tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post113963881664407458..comments2024-03-25T19:48:24.624+11:00Comments on Oz Conservative: The exquisite morality of a ratfinkUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-1139912187297750972006-02-14T21:16:00.000+11:002006-02-14T21:16:00.000+11:00I guess we saw his cartoons were entered in the Ir...I guess we saw his cartoons were entered in the Iranian hate a jews campaign sweepstakes.<BR/> It's hilarious.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-1139690908756687672006-02-12T07:48:00.000+11:002006-02-12T07:48:00.000+11:00Mark, in our own tradition the strong were meant t...Mark, in our own tradition the strong were meant to protect the weak (chivalry). It was thought noble to do so.<BR/><BR/>In other words, being strong, far from being tainted with guilt or evil, was associated with high moral standards and nobility.<BR/><BR/>There is a faint echo of wanting to protect the weak in Leunig. But it has become psychologically perverted and self-destructive.<BR/><BR/>There is nothing the strong can do, in Leunig's world, to act morally except to renounce their natural loyalties and their strength, in favour of the hostile "other".<BR/><BR/>And yes, the West will have to overthrow such a modernistic view promptly if we are ever to revive.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6832901.post-1139680907745048962006-02-12T05:01:00.000+11:002006-02-12T05:01:00.000+11:00Leunig is very much a character in the vein of the...Leunig is very much a character in the vein of the villains in an Ayn Rand novel: glorifying victimhood and weakness, reviling ability and strength.<BR/><BR/>I think one of the prescriptions necessary for Western revival is going to have to be movement away from this worship of the weak and back to a morality that celebrates the strong.<BR/><BR/>Look at the works of Homer for example. I can't recall the exact verse or wording but I remember first reading Homer and being struck by the morality of the central character, who was described as being great because he had slain many enemies, captured much territory, and so on. What an utterly different worldview from that prevalent in the West now! Imagine actually celebrating the strength, vitality, masculinity, and conquests of your own people!<BR/><BR/>The West has the power it has as a legacy, in large part, of the conquerer morality of our ancestors. The black slaves in the U.S. for example are here because my people were strong and decided they wanted slaves and went and took them - and the Africans couldn't do a damned thing about it. I think that perhaps the shame of slavery should fall not on whites, who were strong enough to take slaves when they wanted to, but on blacks who were too weak, unorganized, backward, and incompetent to protect themselves. They couldn't even free themselves - they are free only because whites decided to let them be free, and could be made slaves again if whites wanted them to be slaves.<BR/><BR/>This is not to advocate slavery, or to advocate invading and slaughtering other peoples' nations. But neither should we hang our heads in shame for being the strongest people on earth for the last 500 years.MnMarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01110007186831549266noreply@blogger.com