Archive for the ‘Heritage & Culture’ Category

Japanese Immigration Policies

Friday, May 15th, 2009

These are hilarious (due to the humor of translation), but sad too when you think about our country in contrast.  Our government seems to care little if immigrants have “contributed” anything.

http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/english/tetud … ution.html

Things Japan thinks you might need to do to be worth of being Japanese:

The person has been awarded a prize by an international organization, foreign government or any equivalent organization, with the prize being internationally evaluated as authoritative.
ex.) Nobel Prize, Fields Prize, The Pritzker Architecture Prize and Legion d’Honneur

The person has made contribution to the industrial development of our country, and has been awarded a prize as a result of being selected from among nationwide candidates.
ex.) Grand Prize or Special Prize of Good Design Award (sponsored by Japan Industrial design Promotion Organization)

  1. Culture or art field
    • The person has been awarded a prize which is widely evaluated as authoritative in the category of literature, fine art, motion pictures, music, theater art, entertainment or other cultural or artistic fields.
      ex.) La Biennale di Venezia, Golden Lion, Prince Takamatsu Imperial Art Prize, Academy Awards, Awards at Cannes Film Festival, Awards at Venice Film Festival, and Awards at Berlin Film Festival

Specific cases:

http://www.immi-moj.go.jp/english/tetud … izyuu.html

Examples of rejected immigrants for permanent residence:

(Case #5)
The applicant started his new business in Japan and still runs such business. However, his investments, profit level or other business performances are not so significant. The immigration control authority denied the permanent residence status because the authority does not find it contribution to Japanese economy or industries so much.

(Case #9)
The applicant has stayed in Japan for about 9 years, has composed music and held recitals for playing his own compositions served, and has allegedly made significant efforts in interactions in music between Japan and his home nation. However, the immigration control authority denied the permanent residence status because the authority does not find it contribution in Japan’s cultural and art scenes so much.

(Case #10)
The applicant has stayed in Japan for about 9 years, has coordinated Japanese artists’ many performance shows in his home nation, and has allegedly engaged in holding events to encourage mutual understandings between Japanese firms and corporations in his home nations. However, the immigration control authority denied the permanent residence status because the authority does not find it contribution to Japan.

Janeane Garofalo Pokes the Sleeping Giant

Saturday, April 25th, 2009

Read here:

Liberal actress and political activist Janeane Garofalo, in all seriousness, said activists who attended tea parties are racists with dysfunctional brains in a recent prime-time television appearance.

“Let’s be very honest about what this is about. This is not about bashing Democrats. It’s not about taxes. They have no idea what the Boston Tea party was about. They don’t know their history at all. It’s about hating a black man in the White House,” she said on MSNBC’s “The Countdown” with Keith Olbermann Thursday evening. “This is racism straight up and is nothing but a bunch of teabagging rednecks. There is no way around that.”

Olbermann did not once try to challenge her on those assertions.

The actress went on to describe the brain size of typical “right-winger, Republican or conservative or your average white power activist.”

“Their synapses are misfiring. … It is a neurological problem we are dealing with,” she said. This isn’t the first time she’s offered this analysis, either. Ms. Garofalo said similar things about Alaskan GOP Governor Sarah Palin’s brain last February in an interview with an environmental blog.

The actress went on to bash the GOP on MSNBC Thursday because it had “crystallized into the white power movement” as well as Fox News, which she said has captured the “Klan demo[graphic].”

“Who else is Fox talking to? Urban older white guys and their girlfriends who suffer from Stockholm Syndrome,” she said.

I did attend a Tea Party and its attendees were, to my estimation, about 99% white.  That doesn’t bother me, and I don’t feel guilty about it.

Liberals push this angle because some conservatives do feel guilty.  That’s why the Republicans elected incompetent pro-abortion pro-gun-control idiot Michael Steele to the chairmanship and also why little old white ladies I met at the 2006 Texas Republican convention were head over heels over “Condi Rice” despite her support for abortion and affirmative action.  Their rationale: “she’s the only one who can beat Hillary” (oh, for the days when Hillary was our biggest fear).  And maybe those mean old liberals will stop calling us names.

We do this to ourselves.  We’re like trust fund babies who spend all of their time proving how unimportant money is to them instead of growing the family fortune.  The freedom-loving people of this country tend to be members of the historical American population, which is undeniably European, and more specifically Anglo-Germanic-Celtic, in origin.

As this demographic shrinks due to immigration, so will the freedoms we enjoy.  No other group has shown as great a willingness in history to die for freedom.  Every other civilization is a sad history of oppression and exploitation by dominant elites.  There is nothing special about our geography or environment or even our laws that will change this.  If we want to be free, the price of freedom is preserving the people who love it and ensuring their continued political dominance in this country.  We already have 45% of white liberal idiots like Garofalo against us, so there’s not a huge margin to play with.

