In His Narcissist’s ‘Service’
The stars also vow to “smile more, to laugh more, to love more” — which, to the self-absorbed person, obviously improves the world because it improves him or her self.
A drug-addled rock star pledges his “allegiance to the funk of the United States of funkedelica,” a mouthful of asinine claptrap if there ever was one, but such malarkey serves a purpose.
It lets the uninformed presuppose that the Democrats are the party of the cool, which may directly impact the youth vote — an independent illustration for why we should raise the minimum voting age to 30.
Yet amid all the goofy cringe was an undeniably abhorrent undercurrent which resonates more strongly today than it did eight months ago. The video was not only an advertisement for Barack Obama as lord and master, but also a significant portent of what was to come.
Our president’s face, depicted in its ubiquitous pop-art blue-red configuration, flashes heroically at beginning and end, suggesting the accuracy of George Orwell’s warning that no politician’s portrait should ever be larger than the size of a postage stamp.
Between the seamless vacuity, the rock diva returns and pledges to “be of service to Barack Obama.” This matched the group’s stated purpose: to let their idol know he “is not alone.”
Yet in case we somehow failed to grasp the significance behind his pathetic, subservient gesture, Demi Moore (“the queen of all cougars!”) repeats it, vowing to “be a servant to our president.”
The entire four-minute glossy advertisement for the leader embodies the collective pathologies of the political left. It’s all about the personal and confusing your own life with the life of the nation, but it was even more than that.
Unlike with Las Vegas, the heinous machinations of Hollywood are seldom content to stay there. Before President Obama’s prepared speech for America’s returning schoolchildren, one principal in Utah took the stars’ hustle seriously and decided to play it for her students. She got caught — unfortunately, only after it was shown.
Guess what her justification for disseminating the propaganda was? Yep, “service.” And that mellow government-sponsored word also happens to be their “school’s theme for the year.”
If the principal really wanted to enhance the education of her wards then she would have been wise to expose them to the teachings of Thomas Sowell — a man right about absolutely everything — and inform them that leftism is nothing but a vehicle for self-congratulation.
From there she could have cited our own Roger L. Simon, who describes the notion of the “Mini-Me” in his Blacklisting Myself: Memoir of a Hollywood Apostate in the Age of Terror:
Hollywood personalities develop an alternate persona, almost a “Mini-Me” out of the Austin Powers movies, that is an extreme liberal wind-up Good Guy (or Girl) who parades as publicly as possible his unbound altruism and devotion to the poor and downtrodden. Then, once that Mini-Me is paraded and gets his applause and acknowledgment from the masses, he can be put away in his closet again. This Hollywood personality can resume his or her normal life, raping and pillaging all those who come in the way of his success.
These sources enlighten more than Serve.gov or the self-righteous confabulations of Ashton Kutcher. The confluence of indoctrinatory events did produce something positive, however.
It brought about a reexamination of the original video by the conservative press and made many of us wonder aloud: what exactly is it Obama wants from our children?
As always, with Obama’s intentions, there is wide divergence between what he desires and what he states. A partial answer can be found in the original recommended lesson plans for classrooms across the country.
The curriculum recommended that teachers ask students: “What new ideas and actions is the president challenging me to think about?” and “Are we able to do what President Obama is asking of us?”
I suppose the easy answers are “none” and “no,” respectively. Note, though, the obvious question many conservatives would have insisted upon — “What did Obama just lie to us about?” — was suspiciously left out.
Yet the query I would like to address is, “What would you like to tell the president?”
Well, first off, why can’t the president and his flunkies in Congress simply mind their own business and leave us the heck alone?
Second, isn’t Barack Obama and every other federal employee supposed to Serve.gov us? If he expects us to work for him then we’re the ones who should collect massive salaries and live in one of the grandest mansions on earth.
Rather than donate our allegiance to him, let us accept the suggestion of a celebutard and “find the humor in everything” by offering up some conservative pledges of our own.
Conservatives of America, let us vow to ridicule mercilessly the cult of Obama, those videos honoring him, and the entire left wing of the political spectrum.
