When You Don't Appreciate Your Civilization

[Sanguine]

Good piece.  And, I love the photo of Biden.   

By Ben Shapiro
@benshapiro
April 3, 2019

Last week, former Vice President Joe Biden spoke at the Biden Courage Awards ceremony in preparation for his presidential campaign launch. There, in an attempt to forestall claims that as a white man, he simply isn't intersectional enough to compete in the Democratic primaries, he critiqued a central pillar of Western civilization as inherently racist. "Back in the late 1300s, so many women were dying at the hands of their husbands because they were chattel, just like the cattle, or the sheep, that the court of common law decided they had to do something about the extent of the deaths," Biden fibbed. "So you know what they said? No man has a right to chastise his woman with a rod thicker than the circumference of his thumb. This is English jurisprudential culture, a white man's culture. It's got to change. It's got to change."



Biden's take was, as always, historically illiterate. The "rule of thumb" story has been circulating for years — and it has been repeatedly debunked. There was no "rule of thumb," as feminist scholar Christina Hoff Sommers points out. "On the contrary," she writes, "British law since the 1700s and our American laws predating the Revolution prohibit wife beating." In actuality, the phrase originated in craftsmen so expert that they could perform tasks without precise measuring tools....

https://www.dailywire.com/news/45487/when-you-dont-appreciate-your-civilization-ben-shapiro?utm_source=shapironewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=040319-news&utm_campaign=position1

[truth_seeker]

Ben Shapiro and Christina Hoff Summers, are considered part of the IDW, for Intellectual Dark Web.

IDW are a  group, jokingly named by Eric Weinstein, for their willingness to take on established views, using podcasts and youtube, and long format discussions.


If you reach a point of total exhaustion watching CNN, Fox, etc. repeat the same stuff every 20 minutes, and you want a fresh breath of Air, try the IDW.

GOPBR has a separatecategory.Only being used a little. But there is a surprising quantity and quality of content.

Victor Davis Hanson, and Jordan Peterson are just a couple of examples. Or try Tim Pool, Joe Rogan and Dave Rubin.


Technology has given us more freedom and choices,for how we use our time.


I have Youtube on my smartphone, so I can go on long walks, and listen. Or at the gym. Bluetooth earbuds. Or in the latest vehicles, stream your own  ccontent from the phone.

[Fishrrman]

"When You Don't Appreciate Your Civilization..."

...It disappears.

Or gets replaced by another.