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• 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....")
• 22:41, 5 March 2023 Root talk contribs created page Moral Relativism (Created page with "A forbidden term. In the antiquated sense, moral relativism is the belief that morality is in the eye of the beholder. This makes it a tad difficult to explain why it is immoral to impose one's morality on someone else. It also makes it a tad inconvenient for governments (or, more generally, social elites), which are in the business of imposing some morality on everyone, or different moralities on different constituencies, whichever is more politically convenient or nec...")