The clock is running and realistically there is no hope in a universal suffrage regime.  Even if all immigration were stopped today, differential birthrates and the aging of the immigrant child population into voters will mean that, by 2016 at the very latest, the old Reagan coalition landslides will be unable to elect a President.  That’s a candidate getting 60% of the white vote, virtually none of the black vote, and the usual “shadow” functionality of the Hispanic vote (which tends to flex up or down with the white vote, but always throws its weight behind the Democrats).

Consider that Reagan was the most conservative President elected of the last fifty years and he wasn’t able to do very much beyond cutting taxes, whereas fixing the fundamental problems of this country will require more extreme action.

We should certainly seek to expand our coalition and welcome converts, but to count on others to love freedom as much as we do is folly.  It’s time to stop feeling guilty or defensive and accept who and what we are.  Throwing hail mary’s hoping recent immigrants from Mexico will suddenly leave their traditional ways and embrace Jeffersonian Republicanism is not a strategy.

The body politic of this country is quickly slipping away; we haven’t any time for another generation of universalist delusions.

But the system is generating its own crises that will destabilize many of the assumptions I have made; politics, like the stock market, is a dynamically unstable system not subject to the normal laws of statistics.  If such a force put 85% of the white vote behind a certain candidate (block voting behavior already witnessed among whites in Mississippi and Alabama), all bets are off.  And it will be a long time before all hope is truly lost.  It didn’t take many British to colonize half the world, and it wouldn’t take many Americans either once committed to the task.

Our people are slow to anger and high-minded, not bitterly racist coveters like the Obamas and Sharptons of the other side.  But if pushed into a corner, once all options are gone, we will fight:

The Beginnings

Rudyard Kipling

It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late
With long arrears to make  good,
When the English began to hate.

They were not easily moved,
They were  icy-willing  to  wait
Till  every  count  should  be  proved,
Ere  the  English  began  to  hate.

Their voices  were  even  and  low,
Their  eyes  were  level  and  straight.
There was neither sign nor show,
When  the  English  began  to  hate.

It was not preached to  the  crowd,
It was not taught by the State.
No man spoke it aloud,
When  the English began to hate.

It  was  not  suddenly  bred,
It  will  not  swiftly abate,
Through  the  chill  years  ahead,
When Time  shall  count from  the date
That the English  began  to  hate.

Degenerate “Art”

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

Here’s a humorous promotion for the 20th century musical equivalent of modern art and modern architecture.  These charlatans really pulled one over on the Western world, as we have 50+ years of ugly art, ugly buildings and ugly music…

http://www.vimeo.com/1184876

Maybe one day this junk can be put into a museum when our institutions once again praise beauty instead of degeneracy and ugliness.

Rick Warren: Liar

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Culture/Defau … ?id=481280

More from Rick’s Politically-Driven Life…

Rick Warren 2009:

Monday night on CNN’s Larry King Live, Pastor Rick Warren apologized for his support of Prop. 8, California’s voter-approved marriage protection amendment, saying he has “never been and never will be” an “anti-gay or anti-gay marriage activist.”

“During the whole Proposition 8 thing, I never once went to a meeting, never once issued a statement, never — never once even gave an endorsement in the two years Prop. 8 was going,” Warren told the CNN audience on Monday. ”The week before the — the vote, somebody in my church said, ‘Pastor Rick, what — what do you think about this?’ And I sent a note to my own members that said, I actually believe that marriage is — really should be defined, that that definition should be — say between a man and a woman.”

During his CNN interview on Monday, Warren expressed regret for backing Prop. 8. ”There were a number of things that were put out. I wrote to all my gay friends — the leaders that I knew — and actually apologized to them. That never got out,” he admitted.

Additionally, Pastor Warren said he did not want to comment on or criticize the Iowa Supreme Court’s decision last week to legalize same-sex “marriage” because it was “not his agenda.”

Rick Warren 2008:

However, just two weeks before the November 4 Prop. 8 vote, Pastor Warren issued a clear endorsement of the marriage amendment while speaking to church members. ”We support Proposition 8 — and if you believe what the Bible says about marriage, you need to support Proposition 8,” he said.

The following is a complete transcript of Warren’s comments just weeks before the Prop. 8 election:

“The election’s coming just in a couple of weeks, and I hope you’re praying about your vote. One of the propositions, of course, that I want to mention is Proposition 8, which is the proposition that had to be instituted because the courts threw out the will of the people. And a court of four guys actually voted to change a definition of marriage that has been going for 5,000 years.

