Normal people look at the public performance of the Left and have the reaction all normal people have to irrationality. First, they will laugh or scoff at whatever the Left is doing, as both reactions come from the same instinct. It is a dismissal of whatever is going on, as too ridiculous to consider. A man in a sundress demanding to be called “they” is absurd. The kinder souls will laugh at it, while the less kind will dismiss it as vulgar degeneracy. Both reactions are justified, of course.
Once we pass the initial rejection, the reaction of normal people to the cultural lunacy we see on display falls into two buckets. One group will continue to dismiss this stuff, as a sign that the Left is just a bunch of crazy, middle-aged white women and their colored assistants, trying to get attention. The cat-lady factor is so strong on the Left it’s hard not to focus on it. Scan the crowd at an Elizabeth Warren event, for example, and it looks like a clearance sale at the wine mart. Spinsters everywhere.
Now, the other camp that forms up after the initial reaction is the people, who suspect there is a deeper motive to what they are seeing. The Left has been in control of the culture for several generations now, so they cannot be all mad. Steve Sailer, for example, thinks these displays are about keeping the Progressive coalition focused on the evil white men so they don’t attack one another. The bad people suspect this is all part of a plot by the nefarious forces to undermine white society.
There is a third option. This insane behavior is not just performance art, but an assault on rationality and order. It is an attack on the very concept of truth. After all, if it is no longer possible to tell boys from girls, then what is true? The very basics of human biology start with the fact that humans come in two sexes. If the very axioms of human reality are now up for debate, then everything is up for debate, even the claims made by the Left. With no truth, nothing is false. The world is narrative of opinion.
Take, for example, the assertion that race is a social construct. This bit of biological denialism is popular with the Left. So much so they are now demanding white historical figures be played by black actors, to prove that race is imaginary. Now, the demand itself contradicts the assertion. If race is not real, then there would be no reason to demand a black guy play Henry VII or Queen Elizabeth. The demand itself is proof that race is very real, so much so the past must be black-washed.
Even if you don’t accept that, let’s take the “race is not real” argument forward and examine the implications. If race is a social construct, then diversity must also be a social construct. In fact, it is irrational, as what would be the point of decorating an organization with things that do not exist? That also means so-called hate speech is a social construct, as it is rooted in the belief in racial and ethnic differences. If those differences are imaginary, then hate speech is imaginary as well.
None of this matters, of course. What matters to the Left is that observable reality cannot be trusted. They can live with their own assertions falling prey to this logic, as their ultimate objective is a world without objective truth. They seek to create the post-modern world, where the only proper response to physical reality is skepticism, because there is no possibility of reliable knowledge. The modern Left is the political implementation of the academic movement called post-modernism.
Post-modernism is the 20th century academic movement popular in philosophy, the grievance studies and the humanities. It denies the existence of a universal, stable reality, insisting everything is arbitrary and subjective. It is a reaction to science and technology that explains reality in objective terms. The post-modernist claims that reality is constructed as the mind tries to understand its own personal circumstances, within the social construct of society and the perceived reality of others.
This is why the Left is now so vehemently anti-science. A generation ago the proper leftists had a Darwin fish on her Volvo. This was supposed to be a signal that the owner was a member of the “reality based community” not a believer is magic, superstition or, of course, a religion. The Left insisted they were the sober minded realists, rooting their opinions in facts and reason. Their opponents were basing their opinion in fear and the irrational belief in nonsense, like tradition and religion.
In reality, the owner of that Volvo was signally a rejection of the very idea of objective or transcendent truth. That is, after all, what religion offers. It is a set of transcendent truths that define the reality of mankind. The point of a religious text, like the Christian Bible, is to have an objective set of rules that are not up to the whims of a cleric or a religious institution. Scripture is God’s rule book and not up to debate by man. The rejection of religion, is the rejection of such an objective set of truths.
Fast forward to the current year and the Left has moved on from rejecting religion and the reality of religion, onto the rejection of science. Genetics and evolution are nature’s rule book. If you prefer, they are the rule book of nature’s god. This biological reality is not only the framework of life, but puts hard limits on human organization. The rejection of science is the rejection of the possibility of reliable knowledge about the natural world and the nature of man. The guy in the sundress calling ximself “they” is the embodiment of this rejection of knowable truth and factual reality.