Let us also labor to fight socialism and government expansion whenever or wherever it is initiated, combat emotion with reason, and expunge lies with truth. From now until death we will argue with our foes, refute their every contention, and labor tirelessly to take our country back — starting with the elections of 2010.
His eyes have all the seeming of a demon who is dreaming…. I have heard and seen and read a lot about Obama and his methods,and frankly I would not let him babysit my dog,much less my country!How in hell was America so duped to elect this guy?(oh yeah, the old media) I hope SARAH PALIN can fix the mess BO makes. PALIN2012
What’s there to ridicule about the “I Pledge” video? It is itself a bad joke offered without any hint of irony. Do they have any idea how idiotic they look to normal people? And what now, is the NEA going to funnel money to artists to give use more of this stuff? The only emotional response I get from this “art” is a good laugh. (Not from the art, but the people making it).
“Isn’t Barack Obama and every other federal employee supposed to serve us, rather than the reverse?”
Federal employees are supposed to serve the branch of government that employs them, through the proper chain of authority and according to their job description. If individual federal employees start serving individual members of the public in other ways then that’s called “corruption”. That’s generally frowned upon.
But if you think your way is better, then by all means write to your congressman and see if it flies.
“Conservatives of America, let us vow to ridicule mercilessly the cult of Obama, those videos honoring him, and the entire left wing of the political spectrum.”
Ridicule. Works for me!
http://gatewaypundit.blogspot.com/2009/09/hmm-obama-hope-posters-studio.html
FASCISM HAS COME TO AMERICA. Deal with it, all of you who delude yourselves that you still live in the “land of the free”. This is the exact same kinds of trash Russians had to deal with with Stalin, Italians with Mussolini, and Germans with Hitler.
May G-d have mercy on your souls, and mercy on you.
Matthew’s straw man:
“…If individual federal employees start serving individual members of the public in other ways then that’s called “corruption”. That’s generally frowned upon.”
Who here said they wanted special attention? What “other ways” are you talking about and who said anything about this but you, Matthew, you fine defender of government employees you?
In Act III, Scene I of Shakespeare’s Tragedy of Julius Caesar, Caesar narcissistically pronounced how HE was the center of the universe, true fixed, and god-like, constant as the north star, about which all the other stars revolved. Unlike mere men of flesh and blood, HE was steadfast and unassailable.
Cæsar: I could be well mov’d if I were as you;
If I could pray to move, prayers would move me;
But I am constant as the northern star,
Of whose true-fix’d and resting quality
There is no fellow in the firmament.
The skies are painted with unhumber’d sparks,
They are all fire and every one doth shine,
But there’s but one in all doth hold his place:
So, in the world; ’tis furnished well with men,
And men are flesh and blood, and apprehensive;
Yet in the number I do know but one
That unassailable holds on his rank,
Unshak’d of motion: and that I am he,
Let me a little show it, even in this,
That I was constant Cimber should be banish’d,
And constant do remain to keep him so.
A short time later HIS fortunes changed. You might say, “Even HIS closest friends turned against HIM.”
Are you still willing to admit that you voted for Obama?
Note: serve.gov deliberately funnels prospective volunteers to- you guessed it, ACORN.
And then there’s arts.serve.gov, which we learn from the NEA tape is – admittedly! – designed to recruit artists into the Buffy/Yosi “We Love Big Brother” program.
Obama sees/wants America as a rigidly stacked pyramid, with all layers vertically depending to the top – in his vision government employees (and welfare recipients) are important stabilizing layers for the top.
Also, if the health care reform succeeds, it will bring in Obama’s pyramid additional government-dependent layers, the patients and an enormous class of government clockers – add to this tight control of working class by unions and we don’t have in Obama’s America a very remote version of Lenin’s Russia.
“In a mature society, ‘Civil Servant’ is
semantically equivalent to ‘Civil Master’.
R. A. Heinlein
There is a reason he titled one of his
alternate universes “Future History”
This is merely the logical culmination of the rise of Celebritarianism. A Celebritarian is unconcerned with a politician’s positions on anything. What he wants to know is how much air time, and how many column-inches, has the pol reaped from the Old Media? That’s the one currency Celebritarians recognize.