“Now let me say this really clearly: we support Proposition 8 — and if you believe what the Bible says about marriage, you need to support Proposition 8. I never support a candidate, but on moral issues I come out very clear.

“This is one thing, friends, that all politicians tend to agree on. Both Barack Obama and John McCain, I flat-out asked both of them: what is your definition of marriage? And they both said the same thing — it is the traditional, historic, universal definition of marriage: one man and one woman, for life. And every culture for 5,000 years, and every religion for 5,000 years, has said the definition of marriage is between one man and a woman.

“Now here’s an interesting thing. There are about two percent of Americans [who] are homosexual or gay/lesbian people. We should not let two percent of the population determine to change a definition of marriage that has been supported by every single culture and every single religion for 5,000 years.

“This is not even just a Christian issue — it’s a humanitarian and human issue that God created marriage for the purpose of family, love, and procreation.

“So I urge you to support Proposition 8, and pass that word on. I’m going to be sending out a note to pastors on what I believe about this. But everybody knows what I believe about it. They heard me at the Civil Forum when I asked both Obama and McCain on their views.”

Tomorrow Belongs To…

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

This liberal Kaufman at Harvard sees the writing on the wall…

http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/pub … Fpage%3D82

The increase in the size of a religion’s fundamentalist population can change the local and even national politics of a country. During the twentieth century, conservative Protestants increased from little more than a third of the white Protestant total (among those born in 1900) to almost two-thirds (for those born after 1975). Only a quarter of this effect was down to changes in switching patterns, the rest accruing to demography. Indeed, one graph showed the relationship between a state’s non-Hispanic White total fertility rate (TFR) in 2002 and the percent vote for George Bush in 2004. At one end of the spectrum was Utah, which had the highest TFR and percentage of people who voted for Bush, and on the other end was Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

Kaufmann hypothesizes that while the Fukuyama, “post-historical” core societies — liberal democratic, capitalist and secular — have been able to survive external threats like the advancement of technology and the challenge of socialism, it may not be a demographically sustainable system. There is the possibility that the stark differences in growth rate between religious fundamentalists and others could threaten this system from within.

In reply to a question, Kaufmann speculated that demography may expose a contradiction, first cited by Nietzsche, between liberalism’s practical need to defend itself and its inability to legitimate the illiberal policies that may be required to do so.

Or as Robert Frost put it, a liberal is someone unwilling to take his own side in an argument.  Raising conservative babies is one of the most aggressive acts you can take against the system.  Call it the Palin Revolution.  Guns, Babies, Jesus!

Causes for Hope

Sunday, March 1st, 2009

It occurred to me that I’ve let the social mood grab me too hard here lately.  Gloom and doom is not really what I believe, though some sort of realignment is necessary before things can get better.  You have to dig out the foundation to fix it.  But I do believe there are two great causes of hope, as we enter some difficult times, that are unique to our point in history:

1) The Internet.  If you believe in such a thing as truth, and you also believe truth must prevail, then a great free market in ideas like the Internet is a good thing.  The media stranglehold on our people has been broken, once and for all.  Not all will seek it, but the truth is out there and easily found.  Though a great deal of evil is facilitated by the Internet, much more good will ultimately come.  Water will seeks its own level and the great sifting of history will speed up as the degenerate become yet more degenerate while the fit and regenerate sharpen each other.

2) The Death of the Empire.  I saw a video the other day that challenged my mental model of how things will play out:

Ignore the rest of the video about biotech (which is interesting) and let’s focus on the part about fedgov spending.  Essentially, the government is broke by 2017.  I had predicted the death of this country by long-term demographics, but it looks like Bush-Obama are going to push us over the brink to insolvency before that really happens.

When the Federal Empire is dead, it will be as if a great vise has been broken, an oppressive force that holds together the unnatural arrangement of our country.  The worst possibility would be a strong, solvent ideologically coherent federal government able to smash the square peg of demographic catastrophe into the round hole of our civilization.  By 2017 things will have degenerated a little further, but the great regional indigenous cultures of this country will still be there: Texas will still be Texas and the Christian Heartland will still be largely intact.

The witch is dead, and we know not what will come after, but we know that what will come cannot until the present evil has passed.  Fedgov will likely enter a supernova stage as it angrily exits the stage of history, but it will be mere birth pangs to a new era.  But praise God that the evil government that takes our guns, steals our money, aborts innocent children and disinherits our progeny will soon perish.

That it will pass sooner and while the American people remain largely intact is a cause for great hope.  And maybe, just maybe, the sons and daughters of the pioneers will finally have a country that is truly their own.

