Dr. Sanity flowcharts the left, so you don’t have to:
(Hat tip: Maggie’s Farm)
Update: Welcome Michelle Malkin and Instapundit readers!
Related: Roy Edroso of Alicublog and the Village Voice is not pleased:
THE CONSERVATIVE COMEBACK, PART 5633. If you’re an ordinary American liberal type, winding down your day with a Gardenburger and PBR and listening to some Cat Power, and you hear Dr. Sanity referring to “The Left’s Romance with Tyranny and Terror,” you probably assume he’s talking about a different Left — maybe the Left two houses down, or the Left over by the gas station.
But no: if you find Janeane Garofalo pretty MOR, or don’t think it’s a big deal that Barack Obama shook hands with Hugo Chavez, or think “green jobs” sound okay and approve of the reduction of greenhouse gases, you are the Left he means. He thinks that you’re “so nonchalant about terrorism and the threat of Islamic jihad” because you see yourself “on the same side politically.” He thinks you have rubbed your hands with glee as “a majority of Democrats have been slowly sliding toward a preference for tyanny [sic] over the last decade,” and are happy to have a President who “never liked America much to begin with” and is eager “to demonstrate his willingness to submit to Islamic bullying.”
Dr. Sanity not only believes all this, but has taken the time to create a handy chart, which he has disseminated to his friends, so they may better understand how you are plotting to destroy the country. Expect to see it mounted on a two-by-four and held aloft at some upcoming tea parties. It’s part of the new patriotism, which is much like the old bats***-craziness, but with more froth.
Shhh….Nobody tell these guys that Dr. Sanity isn’t a “he.” Or that I’m not Jules Crittenden.
Update: Roy’s a pretty good sport about his error: “Now they tell me Dr. Sanity’s female, so I had to change the pronouns. That’s just another facet of our Marxist revolution: sexism!” Heh.
“Doctor” “Sanity” should sue herself for false advertising and malpractice.
Actually, a definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting a different result. Do you really think socialism is going to work this time, when it has failed every other time?
It doesn’t have to work. It just has to BE. The whole effort now is to deconstruct the idea of efficacy and replace with necessity.
Barak “$100M!” Obama is doing his part on the anti-reality front.
Wait a second … this chart is UPSIDE DOWN (almost). We have had all of the things on the bottom for years. They have had their intended effect of achieving the next tier of Post-Modernism and inverse (read perverse) ethics. The next step was to CAUSE a total economic collapse and to blame it (via postmodernism, inverse ethics, anti-logic, and communist propaganda [the MSM]) on the “failure of Capitalism”. That puts us, presently, at the top of the chart. The NEXT step, chronologically, (that is to say – OUR IMMINENT FUTURE) is full-on COMMUNISM.
Now, I doubt that the form of OUR inevitable COMMUNIST society will be either agrarian or industrial, since we are a post-industrial nation (for the time being). The form will be new and undoubtedly chock-full of hopey-changitude. However, one thing is certain (and by certain, I mean an ABSOLUTE, UNAVOIDABLE, INCONTROVERTIBLE, EMPIRICAL, METAPHYSICAL CERTITUDE). Communism means totalitarianism. Unswerving, unforgiving, unmerciful, ungodly Tyranny.
Forget argument & debate. Consider this PROPHECY. THIS WILL HAPPEN. WE WILL NOT AVOID IT. WE WILL NOT ESCAPE IT. WE WILL NOT EVEN OPPOSE IT (at least, not with anything more effective or dramatic than words that will quickly be erased from future history). THIS IS OUR FUTURE.
Oh… and, by the way, there’s nowhere else on the planet or in all of humanity to flee to in order to escape this.
Good luck everyone … see ya in the Gulag.
I am getting pretty tired of all the initials. We’re not all 13 with our first texting pkg. What the hell is MOR?
I don’t care. I stopped reading.
I’m assuming MOR=middle of the road.
If Janeane Garofalo is Middle-Of-the-Road, then the middle is squarely stuck in non-sanity. It is nice to see Lefties admit that, though, I guess. (And Lefties drink PBR? Only the ‘hipsters’ I’m guessing.) This whole diatribe is pretty much an indictment for Leftist ignorance. I’m betting Edroso wouldn’t know a “green job” if it bit him on the ass.
I think there’s a branch that’s missing, which is a “Legalistic” version of the “Intellectual Vanguard”. Just pile on so many laws that eventually the only “legal” way to act is in accordance with the desired outcomes of Classical Marxist Socialism.
I wouldn’t say that’s “failed”. It’s kinda a work in progress.
The good thing about socialism is…umm…ah…help me out here lefties.
Please note that the chart is originally from Stephen Hicks’ book, Explaining Postmodernism.
I think this is South Park’s underpants gnomes scenario!
Kevin,
Whew — I’m glad somebody caught the reference!
Socialism-dissolve everything, famiy, economy, experience, truth, wisdom, beauty, freedom, free business, etc. and crush it back into a politically acceptable pre-packaged consumption unit to be distributed, no, pushed upon, the tethered masses.
