SubhumanDeplorable

I prefer Trump to that presby parts, no thanks. Trump is fighting for all the values he espoused but yet he called Trump a con man?

No, no, no... I've never met a preacher who wasn't a con man.

ardvarcus

More anti-Trump bullshit from the left. Ignore.

progressbin

Immanuel Kant coined the term “radical evil.” It was the privileging of one’s own interest over that of others, effectively reducing those around you to objects to be manipulated and used for your own ends.

White Genocide Element #327: Believing the absurd notion that it is evil to value self over other, family over stranger, countryman over foreigner, your race over others. This lie is only ever sold to whites and their countries, and their families. Without self-interest, your ancestors would have died out millions of years ago. Fuck you.

progressbin

If you don't advocate for your own interests, who does? It's all so tiresome.

VandalayIndustries

A warning for any Goats who would think about reading link.

It’s filled with nothing but hyperbole and reads like the venting of an even dumber version of Greta. It’s dreck of the most common and inarticulate. Vomit has more substance and is more enjoyable to gaze upon. You may have the wish to beat your head against a desk after reading, to purge the awfulness of reading a diatribe written by what appears to be a child that was told ‘no’.

Would not recommend.

ellanana

lol... love it.

progressbin

Labeling the "privileging of one’s own interest over that of others" as "radical evil" is the height of stupidity. All motivations in a human being stem from their own values. You want to build a water pump in that African village? Those are YOUR values, and you are pursuing YOUR interests when you take action to accomplish it. This drives all goal-oriented behavior around which human emotions center. Fear and desire are the prime motivational forces and they stem from hard-wired pain and pleasure, which are there for the purposes of ones own survival . We are propelled along our goal paths from source to destination by means of these motivations. We get our joy from accomplishing "our own goals". We love others when their life and purpose is aligned with our goals. We hate others when their life and purpose is aligned against our goals. We become angry at obstacles in the way of our path to our goals and there is still fight in us. We become sad when we cannot accomplish our goals and have given up. Chris Hedges has stepped into the realm of hyperbole. He has stepped off into that type of intellectualism that is divorced from these realities.

Primary to this dynamic is the struggle between the cooperation paradigm and the competition paradigm. Both are evolutionary strategies for survival. Cooperation places its emphasis on alignment of wills, whereas competition places its emphasis on allowing conflict of wills and allowing one party to achieve it's will over another. The cooperation paradigm is flawed in its concept because of its notion of a neutral arbiter of wills, to which is given all authority to decide who gets to achieve their objective.

Among the prevalent dysfunction these days are the motivations stemming from being valued by others, being seen as morally superior, avoiding the disapproval of the group. This is the result of the hyper-socialization that is the hallmark of the cooperation paradigm. The end result of this hyper-socialization is a deep seated hatred of the strong and capable performers.

This cooperation fantasy is a death sentence for a group that is not allowed to advocate in its own interest among other groups that are, and that furthermore are encouraged to.

ellanana

Don't get me wrong, I definitely do not agree with everything in this article, not by a long shot, but it is important to hear this voice. There are valid points made, and Hedges does it brilliantly, we just don't need to go down the Hyperboles (sp?).

I think one of the main problems is that we have stopped listening to "the other side", in general being defined as those we do not agree with 100%.

Personally, I like Hedges voice, at the least I think it's important to hear it, to see what warriors like him think and how they act.

progressbin

Yeah, I have found Hedges to be mostly reasonable.