Occasional Reader 9/2/2025 7:31:12 AM

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Shamelessly swiped from a post at Insty:

” From Anthony Aristar

We lack good descriptive terms to describe modern leftist ideology. This is a linguistic problem, not an ideological one.

Let me explain what I mean by this.

Modern Ideology is not focused on single issues. It is focused rather on agglomerations of beliefs. There is no reason why someone should be, all at once, in favor of socialism, globalism. transsexual rights, Palestinian self-determination, migration from third world countries to the West, asylum rights, anti-Christian feeling, approval of Islam, homosexuality, hostility towards the police, pro-black racism,anti-Americanism, anti-zionism, anti-whiteness, fear of climate change, Trump hatred, and hostility towards free speech.

What do these things share? I would argue that, logically, they have essentially nothing in common. Why should anyone believe both that climate-change will destroy us and and the police are racist? Why should belief in one imply the other? Yet I also know that, if I discover someone who believes in just one of them, they will also very likely believe in all of them.

How do we describe an ideology like this? We use the term "left-wing" as if this term were sufficient. It isn't. Why should this cluster of diverse beliefs be "left-wing"? "Left-wing" does not describe it, after all.

What does describe this strangely expansive set of beliefs? I would argue that we can, if we wish, use elevated terms like oikophobia or nostophobia. But we don't have to. We can use more down home terms for this... These are self-hating beliefs. These people don't hate the things they categorize: rather, they hate what they themselves derive from. They hate where they come from, and applaud everything they feel is not them. They love what they are not. They love what threatens their culture. They love what threatens them.

Their real ideology is love of anything that is their enemy. If you want a high sounding term for this, Greek has one: philolesia: love of those who would destroy you.”

JCM 9/2/2025 7:58:33 AM

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This story is behind a paywall.

Why thousands of Seattle’s affordable-housing apartments became vacant

First "affordable" means subsidized. Enough people are leaving Seattle, crime, cost of living, etc... that general apartment rates are now competitive with the subsidized. There are still 16,000 homeless on the streets of Seattle. Adding more proof that "housing" the cost or available thereof is not a cause of homelessness. In science this would be enough to disprove a hypothesis. But since the homeless issue is about the money available for the "process" the industrial complex is about maintaining the problem to keep the money flowing.

Kosh's Shadow 9/2/2025 8:07:12 AM

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Newer Immigrant song - updated for Britistan (remember, original was about Vikings invading Britain; this is my newest version, written today)

All-ah, ah!
All-ah, ah!
We come from the land of the Holy Quran
To turn your land into Britistan
The jihad for our god
We’ll take your girls into our hands
We’re the horde; they’ll cry and cry
Oh, Allah, we are coming!
On we go with grooming gangs
Our only goal will be the dar-el-harb
All-ah, ah!
All-ah, ah!
We come from the land of the Holy Quran
To turn your land into Britistan
How soft you infidels seem
Infidel girls are ours to rape
Our Muslim men to rape
We are your overlords
On we go with grooming gangs
Our only goal will be the dar-el-harb
So now you’d better stop and wail at all your ruins
For peace of Allah will win the day; infidels all are losing
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh
Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh

buzzsawmonkey 9/2/2025 11:08:11 AM

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Reply to Occasional Reader in 1:

I think it's in Edward Albee's play "All Over" that there is a soliloquy about "self-hatred, self-pity, and self-loathing...you can't live with all of that all the time, but you push it down and out of the way, or you get over it, and you're never sure which..."  

I'm misquoting, but it's over half a century since I had to know the lines.   The play is well worth looking up; it's a deathwatch at the beside of a man we never see, by his wife, his mistress, his doctor, his daughter and his son.