Showing posts with label Conservatism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conservatism. Show all posts

Friday, January 18, 2013

Angry Birds... a political statement?

PJ Lifestyle: 5 Secret Conservative Messages Hidden in Angry Birds: But here’s a few of the things you can learn flipping birds at pigs:

1. It’s not nice to steal what other people produce. The pigs are the villains because they take the birds’ eggs. Could the symbolism be any clearer? Pigs = Government. Eggs = The Productions of the Productive. Ayn Rand couldn’t have said it better — except maybe in her brilliant scene where a boomerang myna bird flies backwards into a beach ball.

2. When in doubt, turn to the wisdom of those who’ve gone before. If you want to score three stars on every level and pick up the golden eggs, sooner or later, you’re going to have to consult YouTube. It’s what we Angry Birders have instead of the Federalist Papers.

3. Doing the same thing over and over will produce the same results. In the immortal words of the exploding blackbird: “Don’t just keep hurling the same bird at the same spot. What doesn’t work doesn’t work. It’s exactly like socialism because… KA-BOOM!” The guy never finishes a sentence.

4. Destroy the foundation and everything else collapses. Clearly a veiled reference to the Obama administration’s repeated unconstitutional usurpations of power and its disregard for American practice and tradition. Also a good technique for getting a series of traffic cones to topple a wooden beam bringing down a stone castle.

5. The anchors of the network news media have degenerated into dishonorable liars. I think this is obvious. Just stop playing Angry Birds for a few minutes and watch their shows.

Well, I could go on, but I have to get back to work. A group of pigs (government) has stolen the eggs (money) from some birds (productive citizens) and I have to start hurling bodies at them in order to bring down their elaborate but essentially useless structures and restore the land to liberty.

That was the great Andrew Klavan. And yep, you just have read it. Here's a few other lessons:

6. Persevere: there is another way to win the level. Just keep trying.

7. Hard work bring rewards: Once you've figured out how to beat a tricky level, only practice will bring you to the next level. Knowledge is only half of the battle.

8. Don't lose sight of your enemies. But if you just can't stand their sneering and bickering, just mute them and keep on going. You will prevail.

9. Keep your eyes on the goal: Once you get there, you can work out the fine tuning, i.e. working to get the three stars in each level.

10. Try not to rely on the special features: they are scarce resources and they don't guarantee anything you can achieve by yourself. 

Aaaa-júa!
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Saturday, July 14, 2012

Conservatives most likely to pwn Twitter?

See this chart for yourself and decide. Apparently (and surprisingly), Angry Birds are for centrists and Wikipedia cannot betray its left-wing bias. Pay Pal and Amazon? Hey, you know: conservatives are pro-business. It's only logical. Tumblr and Reddit, in spite of my efforts, looks like Liberal Turfville to me. It is no surprise that Google leans left.And Pinterest, albeit a newcomer, is starting to look conservative!
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Saturday, May 5, 2012

MSNBC Panel Determines Republican Brains Inferior To Liberal (The old bag of electoral tricks)

Image from "The People's Cube"
Image from "The People's Cube"
MSNBC Panel Determines Republican Brains Inferior To Liberal It's the eternal electoral cycle liberal bag of tricks. Figuring out that science is their "natural ally" (see Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva), the left has a classic combination of smears used to demean and belittle the opposition, making them resemble "the cavemen" and the leftists play the enlightened, condescending ones. This is taken right from the "School of Frankfurt" and T.A. Adorno playbooks.

1. Homophobes (read Conservatives) are secretly gay. Homophobia is a mental disease. Conservatives are mentally ill (See Homophobia as a mental disease in an election year: How convenient! By Paul Maršić). Check.

2. Liberal brains are rational, i.e., superior to conservative ones. (See What Makes People Vote Republican? By Jonathan Haidt) Check.

