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June 10th, 2011 | #1 |
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Being vs. Seeming
I intend for this thread to highlight and explore--in one place--instances of people and organizations putting their time, effort, and energy into appearance rather than substance. Surely a study of others' mistakes can only benefit us.
Discussion is, of course, invited. I feel certain there will be gray areas and differences of opinion on marginal examples. There does, after all, need to be sizzle to sell steak. But there must, in the end, actually exist a steak. Please feel free to post your own examples. And thanks to Alex Linder for highlighting the dichotomy, which I find fascinating but had never consciously recognized. |
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Donald Crowhurst, 1960s British Sailor
Yesterday, I saw a documentary on the Independent Film Channel (IFC) called "Deep Water." It was about a late '60s, 'round-the-world yacht race. Or so I thought at first. It was actually a biopic on an amateur sailor, Donald Crowhurst, who was briefly, spectacularly famous.
It's tougher to get the gist of it from the write-ups. The documentary is well-put-together and recommended. In it, you even get a taste, from his logbook(s), of how his christ-exposure factored into his increasingly delusional worldview. Quote:
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June 10th, 2011 | #3 |
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Examples - 'Cool Britannia' campaign.
Anyone who chases fashion, by getting a fauxhawk, for example. Anyone who needs a certain brand of something because of the brand name - be honest. Most Churchill admirers. At the edges, seeming-not-being becomes actual fraud, as in the OP, or, in politics, blind dogmatism. |
June 11th, 2011 | #4 |
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Part of political correctness (PC) is a demand that Whites be about appearance rather than substance, else, if you are a white person of substance, then you are a racist and a nazi. this is the prime manner tha jews demand that whites diminish themselves and weaken their white selves so that their natural racism is hence diminished. that is, everyone knows that it's an inferior way to exist, putting appearance over substance, but jews still demand that whites do this to themselves. And many do.
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What's in a Name? The Medical College of Georgia
A common issue. . .perhaps less common now because so many former "colleges" already rebranded themselves as "universities" 20 years ago +/-. Note that the relative stature of the colleges-cum-universities has not changed one iota in that time. Also, Boston College, Dartmouth College, MIT, CalTech, William & Mary, etc., never have any relative problem being non-universities.
[Note: This is not a commentary on higher education institutions in general, which would most accurately be labeled Diploma Mills.] Quote:
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Getting back to Donald Crowhurst, the sailor-liar. . .
The documentary kind of pissed me off. I was 1/4 the way through it before it became clear what direction the film was going. By then I was hooked, and I'm glad I stayed for the conclusion. I think the most irritating thing was the framing of Crowhurst's skullduggery and demise. It was spun as a tragedy, with Crowhurst to be a sympathetic figure. I felt bad for the guy who actually won the race fair-and-square, Knox-Johnston. His widow and one of his (now middle-aged) sons gave on-camera interviews that were interspersed throughout the film. I didn't dislike them personally, but I felt a certain ick about the whole business. It's something I would be ashamed of, were Crowhurst my father. I wouldn't talk about it and I'd move on with my life. But the wife and son. . .it was like they were still living it, justifying it. You see this kind on TV all the time. They've dome some gigantic fuck-up. . .now they're on camera grinning or crying about it years after-the-fact. It's not healthy. Something else that struck me. . .the British culture is so full of pompous crap (witness the most recent royal wedding) that when one of them actually does something, they go absolutely apoplectic with delight--the human version of fainting goats. |
October 7th, 2011 | #7 |
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Secret Societies.
They're clever conspiracies meant to scare you into believing something. They never actually Really exist in reality. Just in imaginations. Same with politics. A batch of gypsies and hebriots gather together in a country, vote to create their party, use corruption to fake their ellection. In reality these aren't real citizens of that nation. They aren't even white, or straight. They are allies of the Jewish western churches and communities, sent as silent invaders to steal from a white nation. That's how politics is done in democratic parts of Europe. The political people with fancy roman (jewish) names like "senator" don't really have any real rights to even be in that country. Except maybe as tourists, to enrich local restaurants or other bussiness forms. |
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Solo of circumnavigatingation book entitled "Gypsy Moth"
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slightly off topic, but this also happens to the quality of our spoken languages.
we need to have our languages if we want to be who we are. otherwise if portuguese was lost than the spanish language would dominate iberia even more and portuguese would fell a bit more spanish than they do now. a tragedy |
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sure spanish people are good, i my self am partially spanish, but portuguese is important for me.
besides i already know some things about Español as i studied it in school for 3 years. |
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