It’s not so much “being sorry” as being willing to work towards mutual accommodation.
Back in the days up to MLK, the thrust was for minorities to be allowed to participate equally in the dominant American society and culture.
After he died came the angry radicals, who preached that they didn’t need white culture, they were going to establish and conduct their own. That’s when the melting pot first cracked.
After them came refugees from every third-world hole on earth, determined to set up their own enclaves where they and only they would “run things.”
No society can survive when it operates like that.
You can’t feel included in a group unless someone is excluded. That is the essence of Tribalism/Racism. Jane Goodall was appalled when she first saw it practiced by her beloved chimpanzees at Gombi.
If it is a trait we share with our closest living relatives, there’s a pretty good chance the urge to find someone to exclude is buried somewhere in our shared 90% – 98% DNA (depending on who’s counting and how.)
He also said “I’d like to join a club and beat you over the head with it” in one of his movies 🙂 So many good lines on and off screen. By using them we remember him…and confuse the heck out of the younguns who only like one marx…and Groucho had a mustache, not a beard.
December 16, 2025 at 8:31 am
Browncoat57
“No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living of those who produce.” Thomas Sowell
“…But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
― Robert A. Heinlein.
“(Before the twentieth century was out that could be worded, “—most people can’t read.” One of the things I learned in studying the histories of my home planet and century on various time lines was that in the decline and fall that took place on every one of them there was one invariant: illiteracy. In addition to that scandalous flaw, on three time lines were both drug abuse and concurrent crime in the streets, plus a corrupt and spendthrift government. My own time line had endless psychotic fads followed by religious frenzy; time line seven had continuous wars; three time lines had collapse of family life and marriage—but every time line had loss of literacy…combined with—riddle me this—more money per student spent on education than ever before in each history. Never were so many paid so much for accomplishing so little. By 1980 the teachers themselves were only semiliterate.)”
― Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset
A short video which explains extremely well how the neoMarxists in the education system were able to effectively undermine the cultural assumptions of an entire generation (or three).
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It’s not so much “being sorry” as being willing to work towards mutual accommodation.
Back in the days up to MLK, the thrust was for minorities to be allowed to participate equally in the dominant American society and culture.
After he died came the angry radicals, who preached that they didn’t need white culture, they were going to establish and conduct their own. That’s when the melting pot first cracked.
After them came refugees from every third-world hole on earth, determined to set up their own enclaves where they and only they would “run things.”
No society can survive when it operates like that.
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AMEN!
You can’t feel included in a group unless someone is excluded. That is the essence of Tribalism/Racism. Jane Goodall was appalled when she first saw it practiced by her beloved chimpanzees at Gombi.
If it is a trait we share with our closest living relatives, there’s a pretty good chance the urge to find someone to exclude is buried somewhere in our shared 90% – 98% DNA (depending on who’s counting and how.)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC129726/
“It’s in my nature.” scorpion to frog.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Scorpion_and_the_Frog
As Groucho Marx once said “ I will not join any group that would have me as a member “
He also said “I’d like to join a club and beat you over the head with it” in one of his movies 🙂 So many good lines on and off screen. By using them we remember him…and confuse the heck out of the younguns who only like one marx…and Groucho had a mustache, not a beard.
“No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living of those who produce.” Thomas Sowell
Brilliant man is Tom Sowell, Professor Sowell.
He must be a fan of Robert Heinlein
“…But once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader—the barbarians enter Rome.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
“A dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Friday
“Almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so.”
― Robert A. Heinlein.
“(Before the twentieth century was out that could be worded, “—most people can’t read.” One of the things I learned in studying the histories of my home planet and century on various time lines was that in the decline and fall that took place on every one of them there was one invariant: illiteracy. In addition to that scandalous flaw, on three time lines were both drug abuse and concurrent crime in the streets, plus a corrupt and spendthrift government. My own time line had endless psychotic fads followed by religious frenzy; time line seven had continuous wars; three time lines had collapse of family life and marriage—but every time line had loss of literacy…combined with—riddle me this—more money per student spent on education than ever before in each history. Never were so many paid so much for accomplishing so little. By 1980 the teachers themselves were only semiliterate.)”
― Robert A. Heinlein, To Sail Beyond the Sunset
Zar Balk!
Important, from Victor Davis Hanson.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7YSvURdkyw
“Capitalism teaches you to create and serve, socialism teaches you to envy and demand”
–C. Boyack
https://x.com/ClassicLearner/status/2000302795589918795?s=20
A short video which explains extremely well how the neoMarxists in the education system were able to effectively undermine the cultural assumptions of an entire generation (or three).
A whole lot of wisdom posted above.
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Come for the ‘toons. Stay for the comments…….
…and the tittehs…
Kittehs n tittehs.
Makem purr.
We’re headed toward Idiocracy.
That movie wasn’t supposed to be a How-To
A lot of warnings have gotten misinterpreted as instruction manuals.
Idiocracy (NYC)
1984 (UK)
Atlas Shrugged (CA)
The Forbin Project (USA)
I would add “Alas, Babylon” and “Failsafe.”