The totalitarian left has long disingenuously misapplied words such as liberal, progressive, democratic and rights. Liberal means a supporter of freedom, but the left uses it to mean a supporter of authoritarian state control. Progressive means support for progress, but the left uses it to mean advocacy of policies that squelch progress. Democratic means popular power but the left uses it to mean elite power, especially its own. Rights imply legal protection from violence, but the left uses it to mean the violent attainment of ends of which it approves.
The latest term that the the totalitarian left has corrupted is sustainability. Dictionary.com, defines to sustain as to support or bear the weight of; to keep from giving way; to keep up or keep going, as an action or process; and in a number of other ways. The notion of to keep up or keep going means the same as conserving, which is defined as preventing decay, waste or loss and using natural resources wisely, preserving or saving, as in conserving the woodlands.
The earliest version of environmentalism was called conservation, a term linked to sustainability. Only fools would fail to conserve resources but to make such conservation or sustainability the main point is niggardly. The main point is liberty, on which American culture is based. Liberty may imply conservation or conservatism but more often it has implied improvement, change and progress. Most Americans have come to enjoy the fruit of the experimentation to which liberty has led. Experimentation led to material and spiritual progress, not to conservativsm, reaction and sustainability.
At its heart, the left has always been a conservative movement. It aims to reinstate the tribalism of ancient times and, in the context of today's global society, to do so through re-institution of the medieval world: a global secular church, the United Nations; a federal Empire; a banking aristocracy; and an academic priesthood. The left's reactionary faith is not humanism but sustainability. Human beings are the problem and their eradication, their murder, is its ultimate goal.
Liberty and experimentation lead to discovery. The innovation of new technology permits humanity to improve its standard of living as it uses resources. Discovery permits humanity to make use of new resources in new ways. Human beings do not need to fear scarcity so long as they are free to improve their lives, especially in the context of markets that allocate resources so that they are distributed among their best uses. But if liberty is curtailed, as has occurred here since 1908, experimentation is reduced and progress stalls.
We can do better than sustainability. Sustainability is for the hunting grounds of kings and princes; the backwaters of pre-industrial and ancient societies; for the frontier of 14th century Europe. A nation based on freedom thinks in terms of improvement, progress and growth. It is surely a sign that Progressivism has finally failed that its admitted aim is sustainability and conservation, not progress.
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Can you illuminate us on the Comcast/NBC merger. Does this mean that the new entity can slow down my access to my favorite blog? That is what I have been hearing.
This is what us conspiracy theorists have been saying all along. Depopulation in the land of plenty has been the goal of the elitists.
And wrt your other post on the UN - YES - get the USA out of the UN and the UN off the land of the USA - absolutely.
The UN is backed by the banking cartel, the legitimacy of the banking cartel is held up by its phoney money, who's value is backed up by attourneys, the BAR and the courts.
If we stop giving attourneys money and preserve our own natural right by not attourning it over to the courts (by not being re-presented by them as sureties for the debt) the whole thing could fold in on itself. We just need to learn the sophistry of their language.
Jesus Christ walked on water and brought people back to life (out of debt [death]) and Dorothy threw a pail of water on the Wicked Witch of the West making her disappear into dust.
Not a single shot need by fired.
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