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Cenacle - August 2007

It's always sex and money

August 25th 2007 10:02
This could be jejune or it could be true but it's fascinating and hilarious. I have wondered why the so-called secular, atheist Left has embraced the cause of obscurantist ideology like Islamic fascism and why gays and women would want to support sharia. Here's a great take on the subject, a comment on the blog The Belmont Club left by a casual reader, whiskey_199:

"Fundamentally, the Left does not want to preserve Western Civilization but destroy it.

Gay advocates know that overt expression of homosexuality will be punished by death, but Muslim rule will take most men out of the marriage market and force them into substitution, particularly with pornography forbidden. A nation of prison-sex in other words. A huge win for Gays and it explains their backing Muslim Sharia attempts.


Feminists of course view (probably correctly) middle class monogamous marriage a drain on women, and want to replace it with polygamy with powerful men. For them Sharia while inconvenient in dress and other freedoms offers a huge plus in the most important objective: sex and money from powerful men. This is why Feminists support Sharia Law and Islamist aggression. Well along with the undeniable fact that fighting Islamist aggression would move power from Feminists to soldiers.

The Left wants a feudal social hierarchy. Something like Castro's hereditary regime, with opportunities for "revolutionary violence" i.e. brutal killing for it's own sake unconstrained by any morals or standards. Not the least of which is the opportunities to seize property and become princelings. Fisk and TE Lawrence writing about their meetings with Osama and Faisal respectively might have well been describing the same event and man. The model for Leftists of society is a Pride of Lions, each young lion circling the aging lion waiting for his chance to drive off or kill the old one and seize all the females and resources.


Against this coalition of Leftists/Media/University people, Feminists, Gays there are unorganized and intimidated ordinary people. Who have been deliberately excluded from government, media, and politics. In European countries they have the choice of fleeing or turning to the only alternative: rightist politics.

But clearly Britain surrendered a long time ago. They won't fight so the sunk cost has already been written off."

No comments necessary. It's really fascinating stuff.
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I Pronounce you Preachy and Boring

August 24th 2007 10:40
I confess, I haven't seen Hollywood comedies for a while, so when opporunity presented itself to watch I Pronounce you Chuck and Larry, I grabbed it. I also confess, it was the presence of Jessicaa Biel, to whom I am partial to, must have had greater say in luring to the movie.

To say the movie was gross is an understatement. It thrives on grossness. It lives in a world of grossness. Still, I gathered that this must be a pretty lame concoction compare to some other comedies that are doing the rounds there. There is no wit on display, there is no poker faced humour, there is no people throwing cakes into each other. When I mean gross, I do not mean the repeated use of fart as a humourous device. I mean the joyless, leery, toilet-tinted hues that spread over huge quantities of cleavages and obese derrieres slipping in your face like fungus-fested icecream cans. Like an out of focus myopic, it has to gaze and gaze before it can register any sight and beat the scene over and over again before it can register any meaning out of what it wants to say. It has humour only in one way, the malicious humour of clowns who bare thier ugly warts as a dare for you to laugh.

So bountiful that he has to assure us they are real, Jessica Biel


It tries to inhabit the world of Balzac's The Droll Stories and I do not mean that as a compliment. Balzac too was a man festering with hatred for the bourgeiose and wrote hundred little pamphlets which he called novels and wrote the Droll Stories as a diversion,a collection of vaginal hair and breaking wind.

Chuck and Larry combines both those aspects of Balzac; when it is not displaying mounds of human flesh, it is busy preaching in a very finger-wagging sort of way. Chuck and Larry are two firemen who are also best buddies. One is a widower mourning his wife's death, the other is a playboy who romps up with half a dozen Asian girls. When Larry risks losing his benefits, he talks his best friend into faking a domestic gay partnership. The usual culprits act in the usual way. The firemen gang initially show their disapproval but then do the I am Spartacus gig at the court. The postman across the corner turns out to be a closet gay. Yeah, the heterosexual playboy belches out a vomit of a speech about what hearts of gold the gay people have. Even within in the very limited scope of its premise, the movie cannot get anything right.

As for Ms.Biel, she plays the role of an earnest, reprssed lawyer so earnestly that she forgets that while she is serious, the audience should be laughing with her. Still, it is only the display of her miraculous organs that redeems human flesh in this botch job of a comedy.

Picture courtesy:www.fasthack.com
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The Persian Wars by Livio Stechhini

August 18th 2007 06:57
In every discipline, one can find bright minds impossible to determine whether they are important intellectuals or sensationalist quacks. Their opinion goes against the consensus but that martyrdom is a feature they share with truly great minds. The martyrdom not enough in itself to redeem them in the eyes of the world. Figures like Marja Gimbutas and Immanuel Velikhovsky come to mind.

Livio Catullo Stecchini falls into the same category. He is not as famous or as controversial as the other two. Nor he is an equal fabulist. In fact, his work is very reasonable. In fact, if he had bothered to temper his arguments with some evidence instead of flatly stating them, he would have been recognised as a great contributor to classical studies.

Stecchini worked in a little known field called metrology. He tried to re-create the units of measurement used in the ancient world. Branching out from his specialty, he waged a war on academic shibboleths concerning the ancient world. One of his pet projects was Herodotus.

Herodotus, like Homer and Aristotle, is one of those pillars of classical thought which were hawed in the middle by an excess of analysis for over two centuries, until their hold on the Western culture has weakened considerably. I do not believe this is coincidental. After all, Plato told pretty stories too but he was never given this water-boarding treatment.

The Persian Wars is a passionate attempt to prove that what Herodotus had to say about history was true. The first chapter Herodotus and his critics is a birds-eye view of the bitter and relentless campaign waged by the academia against Herodotus. Commenting on their opinion of the Father of History, Stecchine writes, "This reveals the basic assumption that the mental capacity of man has undergone a uniform process of growth, so that, although Herodotos' was low, his predecessors were one step closer to the primates."

From then on, he starts building the case that Herodotus in fact, had ample geographic knowledge and enough historical accuracy. He not only reconstructs how events described in Herodotus could have happened but also lays bare the world view behind the supposed errors of Herodotus. What are seemingly errors to us, could not be because our context is quite different from that of a traveller in fourth century BC. Stecchini persuasively tries to imagine that anachronistic context which is nevertheless important to understand ancient world.

There are some touchs of fabulism here and there but mostly, his account holds up well. It's main purpose is to explain eccentricities in Herodotus's work and argue that just because of them, the truth of the histories cannot be wished away. This, it does very well.

In spite of being hopelessly technical( my brain shuts down whenever figures are mentioned), the book reads very well. Some parts, mainly his reconstruction of the Scythian campaign, are absolutely rivetting.

This book is available online. There are other works of his as well, including a kooky explanation of the Deluge but The Persian Wars is sensible. One need not grit one's teeth while reading it.
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