tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11656430.post114641430885340666..comments2023-08-21T06:06:59.196-07:00Comments on Hellbound Alleee: The Common Man is Better Than Everyone ElseHellbound Alleeehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10268832216080854759noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11656430.post-1146498100959282342006-05-01T08:41:00.000-07:002006-05-01T08:41:00.000-07:00I love it and my heart is filled with blood.I love it and my heart is filled with blood.Hellbound Alleeehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10268832216080854759noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11656430.post-1146495597910286822006-05-01T07:59:00.000-07:002006-05-01T07:59:00.000-07:00I have recently been noticing how humans will ofte...I have recently been noticing how humans will often automatically resort to querulous, petulant, or surly behaviors as a sort of internal face-saving mechanism.<BR/><BR/>The unscrupulous rabble-rousers are validating this resentment at being made to feel stupid or inferior in some way. They tell their followers that the fault lies not within themselves, and that they are right to fear and distrust that which they don't understand.<BR/><BR/>These situations invariably remind me of the line in the play "Bent", where the Gestapo officer crushes a pair of glasses under his boot and says, with dripping scorn, "Intelligentsia!"breakerslionhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14327290369084118043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11656430.post-1146435706838746452006-04-30T15:21:00.000-07:002006-04-30T15:21:00.000-07:00This reminds me of what H. L. Mencken wrote about ...This reminds me of what H. L. Mencken wrote about christian fundamentalists while reporting on the Scopes Trial:<BR/><BR/><I>The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of the inferior man against his betters. They mirror very accurately his congenital hatred of knowledge, <B>his bitter enmity to the man who knows more than he does, and so gets more out of life.</B> Certainly it cannot have gone unnoticed that their membership is recruited, in the overwhelming main, from the lower orders -- that no man of any education or other human dignity belongs to them. What they propose to do, at bottom and in brief, is to make the superior man infamous -- by mere abuse if it is sufficient, and if it is not, then by law. <BR/><BR/>Such organizations, of course, must have leaders; there must be men in them whose ignorance and imbecility are measurably less abject than the ignorance and imbecility of the average. These super-Chandala often attain to a considerable power, especially in democratic states. Their followers trust them and look up to them; sometimes, when the pack is on the loose, it is necessary to conciliate them. But their puissance cannot conceal their incurable inferiority. They belong to the mob as surely as their dupes, and the thing that animates them is precisely the mob's hatred of superiority. Whatever lies above the level of their comprehension is of the devil. A glass of wine delights civilized men; they themselves, drinking it, would get drunk. Ergo, wine must be prohibited. The hypothesis of evolution is credited by all men of education; they themselves can't understand it. Ergo, its teaching must be put down. </I>Mark Plushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03859046131830902921noreply@blogger.com