Anti-Communist

It is possible I suppose, that I actually do possess some of the mental attitudes of a troll.

AC

Skunk not shunk, my bad.

Central Intelligence Agency
Buckley remained at Yale working as a Spanish instructor from 1947 to 1951[40] before being recruited into the CIA like many other Ivy League alumni at that time; he served for two years, including one year in Mexico City working on political action for E. Howard Hunt,[41] who was later imprisoned for his part in the Watergate scandal. The two officers remained lifelong friends.[42] In a November 1, 2005, column for National Review, Buckley recounted that while he worked for the CIA, the only CIA employee he knew was Hunt, his immediate boss. While stationed in Mexico, Buckley edited The Road to Yenan, a book by Peruvian author Eudocio Ravines.[43] After leaving the CIA, he worked as an editor at The American Mercury in 1952, but left after perceiving newly emerging anti-Semitic tendencies in the magazine.[44]

The Yenan way
by Ravines, Eudocio
https://archive.org/details/yenanway0000ravin

downloadable

Don't you find it rather suspicious that such a heavy-weight as Buckley was involved in the Yenan Way?  What a help to Nixon, who needed a clear path to open the door to China.

How's that working out for you?

How do you think it will work out in the future?

Whatever you think, I'm rather sure intellectual objectivists paved at least part of the way towards making "Free Trade" the American policy.

Or am I wrong about that?

So, are you thinking you have no obligation to point out to your friends that the Yenan Way exists?

A fact of reality: Chairman Mao created the Yenan Way, are you disputing its existence? Are you disputing its relevance?

The last thing the CCP would like to have happen is an awakening in the West to the Yenan Way, has Fox News ever mentioned it?  Has any Objectivist Forum or Organization ever mentioned it?

How could you think I'm on the side of the CCP??

I don't mind walking into it, didn't even break my skin.

I suppose you have alerted your friends and asked them to alert their friends, you know, the ones who are invested in China one way or another, that Chairman Mao in the 1950s created "The Yenan Way".

Of course if you pressed the issue, "have you read this essay" that one written by a professional not an amateur.

You might end up with less friends, i.e. be the shunk at the dinner party.

For the readers who don't understand "The Yenan Way" as I understand it, is the "Way" created by Chairman Mao in the 1950s of promoting Marxist-Leninism with a process more effectual than older Marxist-Leninist thinking, to wit, make an alliance with business-people, all those whose main concern in life is money-making, don't announce who you really are as a person or as a political operative.   Use your alliance with the dupe to gain positions in society especially but not limited to political positions.

Then when the time is ripe, ( our leaders will tell you when ) KILL the dupe, then we the Communists will have won.

A much better plan than announcing who you are and what you intend to do.

As a plan it has worked beautifully.

So, Michael, are you willing to risk being the shunk at the dinner-party?

AC

Michael,

Where the comment fits into the discussion, is that you seem to think "People thinking for themselves." is very important.

I suggest that "thinking for yourself" is not truly basic.

The people that think for themselves have courage, the courage to be independent.

Do people "think" themselves into being courageous?

Some people think a lot, they think "I can make a lot of money doing business with the Chinese."

Why should they continue to think after they have arrived at a very pleasant conclusion?

The reason I brought up the Yenan Way is to alert "Free-Traders" to the fact that Chairman Mao created a specific plan to defeat the West.

Those who are born to think for themselves don't need much goading to do that, if any.

What Civilizations need is a populace that feels safe from the power of other's.

So they rise as a person and not descend.

Do you seriously advocate being silent to youngsters and about Ayn's quotation on Art that I quoted?

Visit Paul Cooijmans website.

"Art is the indispensable medium for the communication of a moral ideal."

page 21 of "The Romantic Manifesto" by Ayn Rand

In the running for most important quotation.

Hi Peter,

I just created a file (for me) of Peter's comments on objectivistliving, and copied your post above for later reflection, I hope you don't mind, I'm just a private individual with a good filing system.

I have a collection of quotations (pearls of wisdom) that is easy to copy and paste, the link to that site is in the Quotes section at this site, just posted.

Regards,

AC

Ayn Rand in her book "The Romantic Manifesto" wrote on the subject on why quotations aren't effective.

She had a solution, do you?

https://web.archive.org/web/20240212193108/https://firesidequotations.proboards.com/thread/3/quotations

Many things discussed, what should be discussed, what is most important?

At least in the top 1,000 subjects, The Yenan Way - created by Chairman Mao.

Simple and ignorable advice:  First be a master of copying and pasting.

Hi Michael,

Intellectual usefulness, is closely twined with the VERIEST BEING of a specific person.

So, which quotation from Ayn Rand would create here-now today X.?

I know which one I would pick.

The world isn't perfect, and won't be.

If the American people insisted on being Lions

instead of Foxes, we would not be fearing that

thing called the Deep State.

The Russian deep state pre-communism killed 

and imprisoned people, was their system of

control even one-hundredth as bad as the

system under communism in the 20th Century?

http://www.jrnyquist.com/lions-and-foxes.html

No, actually it is "Rocket Science", the failure of the Western analysts to understand Marxist-Leninism and how it works is a large part of the problem.

On 2/10/2024 at 8:11 AM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

This is an interesting take philosophy-wise.

