Mass Media Podpeople: all members of the mass media culture who speak the same lying memes, regardless of obvious political persuasion, as though they had obtained them from one single hive mind. The verbiage may vary, but when common memes that contradict truth are spoken by a wide array of the mass media culture, you may be assured they are being spoken by podpeople, whether in deliberate or witless lie.
Politicians *spit*: defined at twc as that slime of the earth who see living off the sweat of productive citizens while enacting ever more violations of Constitutional rights to transform citizens into subjects as a “career option”.
Civilization: there is only one civilization deserving of the name on this planet. China may once have claimed such a title, though even then it was a barbaric and crushing civilization. Islam has never produced a civilization, being just a succession of barbaric savages picking through the ruins of conquered peoples. There were other civilizations of greater or lesser worth in past centuries or millennia. The Aztlan the “reconquistadoes” romantically point to was one such. As brutal and savage as Muslim society today, though far less significant, of course. But civilized countries today? Few and far between. The U.S., Poland, Denmark, Britain (still, barely), Australia, et al.
All nations strongly influenced by WESTERN CIVILIZATION, the only civilization in the history of the planet to consistently increase the individual freedom and wealth of its people.
More later as I add them in…
… and you actually believe that “absolute arrogance” is the epitome of ‘civilisation’?
Interesting characterization of the post, Davo. “Absolute arrogance” would only be applied by someone with an extremely poor grasp of world history. Anyone with even just a poor grasp of world history can plainly see that Western Civilization’s accomplishments in improving the condition of mankind stand head and shoulders above any other society’s claim to “civilization”. And anyone with either so poor a grasp of world history as to not be able to grasp that or with multi-culti blinders on has nothing useful to contribute to a discussion of the topic. That’s “nothing” as in P.L. Heath’s remarkable essay on the topic. (An essay that could not be grasped at all by 99% of the Muslim world, and graspable only by that [possibly] 1% that can both read and are secret “heretics”. The other 99% of Muslim “believers” are divided between the truth-crippled literate and the other 80% of the Muslim world, the truth-crippled illiterate.)*heh*
As for Asian “civilizations” so-called (simply because they are civilizations only in the most rudimentary sense: city-dwellers): any improvements in human condition they have achieved have been either accidental or for the sole purpose of keeping enough slaves/peasants around to serve their masters/rulers. Barbaric.
Of course, the multi-culti useful idiots in the West are doing a good job of serving the ends of those who would be our Eastern potentate-styled rulers by doing their best to destroy every achievement of the West. So it goes. As Burnham famously said,
“Liberalism is a philosophy of consolation for Western civilization as it commits suicide.”