Of course, the practical benefit of a world unbound from facts and reasons is that the actors in such a world are unbound from the limits of reason. It is the ultimate freedom, as everything is possible and everything can be justified. It’s also why the Left insists their opponents demonstrate that their objections match up with some set of arbitrary standards selected by the Left. If their opponents are bound to reality, while the Left is free to form whatever construct it needs, the outcome is certain.
There can be only one form of post-modernist rule. The rejection of founding truths, the axioms of the human condition, provides not justification for political power, social status or even a social order. The void of nihilism can only be filled by the will to power and the necessary application of force to attain power and impose order. The perpetual revolution of post-modernism, the endless questioning of objective reality, is the only way for radicalism to attain power and maintain it. The on-going insanity of the Left is the necessary precursor to perpetual Progressive rule.
The endless cultural revolution is like rats gnawing at the support ropes. If left unchecked, there can be only one result from such a process. The endpoint of this perpetual social revolution, the institutional skepticism of reality, is a world without any order at all, even that imposed by the strongest. Even the reality of fear falls away and we fall into a world where it is a war of all against all. In this regard, what the Left has become is war on the very nature of man and the reality that shapes him.
This is the logical endpoint of the Enlightenment. Post-modernism did not spring from nothing. It is the continuation of political philosophy starting with Rousseau, through Nietzsche and into the current age. Western liberalism was born of the irrational belief that man comes into the world as a blank slate and can be fashioned into anything through the proper social structures. Ever since, the goal of liberal political philosophy has been to build the right social structure to achieve universal equality.
Since the utopian goal of universal equality is impossible, it leaves only the equality of nihilistic chaos. A world without truth is a world where noting is false. This is the ultimate equality, where everything is opinion and all opinion is equally worthless. While the Left may seem irrational, they are acting on that old Enlightenment impulse to achieve universal equality. If we cannot be equal in the utopian paradise of our own making, we can be equal in the utter and compete destruction of society. After all, the one place where all men are equal is in the cemetery.
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thezman said: “There is a third option. This insane behavior is not just performance art, but an assault on rationality and order. It is an attack on the very concept of truth. After all, if it is no longer possible to tell boys from girls, then what is true?” I hate to keep repeating myself ( that’s a lie ) but here is a repost of a quote from Theodore Dalrymple on political correctness. “In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform,… Read more »
I don’t think this applies. The leadership in places like the Soviet Union was staffed with capable men who did not believe the party line. They understood that their power and position was justified using the concepts of Marxism and equality. Very few actually believed the lies.
But today in currentyear US, the fanatics and useful idiots are the ones at the upper levels. They are not capable men. Many of them have had their status raised precisely because they are incapable.
Just because people are sniffing their own farts right up to and including the halls of power – doesn’t mean that what Bologna posted isn’t true.
The commies have been trying to undermine Western society for a long time – the problem they had in this country is that it has taken so damn long that the infestation has reached all the way down and all the way up.
Seems to me a little bit like “The Hunt for Red October” – they tried to take out the escaping sub – and torpedoed themselves.
Tars_Tarkusz said: “I don’t think this applies. The leadership in places like the Soviet Union was staffed with capable men who did not believe the party line. They understood that their power and position was justified.” The majority of the leadership of all communist countries believed completely that the system they had created was the natural progression and end of history. As for their competencies and capabilities. You really do need to read more of their own words. Read about the mountain of bodies they created. the untold misery and destruction they perpetrated was unprecedented in history and remains so… Read more »
The starvation and mass murder was almost entirely under Stalin (in the USSR). Stalin was not an egalitarian. But, true, he is just one guy. I suppose they might have been true believers, but they certainly weren’t the types we get. All the blue haired freaks with no talent, the diversity hires and just all the people who are praised for, and got where they are, because of either being a freak or because diversity. In this way, the various communist systems did not have this race to the bottom built in. In the Soviet system, the Politburo and apparatchiks… Read more »
“Obviously far less destructive and violent”—so far.
