Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Magic Bullets too

Strategy of the Headless Chicken
Asabiya

Boned Jello

Picture an Afghan village in a remote valley of the Hindu Kush. A majority of villagers are indifferent towards terrorism aimed at kittens. They support or oppose anti-kitten terrorism depending upon which way the wind is blowing. A minority of villagers favor anti-kitten jihad in principle but feel no immediate need to seek out kittens to destroy. A minority of the minority is adamantly anti-kitten and wishes to create a swath of territory from Spain to Indonesia that is 100% kittenfrei. This group of extreme kitten haters has recently been joined by kitten haters from outside the valley, some of whom are farangi. They’ve brought enough lawyers, guns, and money to shift the indifferent majority towards supporting anti-kitten terrorism.

What to do?

I have read Homer

I was enticed into this yarn by the Magic Bullet diagram, as were many of you who got this far.  The motivational tweet  pushed me along with a false expectation of forthcoming knee-slappery.  I was encouraged, exhilarated truth be known, to know who Kennan of "Kennan Bot" was.  After that, at times, it became somewhat of a chore to follow, having spent much my non-Ivy League education in the pursuit of cheap booze and expensive women, but I persevered with the aid of strategically placed linkage.  Stick with it; "asabiya" will be useful.  Others will breeze right through, like the boorish man who felt it necessary to comment about "cutting the corpus callosum" wtf?  Well, I say to them,  f-f-fuc ..  eat me! Here's  one more excerpt. 
Just as other governmental initiatives have sapped the self-organizing instincts of American communities in favor of reliance on centralized bureaucracy, the American all volunteer professional military of modern times has sapped the instinct for Americans to organize in their own defense. Having professionals as a supplement, as leavening, trainers, and consultants, for citizen defense is necessary. But encouraging a culture of waiting around for the professionals to show up and save the day is profoundly alien to past American experience. It creates two classes, the protectors and the protected, and violates asabiya. A people domesticated by benevolent professionals and deprived of the necessity spur of self-protection will quickly cease to be a self-governing people. Universal service at least in a state militia is a necessary element of American citizenship, as envisioned by the Militia Act of 1792. Every free male citizen was to receive military training from their state: [Entirety]


OMG, I'm the boor.

2 comments:

SoylentGreen said...

Just finished reading "Conceived in Liberty" - Rothbard. Your second paragraph is of one accord with the founding of this great country. We are a people whose best asset is the innate desire to protect our liberty on an individual level... and to band together in defense of it when necessary. How far down we have sunk. I am thankful for our militarily minded men and women. But I fear that there are some who might not come to the defense of the people against our clearly oppressive government since they are all on that government's payroll. These are clearly radical times in which we live.
Our military has been under complete Federal control since when? Probably around the Civil War. Lincoln may yet have a few things for which to answer.

JMcD said...

The picture drawing also looks like a handy guide to a courteous "reach around".

Why is Governor John Connally holding onto that bedpan?...Ominous sign?

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