the fall of the empire walkerb at gmail comTumblr (3.0; @anewnadir)http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/<img src="http://19.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kupfte1w6e1qzu6nxo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://www.youmightfindyourself.com/post/284878567/buried-up-to-his-chest-48-year-old-mohamed">youmightfindyourself</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Buried up to his chest, 48-year-old Mohamed Ibrahim made an appeal for his life yesterday before Hizbul Islam militants stoned him to death for adultery. |<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/14/world/international-uk-somalia-executions.html?_r=1">NYT</a>|</p> <p>Ok wait bros, here me out here…Have you heard this one yet? So a priest and a rabbi walk into a bar…</p> </blockquote> <p>I love how people like this are still respected by the vast majority of the liberal intelligentsia. That is, any vague suggestion that we might have the moral authority to tell these people how to live their lives is seen as outright racism.</p> <p>Rants like this are always best started with an Orwell quote. Here’s the old sage on Rudyard Kipling:</p> <blockquote> <p>“All left-wing parties in the highly industrialised countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are “enlightened” all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our “enlightenment”, demands that the robbery shall continue. A humanitarian is always a hypocrite, and Kipling’s understanding of this is perhaps the central secret of his power to create telling phrases.”</p> </blockquote> <p>How does this have to do with these ignorant moslems who are about to stone their compatriot in the photograph above? It’s simple enough, really: As Orwell points out, there is a great paradox in the liberal idea that our way of life is no better or commendable (comparatively) than the next man’s. Such a line of thought accommodates militant (ignorant) Islam because it is seen as a reaction to the perceived antagonisms of the West.</p> <p>But I think it’s quite the other way around: These people <i>are</i> backward. The “liberal internationalist”, as Orwell would call him, cannot reconcile his generalizations —“everyone deserves a decent living wage”—with the reality upon which such a proposition depends (“cheap gasoline for all!”).</p>http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284901535http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284901535Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:07:20 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/284836982/5aEYvE2yRiesl5wi6nugYzwl&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><a href="http://tumbledore.tumblr.com/post/284560210/animal-collective-bluish">tumbledore</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Animal Collective - “Bluish”</p> </blockquote>http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284836982http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284836982Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:55:58 -0500<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ktp45tBbYU1qz5g75o1_r1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://uncertaintimes.tumblr.com/post/284691013/stellavista-lostandnaked-destroy-all-monsters">uncertaintimes</a>:</p> <blockquote> <blockquote></blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.wrongsideoftheart.com/2009/08/destroy-all-monsters-kaiju-soshingeki-monster-invasion-1968-japan/">Destroy All Monsters (Kaijû sôshingeki / Monster Invasion) (1968, Japan)</a> | <a href="http://pjmix.tumblr.com/post/265422693/destroy-all-monsters-kaiju-soshingeki-monster">pjmix</a></p> <blockquote></blockquote> </blockquote>http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284835987http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284835987Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:54:54 -0500<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/284829690/tumblr_krvi3afIp71qzvv1d&color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"></embed><br/><br/><p><a href="http://tumbledore.tumblr.com/post/284817977/washed-out-feel-it-all-around">tumbledore</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>Washed Out - “Feel It All Around”</p> </blockquote>http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284829690http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284829690Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:47:56 -0500My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-13): Air (26) Sunset (10) Robert Pete Williams (10)...http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284566766http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284566766Tue, 15 Dec 2009 06:38:06 -0500<img src="http://8.media.tumblr.com/l4G7H2YPAq7j6853LI4fOAvIo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://retreattothefuture.tumblr.com/">retreattothefuture</a>)</p>http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284451643http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284451643Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:51:03 -0500<img src="http://16.media.tumblr.com/l4G7H2YPAq8q9bkgsNdYdnAko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://retreattothefuture.tumblr.com/">retreattothefuture</a>)</p>http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284450960http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284450960Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:49:59 -0500Free Confederacy of Dunces Audiobook: A Confederacy of Dunces, one of my favorite books of all time,...http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284387192http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284387192Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:31:46 -0500<img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuoemeJNwq1qznydjo1_500.gif"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://uuiuu.tumblr.com/">uuiuu</a>)</p>http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284193761http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/284193761Mon, 14 Dec 2009 23:44:04 -0500<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kuo4fzCdPI1qzokodo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/283853438http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/283853438Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:38:22 -0500“This culture of excess brought its own counter-culture. Arguably its most extreme adherent...http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/283807855http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/283807855Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:03:56 -0500<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kunzbxSNJN1qzokodo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/283713003http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/283713003Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:47:57 -0500<img src="http://17.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kunz8gZMbI1qzokodo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>The Morgan Freeman Chain of Command</p>http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/283710428http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/283710428Mon, 14 Dec 2009 17:45:51 -0500In case anyone was actually left wondering when I posted this, I have decided to take a job with the...http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/282986189http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/282986189Mon, 14 Dec 2009 04:04:00 -0500<object width="400" height="336"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dw2Q9BdcE9U&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1"></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dw2Q9BdcE9U&rel=0&egm=0&showinfo=0&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"></embed></object><br/><br/><p>the dirty cowboy</p>http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/282852907http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/282852907Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:30:07 -0500<img src="http://18.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kumnuzNVEn1qzokodo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/282800810http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/282800810Mon, 14 Dec 2009 00:42:34 -0500<img src="http://21.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kum66was6U1qav6sko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>(via <a href="http://polanski.tumblr.com/">polanski</a>)</p>http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/282327586http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/282327586Sun, 13 Dec 2009 18:44:44 -0500<img src="http://6.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kui6pav4Lu1qaxybpo1_400.png"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://getbackvassifer.tumblr.com/post/279246435/yeah-buddy">getbackvassifer</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>yeah, buddy</p> </blockquote>http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/282012896http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/282012896Sun, 13 Dec 2009 14:36:21 -0500““Watching Arsenal lead at Liverpool is like having sex with my missus,” writes...http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/281937132http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/281937132Sun, 13 Dec 2009 13:32:46 -0500<img src="http://9.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kul13skkpX1qzs3iqo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://uncertaintimes.tumblr.com/post/281441225/social-fiction">uncertaintimes</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="http://www.socialfiction.org/index.php?n=1825">Social Fiction</a></p> </blockquote>http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/281486008http://anewnadir.tumblr.com/post/281486008Sun, 13 Dec 2009 04:28:53 -0500