Unfortunately, a sizable fraction of the electorate looks to the Celebritarian movement for political wisdom and guidance. Perhaps that can be corrected, but it will take time, money, and effort.
Compare and contrast the narcissists in government and the press!
I find it interesting that the focus on ‘service’ in the Obama administration parallels this entry on Wiki and is too close for comfort:
The concept of “Serving the People”, together with other slogans such as “Never benefit oneself, always benefit others” and “Tireless struggle” became core principles of the Communist Party of China
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_wFEB4Oxlo
Service to the state, based on obligation to the state or to a demagogue may be considered Fascism or National Socialism. We as Americans are considered generous by nature for our willingness to help those who are in trouble. Obama and his plans for Domestic or National Socialism is perverting our national character for service to Obama and his National Socialism.
He hijacks our positive traits and suddenly, we all serve Obama and if you refuse, you are a bad American who refuses to help. This is an Orwellian nightmare. We must move to counter every move and lie of this Anti-American and expose the corruption that this traitor represents.
no 5 ruvy is correct.
And one of the many low points was the Bush administration and the neo Con support for torture and Gitmo coupled with the willfull destruction of the population in Iraq.
Thankfully, we now have a president that is trying to fix it.
Thankfully, we changed direction.
17. Poor Citizen:Your solipsism is surpassed only by your political illiteracy. What you have is EXACTLY what you were warned about: A president who uses the tools of government against its citizenry.
What we have seen this week is nothing less than a nationwide money laundering effort coordinated from the white house to use tax dollars to lobby for partisan political agendas whose sole aim is MORE OF THE ABILITY TO DO THE SAME!
Obama serve us? He’s laughing at us. He got what he wanted. He’s a world celebrity, ala Michael Jackson or Michael Jordon. He lives in the White House with all its servants, catering to his every need. Short commute. He has his own personal 747 jet, with another as backup. Helos over to his personal resort at Camp David with its 70 full time servants on weekends. He vacations in Hawaii and Martha’s Vineyard ($35,000/week). He stays in the Presidential Suite at the NY Waldorf Astoria for $7000/night. His kids go to an elite private school. His wife carries $6,000 purses and wears $500 tennis shoes. She has a staff of 20. He can go anywhere in the world, and expense it. When he’s done in eight years, he’ll become superrich giving speeches and selling a book written by a ghostwriter. He can hand out favors to his crooked friends.
The funniest part is, he knows he shouldn’t even be President – he wasn’t even born here!
‘…a “National Day of Service and Remembrance” …. This is foolhardy for numerous reasons.’
Right!
First of all, as every good GOPer knows, to commemorate a national tragedy (as W urged) you go shopping!
Second, as every good Objectivist knows, “Service” is slavery without $$$. And why should we “serve” anyway? Just to commemorate a few cops and firefighters?
I’m headin’ for Walmart!
Jim Rockford (#19), President Obama has not gotten anything close to what he wants which is absolute control of everything; in other words, President Obama’s desire to be Dictator Obama. He has been pounding the pavement for months–since April–with the universal health-care, yet opposition has increased, despite Obama’s supposed charm offensive. He has spent precious political capital on health care as it is completely falling apart at the seams since the Democrats as split from the conservative Democrats & the Socialist Democrats. Thanks to Obama’s fecklessness, Washingdon DC is paralyzed out of fear from WE THE PEOPLE. Despite the threats coming from Obama ^ the other thugs, WE THE PEOPLE are not backing down from this smooth talking teleprompter tyrant. Obama is in a meltdown considering Cap & Trade, Card Check, & all other heavy bills are shelved thanks to the Health Care fiat.
President Obama does want to be a celebrity & cult of personality; however, he must be POTUS first. He does not understand his role & this is what will destroy him as the people revolt from the would-be-dictator.
There is only one thing I like about Obama. He has opened the eyes of the American people to how radical the democrat party has become.
Bush did great damage to the GOP, but I am now convinced Obama will be the ruin of the democrat party.