No it wasn’t (almost entirely under Stalin) The commies in Russia started killing people as soon as they took power. The commies in China killed a lot of people as well – millions is a “lot”. The commies in Cambodia seemed to think that killing people was the only way to get their “revolution” to work. The North Korean commies kill people til this day. Stalin was in power for decades. Are you really ready to reason away commie death camps on the premise that they existed only under certain specific commie leaders? I don’t know about you – but… Read more »
Lenin and Trotsky were especially bloody, killing millions in the first couple of years. Wasn’t it Trotsky who had the program of culling good-looking Russian Christian youths? He figured the good-looking ones were more likely to also have well-formed minds and it would be better to kill them before they became trouble-making intellectuals. While doing this, they encouraged race mixing. They also killed 4,000 police upon taking power and released the prisoners. Reminds me of the typical California politician: decriminalizing while apologizing to blacks for supposed police brutality while they tax the hell out of whites to support the illegal… Read more »
I love that Dalrymple quote too, but it applies to more than just “communist” propaganda.
Anyone who’s worked at a large corporation has had the experience of being forced to assent to obvious nonsense. And not just in the HR/Diversity context, where the nonsense is ubiquitous, but in normal business as well. I’m thinking for example of “mandatory” policies that if actually followed would make success impossible, but are put in place simply to deflect any possible liability from management.
Z is right, we are increasingly living in a post-reality world.
Fabian_Forge said: ” I’m thinking for example of “mandatory” policies that if actually followed would make success impossible, but are put in place simply to deflect any possible liability from management.”
What your describing is bureaucracy, which is ubiquitous and immortal. Who knows, it may be one of the Archfiends Powers, Principalities, Thrones and Dominions. ( Sarcasm ).
Z is right, we are increasingly living in a post-reality world.
Reality also gets a vote on that. It will be spectacular, quite the show, when it casts it…
It is VERY useful to remember that Satan is “The Father of Lies.” So I’ll say again: this is, at root, a religious battle disguised as politics.
dad29 said: ” So I’ll say again: this is, at root, a religious battle disguised as politics.”
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if it turned out that civilization was actually a joint effort between humans and Satan? ( It was all just a setup. ) 😂
The late Sam Francis once wrote about outlandish leftist ideas that would get pushback from normal people. The problem was that the left would take their crazy proposal 3 steps forward, and the response would push it back, but instead of all the way back, maybe only 2 steps or 1 step back, resulting in the left gaining ground overall. When this process is repeated numerous times, as it is with the left, since they never let up on their assault on the West….well….here we are.
Sometimes I wish I had read Sam Francis earlier…but then I realize, well, I really wasn’t ready to understand him, or accept what he was saying. Now I’m in my seventies. Boy, do we ever get wise too late.
What gives these crazy ideas an extra air of respectability is the high celebrity status of many of their spokesman. Movie stars, dapper newscasters, university PhD ‘s, senators. Looney for sure, but we’ll paid high status loonies. Enough so to make some people wonder if they are missing something and these people are more enlightened than they are.
That has always worried me about the Green New Deal. The Right stumbles all over itself responding when the plan was rediculous on its face, but it flummoxed the Right into challenging the costs and impact of 5 programs, instead of just one, all the while the Democrats will take whatever crumbs survive and then come back with one or more GND components at a later date.
Romanticism is in its last, decadent phase. And make no mistake: Romanticism, which sprang from the Enlightenment, cascaded from Beethoven to Picasso to whatever you call today’s “art”. It’s finished. The only thing left for radicals is to humiliate us by making us acquiesce to their absurd demands. The more absurd, the better. It is a form of mental rape…like modern “art”.
“Perception is reality” for a lot of folks today. I look at the demented souls on the left, and the alternative realities they fabricate for themselves… and I wonder what they get out of it. Those cat ladies are not happy people. The queers still seem compelled to give straights the finger with annual freak shows and pride parades. Feminists describe themselves as “nasty women” and it’s a point of pride for them. None of these idiots seem to know what they want.
And none of them are in the least bit happy. In fact they’re miserable bastards and can’t even stand themselves.
They certain can’t stand one another. The results of another survey, for what it’s worth:
The poll of 1,254 adults aged 18 and older found that 27 percent of millennials have no close friends, 25 percent have no “acquaintances” and 22 percent — or 1 in 5 — have no buddies at all. This compares with only 9 percent of Baby Boomers and 15 percent of Gen Xers who reported having zero chums.
How can you have no acquaintances? Live by yourself on a desert island?
Since they have so clearly demonstrated that their minds are so easily malleable, we need to convince them that what they truly desire deep down in their Id, is their own death.
