tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post7151301240326278794..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: Great Chain Of BeingAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-22728396719533177062010-10-20T18:38:15.307-04:002010-10-20T18:38:15.307-04:00The thinkers of the Enlightenment spun this elabor...The thinkers of the Enlightenment spun this elaborated narrative about the Dark Ages, Middle Ages, and Renaissance, culminating in their wonderful selves, that showed that the superstition-ridden church kept everyone in ignorance, the medieval church continued this with the addition of stricter hierarchy, and everything started to become good once the Renaissance thinkers discovered Romans and especially Greeks, invented Science, shook off the Church, and became sensible humanists. All this in preparation for the even smarter, more humanistic, more scientific, anti-church, and generally spiffier Enlightenment guys.<br /><br />This is, unfortunately, still a dominant narrative in textbooks and popular imagination today, despite it's silliness and lack of accord with history.Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-35782398952552334152010-10-20T13:56:07.530-04:002010-10-20T13:56:07.530-04:00Brent raises a very important element in this conv...Brent raises a very important element in this conversation -- why is "medieval" conflated with "primitive" and "evil?"Dubbahdeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00075702513873912334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-48100121995756826412010-10-20T11:04:15.985-04:002010-10-20T11:04:15.985-04:00Feudalism .. if only. The New Class is not charac...Feudalism .. if only. The New Class is not characterized by love of the ancient customs & laws, or risk-taking, or physical courage, or making and keeping oaths, or anything good from feudal Europe.Brentnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-54433193690292070092010-10-19T09:18:42.010-04:002010-10-19T09:18:42.010-04:00"if they can only be convinced that the accus..."if they can only be convinced that the accusations against same are true, and not merely mud thrown by nonliberals."<br /><br />It's like a cult. Most of them simply want security and a life of happiness. But how are you going to convince them that Jim Jones isn't going to give that to them?<br /><br />How are you going to convince them that they can return to America and the CIA won't have them all killed?<br /><br />Eh? How.<br /><br />Convincing is best left for later. After you raid the cult camp, kill the leader, and forcibly bring back the members.Ymarnoreply@blogger.com