Pajamatarian #3 is just what the doctor prescribed — except for the minor detail that Pajamatarian #0 (Neocomrade R. Simberg) is only another kiddie konservative playin’ at political quackery to assist his Party of Big Management and his AEIdeology, by no means the real M.D. article.
From the trajectory of #3’s jerked knee — “Aha! DEPENDENCY! _Habemus reum confitentem_!” — the serious student of neocomradology can compute backwards to which GOP genius of a sorcerer it is to whom R. Simberg has apprenticed himself. Who, if not
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Neocomrade Prof. Dr. Ch. A. Murray, co -inventor or -discoverer of the ever-immortal Herrnstein-Murray Curve®
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(Pat. Pend.), can be the genuine GOP genius that lurks in shadow behind the shallow wombscholasticism of R. Simberg?
In addition to bein’ an apprentice rather than a full-fledged _magister goëtiæ_, R. Simberg is a practitioner of *applied* AEIdeology, whereas Ch. A. Murray is an Ivy-Tower theorist. [1]
Without definite evidence, one ought not to suppose that the Neocomrade Fellow Prof. Dr. himself approves or endorses or authorizes the way volunteer wombscholars and _Niedergedümmte_ and hired-hand pajamatarians choose to deploy Dependency Theory. “No warranties, expressed or implied,” don’t you know?
Bein’ a wombscholar, R. Simberg is unsurprisin’ly more than a bit of a muddlehead as well. His crucial divagation from _echt_ Murrayanity is that he wants to make out that the fiends of dependency are fiendish ON PURPOSE: “The monsters who run the Demoncrat Party know very well that they are peddling political and social heroin, so please spare us plain-spoken holy-Homelanders™ any Ivy-Tower mumblin’s about ‘unanticipated consequences’!” (So to speak.)
Naturally one can never put one’s whole heart and mind into one’s task when one makes up slogans for the neocomradely community and the Big Party base ’n’ vile _ab externo_. Yet I flatter myself that that stab at it makes the “on purpose” point sufficiently plain. Compare and contrast the stab of Neocomrade R. Simberg:
“The real problem … is not the economy, but the people who have what Hayek called the ‘fatal conceit’ to think that they can tinker it [’a major company’] back to ‘health’ [the neocomrade’s own shudder-quotes] with policies that just happen to coincide with their political preferences to increase their power and control over it and the American people? How long will the electorate put up with being operated on by the Three Stooges?”
Persons not intellectually up to crossin’ the street unassisted would do well to leave sarcasm alone. (Also Freiherr Freddy von Hayek)
The present _señorito_’s “just happen to coïncide” makes it impossible to be certain (in isolation) that it would not admit that wimpy plea of “unanticipated consequences.” The nasty rest of this nastygramme strongly suggests that it would not admit. On the other hand, if the President and the general run of decent political grown-ups are indeed deliberately trying to smash the holy Homeland™ by overthrowing Lord Mammon, then, by the neocomrade’s own account, we are succeeding far, far better than one would get from the Three Stooges. [2]
In short, Neocomrade R. Simberg is so incompetent a sorcerer’s apprentice that any nasty spirits he does manage to summon up are likely enough to drown him rather than inundate the intended enemies of Big Party and AEIdeology.
Why, this poor little neo-laddie cannot even utter the words of the Murrayite spell clearly and distinctly and beyond all possible mistakin’! ’Twould serve him right if . . . . [3]
Happy days.
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[1] Well, Ch. A. Murray started out Ivy Tower, anyway, according to the learned wikipædiatricians:
“Murray credits the SAT with helping him get out of Newton and into H*rv*rd. “Back in 1961, the test helped get me into H*rv*rd from a small Iowa town by giving me a way to show that I could compete with applicants from Exeter and Andover,” said Murray. “Ever since, I have seen the SAT as the friend of the little guy, just as James Bryant Conant, president of H*rv*rd, said it would be when he urged the SAT upon the nation in the 1940s. Murray obtained a B.A. in history from H*rv*rd in 1965 and a Ph.D. in political science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974 …
[and from MIT a Gadarene-swine-like downhill rush to]
… a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute since 1990.”
[2] I should guess that this is only the standard or boilerplate muddleheadedness of rabid partisans: the GOP base ’n’ vile dearly wish everybody on all their innumerable enemies lists to be both a fool and a knave, which is exactly like them wishin’ to eat their cake and have it too. ’Tis reasonable enough to wish for such products, perhaps, but a sure sign of wombscholarship or worse to expect ever to actually purchase them.
[3] “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.”