If it doesn’t work, repeat the process after driving the goal posts around and resetting the zeros in the “new math” based big government statistics department.
Pat Santy,MD, (ie, “drsanity”) is a professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical School. She was also the NASA flight surgeon on duty when the Space Shuttle Challenger went down in 1986. (Her riveting first-hand account of the disaster and its aftermath is linked in the left-hand side of her web page.)
In her interview with norm Geras is well worth reading.
http://normblog.typepad.com/normblog/2005/06/the_normblog_pr.html
She cites asher intellectual heroes John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Ayn Rand – not your academic’s typical influences.
Another thing: my understanding is that the chart “The Evolution of Socialist Strategies” above, fisrt appears in “Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault,” by the Objectivist (ie, Ayn Rand’s philosophy) influenced philosopher Stephen Hicks. (SEE his web site here http://www.stephenhicks.org/
for more.)
YES, indeed. You’ll find the chart in gif linked in comments here
http://davidthompson.typepad.com/davidthompson/2007/04/prejudice_revis.html
The first chapter of Hick;s book is available as a pdf file here
http://www.explainingpostmodernism.com/PostMod.pdf
Everyone should read it, because “Explaining Postmodernism” is as clear and concise as PoMo authors are not. And the lessons are more trenchant than ever with Obama in office.
Ed-
Surprised I was the first to comment on it! Unfortunately the current direction our government is headed isn’t nearly as funny as Trey Parker and Matt Stone. But I’ve got to admit that Robert Gibbs is pretty amusing. I don’t usually condone kicking defenseless puppies, but watching Jake Tapper skewering him made me chuckle. The guy is Baghdad Bob incarnate! Maybe South Park should do a show on his 8 Billion $ earmarks = “minuscule” vs 100 Million $ “a lot of money where he comes from” math. I think Eric Cartman would make an excellent Gibbs!
Oh, and haven’t read “Explaining Postmodernism”, but have been re-reading “Liberal Fascism”. Lately our government’s actions sure do look a lot like the WIB or National Recovery Administration all over again. Anyone else see echoes of the Civilian Conservation Corps in the National Service Bill? One good thing about the left, at least they aren’t original! Our MSM sure loves to compare our current occupant of the Oval Office to Lincoln, but he looks a lot more like Wilson or FDR to me.
And I thought you were referring to the Sidney Harris cartoon.
Kevin, if you can explain Postmodernism, how can it be Postmodernism?
Dear Doc,
PBR is Pabst Blue Ribbon. I doubt many liberals drink it.
NPR is National Public Radio. If you are going to use em, use em right!
“It’s part of the new patriotism, which is much like the old bats***-craziness, but with more froth.”
Glad to see the Left’s commitment to Reason and Reality so eloquently expressed.
That chart is actually from Stephen Hicks’ wonderful book “Explaining Postmodernism”. Dr. Sanity credits Hicks in her first use of the chart in 2006.
Kevin:
Family Guy has already locked-in Robert Gibbs — he’s a dead ringer for Peter Griffin.
R makes a good point, eventually, every leftist argument ends up in name-calling and shrill personal attacks. For almost a whole paragraph Roy fought that impulse, but in the end, he slipped into gibbering irrationality, as is the case with leftists.
Good work Dr!
- Dr. Sanity not only believes all this, but has taken the time to create a handy chart, which he has disseminated…
Hmmm…
“Dr.” automatically garners an absolutely irredeemably un-fact-checked “he”?
Who are the sexists again?
“PBR is Pabst Blue Ribbon. I doubt many liberals drink it.”
It’s been the hipster fad of hipster Williamsburg, Brooklyn. (But now that Wmsburg has yuppified they’ve moved on to Bushwick & the South Bronx.)
The true-believer Village Voice Lefty reasoned thusly: all women are feminists, all feminists are Leftists, and Dr. Sanity is not a Leftist, therefore Dr. Sanity is not a woman.
Notice that the Lefty was soooo confident that Dr. Sanity is a man that the Lefty didn’t bother to check Dr. Sanity’s web page.
This mistake is so common among feminists and their fellow travelers that among men’s rights activists it’s abbreviated “woman=feminist”.
I know Roy Edroso slightly.
Kneejerk leftist; marginally employed and desperate to find some steady income, so he prays at the altar of liberalism hoping that his ship will come in. He has enjoyed pity employment at Alicubi for years solely by way of being friends with the owners.
And, for a leftist, he is faster than a speeding bullet to correct misperceptions that his name is Hispanic. “It’s Spanish, from Spain” he will blurt, eager to not be viewed as Hispanic.
Wait, you’re missing the point. He’s DENYING the left has had a long-running romance with violent radicals. Anyone who’s paid attention knows that’s a load of horse crap, and you’re letting it slide to focus on his idiocy in re Dr. Sanity.
Refocus on what he’s denying, and don’t let him get away with it!
What, Roy doesn’t think a girl can be a scientist? Who does he think he is, Larry Summers?