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March 19, 2008
Various Essays
The (semi) complete list of Spengler's writings can be found at this fan's web site.
Spengler is one of the most amazing writers that I have started reading in the last two years. Truly a remarkable mind.
Many arguments in favor of legalization of "the oldest trade" found here: How Whorable is Prostitution?
Try this statement on:
Again, it bears emphasizing that absolutely every form of labor involves renting out your body. The language of “selling your body” is generally intended to elicit a “wisdom of repugnance” disgust response, but it just doesn’t when you consider that folks like Ross and me get paid for things we do with our bodies — thinking, typing. Surgeons rent out their brains, and steady hands, to meet people’s health needs. Construction workers rent out their arms, legs, backs, brains. Etc. I sell my body for a living. So do you.
I read (and listened to) Barack Obama's speech on March 18 about race in the United States (for the general article see here). I thought it was a good speech, not perfect. However this analysis by Shelby Steele (put online by the Wall Street Journal on the day of the speech) was quite fascinating.
How does one "transcend" race in this church? The fact is that Barack Obama has fellow-traveled with a hate-filled, anti-American black nationalism all his adult life, failing to stand and challenge an ideology that would have no place for his own mother. And what portent of presidential judgment is it to have exposed his two daughters for their entire lives to what is, at the very least, a subtext of anti-white vitriol?What could he have been thinking? Of course he wasn't thinking. He was driven by insecurity, by a need to "be black" despite his biracial background. And so fellow-traveling with a little race hatred seemed a small price to pay for a more secure racial identity. And anyway, wasn't this hatred more rhetorical than real?
That seems pretty accurate to me.
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