—“Leftism is a totalitarian force. Wherever leftism is in a position of power it tends to invade every private corner and force every thought into a leftist mold.
In part this is because of the quasi-religious character of leftism; everything contrary to leftist beliefs represents Sin.
That is, the leftist’s real motive is not to attain the ostensible goals of leftism; in reality he is motivated by the sense of power he gets from struggling for and then reaching a social goal.
Consequently the leftist is never satisfied with the goals he has already attained; his need for the power process leads him always to pursue some new goal.
The leftist wants equal opportunities for minorities. When that is attained he insists on statistical equality of achievement by minorities. And as long as anyone harbors in some corner of his mind a negative attitude toward some minority, the leftist has to re-educated him.
And ethnic minorities are not enough; no one can be allowed to have a negative attitude toward homosexuals, disabled people, fat people, old people, ugly people, and on and on and on.
It’s not enough that the public should be informed about the hazards of smoking; a warning has to be stamped on every package of cigarettes.
Then cigarette advertising has to be restricted if not banned. The activists will never be satisfied until tobacco is outlawed, and after that it will be alcohol, then junk food, etc.
Activists have fought gross child abuse, which is reasonable. But now they want to stop all spanking. When they have done that they will want to ban something else they consider unwholesome, then another thing and then another.
They will never be satisfied until they have complete control over all child rearing practices. And then they will move on to another cause.”—
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“Leftism is a totalitarian force. Wherever leftism is in a position of power it
—“Leftism is a totalitarian force. Wherever leftism is in a position of power it tends to invade every private corner and force every thought into a leftist mold.
In part this is because of the quasi-religious character of leftism; everything contrary to leftist beliefs represents Sin.
That is, the leftist’s real motive is not to attain the ostensible goals of leftism; in reality he is motivated by the sense of power he gets from struggling for and then reaching a social goal.
Consequently the leftist is never satisfied with the goals he has already attained; his need for the power process leads him always to pursue some new goal.
The leftist wants equal opportunities for minorities. When that is attained he insists on statistical equality of achievement by minorities. And as long as anyone harbors in some corner of his mind a negative attitude toward some minority, the leftist has to re-educated him.
And ethnic minorities are not enough; no one can be allowed to have a negative attitude toward homosexuals, disabled people, fat people, old people, ugly people, and on and on and on.
It’s not enough that the public should be informed about the hazards of smoking; a warning has to be stamped on every package of cigarettes.
Then cigarette advertising has to be restricted if not banned. The activists will never be satisfied until tobacco is outlawed, and after that it will be alcohol, then junk food, etc.
Activists have fought gross child abuse, which is reasonable. But now they want to stop all spanking. When they have done that they will want to ban something else they consider unwholesome, then another thing and then another.
They will never be satisfied until they have complete control over all child rearing practices. And then they will move on to another cause.”—
Source date (UTC): 2018-02-25 20:02:00 UTC
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by James Santagata Socio-Political Insight… If one follows the Propertarian ar
by James Santagata Socio-Political Insight… If one follows the Propertarian argument that (a) the West was already great and that through this greatness, the West made the alien religion of Christianity great (rather than the narrative that Christianity saved and made the West great) and (b) Christianity is a slave religion / religion for slaves to remove both truth and agency – the ability to act on truth and that (c) Christian imposed a false “moral universalism” on people and that (d) all peoples filter along lines of genes and though that kin and express themselves through culture and that land is acquired and held then a few fascinating conclusions can be drawn that things are about to unravel quickly as we know it: 1. In the West, Cultural Marxism grew so fast and came to be so deadly because Christianity was the dominate religion and mandated a slave mentality – forgive them, turn the other cheek, don’t be like that. 2. And the idea of a nation vs genes and kin, meant that even if the Genes are Selfish (per Dawkins) there was a powerful driver psychologically that we were “all Americans” or “British”, etc. 3. And that most people misunderstood that morality is a duality — one morality for ingroup and one for outgroup (primarily from the moral universalism dictated by Christianity). Why does that matter? Well, the very weaknesses of Western Culture that allowed this Marxism to grow, has actually been KILLED by Marxism. 