Seamus Fermanagh

**Strike For The South** · 05-03-2011, 19:35

I put your name in the title so you would reply, others feel free to reply but just remember your reply will be deemed inadequte unless sufficent thought was put into it.

Mencken was a cynic, their is no way around that. Most likely coming from a certain strain of WASPism that emerged in the crushing waves of unwashed immigrants coming across the atlantic at the turn of the 20th. This combined an emerging form of French modernism produced quite the wave of American cynics of which Mencken could probably be the poster boy

Now he was of the opinoin that humanity would eventually regress to its basist levels no matter how enlightend one thinks he is. I tend to think this is the most probable outcome but is by no means set in stone. Of course Menckens political veiws themselves lend to the fact that he really just thought this about the common man but I will digress here as this will lead me on a tangent.

So we get his "black flag" quote which of course has nothing to do with nationalism, war, or anything people now like to attach it to and is really about Ezra Pound and poetry but as my mentor Louis once told me "Why kill good prose with context"

You of course seemingly dismissed my post out of hand as coming from a cynic and therefore there was some opposite meaning that I had not grasped. Even though I have seen on this very fourm call for military intervention. Now I know you well enough to realize that your calls for intervention are coming from a sound philisophical place and I don't mean to paint you as violent. If you feel I have done so I will strike these sentences

Yet even though I have seen you call at times for military actions you reacted to this quote as if it is a completely abhorrent position to take

Why?

I aplogize if this seems like a bit of a rambe but I have just finished my paper on JFK and while I am happy to leave the rotting moraly void hellhole that is the Kennedy white house, the ampherimines seem to be the harder habit to kick LOLLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

NAP TIME

**Louis VI the Fat** · 05-03-2011, 19:50

LAY OFF TEH TEKILAL (MEXION BOOZE) LOL

**drone** · 05-03-2011, 19:51

Already moderates this forum.

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 05-03-2011, 20:07

I adore Mencken and revel in his cynicism. I was not being dismissive of what you said at all.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
H. L. Mencken

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H. L. Mencken

Read more: http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/au...#ixzz1LJlqrWOl

How can you NOT like this guy?