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Political Blogger Since 2003
Philosophy is the resistance of the soul to disorder
Towards the Ubermensch: Humanity’s regress express now arriving at the last man station. Please familiarize yourself with the emergency exits located at the back of the bus… Instructions located on the handle.
Modern liberals float around in a relativistic haze of intellectual drift, never touching the ground- always hovering “above it all” in a strange second reality where they can always be right… Don’t chase them… it’s pointless. Be a Socratic surgeon.
Madcap
I am a 43 year old, third generation Chicago native. I’m also a 100% Grade “A” American blue collar worker: faster, better, stronger. I have two children and I am married to a mental health counselor. That way I have full time staff on hand!
I have many interests including politics, philosophy, history, theology, music, and most recently taking photographs of Chicago.
As well as being a working man, I am also self-educated and have had a life-long passion for reading and learning. I grew up in a political family, so to me politics and philosophy are a part of life just like eating and sleeping.
Above all of this, I hold that our system of government, as well as our personal lives, cannot serve to fulfill our final end of happiness without a clear and shared sense of the Divine. Ours is a moral disorder at heart; indeed the city is man written large. If our city is in disorder, then our souls are in disorder.
This quote by philosopher Ken Wilber expresses how I see things:
“It is not the forces of darkness but of SHALLOWNESS that everywhere threaten the True, and the Good, and the Beautiful, and that ironically announce themselves as deep and profound. It is an exuberant and fearless shallowness that everywhere is the modern danger, the modern threat, and that everywhere nonetheless calls to us as savior.” -Ken Wilber
ARCHITECTURE
I love our man-made mountains! As a life-long blue collar worker I have often contemplated the incredible amount of labor it took to scoop mud out of the ground and raise a city, brick by brick… labor of body, and mind.
RUSH: WORKING MAN, LIVE
“Galaxies gave away their ingenious ideas and told us of their private body functions. So man, too,eats, burps and excretes more worlds. How is it that invisible thoughts can lift heavy matter and build cities and armies and altars?”
-- Renderings of Hafiz
FAVORITE QUOTE
“Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth — more than ruin — more even than death…. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man.” Bertrand Russell
A True Liberal
The conservatism of our day is identical with what was originally termed Liberal. Liberal, in the original sense, means to practice the virtue of liberality. In the mind of the postmodern Liberal, the term virtue has become a dirty word, and liberality has come to mean anarchy.
I consider myself to be a classical Liberal, which translates to a modern Conservative. I value change, when it is for the better. This does not mean that I will sacrifice the underlying foundations of truth, or the universal values that serve as the foundation of society, solely for the sake of change.
I value tolerance of other cultures, but not at the expense of my own. I recognize the right of societies to have their own set of cultural values, but I do not see all cultural values as equal. If Muslims wish to set up theocracies, then so be it. But when their theocracies threaten democracies, I will defend my democracy with all my being. I will not tolerate, or stand on the side of fascism, in the name of some “higher moral value” that in reality is a mental illness.
I am extremely open-minded. I have devoted my life to being a student of history, philosophy, and science; and have changed my opinions and perspectives when warranted. But I cannot let my brains ooze out onto the floor by abandoning reason and common sense. I wish to preserve those things that produce excellence, change the things that do not, and acquire the wisdom to know the difference. That is why I consider myself to be a true Liberal.
SOCIAL ISSUES
1. Helping the homeless and downtrodden is also part of my passion
2. Pro quality street performers
3. Pro quality graffiti
4. Pro life
5. Pro gun
6. Pro saving our historic buildings
7. Anti pothole
8. Anti ObamaNation socialism/social engineering
9. Anti ObamaNomics redistribution
10. Pro Libertarian individualism rather than Unitarian collectivism
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