As you have shown some sunlight penetrates the deep abyss of your mind, as a parting gift, I would like to leave you with a profound observation that, as my esteemed collague Joseph so richly expressed, “ghetto rips” your elitist worldview and sense of entitlement.

It is from another German whose name you might recognize:

“The ideal is nothing else than the material world reflected by the human mind, and translated into forms of thought.” —Karl Marx.

It was an interesting effort, but in the end the gap between our philosophies is simply too wide.

I caution you though, the near constant animosity generated here in most responses will only further polarize the US, and in the end simply create the very conditions you would like to avoid, ie, a multi-cultural pluralistic society in which many exclusive communities compete with each other versus live in utopian harmony.

The US is becoming a place where the insistence on “equal rights” (whatever that means ultimately) simply results in the least capable and least intelligent, the most marginalized behavior, are given equal consideration. It’s a ludicrous concept, not found anywhere in nature, and not successfully practiced by any nation or people that wish to survive. Everyone wins soccer is not the way the world works.

So, I leave you with one of my favorite passages from the “Anti-Christ”.

“The order of castes, the highest, the dominating law, is merely the ratification of an order of nature, of a natural law of the first rank, over which no arbitrary fiat, no “modern idea,” can exert any influence. In every healthy society there are three physiological types, gravitating toward differentiation but mutually conditioning one another, and each of these has its own hygiene, its own sphere of work, its own special mastery and feeling of perfection. It is not Manu but nature that sets off in one class those who are chiefly intellectual, in another those who are marked by muscular strength and temperament, and in a third those who are distinguished in neither one way or the other, but show only mediocrity — the last-named represents the great majority, and the first two the select. The superior caste — I call it the fewest — has, as the most perfect, the privileges of the few: it stands for happiness, for beauty, for everything good upon earth. Only the most intellectual of men have any right to beauty, to the beautiful; only in them can goodness escape being weakness.”

In all this, I repeat, there is nothing arbitrary, nothing “made up”; whatever is to the contrary is made up — by it nature is brought to shame. . . The order of castes, the order of rank, simply formulates the supreme law of life itself; the separation of the three types is necessary to the maintenance of society, and to the evolution of higher types, and the highest types — the inequality of rights is essential to the existence of any rights at all. A right is a privilege. Everyone enjoys the privileges that accord with his state of existence.

Wrong never lies in unequal rights; it lies in the assertion of ‘equal’ rights.”

Adieu, I graciously bow out before the Untermensch, for with their courts, laws and pitiful handwringing, they will soon rule this country. A tyranny of the weak and least capable.

I think it goes without saying that very few of us will miss you when you repatriate to der Vaterland

You are either deliberately being obtuse, or the written English word is a challenge.

NEVER have advocated for Aryan (ie racial) supremacy, Imperialism, or Colonialism. Am a Pan-Nationalist, and advocate for a people and their culture, whatever it might be, to have the right of self-determination and autonomy.

Biology (ie race/ethnicity) CANNOT be the construct upon which a society is based. Culture is however.

My point, made pretty clearly and with telling silence by Mark Potok, is that conspiracy theorists, be they Right or Left, occupy the lunatic fringe of those ideologies. So Mark can mock the wingnuts on the right (and they deserve it, the American Right is veritable intellectual wasteland) but is loathe to call out his friends and supporters who advocate the same wingnut conspiracy theories from the Left in fear of alienating them. Never speak ill of a fellow (leftist or rightist, take your pick).

It’s intellectually dishonest, and radical honesty is lacking in our PC ridden society.

As for other ideologies, other than discussing them with Ruslan and a few others, I am an open advocate for Deep Ecology, favor the authoritarian versus democractic individualism, am a Radical Traditionalist and Orthodox Christian only. I am partial to Heidegger and Nietzsche as opposed to Hegel and Kant.

Will be moving back to Europe and am a second generation German, family from Alsace on my mothers side and very Catholic and Prussia (Very Lutheran) from my father plus one English relative.

I am not leaving the US because of multi-culturalism, and am not a nativist. Leaving because of the lack of High Culture and our pursuit of decultured materialism and individualism.

The US is an experiment in whether or not propositional ideology can successfully sustain and create a society versus culture. I simply prefer culture and believe it builds a more coherent and united people.

Surely, though, the sickle or scythe is more pleasing from the design perspective than the combine harvester.

Yes — I realized after I made the comment that “E” in Cyrillic is “yeh.” It’s been a while since I did anything in Russian.

‘Miracles’ by the Insane Clown Posse, while otherwise a surprisingly enjoyable song, does profess the ‘band’”s willful ignorance of — among other things — how even the simplest magnets function.

As such, it was picked up by Bill O’Reilly during his ‘Tide goes in, tide goes out. No one knows why’ period of stronger-than-usual anti-intellectualism. ‘Violent J’ and ‘Shaggy 2 Dope’ were actually interviewed on his show, which I personally found highly entertaining.

Definitely worth googling videos of either subject.

And since the topic changed, I have been against the continued use of the sickle as a Communist symbol, if only because nobody harvests grain with a sickle anymore(if anyone still does I bet they use a scythe).

@Gerry, Please, give us some examples of left wing extremists and the terrible things they’ve been doing lately.

While a font design may contribute a certain ambience, the names really don’t have any particular significance, and the previous use of a particular font doesn’t taint it in some way.

ABCTEPMHOXY –

A = English A
B = English V
C = English S
T = English T (although in writing it looks like a cursive “m”
M = English M
H = English N
0 = English O
X = English khah
Y = English Oo

Pravelna? Bolshoya Spasiba, Tovarish!

An Erica might be a bit suspect though ;)

“It’s all the buttons on a calculator you never push.”

I am aware that I have a magnetic personality, however.

Magnets. How DO they work?

And Joseph, make sure you get some good English cider. The dry kind. Not that icky, sweet domestic stuff. ;)

Well, I’ve done my duty for the day. I’m closing up shop early, buying a six pack of cider, and teaching my son how to twist off the cap.

Damn liberals. :)

Erika — I believe that the clown archetype is sufficiently robust to host the Insane Clown Posse, John Wayne Gacy, Pennywise from “It,” and the many other manifestations of clownishness (including Michele Bachmann’s husband when he is dancing), so that we can still use it. After all, the clown is a readily recognizable symbol for evil beneath the smile. Come to think of it, certain factions of the Republican Party, notably those that listen to Pied Piper Carl Rove, a man whose chubby cheeks are just begging for some grease paint, would be well represented by the evil clown (but they would go out of their way, including spending millions on PR from the Koch brothers and other depraved donors, to convince people that they were good, family-values clowns. Of course, the Tea Party types and many of the rank and file Republicans would believe them — especially when they start in on the pro-clown sermons from the pulpit every Sunday.)

My own copy of Gutierrez’s “A Theology of Liberation” is set in New Times Roman. Clearly this suggests to me that newspapers around the world are embracing radical marxism in one of its clever disguises.

For the record, the Times New Roman font was originally commissioned by The Times of London in 1932 to improve readability, and has frequently been updated.