{"id":4185,"date":"2014-01-31T08:09:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T15:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=4185"},"modified":"2014-01-31T08:09:21","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T15:09:21","slug":"the-sultans-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2014\/01\/the-sultans-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"The Sultan&#8217;s Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The domestic left destroys everything it does not control as part of a cultural war[.]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Once the left achieves its dream of absolute power in a nation, that nation becomes socially backward, technologically backward and culturally backward.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[U]nplanned change is locked out of the equation because reactionary progressive utopias have to be relentlessly planned.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Time slows down and utopia sinks into its own progressive muck.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he flower children became professional activists and politicians and ran a system of stale conformity[.]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The left only believes in change when it moves in their direction. But once change has been achieved, then their ideal is a static changeless society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The progressive movement .\u00a0 .\u00a0 .\u00a0 depends on the egocentric tantrums of individuals for its philosophy, its art and its activism[.]&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fuel, water and even the atmosphere are all on the verge of running out. Everything must be safeguarded, counted and put in a locked box where qualified personnel will only distribute it at need.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Progressives equate progress to redistribution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[U]topia becomes an economic police state.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The utopian is really a cynic, certain that individualism will unleash everyone&#8217;s worst impulses, and offering instead the iron order of his vision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]he utter undoing of humanity is only a land use resolution or unrecycled plastic bottle away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Utopians fear the unregulated and unplanned and they replace the true expansive progress of the human spirit with the false progress of social controls.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under their rule, progress in this country, once its secular faith, has slowed to a crawl outside of a few select industries that are able to move faster than the speed of progressive regulations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/sultanknish.blogspot.com\/2014\/01\/progressives-without-progress.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sultan Knish: Progressives Without Progress<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The domestic left destroys everything it does not control as part of a cultural war[.]&#8221; &#8220;Once the left achieves its dream of absolute power in a nation, that nation becomes socially backward, technologically backward and culturally backward.&#8221; &#8220;[U]nplanned change is locked out of the equation because reactionary progressive utopias have to be relentlessly planned.&#8221; &#8220;Time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[85,11,65,86],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-leftism","7":"category-planning","8":"category-progressivism","9":"category-zoning","10":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4186,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4185\/revisions\/4186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}