Maybe then the rest of us can have some peace for a change.
I can see the nihilistic chaos reflected in people’s faces. Which is why so many people need pills. Opiates or psychotropics. So many young, so many women I encounter, are medicating over fits of anxiety and depression; the natural signals that there is something very wrong with our lifestyle and the belief system that has come to define it. I can relate. I can feel it etch away at my own foundation as I ask myself, “why bother…why maintain principles that are so easily turned against me…why try to find so many needles in the growing haystack…why work hard when… Read more »
Correct. This line of thinking triggered my own conversion to the faith. If you read the bible you will eventually come across the seven deadly sins. Any one of those sins, over indulged, are enough to destroy a man. Liberalism enthusiastically promotes all seven. Queers destroy themselves with pride and lust. The purple faced cat ladies do it with wrath and envy. I am not trying to be prudish; but much of what they promote is as damaging to themselves as it is to others. With no morals or ethics to redeem themselves with… they turn to drugs or booze… Read more »
I’d like to hear a natural law argument against Pride as I’m almost sure there isn’t one that’s any good. It’s also curious how arrogance and hubris are always and everywhere conflated with Pride even though they are different words with different meanings. “Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall” can easily mean that one loses their Pride before they are destroyed; which is what I see in the West, not a surplus of Pride. The worst people I see have an absence of Pride and concomitant deficit of honor. The most humble have the least… Read more »
Faith, family and community are what’s important and the very things destroyed by the Left along with consumerisim, dog eat dog capitalism, convincing women that a corporate career is more valuable than having children. The opioid epidemic followed on the heels of NAFTA and PNTR with China that gutted the rust belt and mid-West of industry and jobs and leaving the men there with no real future and no ability to be providers for their families and worse no real way for young men to attract a mate when the best job they can find is at Wal Mart because… Read more »
There are so many great points in this essay that I hardly know where to begin. First, Z is absolutely right that equality is much easier to achieve by leveling than by elevating. Hence, if you wish to eliminate the educational achievement gap between blacks and whites the easiest way to do it is to make the curriculum so easy that even the most idiotic get good grades. Likewise, if we destroy culture, beauty and civilization, distinctions between savages and sophisticates vanish. In relation to the above, I have long noted that the AWRs seek to nullify differences between lawful… Read more »
All of the above are already happening, all over the country. San Francisco eliminating the word “felon”, so any distinction between criminal and victim vanishes. In New York City, DeBlasio and his education tsars want to get rid of Gifted and Talented programs. Destroy education, and everybody becomes a genius.
If the gifted and talented programs are “racist”, aren’t the remedial classes also “Racist”?
Everybody’s equal, everything’s equal – every person, every behavior, every idea. The logical end is anarchy, followed by tyranny.
“The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.”
― George Orwell
Do lefties read his stuff like instruction manuals?
Yes!
Orwell was a Lefty genius—so smart that eventually he saw through the Leftist facade—hence his most famous work, “1984”. If he wrote training manuals for Lefties, he also wrote training manuals for anti-Leftists.
Similar to how libertarians and objectivists wrote the training manuals for lib-spergs that also showed many of us how to escape their own logic-trap.
Orwell swallowed such a big truth pill that it ended up shattering his former horizons and allowed him to re-frame.
For them, “1984” is not a cautionary tale but a blueprint…
This is a good analysis, but it’s one of several possible critiques, and they don’t necessarily contradict each other, they can co-exist on different planes. An easy but true one is to say that the disease of the Left is simply the minoritarian will to power — the Jewish will to power, the black will to power, gays, Asians, Latinos, whatever. They see an opening, they see a weakness,and decide to exploit it. Another easy but true one is to note that there is a kind of historical cancer growing in our civilization which manifests as an irrational but very… Read more »
The cuck conservative reaction to left-wing insanity has always been “we’ll beat them badly in debates using logic and reason and cruise to election victories”. Maybe this has worked on occasion, but now the left has prepped the battlefield with so much insanity it just doesn’t work on people they’ve indoctrinated. (Not that there is a lot of logic in true-cucks like Romney or McCain’s positions) Now they don’t have to try to defend the economic impact of higher taxes or more welfare – they just scream about fairness at the top of their lungs and recite some barely re-worked… Read more »
For my liberal relatives and friends, one of the the worst judgments is that you are mean. Most arguments from the right sound mean to them and therefore cannot be true.