Listen carefully, because I have nothing to say. The moment you should have been waiting for will be teleprompted one more time tomorrow if you missed it the first time. There are those who would try to hide their nefarious agenda behind a good dose of old-fashioned logic. Don’t let them fool you. We know who we are, and we understand why we are here. So please join me in changing the greates country on earth.
Isn’t a requirement to do ‘community service’ a punishment for committing a crime? Why is it a crime to be an American?
So, when will we reach the point when we have to wear an electronic ankle bracelet that not only tracks our movements, but measures how much CO2 we exhale?
President Obama’s theme song:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTpUVAcvWfU&feature=related
He’s such a fish head…
Agent Zero contributed to the debacle, and will be the one whom will have the can tied to. I refer to this: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/6211858/HSBC-bids-farewell-to-dollar-supremacy.html
It shows that the Almighty has a sense of humour.
I thought obama was juat a marxist ..he does follow the marxist rule book and he has surrounded himself with marxists (do the trolls know he is marxist and by default they are supporting marxism)
..any way after seeing this blog I now see that the marxist part is small potatoes …he is a mental defect …a retard. well at least a narcissist. …and that is bad news for everyone.
http://www.faithfreedom.org/obama.html
An all-pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration or adulation and lack of empathy, usually beginning by early adulthood and present in various contexts. Five (or more) of the following criteria must be met:
•Feels grandiose and self-important (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents to the point of lying, demands to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)
•Is obsessed with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, power or omnipotence, unequalled brilliance (the cerebral narcissist), bodily beauty or sexual performance (the somatic narcissist), or ideal, everlasting, all-conquering love or passion
•Is firmly convinced that he is unique and, being special, can only be understood by, should only be treated by, or associate with, other special, unique, or high-status people (or institutions)
•Requires excessive admiration, adulation, attention and affirmation, or failing that, wishes to be feared and notorious (narcissistic supply)
•Feels entitled. Expects unreasonable or special and favorable priority treatment. Demands automatic and full compliance with his expectations
•Is “interpersonally exploitative” i.e., uses others to achieve his or her own ends
•Is devoid of empathy. Is unable or unwilling to identify with or acknowledge the feelings and needs of others
•Is constantly envious of others or believes that they feel the same about him or her
•Is arrogant, has haughty behaviors or attitudes coupled with rage when frustrated, contradicted, or confronted
…so from that stand point he is doing well for a retard.
here is a link for the people who think they can engage a troll with a positive result.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIFcnctnHsE&feature=related
basically that means the trolls are ideological retards.
Unfortunately, President Obama does not actually meet the criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder, though he is like that category in many respects. It is also unfair to use psychiatric nosology to condemn him, since there is no defense. It is a problem with psychiatry being applied to the real world. I prefer just calling him ordinary names like “poorly qualified” or “dishonest.”
However, there were very good psychiatric reasons for not electing him to such a high office. His early history was not of a stable family sort. Thus, we do not understand his inner workings, much like a family that adopts a child and does not understand him, though they may love him very much.
In addition, by his own admission, he was constantly searching out authoritarian male figures to explain the world to him. He did not seek the advice of quiet saints who accept the paradoxes of daily existence. He sought answers and ideology. Now we suffer for his “world view.”
The next president should be a women, mother, and perhaps grandmother who is more intelligent and accomplished than our current choice in the White House. Stable background and family ties are indeed important. No more damaged goods.
Personally, I support FDIC chairman Sheila Bair.
I can’t believe it! “Poor Citizen” says I’m right – and then misses the point altogether!
Fascism was introduced to America after the September 2008 crash of the dollar and its credibility. It was done because then-president Bush could see no other alternative. President Obama has deepened this fascist regime by taking over industry after industry (including, now an attempt at the health-care industry), trying to restructure everything so that the federal executive controls how private companies operate.
In addition, as if this weren’t enough, he has attempted to introduce a cult of personality. This was the meaning of the Pledge highlighted by this article, and was to be the meaning also of his address to the kiddies around Labor Day.
