A famous eye doctor is tired of his wife and wants to marry his mistress. He hires 4 men to kill his wife. For this murder, he is sentenced to life while the hired assassins are executed. So he is less culpable than the killers according to the court.
Thackeray was arrested for a few hours. Modi may serve few years utmost. Bajrangi, Togadia ?
What would I mean by insanity?
Two different things --
1. Being out of control - eg road rages - out of proportion reaction.
2. Acting for someone else- eg muslim mob for Assam/Myanmar victims;
What is not insanity in my opinion..
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Verdict in Breivik's case - The meaning of sane in this case is that he be held responsible for his actions.
A European Declaration of Independence
Anglicized name Andrew Berwick
Written in English, addressed to people in European countries and US
Born in 1979, he spent 8 years writing this book which was ready in 2011. So from 2003, when he was 24 he spent time studying and earning for next 5 years for this cause. In 2001 was 22 years old. Then he spent 3 years writing that book. It will be interesting to see how much of it is cut paste job.
Then he paints an idyllic picture of life in 1950s (childhood of his parents?) .Then he makes statements about cultural marxism and political correctness.
Just what is “Political Correctness?” Political Correctness is in fact cultural Marxism (Cultural Communism) – Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. The effort to translate Marxism from economics into culture did not begin with the student rebellion of the 1960s. It goes back at least to the 1920s and the writings of the ItalianCommunist Antonio Gramsci. In 1923, in Germany, a group of Marxists founded an institute devoted to making the transition, the Institute of Social Research (later known as the Frankfurt School). One of its founders, George Lukacs, stated its purpose as answering the question, “Who shall save us from Western Civilisation?” The Frankfurt School gained profound influence in European and American universities after many of its leading lights fled and spread all over Europe and even to the United States in the 1930s to escape National Socialism in Germany. In Western Europe it gained influence inuniversities from 1945.The Frankfurt School blended Marx with Freud, and later influences (some Fascist as well as Marxist) added linguistics to create “Critical Theory” and “deconstruction.” These in turn greatly influenced education theory, and through institutions of higher education gave birth to what we now call “Political Correctness.” The lineage is clear, and it is traceable right back to Karl Marx.The parallels between the old, economic Marxism and cultural Marxism are evident. Cultural Marxism, or Political Correctness, shares with classical Marxism the vision of a “classless society,” i.e., a society not merely of equal opportunity, but equal condition. Since that vision contradicts human nature – because people are different, they end upunequal, regardless of the starting point – society will not accord with it unless forced. So, under both variants of Marxism, it is forced. This is the first major parallel between classical and cultural Marxism: both are totalitarian ideologies. The totalitarian nature of Political Correctness can be seen on campuses where “PC” has taken over the college: freedom of speech, of the press, and even of thought are all eliminated.The second major parallel is that both classical, economic Marxism and cultural Marxism have single-factor explanations of history. Classical Marxism argues that all of history was determined by ownership of the means of production. Cultural Marxism says that history is wholly explained by which groups – defined by sex, race, religion and sexual normality or abnormality – have power over which other groups.The third parallel is that both varieties of Marxism declare certain groups virtuous and others evil a priori, that is, without regard for the actual behaviour of individuals. Classical Marxism defines workers and peasants as virtuous and the bourgeoisie (the middle class) and other owners of capital as evil. Cultural Marxism defines all minorities, what they see as the victims; Muslims, Feminist women, homosexuals and some additional minority groups as virtuous and they view ethnic Christian European men as evil. (Cultural Marxism does not recognise the existence of non-Feminist women, and defines Muslims, Asians and Africans who reject Political Correctness as evil, just like native Christian or even atheist Europeans.).The fourth parallel is in means: expropriation. Economic Marxists, where they obtained power, expropriated the property of the bourgeoisie and handed it to the state, as the “representative” of the workers and the peasants. Cultural Marxists, when they gainpower (including through our own government), lay penalties on native European men and others who disagree with them and give privileges to the ”victim” groups they favour. Affirmative action is an example.Finally, both varieties of Marxists employ a method of analysis designed to show the correctness of their ideology in every situation. For classical Marxists, the analysis is economic. For cultural Marxists, the analysis is linguistic: deconstruction. Deconstruction “proves” that any “text,” past or present, illustrates the oppression of Muslims, women, homosexuals, etc. by reading that meaning into words of the text (regardless of their actual meaning). Both methods are, of course, phony analyses that twist the evidence to fit preordained conclusions, but they lend a ‘scientific” air to the ideology.These parallels are neither remarkable nor coincidental. They exist because Political Correctness is directly derived from classical Marxism, and is in fact a variant of Marxism. Through most of the history of Marxism, cultural Marxists were “read out” of the movement by classical, economic Marxists. Today, with economic Marxism dead, cultural Marxism has filled its shoes. The medium has changed, but the message is the same: a society of radical egalitarianism enforced by the power of the state.
