Behold, a Tangled Web!
Here is a highly recommended addition to your course work at the University of Self-Education. It is the seminal essay by Herbert Marcuse entitled Repressive Tolerance. This work is said by many to be the intellectual fountainhead of what is termed "political correctness." Reading it, one sees why. It was published in 1965, and it appears to lay the foundation for later construction by the various deconstructionists and postmodernists - you know, Derrida and all that crowd. This material will be 'old hat' for many of you, but for others it will be fresh, illuminating, even dazzling in the range of insight which it affords:
The link below will download the full text as a PDF file:
grace.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/frankfurt/marcuse/tolerance.pdf
I notice that the file is hosted on a server at Evergreen State College, in Olympia, WA., USA. Maybe some of you know something about the reputation of Evergreen!
But as I see it, the central difficulty inherent to this ideology is that it contains no built-in guarantee that the people who use it will do so intelligently or with moral self-clarity. Mutatis mutandis! There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and lip, and plenty of ways for mischief to creep in, or shoe-horn in. Marcuse and his lefty catechumens are too clever by half—not to imply that reactionary opinions like mine amount to a hill of beans!
This is given as background information. It reveals a lot about the roots of feminism, for feminist rhetoric is replete with Marcusian widgets and hidden standards! The flamboyant web personality Ginmar, who is known to scoff at the "fallacy" that there are "two sides to every story", furnishes a prime example. It is not difficult to guess the trough from which Ginmar directly or indirectly munches her oats.
Anyway: Go, read, study, grow in your counter-feminist erudition.
"THIS essay examines the idea of tolerance in our advanced industrial society. The conclusion reached is that the realization of the objective of tolerance would call for intolerance toward prevailing policies, attitudes, opinions, and the extension of tolerance to policies, attitudes, and opinions which are outlawed or suppressed. In other words, today tolerance appears again as what it was in its origins, at the beginning of the modern period--a partisan goal, a subversive liberating notion and practice. Conversely, what is proclaimed and practiced as tolerance today, is in many of its most effective manifestations serving the cause of oppression."
The link below will download the full text as a PDF file:
grace.evergreen.edu/~arunc/texts/frankfurt/marcuse/tolerance.pdf
I notice that the file is hosted on a server at Evergreen State College, in Olympia, WA., USA. Maybe some of you know something about the reputation of Evergreen!
But as I see it, the central difficulty inherent to this ideology is that it contains no built-in guarantee that the people who use it will do so intelligently or with moral self-clarity. Mutatis mutandis! There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and lip, and plenty of ways for mischief to creep in, or shoe-horn in. Marcuse and his lefty catechumens are too clever by half—not to imply that reactionary opinions like mine amount to a hill of beans!
This is given as background information. It reveals a lot about the roots of feminism, for feminist rhetoric is replete with Marcusian widgets and hidden standards! The flamboyant web personality Ginmar, who is known to scoff at the "fallacy" that there are "two sides to every story", furnishes a prime example. It is not difficult to guess the trough from which Ginmar directly or indirectly munches her oats.
Anyway: Go, read, study, grow in your counter-feminist erudition.
posted by Fidelbogen at 12:07 PM
13 Comments:
Herbert Marcuse's theory on how to create "tolerance for the left, but none for the right" is something that EVERYONE should examine closely.
He perfected "Critical Theory" which is what we are all handicapped with today.
Herbert was a sick, twisted mother-$#@*%!
Read more on Herbert here:
http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/booksabout/haters/haters.htm
Find all of his sick writings, posted by his grandson, here:
http://www.marcuse.org/herbert/index.html
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Understanding Herbert Marcuse, and more importantly, CRITICAL THEORY, is essential to ALL people. The future of humanity depends on it.
If people understood what Critical Theory & Happy Herbert were all about... well, let's just say that Hillary would be floating on an icefloe in '08, rather than running for leader of the free world.
E-V-I-L
The links in the last comment are fascinating and useful. It's neat to look back and see how everything has developed.
I personally find many older women upset that people are challenging feminism as in being anti. Although they do feel for the fathers. What is happening for them is unfair to most ordinary people.
I think it is important to think what women fought for and how they did way back before 1960.