This is how pedophilia will be imposed on us. My mother will be angry with me for being mean when I criticize Elton John (or whatever famous gay man) for fVcking a 14 year old boy. She’ll say it is mean of me to disapprove of two people in love.
That’s why I started telling all of my right wing conservative friends – they might as well just be mean.
I mean ACTUALLY MEAN. Like insulting mean. Like combative mean.
You need to overload the circuits.
My cousin said she’s a Democrat because they’re nice. The other reason is because they would let her kill baby she will never have. She’s a fat,unattractive, pathological liar with rage issues. She epitomizes the rage of the left which I believe has its roots in envy
And I accidentally downvoted you sorry!
The word “nice” has its origins in the word “foolish.” So, Whitney, not that any logic would work, but I wanted to share with you, if you ever choose, some info for your cousin.
Reference:
https://www.dictionary.com/e/nice-guys/
Nice, it turns out, began as a negative term derived from the Latin nescius, meaning “unaware, ignorant.” This sense of “ignorant” was carried over into English when the word was first borrowed (via French) in the early 1300s. And for almost a century, nice was used to characterize a “stupid, ignorant, or foolish” person.
Comes from ‘ne scio’ – not to know – In the 1938 Oxford English dictionary the elite were using it to mean ‘wanton and dissolute.’
Pedophilia will not be imposed upon you. If you don’t want to be a pedophile, don’t be one. If you don’t want to be involved with that, don’t be involved. I hadn’t heard that about Elton John, but if two people consent to physical intimacy, it’s no one else’s business, regardless of gender, age, race, or any other factor that someone might disapprove of.
It’s worked consistently for the Left – why stop now?
Because of strategy culmination point. This is common problem in the army that from certain point attack becomes self destructive. Our troops moving deep into enemy territory, support and logistics are far behind, men are tired, ammo is finished, cars are broken and from this point we are not beating enemy anymore, we are digging our own grave. Even with single gun time to time, this problem appears. Front certain shot you are not suppressing enemy anymore but wasting you last ammo. That what the left does right now. Those magic words and moral superiority are their last ammo and… Read more »
The third world immigrants don’t care about the logic and ideas and tax policy coming from the conservatives. They just vote tribe and free stuff. I wonder, though, what they think about their insane cohorts on the left and their gender and LBGT,etc. nonsense? I suppose that war will begin once they’ve disposed of the right.
Considering the number of Muslims they invited into the anti-west / white coalition, you are correct.
I’m fairly certain that the elite thinks they will be among the few remaining whites and will rule happily over the brown masses. LGBT and gender gibberish is there to encourage the upper middle class but not quite ruling class whites to stay on the path to racial suicide. It’s an easy choice to make since most of them don’t earn enough to afford children – at least not while living the $10 craft beer and $800,000 loft lifestyle. Sure they could move to the suburbs or away from the coasts but that’s just one step away from spending Saturday… Read more »
All cuckservatives (basically most of Conservative Inc.) need to read today’s posting by Z-man. Truly a work of great Insight and wisdom—and I might add—a better synopsis in 5 minutes than Jordan Peterson’s 50 minute YouTube spiels. Unfortunately, most of them will not have the patience nor intellect to get through it—short and concise though it be.
Similarly, the bulk of Leftist progressives will not understand it either, albeit they march to its tune every day. Sigh.
“Useful idiots” surround us on all sides. In that, Lenin was prescient.
I would say they both converge from different perspectives. I prefer Peterson’s take, because he understands the need of updating one’s knowledge. He puts the same diagnosis that radical left is anti-truth. However he rises up further to explore the dynamics of left and right, and why both are needed.
Logic and reason does not sway the illogical and unreasonable.
We no longer have a functioning civilization. The estates (castes) that evolved have been so corrupted and turned on their head that chaos rules the day. In an age that worships miasma it is the slime that rises to the top. Parasites who would have been kept in check in a sane age now set the agenda and rule. Yes, they are superior at being manipulative lowlifes in a civilization that idealizes mammon and orgasm. An aristocracy of vermin. And they are well aware of what they are and that their power is knotted with flimsy propaganda and not deeply… Read more »
The Left has realized something our spergy and debilitated side hasn’t and probably never will. Power is what matters and power either comes out the barrel of a gun or those who have the gold so to speak, The Left came on top because of their will to power regardless of the cost. And the Left will build a society based on it’s insane agendas and it will last for some time – look at China and Soviet Union. As far as a pure Darwinian society goes, most here would be victims of it in short order. Such a society… Read more »
thazman said: ” If we cannot be equal in the utopian paradise of our own making, we can be equal in the utter and compete destruction of society. After all, the one place where all men are equal is in the cemetery.”
