Comments on: Postmodernist thinking comes of age in Britain http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/05/postmodernist-thinking-comes-of-age-in-britain/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 07:11:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: DuMaurier-Smith http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/05/postmodernist-thinking-comes-of-age-in-britain/#comment-56029 DuMaurier-Smith Wed, 06 Feb 2008 01:42:41 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/05/postmodernist-thinking-comes-of-age-in-britain/#comment-56029 Where reality is but an issue of engineered social consensus, why should we be surprised that the Brits have at large "gone balmy?" But a more serious question is whether such nonsense is a sort of self-induced social madness or social ignorance resulting from the dilution of social history as an apeasement of an increasingly foreign population. The Brit government has decided that any reference to British greatness might seem to depreciate others, and is to be avoided. So you can't expect too much appreciation of historical reality. Where reality is but an issue of engineered social consensus, why should we be surprised that the Brits have at large “gone balmy?” But a more serious question is whether such nonsense is a sort of self-induced social madness or social ignorance resulting from the dilution of social history as an apeasement of an increasingly foreign population. The Brit government has decided that any reference to British greatness might seem to depreciate others, and is to be avoided. So you can’t expect too much appreciation of historical reality.

]]> By: Bard http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/05/postmodernist-thinking-comes-of-age-in-britain/#comment-56044 Bard Wed, 06 Feb 2008 04:05:44 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/05/postmodernist-thinking-comes-of-age-in-britain/#comment-56044 I have no freaking words. I have no freaking words.

]]> By: Thomas http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/05/postmodernist-thinking-comes-of-age-in-britain/#comment-56159 Thomas Wed, 06 Feb 2008 21:10:53 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/05/postmodernist-thinking-comes-of-age-in-britain/#comment-56159 Peter Hitchens, a British Tory, likened the events in latter quarter of the 20th century in Britain to Mao's cultural revolution. Britain's culture as a distinct entity apart from America and the EU was executed under Tony Blair, and he did it in the name of "modernization". All those venerable, beautiful Victorian homes were bulldozed in favor of block buildings and high rises. Peter Hitchens remarked once with astonishment how when he travels abroad to America people still talk as though there was still a Britain. There isn't. What currently resides in the British Isles is a strange, contrived culture more European than Anglo-Saxon. I'm sure some pockets of old Britain exists somewhere, but it has mostly passed away when America wasn't looking. Peter Hitchens, a British Tory, likened the events in latter quarter of the 20th century in Britain to Mao’s cultural revolution. Britain’s culture as a distinct entity apart from America and the EU was executed under Tony Blair, and he did it in the name of “modernization”. All those venerable, beautiful Victorian homes were bulldozed in favor of block buildings and high rises.

Peter Hitchens remarked once with astonishment how when he travels abroad to America people still talk as though there was still a Britain. There isn’t. What currently resides in the British Isles is a strange, contrived culture more European than Anglo-Saxon. I’m sure some pockets of old Britain exists somewhere, but it has mostly passed away when America wasn’t looking.

]]> By: Bugs http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/05/postmodernist-thinking-comes-of-age-in-britain/#comment-56184 Bugs Wed, 06 Feb 2008 23:01:26 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/05/postmodernist-thinking-comes-of-age-in-britain/#comment-56184 Orwellian, ain't it? Orwellian, ain’t it?

]]> By: Hector Owen http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/05/postmodernist-thinking-comes-of-age-in-britain/#comment-56245 Hector Owen Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:34:29 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/05/postmodernist-thinking-comes-of-age-in-britain/#comment-56245 I was relieved to find that those questioned for the poll were <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/04/nhistory104.xml" rel="nofollow">teenagers</a>. Funny that the Yahoo-AFP story omits that. I was relieved to find that those questioned for the poll were teenagers. Funny that the Yahoo-AFP story omits that.

]]> By: q2600 http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/05/postmodernist-thinking-comes-of-age-in-britain/#comment-56315 q2600 Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:56:26 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/02/05/postmodernist-thinking-comes-of-age-in-britain/#comment-56315 Er, "postmodernist thinking?" I didn't think you were much given to oxymorons, Neo! Er, “postmodernist thinking?” I didn’t think you were much given to oxymorons, Neo!

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