But as Angelo M. Codevilla said before in America's Ruling Class -- And the Perils of Revolution:


Believing itself "scientific," this Progressive class sought to explain its differences from its neighbors in "scientific" terms. The most elaborate of these attempts was Theodor Adorno's widely acclaimed The Authoritarian Personality (1948). It invented a set of criteria by which to define personality traits, ranked these traits and their intensity in any given person on what it called the "F scale" (F for fascist), interviewed hundreds of Americans, and concluded that most who were not liberal Democrats were latent fascists. This way of thinking about non-Progressives filtered down to college curricula. In 1963-64 for example, I was assigned Herbert McCloskey's Conservatism and Personality (1958) at Rutgers's Eagleton Institute of Politics as a paradigm of methodological correctness. The author had defined conservatism in terms of answers to certain questions, had defined a number of personality disorders in terms of other questions, and run a survey that proved "scientifically" that conservatives were maladjusted ne'er-do-well ignoramuses. (My class project, titled "Liberalism and Personality," following the same methodology, proved just as scientifically that liberals suffered from the very same social diseases, and even more amusing ones.)
In other words, this is a game that conservatives can play, too.

In a nutshell - Those attempts are transparent and lame for those that recognize their periodicity and blatant bias. But Wait, there's more!

3. In some point of this electoral cycle, the alarms will be on, because the "extreme right, fundamentalist" websites will be "on the rise, breaking historical records."

Wanna bet?
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Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Chameleonic, ideological mix: Orwell would have smiled


How do we define liberalism? It depends on the landscape. Without going further in analyzing tenets, here’s a small trip around the world and around political definitions/labels: American-style liberalism is called socialdemocratism in Europe. Of course, in America the term liberal has acquired such pejorative connotations that now the preferred word used by liberals to define themselves is "progressive." Just like The Finch and Hillary Clinton like to call themselves.

Politics are dynamic, say politicians that like to change denominations just like they change shirts. Nineteenth century liberalism corresponds to actual libertarianism, of course, and that libertarianism pales in comparison to what was experimented in the late decades of the 19th century. Modern libertarianism equals modern liberalism in Europe, i.e., the old laissez faire. Meanwhile, classical liberalism would be now (via Hayek and Mises) the backbone of what is now considered conservatism in America.

Radical in Europe and Argentina is not even half of what a radical in America is. For European socialdemocrats and amid the current crisis specially, anyone who claims to believe in the free market and small government is labeled a neoliberal (a pejorative word strong in Europe and Latin America), and if he/she is not in favor of the European Union, becomes an ultra-nationalist, and if he/she is not defending secularism at all costs, then he/she is an ultraconservative.

Keep in mind that nowadays by definition any conservative in is an ultraconservative. A neoconservative or neocon is a recovering liberal. A paleoconservative is what people in South America call a “godo.” For the socialdemocrats and progressives alike, all conservatives all the same: extremists. But not ironically for conservatives, the liberals, progressives and socialdemocrats are all leftists, and if we have to use the word, commies. And as long anybody is not showing pictures of Hitler and swastikas, or is brandishing a weapon to establish a communist revolution (note that the extremes are asymmetrical), all are considered "center-left" or "center-right," although more than an knowledgeable experts gets in the same bag both the Nazis and the Communists as Nazi is an abbreviation for national - socialism.


The political struggle is easier when we are the reasonable ones are and the others are the extremists.
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Saturday, July 2, 2011

If you really, really want to know a firsthand account about conservatism...

… not a biased one, and you don’t have time even for a crash course then you should check the #tcot:

Ann Coulter: sarcasm with a no-prisoners approach. With 8 New York Times-listed bestsellers, and not a single review by them. Why?

Iowahawk: best living satirist in the USA! People in the other team wish they were with them!

Mark Steyn: Irony combined with erudition.

Rush Limbaugh: A William F. Buckley with humor and charisma for the masses. Feared by the left because of his alleged “hypnotic” powers that keep tuned to his radio show about 20 million listeners from Monday to Friday. Biggest radio personality in the States. Bigger than Howard Stern.

Dennis Miller: he found out that life was more than “Saturday Night Live”.

Greg Gutfeld: his humorous 3AM show “Red Eye” has MORE audience than MOST CNN shows.

Cynthia Yockey: a conservative lesbian that learned the hard way that the left was not for her. And she knows a thing or two about neuroscience!

And maybe you should read…


Advanced Readings:

Fiat Money Inflation in FranceAndrew Dickson White
The Road to SerfdomFriedrich A. Hayek
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