tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post9061752868329473651..comments2024-03-29T12:03:37.344+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: The dementing societyBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-46815201063935569862013-06-29T16:27:31.501+01:002013-06-29T16:27:31.501+01:00An excellent piece. I wonder if, unlike dementia, ...An excellent piece. I wonder if, unlike dementia, there is not a purposeful element to modern dishonest confabulation/The Resonant Rightnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-84694300532007232682013-06-20T19:23:04.638+01:002013-06-20T19:23:04.638+01:00@A - There certainly are strategically evil people...@A - There certainly are strategically evil people who deliberately try to destroy Good - but they're demented too, channelling unseen forces. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-12656727304183503632013-06-20T18:54:17.933+01:002013-06-20T18:54:17.933+01:00Dementia and incoherence is a good way to cover up...Dementia and incoherence is a good way to cover up evil behind mealy-mouthed hypocrisy.<br /><br />For instance, if the establishment tore down old buildings wholesale to put up ugly modernist creations, the act might be seen for what it is: the expression of a brutal attack on historical values, much like in the Soviet Union.<br /><br />Instead, they've long ago switched to doing this kind of stuff:<br /><br />http://spacing.ca/toronto/2013/06/11/u-of-t-reveals-new-design-for-one-spadina-crescent/<br /><br />(Ironically, simultaneously with this article showing how modernist architects don't respect earlier architectural styles, the magazine I linked to publishes a complaint about how people don't respect modernist architecture anymore:<br /><br />http://spacing.ca/toronto/2013/06/12/spacings-next-issue-released-on-june-25th/<br /><br />Again, incoherence is just unconscious hypocrisy.)<br /><br />I already mentioned at one point how the most bemusing act of 'heritage preservation' I've witnessed so far was the retention of the front wall of a church as the doors to a secular residential condominium, complete with a chiseled admonition to "have no other gods before Me".<br /><br />You can't even plausibly accuse people like this of a coordinated attack on values, because they don't really even know what they're doing themselves, anymore.Arakawahttp://arakawa.github.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-73566273078843124722013-06-20T14:02:01.170+01:002013-06-20T14:02:01.170+01:00An excellent analogy Dr. Charlton, fatuousness and...An excellent analogy Dr. Charlton, fatuousness and superficiality is the essence of modern intellectual discourse. Others have described it as feminine, which I also agree with. Modern society loves to talk, but never gets to the point. This is most immediately perceptible in the media, where a deluge of pointlessness obfuscates real news at all times. Simple information exchange is blunted by an excess of vapid pointlessness; celebrity babies, rowdy sportsmen, pithy anecdotes pushing a liberal worldview and worst of all... lists. The infatuation with lists in media also seems to me to be a symptom of feminization. 10 Ways To Keep The Man Of Your Dreams! vs. 5 Things We Didn't Know About The 1800s (#1 to #5, they were more racist than previously imagined).<br /><br />The Wernicke-Korsakoff analogy also holds in that the condition is potentially the result of hedonistic excess.Luqmannoreply@blogger.com