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Last updated on August 9th, 2017 at 04:09 pm
It’s as though Melbourne’s Comedy Festival never ended:
In an operation reminiscent of the Cold War era ‘Peace Conferences’ organised on behalf of the Soviet Union by local communists, Melbourne will next weekend have the dubious honour of hosting the ‘Unity for Peace national peace activists conference.’
Featuring an all-tard cast of Australian and international peace geeks, including Cindy Sheehan, Keysar Trad, Kerry Nettle, and Donna Mulhearn! Supported by:
… the Victorian division of the National Tertiary Education Union, the NSW Teachers Federation, the Ku-ring-gai and Marrickville Greens, and the Balmain and Rozelle branches of the ALP. Leichhardt Council is sending two delegates and peace coalitions in Hobart, Adelaide, Canberra, Brisbane, Perth, Sydney and Melbourne will be represented.
I predict violence. Also, maximum appearance of the word “inspiring” in any media reports.
- Will there be giant puppet heads?Posted by Dave S. on 2006 05 20 at 10:42 AM • permalink
- Keysar Trad? Will he rail at Sheehan, Mulhearn and Nettle as being western strumpets I wonder?
The organisers have missed a certain irony in the juxtapostion of these two events:
10am: Plenary “The long war” – Iraq and the US imperial project
noon: Panel discussions
1) Defending civil liberties and the Muslim communityOne could argue that its the ‘US Imperialist project’ that enables the Muslim community in Traq to actually enjoy civil liberties.
By the way, who is Professor Tilman Ruff? I wonder what it is he specializes in.
- Ooo, I just thought of a marketing idea – Peacenik Tilting Bobblehead Dolls. Imagine a Cindy Sheehan bobblehead with an off-set spring giving it a Compassionate Tilt. The Cindy Sheehan and the Donna Mulhearn could tilt in different directions so that when you put them together, their foreheads touch in the Commiserating Head-Touch of Emotional Burden.
I think they would be empowering.
- Its wrong to hate. God tells us to love one another. I know its wrong. But still, I hate them. Should I feel bad for hating them? I don’t. I just don’t understand how they can be so screwed up and be proud of it. They give me a similar feeling to stepping in dog crap.
One of the things that keeps me going is realizing that the overwhelming majority of Americans (and probably Australians) think these dorks are pus brains.
Imagine a Cindy Sheehan bobblehead with an off-set spring giving it a Compassionate Tilt.
Hell, they left one behind in that ditch in Crawford for six days before anyone noticed a difference…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 05 20 at 11:59 AM • permalink
- It is not wrong to hate certain practices and outcomes. How do you not hate pure evil?
Hitler-pure evil
Stalin-pure evil
Castro-pure evil
SH-pure evilIf you want to ban hate, then ban love also. Are we supposed to love the purveyors of genocide?
Millions loved Hitler
Millions loved Stalin
The Hollywood left loves Castro.Hate is an appropriate term and state of mind for certain practices and outcomes.
Get your moral compass together.
The concept that Christians cannot hate certain practices and outcomes is just absurd and I refuse to play along.
- Hate or pity. This is a tough one, Texas Bob, I been thinking about all morning, mate.
Karl Popper was asked the question, “Do you believe in evil?” and he said, “No, but I believe in stupidity.”
Those under discussion here, and whom we would hate and/or pity, are praticisng a perverse brand of methodological solipsism—perverse and worthy of hate and/or pity because the outcome they seek is the antithesis of that which they gather to glorify: that outcome is a closed society.
Methodological solipsism is the epistemological thesis that the individual self and its states are the sole possible or proper starting point for philosophical construction.
These people are self-inflicted victims of naïve falsification. They can move from ‘this is a white swan’, ‘that is a white swan’, and so on, to a universal statement such as ‘all swans are white’.
We, on the other hand, are well armed with a healthy Cartesian skepticism —which advocates a persistent awareness of one’s own capability to be deceived.
I have read the word “Memeoid” somwhere—a neologism for people who have been taken over by a meme (unit of cultural information) to the extent that that their own survival becomes inconsequential. Examples include kamikazes, suicide bombers and cult members who commit mass suicide.
Hate or pity?
I am afraid to say, for my part, a bit of both.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 05 20 at 09:01 PM • permalink
- yojimbo, I lived in the Ku-ring-gai local council area for a couple of years (“upper north shore” of Sydney). A suburb set in hills and large slabs of forest (big mobs of kookabuurras!). Did you ever get the 1960s Oz TV program ‘Skippy’ over there (sort of like Flipper, but with a Kangaroo)? It was filmed in Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park.
Very comfortable middle class residents in Ku-ring-gai and therefore prone to unrepresentative loopy local govenment.
ps on your Aussie-speak. The better word for ‘mates’ in your post would be ‘blokes’. ‘Mates’ roughly translates to ‘buddies’ (depending on the context). ‘Blokes’ roughly translates to (gender neutral) ‘guys’.
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 05 20 at 09:39 PM • permalink
- I hate to disagree with the author of The Open Society and Its Enemies, who did such a great job trashing Hegel, but after a study of the history of the 20th Century I believe in Evil. It went far beyond the bounds of mere stupidity.Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 05 21 at 11:49 PM • permalink
- #19 I really did try to make an effort not to magnify these gathering fools into incarnations of Evil, Michael Lonie, and in my own fumble-fingered way trotted out a bit of “ala carte” philosophy to that end.
Popper was wrong, you are right. I belive in Evil—and Evil certainly believes in me.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 05 22 at 01:36 AM • permalink
- Donna Mulhern – former human shield? I had hoped she had crawled off into some quiet orner and died. I recollect her hightailing out of Baghdad pronto when the US troops rolled in, giving as her excuse “I didn’t know how they would react to my presence there”. She lied – she knew that they would react in the right way, with a bullet between her eyes. Andy Warhol got it wrong -15 minutes of fame was never going to be enough for the ratbags like Mullhern. It only whets the appetite for more of the same. Remember that other pre-invasion hero, Andrew Wilkie?
She lied – she knew that they would react in the right way, with a bullet between her eyes.
More like she knew that they would react in the right way. No bullet. For her this is worse: a televised rescue to kapooflerize her whole stupid victim trip.
Posted by Stoop Davy Dave on 2006 05 22 at 09:38 PM • permalink
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