Dumb Ox in a Crass Example of Self-Loathing

We're mad, quite mad! Just how far this evil has gone is illustrated by a brilliant post from blogger Dumb Ox: if most people were only half as is dumb as he is, I dare say we wouldn't find ourselves in current predicament.

It is a crass example of "Postmodern Fallacy Number 1: the World is not a Pie", erroneously declaring a physical law of limited natural resources applicable to the one thing in life that is absolutely unlimited and free for as long as humanity is able to subsist on this planet: the sun's energy!

It has of course everything to do with Exercise Demoralization of the Usefuls, Part 2 (Part 1 being in the works since decades). I have been struggling with this apparent epidemic of self-loathing for some time, only to conclude in the end that it should be looked at from a different perspective.

There is no epidemic of self loathing; there are however crypto Marxists telling unstable usefuls and other gullibles that man is a naked, irrational, grasping ape, a parasite on the face of the earth, that is deserving of being obliterated, just as their forebears of the "archetypal white patriarchal narrative" have been very bad people and that as a consequence - they, as heirs - need to loath themselves in an act of attrition for secular original sin.

It is in fact a new version of ideological demoralization and an attempt at mind control, like political correctness, thinking and acting in accordance with The Ideology. Let me now step aside for this brilliant contribution:

Dumb Ox Daily News: Humans Stealing Sun Energy from Other Species

Post-modernist fallacy number 13 is in: the Master of the Universe!

Today I can proudly announce that we have found our post-modern fallacy (PMF) number 13! A lucky number and so central to our research into the fatal pseudo-philosophy of relativism.

Have you ever wondered about the ego inflation going on in the bl*#%y blegosphere and elsewhere in the post-modern world? Antwerp's city poet Ramsey Nasr once remarked of Dutch young men that they are arrogant little blighters whom somehow have learnt they are important (or words to that effect). Now we know why (and it isn't just their mothers that are to blame, and it surely isn't just Dutch young men! Here goes:

13. Relativist pseudo-philosophy causes ego-centrism and pompousness

It's the fallacy that denies objective truth that lurks at the very bottom of the fatal mistake (I should have known!). A young lay philosopher The Barefoot Bum summed it up as follows:

"Statements about ethics have an absolute truth-value if and only if they are stated relative to some subjective entity or property. 'Killing people for fun is wrong,' has no truth-value. 'The Barefoot Bum violently disapproves of killing people for fun.' does have truth-value (as is in fact true)."

It's the error of which Albert Einstein famously said, "do you really think the world isn't there when you aren't looking at it?". Antony Rizzi has devoted an entire book to the subject, Science before Science, a guide to thinking in the 21st century. The problem with modern science is that students don't do proper natural philosophy - think it beneath them, and for Middle Agers, Aquinas (St Thomas, a Scholastic and only one of the finest minds in history) and such - hence the basic errors and the laughable results in theoretical physics, that comes up with an unlimited amounts of parallel universes and what else have you (two membranes, I believe?).

Now that we know where that self-importance and ego-centrism stems from - each person literally the Master of the Universe - we can concentrate on two remaining mysteries: on the one hand what is with the present obsession with the trivial, and on the other the habitual and disproportionate terms of force directed at all and sundry.

When I started out with this blog I had one huge question mark: whatever has gotten into people these days. But bit by bit I find the answers to my query - thirteen of them to date - and all can be traced back to the relativist blunder as per above. George Weigel often states that ideas have consequences: well, here's your proof if there ever was one!

A small thing, huge consequences.