Schumpeter on Capitalism & Socialism

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

Joseph Schumpeter was an extremely gifted economist who predicted what we see now:

Schumpeter’s most popular book in English is probably Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy. This book opens with a treatment of Karl Marx. While he is sympathetic to Marx’s theory that capitalism will collapse and will be replaced by socialism, Schumpeter concludes that this will not come about in the way Marx predicted. To describe it he borrowed the phrase “creative destruction,” and made it famous by using it to describe a process in which the old ways of doing things are endogenously destroyed and replaced by new ways.

Schumpeter’s theory is that the success of capitalism will lead to a form of corporatism and a fostering of values hostile to capitalism, especially among intellectuals. The intellectual and social climate needed to allow entrepreneurship to thrive will not exist in advanced capitalism; it will be replaced by socialism in some form. There will not be a revolution, but merely a trend in parliaments to elect social democratic parties of one stripe or another. He argued that capitalism’s collapse from within will come about as democratic majorities vote for the creation of a welfare state and place restrictions upon entrepreneurship that will burden and destroy the capitalist structure. Schumpeter emphasizes throughout this book that he is analyzing trends, not engaging in political advocacy. In his vision, the intellectual class will play an important role in capitalism’s demise. The term “intellectuals” denotes a class of persons in a position to develop critiques of societal matters for which they are not directly responsible and able to stand up for the interests of strata to which they themselves do not belong. One of the great advantages of capitalism, he argues, is that as compared with pre-capitalist periods, when education was a privilege of the few, more and more people acquire (higher) education. The availability of fulfilling work is however limited and this, coupled with the experience of unemployment, produces discontent. The intellectual class is then able to organise protest and develop critical ideas.

Pinochet and Franco found a workaround to this problem for a time: dig a big ditch and put all the liberal intellectuals and assorted Communists in it.  But they came back in a generation, implying the problem is intractable by simple murder, even if such an option were moral.

Absent a thorough moral defense of wealth and inequality, and a meta-political-market able to sustain such a defense, a false religion of guilt and sentimentality takes over and undermines the very capital that makes our relative prosperity as moderns possible.

Throwing the Baby Out With the Macroevolutionary Bathwater

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009

Great post over at TakiMag concerning the self-defeating efforts of conservatives to dismiss Darwin’s insights:

I too am often disappointed that pundits on the pseudo-Right seek to undermine an insight that could strengthen their alleged worldview.  It’s no surprise that lurking below Intelligent Design there is an appeal to a form of universalism (and all its attendant condemnations), not unlike pro-life activists invoking civil-rights rhetoric and modern Christians championing universal human rights.

http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/art … tionalism/

The fact that some extreme atheists use Darwinism as a sort of religion to explain ultimate origins does not excuse Christians who invoke the equally atheistic spirit of the French Revolution to attack it.  Both are lies.  And as I’ve pointed out before, all of the practical, political implications of Darwinism are microevolutionary in nature:

2008/12/13/intelligent-design-vs-evolution-a-conclusion/

When poor people with two-digit IQ’s are given the right to immigrate and vote on politicians who then decide how to tax the greater property and income of those with three-digit IQ’s, whom they outnumber, democracy becomes a farce of two wolves voting themselves a lamb for dinner.  When those differences are largely genetic and intractable, and those with less wealth have higher birthrates, we have a recipe for a very unstable society, on its way to the logical progression of multiculturalism: from the First World to crony-corrupt Mexico, from Mexico to racial-socialist Venezuela, from Venezuela to the affirmative-action-state (and world rape capital) of South Africa, from South Africa to the lawless murders, rapes, stealing and mass inflation of Zimbabwe, and from Zimbabwe to the permanent abyss of Haiti.

But hey, it feels good to rant about Hitler and Darwin, right?

Rocky in 60 Seconds

Sunday, February 1st, 2009

So my wife refuses to watch any Rocky movies, despite my telling her how vitally important they were to my development from boy to man.  She says she would rather see people kill each other than hit each other.  The boxing movie and the dog movie (i.e. the ability of an Old Yeller or Where the Red Fern Grows to make a grown man cry who never gets choked up at typical romantic fare) seem to be male phenomena.  That’s why this commercial caught my eye:

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I don’t know about you, but that really grabbed me by the gut.

This is the type of story you never see in the media anymore, but was a staple of John Wayne movies: the triumph of the strong, silent Westerner over the show-off braggart.  And it was made by a German beer company: don’t they know Germans aren’t supposed to do stuff like that anymore?

