“I don’t want
knowledge. I want certainty.”
David Bowie, Law
(Earthlings on Fire)
The tiny car circled
the ring several times and stopped. Clowns began to pour out. 9, 10, 11, holy
crap, 12! And another and another. The good people of America keep thinking we
have reached peak stupid. And then another clown gets out of the car.
Jonathan Haidt’s copious
data shows that the right understands the left much better than the left
understands the right. While the right has no shortage of clowns and
demagogues, it is leftist ignorance that is the clear and present danger. With
a single simplistic idea in his head, the average white statue killer is fueled
by ignorance. Yet, this idea has been nurtured and cultivated by academia and
other elites with a well-planned and comprehensive agenda. The riots are no
accident. And it should be obvious by now they are not about race. These riots
are the fruit of a tree planted long ago, and below is the ship of fools
responsible.
Counter Enlightenment
philosopher Jean-Jacque Rousseau (1712-1778) was an angry, petty man who wrote brilliantly
about the problems of modern society. A believer in the natural goodness of man
in his primitive state, he wrote, “Man is born free but is everywhere in chains.”
The movies “Avatar” and “Dances with Wolves” illustrate the romantic idea of
Rousseau’s “Noble Savage”. A return to innocence is impossible, however. Possibly
the single most important influence on the modern left, he believed the only
solution was a radical, top-to-bottom reorganization of society.
Rousseau
German Idealist Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) believed history is directional
and progressive and not cyclical. On a rug in Obama’s oval office was stitched
a quote from MLK Jr.: “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends
towards justice.” When you are warned to be on the right side of history, thank
Hegel.
Hegel
We can thank German
Philosopher Karl Marx
(1818-1883) for identity politics and class warfare. Critical Race Theory and
Intersectionalism are Marxist in form and function, using race as a proxy for
class. In the utopian Das Kapital, profit and property are theft. History is
not made by “great men” but by the Zeitgeist or “spirit of the times.” Equality—an
absolute one, devoid of individual reward and consequence—trumps all other
social considerations. Force is required to achieve it, of course, as the
current stakeholders will not relinquish their power by gentle persuasion. Competition
and individualism are “chaos” to the Marxist, anathema to the need for order
and control. The individual must disappear into the collective as the only
source of meaning and moral transcendence. To a Marxist, the hive-mind of Star
Trek’s “The Borg”, is not a horror story, but a fantasy. Read The Borg President, one of my best.
King of all Wankers
When Hillary Clinton
referred to herself as an early 20th century Progressive, she was
surely steeped in the philosophies of, among others, 28th President WoodrowWilson. In their writings are
the seeds of the modern Democrat Party. Enormously consequential, Wilson is
often considered one of America’s best presidents. He was also very, very
racist, and the policies during his administration were overtly fascist. The
Progressives’ influence on the modern left is complex and broad. However, one
unique gift is their faith in experts and central planning. Responding to the
endemic corruption of the Gilded Age, where patronage ruled government
appointments, Wilson was a strong believer in Technocracy, an army of
unaccountable, lifetime-tenured bureaucrats. Leftists have an unshakeable
belief in their own talents, in their abilities to solve any problem. The
modern nanny state is Wilsonian Progressivism at its core.
Woodrow Wilson
Jean Paul Sartre (1905-1980) The Post-Modern Sartre believed reality is a social
construct. If you ask a “peaceful” protester whether the situation truly
justifies her brick through the Macy’s window, you might hear, “This is my truth.” By substituting “my” for
“the”, you have instant justification for anything imaginable. When Don Lemon,
a man apparently incapable of embarrassment, savaged Terry Crews for
Wrongthink, he was later asked about it. “My role as a ‘journalist’ (quotes
added) is to speak from my truth, and from my lens and from where I come
from. And I don’t think those things are biases.” Touché, Don.
Smartest man in America.
Against this stand
Newton and Plato. Newton’s belief in a God that is fixed and predictable caused
him to believe the natural order itself was discoverable, the very concept
responsible for science. Plato believed that truth, despite its mystery and elusiveness
was like a solid object, standing firm against wish and belief. To reject objective
truth is to enable a glib dismissal of crusty dogmas of the past, especially
religion, which, you know, is just a bunch of he said/she said. Those familiar
refrains, “We need to have a discussion” or a “national conversation” about things?
By “discussion”, they really mean “shut up and listen”, of course, but they often
don’t know what they want, exactly; They just want something different. Their ideological
ethereum is how leftists, without irony, hold the right accountable for the
sins of its past while completely ignoring their own. They sometimes, in astounding displays of gaslighting, claim the historical left was really the
right, because, you know, left = good and right = bad. It’s a neat trick. The
good fruit of post-modernism is the open-minded, tolerant liberal who loves
free speech. The bad fruit is the insufferable coffee shop loud-talker who emphatically
rejects truth as non-existent while maddeningly claiming to have no ideology at
all.
“Umm…isn’t that itself
a truth claim?”
“Shut up.”
Jean Paul Sartre
Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937). Gramsci’s contribution was the argument that Marxism cannot
focus solely on economic or political issues. Marxism will gain influence when
it builds an intellectual and moral culture in the hearts of the people. He
argued for building a “Counter Hegemony”, a culture of working class
intellectuals whose primary function is to make the masses critical of the
status quo. Gramsci would be pleased with the news having devolved into endless
salvos of outrage porn, for only the angry cry out for change. More than any
other, Gramsci is responsible for the intense indoctrination in the schools.
Antonio Gramsci
Herbert Marcuse—Marcuse, of the influential Frankfurt School,
is considered the preeminent theorist of the New Left. His most consequential contribution
may be his understanding that the left cannot not prevail in a fair fight. To triumph
in the clash of ideas, the left must reject their opponents’ legitimacy and
crush them. We can thank Marcuse for Cancel Culture, for the epidemic of doxing
and deplatforming. Since Western Society is root and branch oppressive,
tolerating it contributes to social oppression. Tolerance is hate. Hate is
tolerance.
Herbert Marcuse
In 1983, Soviet defector,
Yuri Bezmenov, gave a talk regarding KGB tactics for subverting Western nations. First, take over
the education systems and teach the children to resent their governments, to
despise their liberties as tools of inequality and oppression. It would take a
generation but when those children came of age, full of resentment and
entitlement, they would be ready for the next step, the systematic destruction
and reframing of their nation’s history. Topple the statues. Destroy the art
and symbols of the nation. Then, create enmity between law enforcement and the
citizen, between the employer and the worker. And most importantly, attack
religion, that existential pain-killing opiate of the human heart. Pain is
necessary. For if the heart has anything which gives it comfort or contentment,
it will never yearn for something greater.
The intellectual class,
bitter they are not in their rightful place on the throne, has long promoted
Communism in America. In 1919, journalist Lincoln Steffens returned from the tremendously
bloody Russian revolution and proclaimed, “I have seen the future and it
works.” In 1932, Walter Duranty of the New York Times, won a Pulitzer prize for
reporting that concealed two million dead from a famine perpetrated by Stalin
to break the Ukrainian will. Presumably, both acted in good faith, believing the
dream of equality was achievable. Yet, while BLM leaders openly admit they are
trained Marxists, the average protester probably just wants a little justice
and equality. Who could be against that? Full of sentiment and angst and desire
for good things, most of them probably aren’t bad people, just pawns, “useful
idiots” as Lenin called them. And idiots they are. Useful? Not to a people
desiring to remain free.
