Friday, December 20, 2019
The Post-modern Descent into Insanity and Chaos
The lastest and most dubious technique in the Jacobin book of subversive intrigue is the often effective scam of twisting reality. Now, things that were once indisputable are called into question and the obvious becomes a point for contention and debate. Famously, Orwell gave us the telling dystopian proclamation, “War is Peace, Freedom is slavery, Ignorance is strength” in his novel “1984.” The book was written before the post-modern / neo-Marxist mentality had seeped its toxic word games into the universities and popular culture. Even if one had not yet heard the famous lines, they could be uttered today and have little difficulty rousing nodding heads in agreement with absurdity on a grand scale.
Illegal immigration was defended by no one a mere few years ago and it is still resented by most sane people across the globe. It’s only in the pompous halls of the smug elitists who drive politics and culture that one holds a strait face while proclaiming the need to let anyone intrude upon your culture and diminish the safety and stability of your nations.
So, how did we get from “1+1=2” to, “we really don’t know and can never really know what is true...so do what the hell I tell ya to do...lowly plebeian!”
Radical skepticism and relativism has always existed in some circles at some times. As a philosophical mind-game, it can be pulled off just as effectively as the script to the Wizard of Oz. But real people inhabit a real world. In spite of larger speculations as to just how real our world is, the senses are quite reliable in keeping our lives intact. Even if life were a dream, do you really want to “dream” that your loved ones are being brutally assaulted or your neighborhood has been turned into a middle-eastern terror enclave? I know, most illegally arriving “immigrants” are rocket scientists paying taxes and proclaiming their love for their new home 😉
In the not too distant past, when a person held a view that flew in the face of logic and observable reality, they ended up putting their tail between their legs and quietly walking off the stage, plotting a new way to spin their bizarre twist on things. Now, flying pink elephants are destroying our planet and you’re told that you just don’t know it because you’re a bad person who lacks the deep insight afforded woman’s’ studies majors and post structuralist academics.
In our current political climate, the con-artists of Leftdom will look right into a camera and insist that a mundane phone call by the president (of the type that previous presidents routinely made) was actually a “high crime” and flagrant “abuse of power.”
Climate change bureau-freaks will fly thousands of miles to lavish resorts while telling the little people that they are producing too much CO2. The former president parroted the claim that the sea level is rising dramatically and will flood vast coastal regions....yet now purchases a multi-million dollar home — at sea level.
In the past, when blatant nonsense was uttered, the clown doing so knew they had to fine-tune the script so that it at least sounded plausible but now, no more. You can say anything no matter how divorced from reality, and a sizable percentage of the boot-licking public will nod in agreement. “It’s gotta be true. After all, it was a bonafide late night comedian that told me.”
None of this is an accident or lapse in critical thinking. This clouded perspective that allows anything to be said and anything to be believed, is a deliberate strategy laid out with intellectual cunning by post-structuralists, post-modernists, and other assorted quacks who would tell us “there is no truth, so you better swallow the truth we feed you” - after all, “ignorance is strength.”
I remember the intellectually vapid experience of having to attend classes in my university’s School of Education. There, future lemmings of public “education” were fed a regular diet of mind games disguised as sophisticated “critical thinking.” The most repeated soundbite was that, if teachers failed to promote “revolutionary” change they were, by default, promoting our current corrupt system of capitalism and white Euro-centric oppression. “You only think you’re free.” If one is lost in abstract philosophical speculation, one can of course argue such things but those of us who inhabit reality know in our gut that living in a free United States if preferable to using a food ration card in a “free” Cuba. The issue conjures the old leftist talking point that there are “different kinds of freedom.” If you’re in a cage and get a daily ration you are “free from want.” People actually buy bullshit like this, now more than ever.
In universities that graduate students who can barely write we are led to believe that hatred of success and achievement is a perspective born of deep knowledge.
At the heart of the contemporary disconnect from reality is a blatant disregard for consistency. The same people who justly opposed the apartheid system in South Africa brush off current murders, rapes, and land-theft in that same country. Amazingly, when a current leader notes publicly that mass execution of whites won’t take place “yet” it’s barely acknowledged. In the end, it’s all about power. The left in all its permutations wants power and, because they are by nature weak souls lacking honor and fortitude, the only weapon in their arsenal is guile and deception. In relatively free and established societies their strategy is not so effective. A dedicated authoritarian communist can’t just seize power and expect mass-public approval. In such cases, subversion is the way to go. Slave morality (as Nietzsche labeled it) on steroids can be an effective method to steal the hearts and minds of younger generations. A simple will to power through contrived victimhood can offer a fairly effective foot in the door. After that, a coup can be pulled off with little push-back from a generation that actually thinks the prosperity and freedom around them is an illusion.
Perhaps a descent into destitution and a loss of freedoms so taken for granted will teach future generations that some “illusions” are better than others.
(I’ll be away from blogland at least til the middle of January. Immerse yourself in knowledge and beauty).