And have you noticed that the media ignores heavyweight boxing now that big dudes from Eastern Europe dominate the would-be Mike Tysons?  Here are the current belt-holders:

WBA WBC IBF WBO
(a)Nikolai Valuev Vitali Klitschko Wladimir Klitschko Wladimir Klitschko
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In any case, a decent dose of boxing or other types of fighting sports (UFC, etc) is an important part of bringing up boys in my opinion.  They’ll be feminized enough by the culture, if not the church.

The Politics of Guilt and Pity

Sunday, December 28th, 2008

A long quote from Rushdoony’s book The Politics of Guilt and Pity I dug up based on a comment made on my previous post.  This was written in the 1970’s; while I don’t agree with everything Rushdoony has written, we have to admit he was a prophet here.  It explains a lot, from the election of Obama to Rick Warren’s teaming up with Bono to spend more of your (debt-financed) tax dollars on foreign aid:

The human race, in apostasy from God, is deeply involved in a rebellious claim to autonomy and in the guilt which follows that claim. As a result of this omnipresent sense of guilt, there is an omnipresent demand for justification. The expression, “He’s trying to justify himself,” points to this demand by man for justification, and insistence on psychic or spiritual wholeness of health. A sense of guilt leaves a man feeling like a leaky, sinking ship: the energies must all be resolved to the repair of that breach. The psychology of the guilty man is this geared to self-defense, to spiritual survival, by means of an overcoming of the breach of guilt. The concern is a demand for salvation: the sinking ego wants to save itself, to find justification by making atonement for its guilt. [...]

A closely related activity is sadism, the transfer of guilt to an innocent party to reduce them to the same level of impotence and guilt. [...]

The reality of man apart from Christ is guilt and masochism. And guilt and masochism involve an unshakable inner slavery which governs the total life of the non-Christian. The politics of the anti-Christian will thus inescapably be the politics of guilt. In the politics of guilt, man is perpetually drained in his social energy and cultural activity by his over-riding sense of guilt and his masochistic activity. He will progressively demand of the state a redemptive role. What he cannot do personally, i.e., to save himself, he demands that the state do for him, so that the state, as man enlarged, becomes the human savior of man. The politics of guilt, therefore, is not directed as the Christian politics of liberty, to the creation of godly justice and order, but to the creation of a redeeming order, a saving state. Guilt must be projected, therefore, on all those who oppose this new order and age. [...]

…the caretaker state masks its tyrannical love under the name of ’social justice.’

The more a civilization advances, the deeper will its sense of sin become, because the increase of prosperity and cultural advantages will only increase the masochistic desire to pay for progress, which the individuals unconsciously believe requires atonement before enjoyment. As a result, the very liberating forces of civilization themselves call into existence the forces of enslavement. [...]

…Communism has used moral nihilism to prepare the way for passive political slavery: guilty men are more docile slaves.

…In the United States, as the nation has departed progressively from God, it has indulged progressively in a debunking of its history, in a general confession of many past faults, some often imagined. The hypocrisy of such confessions is striking: by confessing the sins of past generations, the present scholar or generation thereby implies its own superior virtues and it innocence of those sins. By the fact of such debunking or confession, it confesses also, very modestly, that wisdom is now born to us and is among us, so that confession again becomes a vehicle of pride. [...]

Again, Americans are repeatedly assured that American history is a long account of guilt, towards Indians, Negroes, minority groups, labor, Mexico, and, ultimately, all the world as well for refusing the to enter the League of Nations. This is defective history and perverse politics. Its purpose is the cultivation of guilt in order to produce a submissive populace.

More basically, the subtle indoctrination of humanistic scholarship infers that the Christian, and, in America, the Protestant in particular, is guilty because he is a Christian. The inference is that the Christian has no right to his identity; he must recognize all others and their rights, but he himself has none. The principles of the atheist must govern state and school; the wishes of all others have status before the law, and his have none. [...]

Wherever false responsibility is promoted, and ugly strategy of power is present. This strategy can be briefly summarized. First, make men feel guilty for all things and for everyone. Whatever happens on any continent or country is their responsibility and their burden. All the starving, needy, oppressed, and all the indigents, criminals, and diseased of the world are their burden, and they are guilty of evading their responsibilities if they do nothing about them.

Second, it is obvious that men cannot do much more than care for their own families. Therefore, ask them to exercise this imposed responsibility for the world by delegation, to delegate it to the state and the elite planners.

Third, by being given this world responsibility, the state and its elite planners become gods, governors of all things. They can now begin to remake the world in terms of their superior wisdom. God, after all, hardly had their superior and scientific intelligence.

Fourth, salvation has thus become the work of man. Man remakes man by statist law and action….