But protests scuttled that.
Now a thought for you all. Obama has supported dictators over democracy overseas, both in Iran and Honduras. Why? He doesn’t want you-all to get the idea that the citizenry has any legitimate voice in running the country.
So far as he is concerned, you are just the fodder for him and his buddies to feed off of.
That is what you all have to deal with in the good ol’ US of A. I’m glad I do not live there anymore!
Blessings from Samaria
Everything is topsy turvy in Washington DC’s current version of (not particularly federal) government.
The people serve the President and the Congress, not the other way around. Those branches of government are composed of individuals who, in fact, know better for you than you know for yourself and who are in no way obliged to serve the will of the people.
That is why some representative from western NY state can say he will go against the will of his constituency and vote for Obamacare. He has determined that he serves a higher standard than the silly old wishes of the people who put him in office. He is not alone, except in saying out loud what other legislators think to themselves.
In the current charade known as government in DC, notions of nationalism have been replaced with notions of transnationalism. Fidelity to the Constitution is paid lip service, while real fidelity lies with international standards. (“international standards” are those elaborated by 15 people in the EU & members of The UN and the World Court. But don’t worry about that, their thinking is so very enlightened relative to that of the old white men who wrote our founding documents. Just ask the President’s legal advisor, Harold Koh.)
Barack Obama has spoken of rights elaborated in the Bill of Rights, the first 10 amendments, as “negative rights”. By his intense focus on the domestic agenda (largely ignoring the continuously deteriorating situation in Afghanistan) you can see that his philosophical heart & interest lie in extending his version of “positive rights” which he sees as rights emanating from government & not as the people’s protections against government elaborated in the Bill of Rights.
In practical reality, positive rights translate to expansion of government into every nook and cranny of American life, extension of government control and development of government powers of “redistribution”, redistributing the nation’s wealth according to Barack’s personal definition of “fairness” coupled with control of the nation’s resources.
All the nation’s resources, physical, mental, intellectual, monetary, you name it.
(ACORN, one of the main purveyors of the President’s agenda of positive rights, has been caught with its pants down, but the prevaricator-in-chief has excuses at the ready for his own deep ties to that organization. He gets away with it thanks to the continuing devotion of the formerly mainstream (hopefully fast becoming fringe) media.)
Anyway, never mind that those old white men who wrote our founding documents not only didn’t grant “redistributive” and other such powers to the federal government but were hellbent on creating a structure of government that would preclude such creepy impulses.
(there is nothing more aggravating than being ruled by narcissistic, ignorant, arrogant ignoramuses)
Fred beloit:
“Matthew’s straw man”
This whole thread is a straw man.
“Who here said they wanted special attention? What “other ways” are you talking about and who said anything about this but you, Matthew, you fine defender of government employees you?”
Then what the heck was the point of the caption otherwise? I agree that the public service serves the people – that’s its point. But “and every other federal employee” implies that the servitude is more fine-grained, and I think that’s incorrect. Every federal employee has an obligation to fulfill his job description and follow legal directions – and that might or might not serve any individual member of the public’s personal interests at any given time. In fact, an arbitrary federal employee might have to pursue goals that you personally disagree with – but that’s perfectly valid if, by doing so, that employee fulfills a legal policy that the president elected to enact. One excellent example is the running of cam x-ray – something that’s definitely harmed US interests, but was legally ordered by the president. A federal employee who helped to set that up was “serving the public” in exactly the same way that an obama employee would be if he was implementing a policy that you disagree with. Taking aim at individual federal employees is therefore ridiculous.
This writer is one sick individual. Dangerous like Hitler, this writer is unconscious of the fact that he/she is a malignant narcissist and is projecting his shadow onto Obama. The shadow of a white male appears in dreams as a black man. This is common knowledge in the field of analytical psychology. Sick. The entire country is sick and deluded like this writer. Wow. God bless us all. If you think a nation that brutally murdered 1,000,000 innocent Iraqis for no reason whatsoever the “greatest country on earth”….then you are suffering from the collective level narcissism that is America’s downfall and which itself is driving this country into oblivion.