Nicolás Gómez Dávila said: “Hierarchies are celestial. In hell all are equal.”
Progressivism is fundamentally parasitism, and it grows like a cancer in presence of great affluence. It is not a trifle that can be disdained or dismissed lightly. Nor is it a disease that can be cured by rhetoric or persuasion, no matter how clever the message. It is an existential threat to the species and to the health and well-being of civilization itself. It will not change until either the host is dead (societal collapse) or the environment in which in flourishes is altered to disincentivize parasitism.
Collapse will right things. Our environment of “shared” affluence with parasites has no precedent in history before the Industrial Revolution. One can forgive/understand taking the path of the Welfare State the first time, but never the second time. Assuming we get a second chance.
I am not a defeatist. Analyze and predict. Like the Soviet Union, welfare addiction and parasitism will grow until the Ponzi house of cards collapses. Then tyrants will rise and attempt to enslave the productive population using the jackboot of governmental power. They will pit LEOs against Patriots in order to eliminate the Alphas, then detention camps and ruthless autocracy. This scheme is as old as dirt. What will beat them back? Simple/Secret/Solo/Spontaneous. The elites are cowards and they will run at the first sight of their own blood.
“After all, the one place where all men are equal is in the cemetery.” Hierarchy, identity, scarcity and impermanence aren’t up for debate. Nature to be commanded must first be obeyed. That’s the “enthymeme” for any good faith discussion of human affairs. Anyone who doesn’t grant you that premise has declared you fair game for fraud or force. They’re cheating from the first move. The only question that remains is what they will be permitted to get away with before you quit or lash out. At its core, post-modernism is a vast Talmudic, Jesuitical, dialectic, hermeneutic edifice of reified pseudo-intellectual… Read more »
Top shelf comment Exile.
Yes, there are sides. Watching the dimension A/B event horizon shred the few personal bonds that remain is a difficult thing to bear. But a vigilant accounting of such is necessary if we are indeed to “organize those who’ve noticed”
IMO the best and most important Z post of all, with great comments so far. My own two cents—reality and the rules of nature and biology are widely ignored because the people ignoring them have never been tested. The people running the show have never done anything difficult, a side effect of which is to learn respect for the limits and rules nature and reality have in place for the environment we live in. There is a reason that women, children, and adolescents were not given room to decide things or to share their opinions. That’s because they had not… Read more »
Z, this is the best distillation of what is going on in our present political scene. It neatly makes the insane understandable. Kudos.
I wish we had good polling of white men. How many, precisely, are race realist. How many think that open borders would lead to a disaster. How many are cognizant of the anti- White hostility of our Elites and entertainment sectors. How many whites understand that they’re headed for minority status, and are willing to express some discomfort at that fact.
Not nearly enough. We’re in a race between getting white people understanding those things and demographic change. Right now, demographic change is winning. We’ve got ground to make up quickly.
Correction. Demographic change has won. Whites will be a minority in the country. We need to move on. It’s separation in one form or another that we need to fight for. The old country is dead.
Not sure there is any point to a survey. I believe that most folk on the Right or Left are unthinking pawns. If the power goes out, or the EBT cards stop working, you may indeed get them out onto the street. But the days of pamphleteering probably began and ended with the Revolution. In the end, the struggle will be among a small segment of believers, the majority will hunker down and wait for the victor to be announced. Has it not always been that way?
Sidvic, that, I think, is the best question ever.
So the end of history is really the end of Progressivism or the Enlightenment. I guess dictatorial rule is next. Any reading of our founders statements and concerns at the time suggests they knew it wouldn’t last, but hey, a constitutional republic is the best system for a liberty yearning people. We also know what kind of people are needed for such a system. It is funny that racism is everywhere now, rearing it’s ugly head still after fifty plus years of programs, indoctrinations and massive mind control techniques by our elites. Now getting rid of Trump will fix this… Read more »
I think what’s next is already here. They’ve already field tested fake two-party rule and found it superior to one party rule. Better an ostensibly divided but covertly collaborating dictatorship than an iron boot with only one face.