Then Breivik acknowledges that this cultural marxism is not all that strongPolitical Correctness now looms over Western European society like a colossus. It has taken over both political wings, left and right. Among so called Western European ”conservative” parties the actual cultural conservatives are shown the door because being a cultural conservative opposes the very essence of political correctness. It controls the most powerful element in our culture, the media and entertainment industry. It dominates both public and higher education: many a college campus is a small, ivy covered North Korea. It has even captured the higher clergy in many Christian churches. Anyone in the Establishment who departs from its dictates swiftly ceases to be a member of the Establishment.
It is not sufficient just to criticise Political Correctness. It tolerates a certain amount of criticism, even gentle mocking. It does so through no genuine tolerance for other points of view, but in order to disarm its opponents, to let itself seem less menacing than it is. The cultural Marxists do not yet have total power, and they are too wise to appear totalitarian until their victory is assured.
Then he gives his take on how to take on cultural marxism
Rather, those who would defeat cultural Marxism must defy it. They must use words it forbids, and refuse to use the words it mandates; remember, sex is better than gender. They must shout from the housetops the realities it seeks to suppress, such as our opposition to Sharia on a national and local level, the Islamisation of our countries, the facts that violent crime is disproportionately committed by Muslims and that most cases of AIDS are voluntary, i.e., acquired from immoral sexual acts. They must refuse to turn their children over to public schools.
Above all, those who would defy Political Correctness must behave according to the old rules of our culture, not the new rules the cultural Marxists lay down. Ladies should be wives and homemakers, not cops or soldiers, and men should still hold doors open for ladies. Children should not be born out of wedlock. Glorification of homosexuality should be shunned. Jurors should not accept Islam as an excuse for murder.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is what I stumbled into. Not clear if Breivik was cut- pasteing from the link below or he is supplying material for others to cut - paste! My guess is the former. Authentic Breivik is when he is painting idyllic pictures of 1950s and when he is ranting against Sharia and how women should be home makers and how men should open doors for women etc. and when he is asking people to defy "cultural marxism". Hitler was more original than this guy, of course.
From Arkansas Council of Conservative Citizens
go to Historical Roots of Political Correctness
I also got this
How wrong I can be! The whole thing including 1950s idyllic spiel is cut paste from William S. Lind . Well!! I did a Google search for William Lind Breivik and landed here
http://www.talk2action.org/story/2011/7/24/183957/523
What I have been doing and will do is paste a fragment of the text into google search. So I can find where he plagiarized from. Not that he is claiming to be original.
The rant against feminism is from here. Gerald Atkinson. also here
Phew! What follows is about Islamic attrocities all over the world. My knowledge of history is near zero. Then reference to Hindu Kush genocide. I see only one version in the internet. Let me check Encyclopedia Brittanica. I typed in Hindu Kush Genocide and after that Hindu Kush massacre. In both cases I got the result
Now internet scares me like never before. Then I tried Wikipedia. It seems to have undergone several revisions yesterday and one today. Well right now it readsThere are currently no results related to your search.Please check to see that you spelled your query correctly. Or, try a different or more general query term.
