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6 March 2023
- 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