I often wonder what “The Plan” is for parliamentarian systems such as they have in Europe. It seems that in the US dual party dictatorship is in effect but the Euros still have multiparty systems that even allow crimethink to have a vote. It’s why Europe seems on course to stop the invaders while we’re still wondering when the wall will be built.
Nationalist parties rarely win an outright majority, or any parties in most European countries for that matter.
In the extreme case of Belgium, they outright banned Vlaams Blok, which then had to become a new party Vlaams Belang. Presumably they could arrest and imprison leaders, it looks like Austria will arrest Martin Sellner.
I think it’s important to remember that a perfect people need no government at all. You get the people right and they’ll get the institutions right.
One Breed – The Dog Breed!!!!
Zman, this is a brilliant exposition and encapsulation of your fundamental heirarchy, which now seems explicitly grounded in the transcendental value of truth: Truth > Biology > Culture > Politics > Economics. You have written a classic that pithily undergirds the theory of Our Thing. This definitely makes the short list of all-time bests. Thanks.
The first term in your hierarchy should be reality as opposed to truth. The concept of truth did not exist before the evolution of Homo sapiens. As it is, truth is simply the accurate perception or conception of reality.
At last! “What is Truth?”
An answer for the ages, TomA.
“If the very axioms of human reality are now up for debate, then everything is up for debate, even the claims made by the Left. With no truth, nothing is false. The world is narrative of opinion.”
Seems like a world perfectly suited to a certain group known for its verbal abilities.
“And the trees were all kept equal by hatchet, axe, and saw”
This is one thing the anti-semites miss: The West generally, but especially America, had dealt themselves a mortal wound with liberalism. The man who stabs himself in the heart and is bleeding out on the sidewalk can complain when someone starts picking him over to get his wallet or whatever, but he was going to die anyway so what’s the point? The West will only be saved when it rejects liberalism. I doubt a return to monarchy will be possible and it may not be desirable, but liberalism is a terminal illness so something has to replace it. Something will… Read more »
Irishfarmer said: ” Something will replace it, the only question is, will it be 3rd world anarchy or will order be reestablished?”
Yes.
Unless that “anarchy” is stable. I guess we will see how much arabs and blacks enjoy being bugmen.
Yes, it can be resisted—or rather reordered—with violence. Is this assured, no. Only if we are fortunate enough to find a Pinochet or a Cincinnatus among us.
The endpoint of our present path is anarchy. Anarchy is not the same as entropy. It is not a stable state. Anarchy is an intermediate state—in a progression from old order to new order—as Z-man pointed out. But that new order can never be anarchical as a permanent nature. And, as Z-man has repeatedly taught, the new order is in our hands to shape.
I consider things that are possible, but implausible, to basically be off the table. sure a Pinochet could come, but I dont think Pinochet comes out of a liberal milieu, so it may already be too late for that. We likely need to consider alternatives imo.
The Sackler family, who thinks Whites who’ve died from their opium were addicts who were going to die anyway, is smiling in agreement with you.
Firstly, leaving aside the question of who handed us the knife of liberalism in the first place, the argument “we were going to die anyway so who cares” assumes that we’re going to die.
Don’t count a White man dead until you’ve seen his body.
Who’s in the vanguard of those making it harder for Americans to “reject liberalism?” Who pushes liberalism in media, academia and government?
I wouldnt take the metaphor too far. Whether we survive liberalism and what it has become is a bit more uncertain than the fate of the guy who mortally wounded himself. The point was just to demonstrate that liberalism was a self inflicted wound that opened us up to infection. And the only mainstream solution seems go be taking antibiotics but leaving the gaping chest wound wide open. And so we will just see the cycle repeat until liberalism is finished.
