Thursday, April 10, 2008

Planets in Motion


So evidently Expelled, Ben Stein's new jeremiad against Charles Darwin, purports that Darwinism caused the Holocaust. Not true! In fact, the Holocaust is almost solely the work of Scandanavian astronomer Tycho Brahe, whose observational acumen led directly to the positive refutation of the Christo-Ptolemaic man-centric universe, which paved the way for the Christ-refuting Germanic neopaganism that undergirded the Reich's racialist ideology.

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13 comments:

cthulu's mom said...

I think that's "Graystache" from "The Simpsons".

"Mustache power -- activate!"

12:27 PM
Anonymous said...

Sweet gay love of Christ, this one still makes the rounds?

No, Stein, idiots like you incapable of understanding Darwin - even when he flat out motherfucking tells you up front that descriptions of man in a state of nature cannot be applied to man in civilization - is what leads to the Holocaust.

There, I'm a reviewer now. Where's my paycheck? Can I get that printed in the NYT book review?

12:41 PM
alansmithee said...

That's not Tycho Brahe! That's Will Ferrell in a Tycho Brahe costume!

1:01 PM
charles davis said...

Clearly the cave man (or woman) who discovered fire is to blame for the Holocaust, for did that not directly lead to the superior firepower of the Nazi Wehrmacht during WWII?

Or should we blame the person who invented the wheel?

1:55 PM
Montag said...

I blame mothers' milk.

2:07 PM
Anonymous said...

I blame Whistler's mum.

2:31 PM
Sgt. Schultz said...

Das ist absolut richtig!

3:50 PM
Ashley said...

A duel?!? It was my understanding that he lost his nose to syphilis. Maybe my astrophysics professor was just jealous though.

4:32 PM
Brian said...

Heck, the first person who invented language is to blame. Once we progressed beyong grunts, we invented the State and Tyrrany and Mass Warfare. Og! May your flea-bitten carcass rot in hell.

5:44 PM
Anonymous said...

Heck, the first person who invented language is to blame.

I knew that America-hater Chomsky had a lot to answer for!
-- sglover

7:42 PM
Brian said...

Critique of symbolic culture

Anarcho-primitivists view the shift towards an evermore symbolic culture as highly problematic in the sense that it separates us from direct interaction. Often the response to this view is something to the effect of, “So, you just want to grunt?"[6] This might be the desire of a few, but typically the critique is a look at the problems inherent with a form of communication and comprehension that relies primarily on symbolic thought at the expense (and even exclusion) of other sensual and unmediated means. The emphasis on the symbolic is a movement from direct experience into mediated experience in the form of language, art, number, time, etc.

Anarcho-primitivists argue that symbolic culture filters our entire perception through formal and informal symbols. It goes beyond just giving things names, and extends to having an entire relationship to the world that comes through the lens of representation. It is debatable as to whether humans are "hard-wired" for symbolic thought or if it developed as a cultural change or adaptation, but, say anarcho-primitivists, the symbolic mode of expression and understanding is limited and its over-dependence leads to objectification, alienation, and a tunnel vision of perception. Many anarcho-primitivists promote and practice getting in touch with and rekindling dormant or underutilized methods of interaction and cognition, such as touch and smell, as well as experimenting with and developing unique and personal modes of comprehension and expression.

WIKIPEDIA

1:21 AM
mistah charley, ph.d. said...

I blame Emperor Constantine.

3:04 PM
Crusader AXE said...

Tycho Brahe is not a name to be easily conjured...

7:26 PM

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