As readers of Soccer Dad are aware, I’m a member of the Watcher’s Council a group of twelve bloggers who submit and vote on posts every week supervised by the Watcher of Weasels. That is every week except this week. Unfortunately, this week due to a …

But but but…what about the Prime Directive????

http://ymarsakar.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/deconstructing-star-wars/

By now it’s grown clear that George Lucas has an agenda, one that he takes very seriously. After four “Star Wars” films, alarm bells should have gone off, even among those who don’t look for morals in movies. When the chief feature distinguishing “good” from “evil” is how pretty the characters are, it’s a clue that maybe the whole saga deserves a second look.

* Justified human emotions can turn a good person evil.

The issue is a mite complex, what with George’s real life comments about Bush and how Emperor Palpatine in George’s stories just so happens to behave exactly like how Lucas accuses Bush of having behaved.

But I think you will enjoy Brin’s articles. Also, don’t forget to pick up his Uplift series of novels, since they teach a nice morality lesson on the duties of a higher evolved civilization towards a more primitive species. Something we all have to face with the issue of Iraq and societal re-engineering.

Certainly one of the reasons why the Left is so messed up is because of the individual virtues, or rather lack of virtues, in Leftist members. Any organization can be made to be evil if it keeps recruiting evil members and any organization can become good if all its members are good. Regardless of what the organization originally “intended” to do.

The feudal model is very applicable to the question you posed, Danny. In feudalism, aristocrats not only fought the peasants for control of the peasants, their children, and their land, aristocrats also fought each other using mercenaries and peasant conscripts.

So certainly Leftist members may only see their corruption as being a normal and justified “counter” against those other aristocrats, like Bush, hogging all the loot for Haliburton and what not. And the rhetoric they used about “fairness” and “justice” is only intended to brainwash the peasants into fighting and dying for the anti-Bush aristocrats.

The key is, how does the Left do such things, Danny, and not die of guilt and shame? Why, by adopting the justifications, rationalizations, and delusions in my comment 8!!

Why, the Left isn’t crushing the poor and peasants underfoot, Danny, they are helping them against Haliburton and evil Bush capitalists! Making money is just part of what needs to be done to fight evil, Danny. After all, when could a war ever be done without money to buy weapons? Can a war be won if we refuse to kill terrorists, just as terrorists are killing us? No.

PS.

My last paragraph is simply a demonstration that normal and reasonable rationalizations about war and survival have been twisted and perverted to Leftist creed. It is so successful for them precisely because it is normally so reasonable. What could be more reasonable than saying we must kill them because they are using violence and death against us?

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980835,00.html

That’s why “rich folk” crime is so important to them. If you stop the tool users from doing crime, you also stop the harm that the tools are doing since nobody is around to use those tools.

It’s a harsh way of looking at things, but that’s how it breaks down philosophically if you follow the logic of the Left to its ultimate conclusion. Not only does this explain the Left’s views against Enron, it also explains their support of the UN and their support of corrupt politicians.