The embodiment of White Supremacy.

Dennis Prager's philosophical concubine.

Dear Fred,

The world is re-calibrating and the chief characteristic of re-calibration is that white guys no longer run the show.

Like most "conservatives," Dennis Prager thinks white guys deserve to rule the roost.

Whether or not we are deserving, "White Restoration" isn't going to happen.

White hegemony is over. (Or soon will be.)

To pretend - or to hope - that "white supremacy" can be re-constituted is delusional, as delusional as Norwegian mass murderer Anders Breivik who saw existential need to defend whiteness from "brown" incursion.

The eventual lineaments of global re-calibration are necessarily indeterminate.

Here are the possibilities.

1.) China will emerge as the new hegemon.

2.) The planet will embark planetary federalization.

3.) White guys will provoke World War III to avoid realignment with a world order in which they are no longer #1. (“People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage.” John Kenneth Galbraith)

In the article pasted below, "What Kids Now Learn In College," Prager lists a bill of particulars focusing all the sour grapes that embitter White Guys.

In large part, his bill of particulars -- excessively portrayed but grounded in fact -- speaks to the planet's necessary re-calibration.

Prager provides this eloquent summary: "The United States is no better than any other country, and in many areas worse than many. On the world stage, America is an imperialist country, and domestically it mistreats its minorities and neglects its poor, while discriminating against non-whites."

Although Prager intends this passage as self-evident proof that American colleges and universities are irredeemably ill-informed, its chief function is to reveal "what's wrong with Prager."

Anais Nin observed, "We do not see the world as it is. We see the world as we are." What Prager "sees" indicates his own need to "take more university courses" in order to learn that the United States is not as exceptional as he thinks, unless the world's highest incarceration rate qualifies as "exceptional," or the nation's rapid bifurcation into a plutocratic state qualifies as "exceptional," or that neglectful treatment of damn near everyone -- not just "the poor, minorities and non-whites" -- is exceptional.

For Prager to pretend that we can restore "white supremacy" is as delusional as the conservative views expressed in the following Harris Poll - http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/02/harris-poll-wingnuts-and-president-obama.html

The "problem" is not ethnic re-calibration (and consequent decline of white culture) as Prager would have us believe.

The problem is the resurgence of Know-Nothing whiteness, coupled with the intellectually indolent belief that we "should" shun broad-spectrum learning. Deny global warming. Deny evolution. Deny that American Christianity (at least in its bible-banging manifestations) is its own worst enemy. Deny any responsibility for The Collapse. Deny the core democratic need for compromise.

Deny the value of college education.

We can, of course, reinvent the wheel.

But why bother?

"The University" is already doing a reasonably good job.

Today, at my friend's funeral, I spoke with UNC-CH sophomore, Katie K. who has, at her tender age, pursued an academic career in "Oriental Studies" and is already fluent in Japanese.

Last week I had a beer with my boy's Godfather, Steve Dear: His son Patrick is about to graduate Cornell and recently informed Dad that he now understands the entire academic field of electrical engineering. What remains is for Patrick to choose whether he will do graduate work at MIT or Cal Tech.

My own daughter, Maria, studying at a small state university in North Carolina, writes essays whose depth, range and style tower over anything I produced 'til my 30’s.

Sure, "The University" is not perfect.

But realization that "perfection is impossible" is, in many ways, The Point.

To acknowledge the inevitablity of human imperfection is incalculably better than the conservative belief (implicit in Prager) that "Impossibly Pure Principles" are restorative when, in fact, they are crippling.

I encourage you to read "Is Perfectionism A Curse?" a post that begins with Paul Ryan's penetrating observation: "I think that's just what conservatives do by nature. I think that's just the nature of conservative punditry is to do that -- to kind of complain -- about any imperfection." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/24/paul-ryan-conservative-criticism-mitt-romney_n_1909355.html /// http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/09/paul-ryan-tells-truth.html

By nature conservatives complain, and they "complain about any imperfection."

This enveloping sense of grievance reveals conservatives as ingrates, subclinical obsessive-compulsives incapable of giving thanks for humankind's flawed accomplishments. Instead they can - and will - "complain about anything." (Tune in Glenn Beck and bathe in the blather. The man is so accustomed to oozing unhinged criticism that it is often hard to determine the actual nature of any given complaint. In Beck's world, grievance is primary: gratitude does not appear on radar. http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/2010/04/blackboards_are_funny/)

Ever since Gautama Buddha set forth The First Noble Truth, we have known that "Life is suffering."

American conservatives -- certain they are perfect, and therefore eager to re-make the world in their own image -- proudly accept "a divine commission" to "complain about any imperfection."

American conservatives comprise a textbook study in arrested development. Since they only believe in bygone Golden Ages, they are intrinsically unable to engage the forward thrust of Life Itself.

In "The Case For Liberalism: A Defense Of The Future Against The Past," George McGovern says: "My friend Bob Dole is fond of Robert Frost's observation that a liberal is someone who won't "take his own side in a quarrel." I will. I believe that the most practical and hopeful compass by which to guide the American ship of state is the philosophy of liberalism. Virtually every step forward in our history has been a liberal initiative taken over conservative opposition: civil rights, Social Security, Medicare, rural electrification, the establishment of a minimum wage, collective bargaining, the Pure Food and Drug Act, and federal aid to education, including the land-grant colleges, to name just a few.* Many of these innovations were eventually embraced by conservatives only after it became clear that they had overwhelming public approval for the simple reason that almost every American benefited from them. Every one of these liberal efforts strengthened our democracy and our quality of life. I challenge my conservative friends to name a single federal initiative now generally approved by both of our major parties that was not first put forward by liberals over the opposition of conservatives. We need conservatives, of course, to challenge liberal ideas and proposals and to impel us to examine their soundness, but we cannot depend on conservatives to offer constructive new ideas of the sort that might bring about a more just and equitable society or a more peaceful and cooperative world. If we assume that Lincoln, the first Republican president, was a liberal (which he surely was), nothing inspiring has come out of the conservative mind since the age of John Adams. As my friend and sometime debating partner William F. Buckley puts it in his book Up from Liberalism, Conservatism is the tacit acknowledgment that all that is finally important in human experience is behind us; that the crucial explorations have been undertaken, and that it is given to man to know what are the great truths that emerged from them. Whatever is to come cannot outweigh the importance to man of what has gone before. The business of conservatives is, in other words, to cling tightly to the past, and although such a stance can be admirable, a stale and musty doctrine is of little use at a time when the nation needs not to fear the future but to seek out ways to improve it."

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/george-mcgovern-case-for-liberalism.html