Wednesday, May 16, 2012

"A transparently cunning will to power"

Dr. Bob at One Cosmos entitled yesterday's post "There is No Truth, and Only the Left Possesses It." Have you ever heard a better title for a blog post?

Here are some excerpts:
As we have discussed before, man is composed of intellect, of will, and of sentiment. To deny truth is to maim the intellect. But that doesn't kill the body. Rather, it seems that the will to power comes in to fill the vacuum. This perverse will
"has a violence and cruelty that go beyond the delight in masquerade and in the deception of others." It also "turns on the thinker himself and unmasks his thought as a cunning will to power."
Let's take another example from just last week, when President Obama decided to express his support for the redefinition of marriage. It is a matter of public record that this was merely a power play, in that wealthy donors were threatening to withhold funds if he didn't openly embrace their agenda.
For Newsweek to then proclaim Obama the "first gay president" is completely absurd, in light of the fact that he is just another statist with a transparently cunning will to power.
To believe otherwise one must want to believe otherwise, which is itself another instance of the will-to-power genre, except that it doesn't accrue to the power of the rank-and-foul self-deluder, only to the powerful. In reality it is but a "graceless disorder of the soul" rooted in a "demonic mendacity" (ibid).
(All quoted material from Science, Politics, And Gnosticism.)
 Read more here: http://onecosmos.blogspot.com/2012/05/there-is-no-truth-and-only-left.html

In the comments section Julie Cork nails Obama: "He is a BS artist, plain and simple."

2 comments:

julie said...

Hi Bob - thanks for the reference! Although, in the interest of clarity the quote about him being a BS artist came from this article over at Powerline. I don't disagree, of course, but probably wouldn't have thought to say it in so few words :)

Bob's Blog said...

Folks,
This is not the first time Julie has kindly corrected me when my effort to cite sources missed the mark. That is just one of the reasons I appreciate her!