There was a time when women were covered from the neck down to the toes. To get rid of stockings was a big deal and how that came about was intersting.
I do myself think that the European dressing for women a hundred years ago and further back was absurd. I would hate to have to put so much effort into just getting dressed.
Then to look at the Indians, Aborigines, Africans and so forth running around in next to nothing must have been a huge shock to Western Society.
My ideal world would be where we can solely respect each other yet some say it has never been that way in existance and never will. The war of the genders will always exist because what men want from women and women want from men will never be the same.
I hope the solution is not as simple as we go right or we go left.
To do business studies you have to do a feminist paper now.
Also heard that management degree has to consist of learning that,
"Embarcing feminism is important"
Anyhow thanx for information and links.
Women's manner of dress varied considerably from one era to another, from one country to another, and one social class to another. Generally, the higher up the social scale, the more elaborate the couture. Dreadful to think of the dressing (and hairdressing) customs among Marie Antoinette and her female hangers-on, for example. And they weren't necessarily covered from neck to foot, either....;)
Generally, both men and women in the upper classes dressed in a complicated manner. Men, of course, wore powdered wigs, silk stockings, and lace ruffles. (Until after the French Revolution, which "changed everything".)
On the other hand, if you were a shopkeeper's wife or a farmer's daughter, apparel could be quite elementary and simple....
The neck-to-foot look was largely a hallmark of the Victorian era. Prior to then, plunging necklines and peek-a-boo bodices were more common.
Times change, cultures change, societal norms change...and pendulums swing. Who knows, in a few years we may switch into a prudish neo-victorian culture phase. Might not be an altogether bad thing either, considering how shamelessly decadent we've become.
Julie, thanks for YOUR information.
The things you have told us about are happening in obscurity, but they are very, very telling. Very revealing.
The devil creeps forward the most, and gains ground the most, precisely in those areas where nobody is looking.
So to speak.
Julie...you have said much.
Much more than I can address in a few clever lines quickly written.
Anyway, don't assume that I think you are "scum"; that would be silly of me since I know almost nothing about you.
Although the name Julie (in NZ) sounds familiar. I think you're the same Julie I think you are...
Yes, you could probably beat me in reciting the alphabet backwards, but give me a week to practice and maybe I could give you a run for your money, who knows...? ;)
I will comment more later.
Hi fidelbogen,
My last comment seems a bit ... well... strange now that I look at it. I was a bit emotionally off the planet when I wrote it. I live in what you describe. No home or person is free from the destruction. However, I do mean it.
Your comment about the alphabet is funnny. Yes, practice at anything makes perfection.
I really liked your post on MRA for feminists. I can see it already becoming a reality. I want to create a war between families and feminism and men and women over feminism. I think everyone has a right to know and a right to express their views.
I also already know what is going to happen. I know the next moves. I just want someone else to say it. I want someone else to express it well as you do. I don't have the gift you have and it is frustrating me.
I suppose I should have asked you before i print your posts and hand them out. Hope I haven't overstepped the mark. Alot of people would consider that against copyright.
Anyhow, today i would like to still encourage you to go as far as you can. I can't get enough of it. It is motivating my anger and me to stand up and be counted.
Maybe, soon, you will be inspred to dig deep inside and post something else I can use.
Hey, Julie...I think it would be "wise" to create a blogger account for yourself, with sign-in name of choice - you know, so you will see your name in blue letters. It's easy, takes about 5 minutes...and you don't need to create a blog if you don't want to.
www.blogger.com
Yeah, I've got an idea or two that might be helpful, and I'll write something here probably tomorrow...
Thanx for blogger account info.
Yes, I started writing something...and it got a bit long, and I decided to turn it into a post unto itself, called "Shaming Language", which is now posted. See.
I do keep author and URL when giving printed form. That way it has clarity.
fb,
I forgot to mention this earlier but check out the 4-part series "century of the self" on google video whenever you have the time. Each part is 1 hour long.
The third part of the series is about Marcuse and his influence.
http://video.google.ca/videoplay?docid=-7009899812873111112&q=century+of+the+self
Ah...je regrette, mais I am technologically challenged and cannot view that video on my system. But I thank you for pointing it out. (You posted it on your blog too, a while ago, as I recall.)
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