March 2007 Archives

Here is the "Modern Liberal" disease in essence: There are no standards ... No standard or criterion for truth, beauty, justice, or anything else...

I would go one step further, to be more accurate: Modern Liberals have standards -- anything that undermines or attacks the West, the legacy of the Enlightenment, adherence to facts and liberty, certainty and happiness, anything along these lines is evil.

Watch Evan Sayet's 45-minute lecture at The Heritage Foundation.

By what standard does Skousen make his judgment? He accuses her of:

• an inversion of the Christian values --correct: faith corrupts reason and promotes force, self-abasement and self-sacrifice make life on Earth impossible, humility negates pride
• defense of greed and selfishness --correct: the pursuit of one's own values and happiness is her central ethical advice
• diatribes against religion and [self-sacrifice] --correct
• criticism of the Judeo-Christian virtues --repetitive, and correct
• {John] Galt crystallizes the Randian motto: I swear by my life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man nor ask another man to live for mine. No sacrifice, no altruism, no feelings, just pure egotistical selfishness, which Rand declares to be supreme logic and reason. --correct: she rejects sacrifice as a virtue and denies that emotion is a cognitive method
• sex scenes are narcissistic, mechanical, and violent --oooooh, hahaha: speak for yourself, Skousen; she held that sex is an expression of man's sense of his own value! Sex is to love what action is to thought, possession to evaluation, body to soul.

If the above is dangerous, make the most of it!

Further, that Skousen is a dishonest and incompetent critic is made evident by the following egregious errors:

Beautiful angles we should be seeing in person: NASA's Cassini spacecraft has captured never-before-seen views of Saturn from perspectives high above and below the planet's rings. Over the last several months, the spacecraft has climbed to higher and higher inclinations ... The images taken over last two months are being released today and include black and white and color mosaics, as well as a dramatic movie sequence showing the rings as they appeared to Cassini while it sped from south to north, rapidly crossing the ring plane. Also released is a playful view of the rings from high above, with the planet removed. ...