When the curator of the World Museum of Natural History was queried as to what this might be, however, its response was "I dunno....")