Right of Centre Political Blogger Since 2003

“Philosophy is the resistance of the soul to disorder” -Voegelin

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. -Madcap

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

Chuck Jines -- StreetWisePundit

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 personal 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 QUOTES

-Bertrand Russell

“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.”

-From the introduction to the Great Books of the Western World by Encyclopedia Britannica 1954

“We believe that the reduction of the citizen to an object of propaganda, private and public, is one of the greatest dangers to democracy. A prevalent notion is that the great mass of the people cannot understand and cannot form an independent judgment upon the matter; they cannot be educated, in the since of developing their intellectual powers, but they can be bamboozled.

The reiteration of slogans, the distortion of the news, the great storm of propaganda that beats upon the citizen twenty-four hours a day all his life long mean either that democracy must fall a prey to the loudest and most persistent propagandists or that the people must save themselves by strengthen their minds so that they can appraise the issues for themselves.”

-Madcap

Comrades! The Government of Plenty has issued a statement concerning the recent propaganda claiming that there are free ice cream shortages out in California. It’s not true!

Free ice cream is free ice cream -- free ice cream for everyone!

Hey you! Yes, you with that hamburger. Violation 4576554-09 of the Health is Wealth Act. $500.00 fine. Cash only. Next…

-Madcap

Liberal ethical question 101: Who should we throw off the raft first? Not what is happiness, or what is man’s happiness, but which sucker are we going to toss off first! How compassionate!

-Madcap

First sign of the liberal collectivist neurosis: The overwhelming feeling one is morally obligated to tolerate and take every opinion seriously.

-Madcap

• Self interest with no law = anarchy
• Self interest with bad law = slavery
• Self interest under Just Law = freedom

-Madcap

Another fantastic day filled with opportunity. Another day for being productive, self assured, brave and confident in achieving the goals that serve my own self interest. I will give the day nothing less.

-Madcap

My intention is to intentionally cause psychological discomfort to post-modern liberalism. How’s that for being honest and upfront.

-Madcap

Of what value is the “opinion” of an idiot? I’d like to get your opinion. I collect opinions, never holding one above another. That would require thinking and making a “value judgment.”

-Madcap

One Nation under heath insurance! In Obama we trust, oh so loudly we wail, at the beer summit’s last gleaming. Girls fainting, hysterical rally slogans with meaningless laughter frantically scrambling after free ice cream.

We the sheeple, in order to form a more perfect slaughter, do so solemnly swear to tolerate the intolerable, choose the choiceless, and forever hope for more free ice cream.

Blessed with the assurances of the anointed one’s immaculate deception, we shall now together proceed blindly into the dark. Peace to all and good luck.

-Madcap

What type of man voluntarily walks into the gas chamber without a struggle? Is this the type of man that is proud to be human, or were they trained to be an obedient herd animal? Is altruism really a good virtue? Is man truly a sacrificial animal? Is it better to take pride in not having any pride, or to have real pride in oneself? Is not pride a virtue to the free man?

-Madcap

An active mind is capable of intentionally throwing ideas into the arena to see if they can hold against other ideas. Through this process one forms convictions.

Like a Olympic athlete that spends their time honing their body to top condition, the active mind becomes an intellectual fighting machine.

Because of this, one active mind can crush an army of “open minds.”

-Madcap

Whenever a progressive says -- “I disagree, but you have the right to your opinion,” what they really mean is “I must go now because I can’t defend my own.”

-Madcap

Free stuff!!! Yep, the government of plenty is giving away free stuff to all the people. Well -- they do have to take other peoples stuff first, but after that it’s free stuff for everyone!!!

-Madcap

Today’s modern man needs doctors to distribute sedatives in order to make his “happiness” tolerable.

-Hafiz

“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?”

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.

-Shrii Shrii Ananda Murti

“That which is constantly being buffeted and battered every moment cannot discover the absolute factor. You cannot discover the primordial factor in this way.

In order to find it you will have to reach the Cause of all causes -- the Supreme Cause -- which itself has no cause. This causeless factor is the final answer to all queries -- the culminating point of all contemplation and deliberation.

Theoretically, this supreme factor is certainly difficult for the common people to know. But if sa’ dhakas evolve their intellects from crudity to subtlety it will be possible for them to reach the non-causal factor.”

( Note: Sādhaka is Sanskrit for someone who follows a particular sādhana, or a way of life designed to realize the goal of one’s ultimate ideal.)

-Madcap

People who place their loyalties in people, places, and things, above the True, the Good, and the Beautiful, are dishonest people whose
real agenda is not Truth or Justice, but rather power and comfort.

Generally people cling to one “group think” or another at all costs -- like frightened children holding their security blanket in the dark. They have not the courage to let go… only to mock and scold those who have.

They speak often of “Truth” and “Justice” while having only the slightest understanding of their meanings, and failing to come even remotely close to either.
Nietzsche referred to this as “slave morality” and the “herd instinct.”

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