Then Breivik is dealing with Armenian genocide by Turkey. He accuses liberals like Asghar Ali Engineer for being more in denial mode compared to fundamentalists. I have reached around p 50.The origins of the name "Hindu Kush" are uncertain, with multiple theories being propounded by different scholars and writers.Hindu Kūh (ھندوکوه) and Kūh-e Hind (کوهِ ھند) are usually applied to the entire range separating the basins of the Kabul andHelmand rivers from that of the Amu River (ancient Oxus) or more specifically to that part of the range, northwest of the Afghan capital Kabul. Sanskrit documents refer to the Hindu Kush as Pāriyātra Parvata (पारियात्र पर्वत).The mountain range was called "Paropamisadae" by Greeks in the late first millennium BC.[1] In the time of Alexander the Great, they were further referred to as the Caucasus Indicus or "Indian Caucasus" (as opposed to the Iberian Caucasusrange), which past authors have additionally considered as a possible derivation of the name "Hindu Kush".The Persian-English dictionary [2] indicates that the word 'Kush' is derived from the verb Kushtan, meaning to kill.Encyclopedia Americana comments:
- The name Hindu Kush means literally 'Kills the Hindu', a reminder of the days when Indian slaves from the Indian subcontinent died in the harsh weather typical of the Afghan mountains while being transported to Central Asia.[3]
At the time, the word Hindu was a secular term which was used to describe all inhabitants of the Indian subcontinent – or Hindustan – irrespective of their religious affiliation. It was only towards the end of the 18th century that European merchants and colonists referred collectively to the followers of some Indian religions as Hindus.The World Book Encyclopedia states that "the name Kush, .. means Death".[4] While Encyclopædia Britannica says 'The name Hindu Kush first appears in 1333 AD in the writings of Ibn Battutah, the medieval Berber traveller, who said the name meant 'Hindu Killer', a meaning still given by Afghan mountain dwellers who are traditional enemies of Indian plainsmen.[5]The word "Koh" or "Kuh" means mountain in many of the local languages. According to Nigel Allan, there were at least two meanings for "Hindu Kush" common centuries ago "mountains of India" and "sparkling snows of India" - he notes that the name is clearly applied from a Central Asian perspective.[6] Others maintain that the name Hindu Kush is probably a corruption of Hindi-Kash or Hindi-Kesh, the boundary of Hind (i.e. Indian subcontinent).[7]
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Had a glimpse of what is to come. --This guy analyses Reich and Fromm among others.
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This book had to burst in at a time when I am trying to write a good review of Crabwalk. Which means I am learning many things, including the roots of 1970s in 1960s and the role of religion.
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How do I compare this book with Mein Kampf? This one is more "intellectual" and less "emotional". All coming from left hemisphere of the brain - Less lived in compared to Mein Kampf, which I confess I have not yet read in full - ...
But also the pathetic scenario in academic social sciences- pedantic and stupid- I remember a mock paper that V.S.Ramachandran got published which was entirely empty. He gives an account of this in his book Phantoms in the Brain.Couple of years back some one talked to me about Bloom's Taxonomy or whatever to do with education. That is what they do in B.Ed. it seems. Total Junk. Lot of junk (junk in the sense mountains being made of mole hills) also gets written in Sciences. But we know it comes from Publish or Perish culture of US. (It is supposed to be professionalism, but any way great works are never pedantic. ). But the rubbish that goes on in Social sciences, literary criticism etc can not happen in Physics or Maths. Cold fusion was thrown out in disgrace. The guy who spread the panic about LHC blackhole was a chemist......Not so fast madam, apne muh miyan mithoo, now watch all the hyperboles over the expt. on uncertainty principle claiming to disprove Copenhagen Interpretation! I bet I will take sanyas if it were not hyperboles atleast on part of those reporting.
So what I am going to do next is cut paste on 1960s and 1970s, so I can lay some private ghosts to rest. Whatever lit. I have read stopped with 1945 --except Doris Lessing. Gunter Grass, Umberto Eco- but their work can also be classified as concentration camp literature?-- It is only more recently I have started asking myself, why so?--Time I grew up-- Yes and Amitav Ghosh --
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15th Sept
One week away from madness, not exactly.
The next sets on hinduism are if not cut paste, strongly influenced by Koenraad Elst.
Negationism in India
Interesting sociological phenomenon - Shourie, Elst writing about history. Or even Guha.
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The motives of these campaigns must be seen in context. Britain/US/France/Germany was now pro Arab/pro Muslim in the cold war environment where you saw India/Russia/China on the axis of ”evil”. Western historians after 1900 was therefore not allowed to write anything negative about their new Muslim allies. Most of western sources after year 1900 are therefore falsified. The source material is basically a compilation of falsified fairytales with the only objective of appeasing a strategic ally which proved to be an advantage in the war against the Soviets. It’s a well known fact that British (Western historians) before 1900 had a totally different view than post 1900 historians.1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negationism
2. http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Turkish_War_(1877%E2%80%931878)
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_berlin
5. See: The Eurabia Code
6. Alex Alexiev, "Terrorism: Growing Wahhabi Influence in the United States", Testimony before the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security, 26 June 2003.
