Guest Post by The Zman
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This self-awareness has never applied to the Left. Every normal person has had a conversation with a Progressive friend where they claim the news is biased against them or is too easy on some conservative they currently hate. They will argue that Fox News is poisoning the minds of the public. When you point out that 90% of the mass media is run by hard left true believers, they scoff and say you’re nuts. The hive mind of Progressives has always allowed them to pretend they are surrounded by a sea of their enemies.
One point made by some on the Dissident Right is that this blinkered view of the world has infected the so-called conservatives. They are blind to the intellectual revolution going on over here, because they stare at Lefty all day. Like people looking directly into the sun, they are blind to everything else. As a result, the legacy conservatives carry on like it is 1984 and Dutch Reagan is riding high. Much of what so-called conservatism is these days is just a weird nostalgia trip, celebrating a fictional past with no connection to the present.
There are many reasons why so-called conservatives are becoming irrelevant, but the main reason is that their good friends on the Left are racing off into a fantasy land of their own creation. Listen to a modern Progressive talk and it is a weird combination of echolalic babbling and paranoia about dark forces that are imaginary. Replace “Russian hacking” with “work of the devil” and their howling makes more sense. Things like “foreign meddling” and “institutional racism” are just stand-ins for Old Scratch.
This increasingly weird disconnect between the Left and this place we call earth shows up in their main propaganda organs. Those old enough to remember reading English versions of communist newspapers can recognize the unintended humor on the front pages of the New York Times and Washington Post. This front page item from last week is a good example. Everything in that “news” story describes a world that only exists in the fevered imaginations of the Left. It was a fictional account of present reality written for believers.
This Andrew Sullivan piece bumps up against this reality a little bit, but from a different angle. His argument is that the fantasy land of academia is casting a long shadow over American society, so it is imperative that the college campus be reformed to look something like reality. His framing of things is mostly wrong because he is just a slightly less berserk member of the hive he is trying analyze. His description of the dynamic on campus, though, is correct. It is a world untethered from reality.
The fact is, the college campus is the apotheosis of Progressive spiritualism. It has been dominated by the Left for as long as anyone has been a live. The constant flow of credit money into American higher education has removed all restraints on the people in charge. They are free to indulge whatever fantasies they have at the moment, as no one ever gets fired and the money spigot stays open. As a result, the American college campus is the full flowering of the Progressive imagination. It’s Wakanda for cat ladies.
This lurch into madness is the result of plenty. Up until recent, the threat of nuclear annihilation and the lack of universal prosperity has reined in the excesses of the Left. In order to win elections, Progressive politicians had to focus on better economics and expanding opportunity. Of course, the Cold War kept everyone focused on practical reality, as a mistake could have set off a nuclear exchange. That’s no longer the case as prosperity is near universal, in human terms, and there are no looming threats.
Progressivism has always been a spiritual movement. It is the quest for cosmic justice based on the notion that we are only as good as the weakest among us. That is a fine and noble sentiment, as long as it remains a sentiment. The reality of scarcity has always kept this spiritualism in check. As we enter into what appears to be a post-scarcity world, Progressives are free to explore the far reaches of their mysticism. The result is a ruling class that is looking more like eastern mystics, than pragmatic rulers.
It is why civic nationalism is a dead end street. You see it in the Andrew Sullivan piece about the campus culture. What he is arguing in favor of is the same things we hear from civic nationalists. They all agree with Progressives that we need a unifying religion. They just want a debate about the contours and end points of the religion. The fact that no one has ever pulled this off without ushering in a bloodbath never gets mentioned, Instead, all of these folks prefer to frolic in imagination land, where all their dreams come true.
Any “unifying religion” from these FOOLS will be Satanic to the core so NO THANKS .Fool doesn’t mean stupid . These People are moral degenerates who are in love with their lives of Deception.They are beyond repentance.