1. Christianity or pure Slave Christianity is dead in a core part of the population. Those folks are free to act and in looking to fill their need for religion are returning to pagan religions or ancestor worship. Marxism would never survive against a Vlad the Impaler type but would against a Boomer Christian type. In fact it would thrive under Boomer Christians and it did. 2. As the idea of a nation is ripped apart, people still need to be a part of something – and with the left’s identity politics, they have overnight created their worst enemy of a nationless people, dispossessed who are seeking a home — and without Christianity — so they are looking inward to their genes, kin, their ancestors and their progeny. 3. With this identity politics and tribalism coupled with end of Christianity, well now the universal morality melts away. So in summary, Marxism has been so effective in killing the west, that Marxist efforts have removed the psychological handcuffs on conservatives, primarily the slave psychology of Christianity, with the results being, no more nice guy, no more turning check — threats of you will burn in hell are laughed at as people think, I will be dining in Valhalla. Moral universalism is dead and everything is now about genes, race, ethnicities and tribes. It will get very ugly soon. -
by James Santagata Socio-Political Insight… If one follows the Propertarian ar
by James Santagata Socio-Political Insight… If one follows the Propertarian argument that (a) the West was already great and that through this greatness, the West made the alien religion of Christianity great (rather than the narrative that Christianity saved and made the West great) and (b) Christianity is a slave religion / religion for slaves to remove both truth and agency – the ability to act on truth and that (c) Christian imposed a false “moral universalism” on people and that (d) all peoples filter along lines of genes and though that kin and express themselves through culture and that land is acquired and held then a few fascinating conclusions can be drawn that things are about to unravel quickly as we know it: 1. In the West, Cultural Marxism grew so fast and came to be so deadly because Christianity was the dominate religion and mandated a slave mentality – forgive them, turn the other cheek, don’t be like that. 2. And the idea of a nation vs genes and kin, meant that even if the Genes are Selfish (per Dawkins) there was a powerful driver psychologically that we were “all Americans” or “British”, etc. 3. And that most people misunderstood that morality is a duality — one morality for ingroup and one for outgroup (primarily from the moral universalism dictated by Christianity). Why does that matter? Well, the very weaknesses of Western Culture that allowed this Marxism to grow, has actually been KILLED by Marxism. 1. Christianity or pure Slave Christianity is dead in a core part of the population. Those folks are free to act and in looking to fill their need for religion are returning to pagan religions or ancestor worship. Marxism would never survive against a Vlad the Impaler type but would against a Boomer Christian type. In fact it would thrive under Boomer Christians and it did. 2. As the idea of a nation is ripped apart, people still need to be a part of something – and with the left’s identity politics, they have overnight created their worst enemy of a nationless people, dispossessed who are seeking a home — and without Christianity — so they are looking inward to their genes, kin, their ancestors and their progeny. 3. With this identity politics and tribalism coupled with end of Christianity, well now the universal morality melts away. So in summary, Marxism has been so effective in killing the west, that Marxist efforts have removed the psychological handcuffs on conservatives, primarily the slave psychology of Christianity, with the results being, no more nice guy, no more turning check — threats of you will burn in hell are laughed at as people think, I will be dining in Valhalla. Moral universalism is dead and everything is now about genes, race, ethnicities and tribes. It will get very ugly soon. -
by James Santagata Socio-Political Insight… If one follows the Propertarian ar
by James Santagata
Socio-Political Insight…
If one follows the Propertarian argument that (a) the West was already great and that through this greatness, the West made the alien religion of Christianity great (rather than the narrative that Christianity saved and made the West great) and (b) Christianity is a slave religion / religion for slaves to remove both truth and agency – the ability to act on truth and that (c) Christian imposed a false “moral universalism” on people and that (d) all peoples filter along lines of genes and though that kin and express themselves through culture and that land is acquired and held then a few fascinating conclusions can be drawn that things are about to unravel quickly as we know it:
1. In the West, Cultural Marxism grew so fast and came to be so deadly because Christianity was the dominate religion and mandated a slave mentality – forgive them, turn the other cheek, don’t be like that.
