i am unsure why so many people are unable to recognize that this is the same kind of enforced ideology that occurred in stalinist russia and mao's china, something that a decade ago everyone would have insisted never occur in this country. I am having trouble understanding the collapse of intellectual rigor among my liberal tribe and the…
i am unsure why so many people are unable to recognize that this is the same kind of enforced ideology that occurred in stalinist russia and mao's china, something that a decade ago everyone would have insisted never occur in this country. I am having trouble understanding the collapse of intellectual rigor among my liberal tribe and the religious fervor of their conversion. i salute Paul for speaking out on this issue. the only way to stop it is if each of us in our sphere of influence speak out and begin to set limits on those who are espousing the ideology.
This stuff requires a religious level of believe to believe in & at the end of the day, everybody has to worship something. My liberal friends are predominately not “religious” but also believe in this madness. 1 for 1.
Lama Abu Odeh has a good article at Quillette (georgetown's cultural revolution) that parses an integral aspect of why this is happening. I don't especially agree with some of the stuff in the later stages of the article but his analysis of this one aspect of why it is happening i find particularly insightful. VERY simply, the desire by many in the new generation to supplant those now holding positions of power in the middle and upper middle classes while using weaknesses in the philosophical rigor of those now in those positions to stop them from doing so. it is quite elegant. further, in my opinion, the old systems that have provided structure to democratic cultures for so long are failing to appropriately deal with the times we find ourselves in (climate change just being part of that). the core myths no longer hold. and when a people loses their core myth, then fragmentation is inevitable. people begin to seize on anything that explains the world to them, they hold on to it as an article of faith, something to believe in. it really doesn't matter what when it comes right down to it. and the fragmentation is inevitably tribal. for democracies that is dangerous indeed. the republican party did its best to destroy the contract holding the country together (fdr and the new deal) in order to gain power, in the process they destroyed the country, not understanding that fdr had restored the legitimacy of the national story, its myth of inclusion and care for the working class, the poor, the struggling. (and yes, in some ways he did a bad job of it, others were left out.) the real danger in the tribalism of the woke mob left is that there is so little compassion in their position for anyone outside their tribe; fundamentally it is hateful at its core. this is unsurprising since they are oriented around power and power only given their philosophical beliefs (as vapid as they are). Those who are only oriented around power and not common humanity are dangerous by definition. they need to be resisted as strongly as possible and limits set on their behavior or what will come afterwards will be far worse than what we are seeing now.
i am unsure why so many people are unable to recognize that this is the same kind of enforced ideology that occurred in stalinist russia and mao's china, something that a decade ago everyone would have insisted never occur in this country. I am having trouble understanding the collapse of intellectual rigor among my liberal tribe and the religious fervor of their conversion. i salute Paul for speaking out on this issue. the only way to stop it is if each of us in our sphere of influence speak out and begin to set limits on those who are espousing the ideology.
This stuff requires a religious level of believe to believe in & at the end of the day, everybody has to worship something. My liberal friends are predominately not “religious” but also believe in this madness. 1 for 1.
Lama Abu Odeh has a good article at Quillette (georgetown's cultural revolution) that parses an integral aspect of why this is happening. I don't especially agree with some of the stuff in the later stages of the article but his analysis of this one aspect of why it is happening i find particularly insightful. VERY simply, the desire by many in the new generation to supplant those now holding positions of power in the middle and upper middle classes while using weaknesses in the philosophical rigor of those now in those positions to stop them from doing so. it is quite elegant. further, in my opinion, the old systems that have provided structure to democratic cultures for so long are failing to appropriately deal with the times we find ourselves in (climate change just being part of that). the core myths no longer hold. and when a people loses their core myth, then fragmentation is inevitable. people begin to seize on anything that explains the world to them, they hold on to it as an article of faith, something to believe in. it really doesn't matter what when it comes right down to it. and the fragmentation is inevitably tribal. for democracies that is dangerous indeed. the republican party did its best to destroy the contract holding the country together (fdr and the new deal) in order to gain power, in the process they destroyed the country, not understanding that fdr had restored the legitimacy of the national story, its myth of inclusion and care for the working class, the poor, the struggling. (and yes, in some ways he did a bad job of it, others were left out.) the real danger in the tribalism of the woke mob left is that there is so little compassion in their position for anyone outside their tribe; fundamentally it is hateful at its core. this is unsurprising since they are oriented around power and power only given their philosophical beliefs (as vapid as they are). Those who are only oriented around power and not common humanity are dangerous by definition. they need to be resisted as strongly as possible and limits set on their behavior or what will come afterwards will be far worse than what we are seeing now.