Comments on: On The Creation Of Unicorns http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/05/11/on-the-creation-of-unicorns/ Not Your Grandfather's Conservatism Thu, 03 Sep 2015 20:20:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.7 By: Dan http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/05/11/on-the-creation-of-unicorns/#comment-13255 Fri, 15 May 2015 19:34:57 +0000 http://www.socialmatter.net/?p=2131#comment-13255 Very good analogy. I think of the wierd phenomenon of “Deutsche Physik” for instance, which labeled the important discoveries of modern physics as ‘Jewish Physics’ and rejected them on that basis (never mind that they are empirically true). This was even worse than nothing: Because Jewish scientists had discovered things that were true, the Germans literally took positions that were false just to be contrary.

Likewise, the left takes many positions contrary to traditionalism, just be be contrary. Since most of established wisdom is not wrong, the left dooms itself to be wrong most of the time.

]]> By: neovictorian23 http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/05/11/on-the-creation-of-unicorns/#comment-13122 Mon, 11 May 2015 18:02:26 +0000 http://www.socialmatter.net/?p=2131#comment-13122 A very fine analogy, indeed; but the vital question remains: Did the unicorn defecate gumdrops?

]]> By: Bill http://www.socialmatter.net/2015/05/11/on-the-creation-of-unicorns/#comment-13121 Mon, 11 May 2015 15:31:33 +0000 http://www.socialmatter.net/?p=2131#comment-13121 A key characteristic of Progressivism is its redefinition of traditional concepts, regardless of the reasons why the traditional definitions have developed. So marriage is now something completely different than it once was, but of course the Progressive will deny that he’s engaged in destruction. We are expected to let mutants redefine what normal is, to believe we are not different — “equal!” — than the mutants. And so by redefining everything a woman doesn’t like as “rape”, the concept has been practically destroyed – it’s become meaningless. Like the rest of modern conceptual space.

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