Google lets you specify Klingon as your language - - - but you can also specify Elmer Fudd.

I’ve had for several years entertained a notion of writing one of those “Star Trek” novels. But this one would have been about a society, small but tenacious, dedicated to destroying the Federation and liberating Earth from the descendants of the lib/left we’re fighting today. They would have been descendants of tradcons and Distributists called the “Kephan Unity”. The Federation knows of them, but keeps it hush-hush, since they’d be loath to admit they never won a single battle against them.

Probably never get written, but it’s still a nice thought to see that snobby snot Picard get smacked upside the head by a Kephan!

Call it Walter Mittyism with a sci-fi flavor.

Thank you for your time.

The Washington Times reported yesterday that Portland has cancelled this hiring ‘offer.’

Traces of common sense were evidently behind the reversal, which shows that the power of multiculturalism does have limits, however irrelevent.

“[T]he power of multiculturalism does have limits …”

Yes, but the limits are based only on the “gag test,” not on anything that can be rationally articulated. The community’s instinctive gorge rises at the latest absurdity, and a consensus appears that whatever-it-is has simply gone “too far.” One result of this is that the only moral and political guide people have to follow is whatever the ever-changing consensus of the community happens to be from moment to moment.

This, by the way, sounds like a description of Stanley Fish’s ideal society.

“Traces of common sense were evidently behind the reversal …”

See my article, “Common sense—the only permitted non-liberal concept.”

http://www.counterrevolution.net/vfr/archives/000848.html

A prominent rhetorician like Fish of course has reason for praising a society based on consensus that is ungrounded and therefore infinitely manipulable by the clever and well-positioned, and that squashes fundamental challenge with the aid of political correctness.

Like Rousseau, Fish worships at the shrine of the Collective Will. Unlike Rousseau, Fish emphasizes how the Collective Will continually changes (under the influence of demographic change for example), and how it is shaped and manipulated by rhetoricians like himself.

Very interesting points in that URL. Thank you. At least I was on the right track, if not yet fully grasping the implications or understanding the context. ;-)

But that’s why I’m here, as a relative newcomer, trying to learn as I go along and make up for the deficits of modern education.

Thanks, gentlemen.