A Colorado "civil rights" official -- who likely has portraits of Stalin, Guevara, and Mao decorating her office at taxpayer expense -- has denounced a baker as a "Nazi" and a "slaveholder." His crime? Declining to bake a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.
Let's pause for a moment to engage in critical thought (though I know how difficult it is for many of you out there). On the one hand, we find a private citizen exercising his right to do with his property as he wishes and to associate with whomever he wishes. On the other hand, we find a public official using the power of the state to harass and potentially destroy said private citizen. The citizen is not compelling anyone to do anything nor depriving any couple of the ability to label themselves "man and wife," "man and man," "wife and wife," or whatever else they might dream up. The prefect indeed is compelling someone and depriving him of his ability to live his life on terms that are peaceful and voluntary. She is demanding his labor against his will, which is the essence of slavery.
This evil government wench has slandered an honest man, using terminology that best describes herself in order to slake the totalitarian impulse of a demographic that never feels sufficiently loved. Is this the country my ancestors fought and died for? Is this the country most people in the armed services believe they are fighting for today? No.
You can't run away from this lunacy forever. It will eventually leap off the news page and snag you in its teeth, at which time you must make a choice: bow and scrape with a guilty conscience, or fight back with your own denunciations and resistance.
I think we are simply enraging ourselves Drudge-style with snippets of the macabre and insane from around the country. Doing this on a daily basis is hardening us for the future in many good ways, but it also puts us in the "why so serious" camp when we are around the non-aware. This constantly puts in the disadvantaged position of being both on defense and people easily dismissing us as tin-foil hatters. There is nothing more beta in this modern world.
ReplyDeletePerhaps it is time we go guerrilla like all the other "disenfranchised" liars and muppets. But do it bigger, more subtely, and of course smarter as per our abilities. Keep our heads down but fight back with subtle wit and devious, yet deniable malice.
For instance, this baker should make clear his objections, though not verbally, by placing clear Christian symbols and Bible quotes around his store. If these asshats and SJWs persist, agree to do the cake with a smile, but simply don't make it on time and refund their money or make a bland, just good enough not to get sued cake and then when they complain to media, etc. simply play the poor working man baker who was insulted for his faith and told that they were simply getting their money back to get at him and his faith.
Yes it is a lie. But this is all they know. They will gladly ruin you and your family on a whim with falsehoods and soul-sucking, cowardly edicts backed up by law. Play the victim harder and ruin their wedding. Think they can get a suitable cake 4 hours before the wedding? Good luck. Once the press comes, your lies will never matter, only saying them in the open will make them true to the sheeple. And you've won. Easily.
Two snotty affluent sodomites vs. a kindly working man baker? Easy call. And what's best the law will not be able to sort anything out.
A functioning society of men always has the advantage as we make and create everything. Use this to its fullest effect. Eventually when the trolls can get nothing accomplished past our wall of obfuscation and endless "bureaucracy" they will realize none of their needs and wants are being taken care of and just perhaps, they will correct their actions.
You can use this in many other situations. Stop acting like men of principle and honor in a world stolen by the weak and pathetic. Fighting them head on, sword in hand allows them to simply nuke you from above. Rut in with them, play the victim, don't allow them to fight without casualties and you will win.
Oh and I was going to write a long response on your wonderful Civil War post,but decided I'd probably want to read your book first. Let me know when it's available and I'll buy the first one.
Thanks again, Vincent, and you've identified something I've been thinking about for a while now. I'm a man of principle, as are many of us, but principle means nothing to the hordes of barbarians now inside the gates. In their primitive minds there are only winners and losers, not the righteous or the unrighteous. You are absolutely correct that they cannot be reasoned with, just as Vox often points out that dialectic discourse will not sway them because rhetoric - with its appeals to raw emotion over reason - is their only mode of thought. So, the solution indeed is two-pronged: 1) principled discourse to galvanize the remnant; and 2) war against the enemy on its own unprincipled terms (whatever they might be in a given situation).
ReplyDeleteCIVILIZATION MUST FIRST BE PRESERVED IN ORDER FOR IT TO BE PRACTICED. This is a large reason I gave up on libertarianism, which views all human beings around the world as fungible, rational actors rather than unique products of culture, history, and biology. The principles we hold dear are not universally applicable or workable; they are unique, and they must be defended with blood and iron to survive. The fact that so many people from depraved cultures want the benefit of our principled one does not entitle them to it in any way. Let them work out their problems, while we work out our own.
As for the book, I WILL finish it as soon as I can. What's slowing me down at the moment is something rather wonderful, namely the fact that my business is exploding and demands most of my attention. I'll be doing a post on that in short order; I have some choice words to share with a particular cohort of my lurkers.