Ten Commandments for Our New Century

[4est_4est_Gump]

Victor Davis Hanson

If you think our quiet lives of desperation can sometimes become a bit much, relax. Here are some guidelines to soothe your frustration — a few commandments that make sense out of today’s nonsense.

1) Wealth and poverty are now more relative, than absolute, conditions.
2) Regulators are never the problem; a dearth of regulations always must be.
3) Debt is a mirage.
4) In our new age of diplomacy, being liked trumps being respected.
5) Collective national wealth is natural; private wealth is unnatural.
6) Medieval exemption is not medieval.
7) Victimhood is always sought, never questioned.
8) Neanderthals need nerds.
9) Ideology, for all the protestations of the zealot, is now not to be taken too seriously — not in this age of global leisure and affluence.
10) Owing in our new millennium shall be less stressful than saving.

I keep these commandments in mind daily. That way what would have seemed absurd in my youth is now as natural as the sun rising.

Try it.

http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-new-commandments-on-the-barn-wall/?singlepage=true

I suggest reading the commentary to each commandment.

 

[rosco rathbone]

The definition of wealth and poverty is a fascinating subject to me.

When has it never not been relative? The poorest peasant in medieval times still had a mule, a plow, and the knowledge to sew seeds and till the earth. He had iron tools, brought his produce to market on an old roman road, etc.

Who is "absolutely poor", except for the stone age hunter gatherer?

 

[busybody..]

VDH is a RACIST white guy

as are you for posting that

When our President, will NIGGA UP in his second term, he will teach all you RACISTS a lesson

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

The definition of wealth and poverty is a fascinating subject to me.

When has it never not been relative? The poorest peasant in medieval times still had a mule, a plow, and the knowledge to sew seeds and till the earth. He had iron tools, brought his produce to market on an old roman road, etc.

Who is "absolutely poor", except for the stone age hunter gatherer?

I think you are inflating and romanticizing the wealth of the peasant. He only had those things at the pleasure of the Lord of the Manor...



Did you not see the historical drama of Robin Hood featuring the great historian Russell Crowe?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

VDH is a RACIST white guy

as are you for posting that

When our President, will NIGGA UP in his second term, he will teach all you RACISTS a lesson

I cannot wait for the second term of an Obama not concerned with his reelection or the fate of his party; focused like a laser on his legacy...

Man-o-man, is that ever going to be something!

 

[NeverEndingMe]

Victor Davis Hanson

If you think our quiet lives of desperation can sometimes become a bit much, relax. Here are some guidelines to soothe your frustration — a few commandments that make sense out of today’s nonsense.

1) Wealth and poverty are now more relative, than absolute, conditions.
2) Regulators are never the problem; a dearth of regulations always must be.
3) Debt is a mirage.
4) In our new age of diplomacy, being liked trumps being respected.
5) Collective national wealth is natural; private wealth is unnatural.
6) Medieval exemption is not medieval.
7) Victimhood is always sought, never questioned.
8) Neanderthals need nerds.
9) Ideology, for all the protestations of the zealot, is now not to be taken too seriously — not in this age of global leisure and affluence.
10) Owing in our new millennium shall be less stressful than saving.

I keep these commandments in mind daily. That way what would have seemed absurd in my youth is now as natural as the sun rising.

Try it.

http://pjmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-new-commandments-on-the-barn-wall/?singlepage=true

I suggest reading the commentary to each commandment.

well, let's talk about #1: Wealth and poverty

we have those that work his or her butt off and build up Wealth. we have those like (dick daily, sqtpepper, merc, ud, drixx) that say "there is no way for the individual to create wealth. only government can correct this injustice" and all that they are trying to do is create an excuse for laziness.

now, what I will concede is that not all jobs produce the same income. sadly this is a reality. obama wants to end this and this would be a tragic mistake.

now, where I'm different from the "pro government" idiots, is that I don't want people to be enslaved by government. lets face it, welfare is a form of slavery. what we need is reform the system to help people/family's to get off the system and improve his or her life and their family.

yes, this would be more expensive in the short term, but long term its the right thing to do. this is the problem with socialist and the obama

 

[rosco rathbone]

I think you are inflating and romanticizing the wealth of the peasant. He only had those things at the pleasure of the Lord of the Manor...



Did you not see the historical drama of Robin Hood featuring the great historian Russell Crowe?

The peasant was actually in good shape compared to the landless laborer, say ENgland around the time of the Corn Laws and Speenhamland. He was embedded in an economic-technological system which allowed him to be fairly self sufficient except in times of bad harvest (or war, etc). He may have been overtaxed or subjected to various feudal humiliations, but at least he "had" land and the knowledge to make a living on it. Contrast the wandering laborer, prosecuted for vagrancy, no work in the country side, work for slave wages in an early factory...

I guess the closest we have to "absolute" poverty these days would be Africans in failed states where agriculture is disrupted due to war, and nothing replaced it.

 

[Saint Peter]

We could educate them!

Oh, wait. AJ don't go for that education shit.



Never mind.

 

[busybody..]

We could educate them!

Oh, wait. AJ don't go for that education shit.



Never mind.

We have been educating them fo hundreds of billions of dollaars for decades

And like you

They would rather take from others

Srfu...with that education shit

 

[Liar]

What the heck is "Medieval exemption"?

 

[Sean]

What the heck is "Medieval exemption"?

You didn't have to farm the squire's land if you were dead.

 

[Liar]

You didn't have to farm the squire's land if you were dead.

You sure? I'd make good fertilizer.

 

[Destinys_Bitch]

God's were better.

 

[Liar]

Maybe. But I'm still gonna covet my neighbor's wife.

 

[Destinys_Bitch]

Of course you will.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_L2xQX5qyQlw/TBd5txFodUI/AAAAAAAAifk/WIWRrYHm6I4/s400/Sarah+Jessica+Parker%27s.jpg

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

What the heck is "Medieval exemption"?

Saying one thing, while doing another, is no longer hypocrisy, but rather logical, given that sinning is finessed by prior qualification. Deploring racial profiling ensures that you do not have to visit Detroit too often — and never feel guilt in avoiding it. Warren Buffett circumventing inheritance taxes, or fighting the IRS, requires him duly to whine about the soft tax treatment accorded billionaires like himself. Barack Obama can shake down Wall Street donors, but only if he has first branded them fat cats and corporate jet owners. Deriding super-PACs is requisite to creating them. You can keep Guantanamo open only if you damn those who opened it.

VDH

A_J's corollary #3, “The New Age Liberal maintains contradictory positions comfortably compartmentalized. (This is because the New Age Liberal is a creature that believes in consensus as a short-cut to an examination of the facts and a reasoned judgment about said facts. Corollary #2.)”

When Government gets so powerful that its purchase price is cost effective, even imperative, to business, then business will purchase government indulgences.
A_J, the Stupid