Comments on: Something’s Gone Bad, All Right http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/04/08/somethings-gone-bad-all-right/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=somethings-gone-bad-all-right n. the principle of good order<br /><br /> "Observe the strange inversion of all order and sense! Dignity debased; how vilely is the function of a consul prostituted!" ~The Craftsman Fri, 10 Feb 2012 02:25:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: rick1 http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/04/08/somethings-gone-bad-all-right/comment-page-1/#comment-9982 rick1 Wed, 09 Apr 2008 22:06:51 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/04/08/somethings-gone-bad-all-right/#comment-9982 "Profoundly awful" is an understatement. Spengler's a good writer, which is why I'm a regular reader, but this was truly disturbing. Just equating Confederate soldiers to black criminals would have been enough, but the rest of what he wrote is equally unconscionable. He revealed a noxious mentality and sullied everything he's written. “Profoundly awful” is an understatement. Spengler’s a good writer, which is why I’m a regular reader, but this was truly disturbing. Just equating Confederate soldiers to black criminals would have been enough, but the rest of what he wrote is equally unconscionable. He revealed a noxious mentality and sullied everything he’s written.

]]> By: kitstolz http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/2008/04/08/somethings-gone-bad-all-right/comment-page-1/#comment-9978 kitstolz Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:34:52 +0000 http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2008/04/08/somethings-gone-bad-all-right/#comment-9978 "Triumphalism teaches...{that] victory is the proof of righteousness, and not only did the enemy deserve to die, but we should have killed more of them to keep them down longer. Spengler approves here of the abandonment of restraint and total war and endorses the narrative of the victors. In fact, he endorses not just the cause of Unionists, as he specifically does in this case, but the narrative of every victor, whether it is the Mauryans and the Romans or the Mongols, the Ottomans, or the Aztecs. It is, of course, a filthy lie that “whole peoples can go bad.” This is the argument of the genocidaire and the totalitarian, and it gives a pass to anyone who would commit genocide against a weaker people. After all, we must allow the losers to lose! Except that when Spengler says “lose,” he means “die.”" Well said, Mr. Larison... “Triumphalism teaches…{that] victory is the proof of righteousness, and not only did the enemy deserve to die, but we should have killed more of them to keep them down longer. Spengler approves here of the abandonment of restraint and total war and endorses the narrative of the victors. In fact, he endorses not just the cause of Unionists, as he specifically does in this case, but the narrative of every victor, whether it is the Mauryans and the Romans or the Mongols, the Ottomans, or the Aztecs. It is, of course, a filthy lie that “whole peoples can go bad.” This is the argument of the genocidaire and the totalitarian, and it gives a pass to anyone who would commit genocide against a weaker people. After all, we must allow the losers to lose! Except that when Spengler says “lose,” he means “die.””

Well said, Mr. Larison…

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