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The truest entry I have ever made in these blogs is the title and the body of the post Blast of Hate. I was the Hated because as usual I had to identify with the victim. Now I am out of it. No amount of net hatred will affect me now. But I shall always remember how it can affect, because it affected me, who was not an intended target. I shudder to think what could have happened if I was not morally opposed to violence and was a muslim, say.
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16th September
Breivik--
Therefore, I consider it a duty of all intellectuals to expose and denounce the phenomenon of negationism whenever it is practised.
Now Dan Brown's Da Vinci code is discussed. Before reading that, how did I find the book, and opposition to it? ------
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Umberto Eco ---
Yes, invention can produce reality. Baudolino, my fourth novel, is exactly about that. Baudolino is a little trickster living at the court of Frederick Barbarossa, the Holy Roman Emperor. And the boy invents a wild number of things—from the legend of the Holy Grail to the legitimization of Barbarossa’s reign by Bolognese jurors. In doing so he produces factual consequences. Fakes or errors can produce real historical events. Just like the letter of Prester John: it was a forgery—and in my novel it was invented by none other than Baudolino himself—but it really incited medieval explorations of Asia because it described a fabulous Christian kingdom thriving somewhere in the mysterious Orient. Or take Christopher Columbus. His vision of the earth was completely wrong. He knew, like everybody in antiquity, including his adversaries, that the earth was round. But he believed it was much smaller. Led by this false idea, he discovered America. Another famous example is the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It’s a fake, but it corroborated Nazi ideology and in a sense paved the way to the Holocaust, because Hitler used the document to justify the destruction of Jews. He might have known it was a fake, but in his mind it described the Jews exactly as he wanted them to be, and thus he took it as authentic.--------------------------------------------------------------------------
There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read. Who has actually read Finnegans Wake – I mean from beginning to end? Who has read the Bible properly, from Genesis to the Apocalypse?
And yet I've a fairly accurate notion of what I haven't read. I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then. The Mahabharata – I've never read that, despite owning three editions in different languages. Who has actually read the Kama Sutra? And yet everyone talks about it, and some practise it too. So we can see that the world is full of books that we haven't read, but that we know pretty well.
And yet when we eventually pick them up, we find they are already familiar. How is that? First, there's the esoteric explanation – there are these waves that somehow travel from the book to you – to which I don't subscribe. Second, perhaps it's not true that you've never opened the book; over the years you're bound to have moved it from place to place, and may have flicked through it and forgotten that you've done so. Third, over the years you've read lots of books that have mentioned this one and so made it seem familiar.
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That was Eco. Books that we know what they are about but haven't read.
Role of Army training on Page
A sociologist, who hung out with the gunman who killed six worshippers in Sunday's rampage at a Wisconsin Sikh gurdwara, says Wade Michael Page was a neo-Nazi who hated blacks and Jews,and was anti-Semitic but never mentioned Sikhs.
.."Blacks and Jews," Simi said. "Those were the primary targets of his rhetoric." After 9/11, Simi said Page sent him an email in which he expressed a lot of anger about Muslims.
"He said something like, 'America should just plaster all of the Middle East,'" Simi was quoted.
As part of his research, Simi asked Page how he developed his hardcore beliefs. Page told Simi that as a young person in Denver, he fell in love with punk music and listened to it for hours on end. But punk music led to other genres. "He was aware of racist skinheads," Simi said.
But the real catalyst that turned Page into a neo-Nazi was his life in the military. Page served in the US Army from 1992 to 1998.
"He was exposed to hate literature in the military and met people in the military who were white supremacists," Simi said, adding he realised Page was like many neo-Nazis: alienated, disaffected and angry.
Anger /Hatred / Taking law in your hand/
Arup Patnaik -If he had ordered firing, he would have been defended. Scary future for Mumbai. Saw lot of RPI Posters and banners. They will emulate NMS, whom no one takes on. No one takes on thugs anymore. That is why exodus from Bangalore.
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Eeeeeeeeeeeeesh This stupid book is going to be one of the three fictions that I have read this year. What do you call this if not fiction? I want to read something nice before the year ends. Julian Schwinger! On the whole it has been a happy year for me.
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