The university, or universal city of old, was always a transcendent and religious enterprise, aspiring to be the City of God. The pursuit of universal knowledge called students to moral and intellectual perfection while garbed in the cap and gown of a cleric. A visit to very old universities in Europe, such as Coimbra in Portugal or Bologna in Italy, makes this clear to the visitor.
So why is Zman surprised to see the ease with which Progressives have replaced Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle with their warped “religion” of deconstruction and intersectionality? The University of old was structured as a Catholic enterprise, complete with a hierarchy and an Orthodoxy. Now we see a Progressive decapitation of the old hierarchy and the new, false “God” fully in charge.
The majority of people deceive themselves and look for others that reinforce them in that deception while condemning everything that suggests it may be otherwise.
Very few people step out of the box to look for the truth of any matter outside of than their own self deceptive beliefs, and of those that do most will jump back in it as quickly as possible when they find out truth is not the deception they have believed in.
Self deception is the real challenge we face in life, and the most difficult to overcome since it rejects anything and everything that challenges it.
Be aware of yourself and examine yourself closely because, as Socrates professed, the unexamined life is not worth living.
Very Good!!
“Very few people step out of the box.”
No truer words have ever been spoken
Here is the main concern I have with the valiant attempt to “wake” the liberal sleepers, before revealing the indictments and charges that will finally bring justice to the previous corrupt administration.
NEVER ONCE have I ever heard a progressive acknowledge their position should be re considered. Instead, they double down on their insanity and get comfort in their echo chamber of like minded reality deniers.
As the evidence grows more each day there has been no Russian collusion in the Trump administration and instead, plenty of evidence building that in fact, it was the Obama administration that was knee deep in nefarious operations, using alphabet agencies to turn an election in their favor and eventually try to take down a sitting president.
Try and find one news agency that is re examining their core beliefs. Show me one media outlet that is rethinking their positions of blindly supporting the Hillary/Obama legacy as being without blemish.
Honestly, you will be waiting until hell freezes over, before any yielding to the building evidence of the corruption of the previous administration.
As such, the excuse that more need to be “woke” is beginning to wear thin. Although I understand that due process is needed to ensure convictions, time is short, in that each day that passes is a day that may bring us closer to a pre planned implosion of further false flags that will result in more needless deaths. It will not take much for the deep state to incite a national emergency that may put off the coming convictions indefinitely and possibly, forever. Strike while the iron is hot.
Who will be bringing those indictments and charges?
Mueller?
I’m pretty sure Sessions won’t be since he hasn’t done or said anything like that yet, but maybe I’ll turn out wrong.
Yes – Who – Wah
Enjoyed that, Z-man. However – in 3rd & 5th paragraphs – “fictional” is not (technically) a word. But it should be.
Just passing that on because I, too, learned it the hard way when a savvy reader once pointed it out to me.
I may be mistaken, and fictitious might possibly be a better choice, I find that fictional is indeed a word. Nice work Zman, I do agree with your position but would like to add that the right has exactly the same propensity. This is what you point out at the start. It is the human condition to only want to listen to those who support our own world view. I find that TBP is a great place because it allows all of these world views to clash without censorship. I can spout my insanity and you can spout yours and we can challenge each other to seek a more enlightened truth. You can’t do that on the NYT. You can only learn what they want you to learn.
fic·tion·al
adjective
adjective: fictional
relating to fiction; invented for the purposes of fiction.
“fictional texts”
synonyms: fictitious, fictive, invented, imaginary, made up, make-believe, unreal, fabricated, mythical
“fictional characters”
Well I’ll be the male sibling of a non-hominoid simian’s male parent. I believe it was Suzanna who, on one of my threads here, posted documentation of that word as not being identified in the official lexicon.
I stand corrected. Thanks.
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Give everyone a good length of of rope, watch who hangs themselves.
Good article Z but the “post scarcity world” is exactly what I’m preparing for. Too many things vital for life will be very scarce in my children’s lifetime, if not my own.