2. And the idea of a nation vs genes and kin, meant that even if the Genes are Selfish (per Dawkins) there was a powerful driver psychologically that we were “all Americans” or “British”, etc.
3. And that most people misunderstood that morality is a duality — one morality for ingroup and one for outgroup (primarily from the moral universalism dictated by Christianity).
Why does that matter?
Well, the very weaknesses of Western Culture that allowed this Marxism to grow, has actually been KILLED by Marxism.
1. Christianity or pure Slave Christianity is dead in a core part of the population. Those folks are free to act and in looking to fill their need for religion are returning to pagan religions or ancestor worship. Marxism would never survive against a Vlad the Impaler type but would against a Boomer Christian type. In fact it would thrive under Boomer Christians and it did.
2. As the idea of a nation is ripped apart, people still need to be a part of something – and with the left’s identity politics, they have overnight created their worst enemy of a nationless people, dispossessed who are seeking a home — and without Christianity — so they are looking inward to their genes, kin, their ancestors and their progeny.
3. With this identity politics and tribalism coupled with end of Christianity, well now the universal morality melts away.
So in summary, Marxism has been so effective in killing the west, that Marxist efforts have removed the psychological handcuffs on conservatives, primarily the slave psychology of Christianity, with the results being, no more nice guy, no more turning check — threats of you will burn in hell are laughed at as people think, I will be dining in Valhalla. Moral universalism is dead and everything is now about genes, race, ethnicities and tribes.
It will get very ugly soon.
Source date (UTC): 2018-02-25 19:54:00 UTC
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by Lara Peters Ideas seem to trickle out of academe and into the public forum wh
by Lara Peters Ideas seem to trickle out of academe and into the public forum where they end up being reduced to snippets or truisms (e.g., what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger). Most people don’t understand where the ideas come from. I hear people throwing out postmodernist arguments all the time – and I used to find the lack of logic very annoying. Now I have a better understanding of the origin of a lot of the bad ideas that we hear strewn about by entertainers, pundits, and such. A lot of these people have no idea what they are really talking about. -
by Lara Peters Ideas seem to trickle out of academe and into the public forum wh
by Lara Peters Ideas seem to trickle out of academe and into the public forum where they end up being reduced to snippets or truisms (e.g., what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger). Most people don’t understand where the ideas come from. I hear people throwing out postmodernist arguments all the time – and I used to find the lack of logic very annoying. Now I have a better understanding of the origin of a lot of the bad ideas that we hear strewn about by entertainers, pundits, and such. A lot of these people have no idea what they are really talking about. -
by Lara Peters Ideas seem to trickle out of academe and into the public forum wh
by Lara Peters
Ideas seem to trickle out of academe and into the public forum where they end up being reduced to snippets or truisms (e.g., what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger).
Most people don’t understand where the ideas come from.
I hear people throwing out postmodernist arguments all the time – and I used to find the lack of logic very annoying.
Now I have a better understanding of the origin of a lot of the bad ideas that we hear strewn about by entertainers, pundits, and such.
A lot of these people have no idea what they are really talking about.
Source date (UTC): 2018-02-25 17:47:00 UTC
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by Moritz Bierling —“There is a way forward that actually heals those rifts. I
by Moritz Bierling —“There is a way forward that actually heals those rifts. It’s just that “we won’t take sh*t” anymore”— -
by Moritz Bierling —“There is a way forward that actually heals those rifts. I
by Moritz Bierling —“There is a way forward that actually heals those rifts. It’s just that “we won’t take sh*t” anymore”—