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I thought The People's Cube already did this.

Post 1

Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 11:36am

Thanks for the link, Luke.

People's Cube is not exactly what I meant. People's Cube is merely a left-bashing version of The Onion (see below):

In a surprise move, the CPUSA (Communist Party USA) has announced a lawsuit against the Democratic Party and its leadership for the alleged theft of intellectual property. The plaintiffs claim that the entire so-called "new" Democratic agenda is, in fact, the product of a decades-long, painstaking campaign by CPUSA theorists, agitators, and underground subversive cells - which makes it the intellectual property of the Communist Party USA, protected by American copyright laws.

"They stole our entire platform, rebranded it 'progressive', and claimed it as their own," declared a CPUSA spokesperson at a press conference in San Francisco. "And we communists say, not so fast! Not in this country anyway, where we still have property rights and the rule of law, thank God! Actually, let me rephrase that..."

It's primary purpose then, is to be funny. My primary purpose -- with this project idea -- is to teach folks what it is that you have got to do with your mind and its powers (what you have to evade, etc); in order to truly believe collectivist propaganda. It could alternatively be titled: "(how to) Think like a Liberal!"

My new blog won't be as entertaining (as People's Cube obviously is), but it will be reams more illuminating of the collectivist mindset.

Ed

Post 2

Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 12:20pm

Heh - liked that one - too bad is only alternative worldly true ;-)

Post 3

Thursday, April 29, 2010 - 4:39pm

LOL!

Friday, April 30, 2010 - 6:00am

I'd read that.

Friday, April 30, 2010 - 6:58am

I recall Robert Tracinski noting that the flaw with argumentum ad absurdum is that the target of ridicule will, in fact, accept your conclusion as quite logical and readily implement it.

Witness the current and growing ban on trans fats.

Post 6

Friday, April 30, 2010 - 7:26am

Thanks for the support, folks.

Luke,

Good warning. I had thought of that, too. What if I concoct arguments for collectivism so polished and refined that they become picked up and actually used? I figured that my only defense is to continue arguing even more off of the deep end into irrationality -- putting all my hopes in the inkling of reason which is (still) in even liberals' minds. Putting my hopes in the possibility that they will finally "get it." At this point, I'll have a section entitled:

"What our opponents will say"

... and then I proceed to lay out a rock-solid argument for the free market and for human reason. Then, I will show liberals what to do (as if they don't, already!) in order to "deal" with this rock-solid reasoning which proves that freedom is ideal for man on earth. They already do these things, it's just not ever been continuously and explicitly depicted. There have been instances of mockery in articles, but there isn't a place to go for a catalog of explicit depiction of collectivist thought on all the big and current issues ... yet.

:-)

Ed

Post 7

Friday, April 30, 2010 - 10:52am

Nice. Channeling Jonathan Swift, are we?

Post 8

Friday, April 30, 2010 - 5:49pm

Thanks for the link, Luke.

It was a great read. I made have read it a few decades ago (I can't remember), but I read it this time as if for the first time. Precious. Again, though, this is a little off of the mark at which I currently aim. It professes a forward-thinking solution. It takes a little bit of collectivist thinking and runs with it toward the future.

I, on the other hand, am interested in the (recent) past.

I'm interested in successfully explaining what has got to be in your mind in order for you, for instance, to have supported universal health care. What must your thinking look like, for something like that? What particular things were necessary for you to evade -- in order to avoid cognitive dissonance. I will attempt to depict this.

Ed

(Edited by Ed Thompson on 4/30, 5:51pm)

Post 9

Sunday, May 2, 2010 - 5:19pm

Great link, Luke!

Loved this Onionesque bit from there:

"In a surprise move, the CPUSA (Communist Party USA) has announced a lawsuit against the Democratic Party and its leadership for the alleged theft of intellectual property. The plaintiffs claim that the entire so-called "new" Democratic agenda is, in fact, the product of a decades-long, painstaking campaign by CPUSA theorists, agitators, and underground subversive cells - which makes it the intellectual property of the Communist Party USA, protected by American copyright laws.

"They stole our entire platform, rebranded it 'progressive', and claimed it as their own," declared a CPUSA spokesperson at a press conference in San Francisco. "And we communists say, not so fast! Not in this country anyway, where we still have property rights and the rule of law, thank God! Actually, let me rephrase that..." "

Post 10

Sunday, May 2, 2010 - 5:30pm