Do we look at reality or do we dismiss reality when putting together a narrative?

And by reality, I mean something about as basic and elementary as input to eyesight.

Eyesight, fer kreeiiiiisakes.

The reporter basically told Kirby (my paraphrase): You keep saying Putin is encroaching on the NATO West. And that is the reason for funding and promoting war against him.

Yet who has advanced over the years, NATO or Putin?

Kirby responds with mumble mumble mumble. And the reporter asks again, Who has advanced over the years? Kirby responds with mumble mumble mumble. The reporter asks again, Who has advanced over the years? Kirby finally said, Yeah NATO did.

And then he hauled out the "but eraser." This is when you say "but" to invalidate and erase what you said before.

 

 

So which will it be?

A narrative based on reality? Or a narrative based on whim? (Elitist Military-Industrial Complex whim at that.)

The large number of dead no longer care, but we can avoid more dead by using reality as the standard instead of whim.

Michael

My Ayn Randian type comment: "Always acknowledge the entire game-board."

Postulate:  The Russian high command was never seriously worried about Eastern European countries becoming members of NATO.

Looking back historically I see that, in a manner of speaking the entire Western Civilization "project" can be imagined as a large "GO" stone, covering about 30 "points" on a GO board ...... whose destiny was to throw off money and technology and stability to the socialist bloc.

Postulate:   The Soviets had a plan, it's more visible manifestations began with the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Western Civ. is on its knees.

Forum is operational now.

Since I have spare time and since

comments on the web are IMO, unorganized

I am with that "forum" doing an experiment.

On 11/13/2023 at 12:30 AM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

AH,

I misunderstood.

I thought you were starting to read Atlas Shrugged.

Going from your posts, I have no idea what you are talking about.

And without any context, I am not curious.

You really need to learn how to write if you want discussion.

Michael

Yo, Mike

I don't want discussion, I want others to read and

there slightly alter their mental and actionate habits.

Just Say'in

I'll be constantly searching for quality comments to move

to the (readable) top of the Long Thread forum.

Well, lets see:

South America falling to the Communists

Most of Europe disarmed, and willing to surrender.

"come to terms".

USA Nuclear Deterrent, perhaps so old as to be un-workable.

A Traitor in the White House.

Ukraine people are fight a Russian Invasion.

And you sweet pea, want the Ukrainian area to fall 

under control of the Soviets.

Anything AT ALL changed since AR was alive?

Tell me more.

ASS.

Hello All,

Gadfly operation in progress.

30 minutes ago, Anti-Communist said:

Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key — and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs.  Librarians didn't look glamorous to me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.
Robert A. Heinlein, Have Spacesuit, will Travel

What is The Long Thread?

Just visit, its nature will morph over time, if it used much. - A.O.

Hi, Michael

An Experiment, may not be do-able.

I've created a website for a Long Thread there in case it is not do-able on this site because of the this sites forum software, or rules.

Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key — and we will survive or founder, depending on how well the librarians do their jobs.  Librarians didn't look glamorous to me but maybe Dad had hit on a not very obvious truth.
Robert A. Heinlein, Have Spacesuit, will Travel

What is The Long Thread?

Just visit, its nature will morph over time, if it used much. - A.O.

On 1/29/2024 at 1:54 PM, Michael Stuart Kelly said:

Peter,

I didn't see any buzz about this.

But I did see Laura Loomer talk about Biden donors holding meetings to give money to Nikki Haley in Florida. And Laura is pissed the exposure was met with a yawn.

Rich people gonna play rich people games.

So if you saw something in the mainstream, it was probably some of those same rich people playing with their fake news toys.

 

Michael

 

Good Morning Michael,

Would it help if more and more people posted -

"Rich people taught by Soviets."

Instead of the other two words?

File this under: Deceptive and Destructive Two Word Phrases

Hello Michael,

Link:

Of interest?

The more important two words: Self-Satisfied

Posting in order to get more votes for Trump.

Bonhoeffer's Theory of Stupidity

.... a short video available on YouTube

Hello Michael,

"Our emerging system of cultural control anticipates a future system of police control. 
Anti-socialist elements are routinely identified and demonized (as seen in the case of 
President Donald Trump or his followers). A vast indoctrination, utilizing peer group pressure 
and career incentives, has long been under construction in America. Citizens in all walks of life 
are judged as “responsible” or “irresponsible,” based on their willingness to cooperate with the 
agitation-propaganda of the socialist camp. Those who oppose socialism are deemed “reactionary.” 
Those who waver, and attempt to adopt independent thinking, are labeled “immature.” It is not a 
matter of being arrested. The system works by propagating social and administrative consequences 
— enforced by managers, teachers and colleagues. It has progressed slowly, imperceptible, using 
code words that avoid direct socialist declarations. Always, in this process, the socialist camp 
advances under cover, using environmentalism, anti-racism and concern for the poor."

Excerpted from: "Cultural Subversion and Socialist Dictatorship" by J.R.Nyquist

My comment about the situation in Texas: A simple "I don't trust you Mr. Biden."

would be a good response to Mr. Biden and his offer of a deal.

Hello Mr. Kelly,

Lew Moore wrote a book "The Forerunner" I haven't read it yet.

Mr. Nyquist many times was on the Allan de Santos show "Update Brazil".

You probably could still find some of it on Youtube.