CURTIS MCMANUS
Excerpts From Clio's Bastards
On Sociology And Political Correctness: "Sociology seeks to make 'the world' a better place and so it is confounding that this lofty goal is achieved by ruining and despoiling the human beings in it. The plague of 'political correctness', for example, has become an elemental part of daily existence in the West. . .This intellectual perversity is part of sociology's effort to purge 'society' of its imperfections by criminalizing the thoughts and ideas which it finds offensive, and it does so in the name of progress. That 'progress' does not exist [in history] makes the effort even more absurd, for it then becomes an intellectual movement predicated on a falsity chasing an unreality."
On Understanding Gender: "This insistence upon seeking out the nature of a thing was of such importance [to the Greeks] because it was the first real step toward true understanding; toward divining the ultimate substance that lay beyond appearance. They sought to call a thing by its right name. But the sociologists fail even on this most simple and basic point of pre-Socratic understanding. And they don't just fail--they fail violently, because their ideas [on gender] do violence to human nature, to who and what men and women are, essentially, as human beings."
On Conservatism: "It is true that conservatives are moderate and cautious, tending to bestow their favors on the safe margin, but it is not true that conservatives are 'opposed' to 'progress.' The idea of progress as applied to human beings across time simply does not exist; we as a species do not get 'better.' The whole concept of progress is, in circumstances related to the human experience, a fantasy, an illusion, an unreality. And so no, conservatives are not opposed to progress. Conservatives are, rather, opposed to illusions and fantasies."
On Jargon Laden Academic Writing: "It is more likely the case, though, that sociologist Joy Parr's hideous writing is actually a manifestation of the fundamental intellectual confusion inherent in the sociological worldview. The philosopher Hannah Arendt argued that sociology is not engaged in a 'direct reckoning' with reality or with existence. It is, instead, 'taking a detour by way of a reality they consider more original than reality itself' and which is, of course, a path that leads nowhere. And when one finally arrives at Nowhere, as Parr evidently has, one must use incomprehensible language to hide from one's own self the fact that one is describing a reality that does not exist."
On The Frailty Of Democracy: "The conditions necessary for the appearance of destructive Sophistry and nihilistic Cynicism appear to be this: there must be a comfortable, fattened, and settled society to wreck; there must be a society that is suitably confused and apathetic enough to stand by and smile at the wrecking; and of course the society must be one in which the citizens are entirely free, by law, to wreck it. And there is no social and political order more amenable or more suitable--there is no soil more fertile--for the development of Sophistry and Cynicism than democracy. Democracy practically invites it."
On Understanding Gender: "This insistence upon seeking out the nature of a thing was of such importance [to the Greeks] because it was the first real step toward true understanding; toward divining the ultimate substance that lay beyond appearance. They sought to call a thing by its right name. But the sociologists fail even on this most simple and basic point of pre-Socratic understanding. And they don't just fail--they fail violently, because their ideas [on gender] do violence to human nature, to who and what men and women are, essentially, as human beings."
On Conservatism: "It is true that conservatives are moderate and cautious, tending to bestow their favors on the safe margin, but it is not true that conservatives are 'opposed' to 'progress.' The idea of progress as applied to human beings across time simply does not exist; we as a species do not get 'better.' The whole concept of progress is, in circumstances related to the human experience, a fantasy, an illusion, an unreality. And so no, conservatives are not opposed to progress. Conservatives are, rather, opposed to illusions and fantasies."
On Jargon Laden Academic Writing: "It is more likely the case, though, that sociologist Joy Parr's hideous writing is actually a manifestation of the fundamental intellectual confusion inherent in the sociological worldview. The philosopher Hannah Arendt argued that sociology is not engaged in a 'direct reckoning' with reality or with existence. It is, instead, 'taking a detour by way of a reality they consider more original than reality itself' and which is, of course, a path that leads nowhere. And when one finally arrives at Nowhere, as Parr evidently has, one must use incomprehensible language to hide from one's own self the fact that one is describing a reality that does not exist."
On The Frailty Of Democracy: "The conditions necessary for the appearance of destructive Sophistry and nihilistic Cynicism appear to be this: there must be a comfortable, fattened, and settled society to wreck; there must be a society that is suitably confused and apathetic enough to stand by and smile at the wrecking; and of course the society must be one in which the citizens are entirely free, by law, to wreck it. And there is no social and political order more amenable or more suitable--there is no soil more fertile--for the development of Sophistry and Cynicism than democracy. Democracy practically invites it."
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