What they don’t miss is who is pushing it harder & faster. What they don’t miss is seeing who viciously attacks those who try to save what we have left and perhaps turn the culture back around to something sustainable. Z and others can yip-yap about SOME DEEP CAUSES all they want. And they may be right to some extent. But that does not change just _who_ is working hardest for our civilization to succumb. Many times it sounds like folk try to excuse the damage done–and being done. “Why blame X, Y, and Z people? Sure they say they… Read more »
I suggest, the seven Noahide laws
By GOD, for gentiles
It’s a legal system, not a religion
I would highly recommend Thomas Barlow’s A Theory of Nothing, which satirizes this mindset (and academia in general) very well. “Marcia Ortez, the famed transsexual professor of Sociology at Duke University, and former husband of the deceased, delivered a memorable oration. She placed the blame for Hidecock’s death firmly with the scientific community. “Only where there is no science, is there no injustice,” she said, rivulets of mascara cascading down her cheeks. “Science is the absolute tyrant that obstructs absolute liberty. Its henchmen are the impertinent scientists whose business it is to establish a vast body of laws that require… Read more »
Great post. But what’s sad about it is that it even needs to be articulated. It’s like an argument I recently had with a friend about “common decency” – it’s simply NOT common, not even among white folk. Ditto with “common sense.” But if there’s to be an eventual reformation then there needs to be a remnant … in the meantime that remnant need to completely unplug from anything/everything that isn’t true, good, and beautiful. Which also demands that we war against falsehood, perversions, and depravity.
Perfect post. It’s all the more ironic when they shout “denier! denier!” at climate skeptics. Literally calling them “skeptics”…as opposed to what? Believer? Disciple? They sure son’t like those words in a traditional religious context. Leftism has become its own religion, complete with a fallen man, only in their religion redemption can never be achieved. It’s only an endless litany of reparations as yet unfulfilled. Even reparations to mother earth through carbon credits. If that isn’t leaving bread on the alter of some prehistoric stone idol, I don’t know what is. And that aspect alone touches everything. Right down to… Read more »
Science is not real until it is, comrade. When you realize what they’re doing, and you know that it is nothing but the will to power, then you get the drift. It’s why Dems R the Real Racists was a joke. A charge of hypocrisy never works, they REVEL in it. To be a hypocrite inherently ASSUMES you abide by a certain set of rules and are violating them. If you abide by no rules, you can never be a hypocrite. And when someone charges you as such, that is when you realize you are dealing with a person who… Read more »
Skeptical about Climate Change and you are a science denier. Skeptical about racial equality and you are a racist. Back to Z-man’s point, reality is what they say it is. Logic and reason do not exist.
“Reality is what they say it is”. That’s Social Justice in a nutshell. There are three elements to SJ. The first is that truth is a malleable thing—“Your truth is not my truth”. The second is that every act and thing is political—“Picking up after yourself is white privilege in action”. The third is that because truth is a malleable thing, every statement or action is run through a contextual prism. The same action undertaken by one of us that is an exercise in white privilege, done by a protected class of persons is instead “truth to power”. The end… Read more »
This is the heart of why the dissident right, as Z Man calls it, has salience. If “your truth isn’t my truth, then my truth isn’t your truth, so your truth has no meaning to me and I can shut it off like a tap.” Compare this to a Jeb Bush type. “Your truth isn’t my truth? Oh. that’s terrible. How can I make my truth more like your truth so we can have some sort of understanding…Please help me understand your truth so I can custom tailor my truth to it.” Once you go down this road, you reach… Read more »
That kicked ass, Dutch.
Spot. Frickin’. On.
Makes “the madness” easy to predict.
More Dutchness- Tucker, quoting Kunstler:
Young men are the problem. Many of our boys are living in what Kunstler describes as an “abyss of missing social relations” with “no communities, no fathers, no mentors, no initiations into personal responsibility, no daily organizing principles, no instruction in useful trades, no productive activities, no opportunities for love and affection, and no way out.”
Alzaebo, that sounds exactly like Jordan Peterson. Are you sure it was Kunstler?
Strongly agree. Dirtnapninja, just above:
“…then the only truth is Power.”
I am starting a university. Save 8 years of study. I will be granting Doctorates in Human Understanding which will require only one course, reading and internalizing this Z-Man post. I am not kissing up. This is really an outstanding effort that should be distributed as widely as possible.
Jim of Jim’s blog refers to the ever Leftward march of society as “social entropy”, ever increasing. “Pumping it” out of society requires continued effort. One example is hardened criminals. These people used to be executed throughout Western societies. Now they’re just warehoused in jails and often given non-life sentences. Jails should be thought of as a social bladder holding human waste (or waste humans). It needs to be voided now and then, and not by releasing the waste back into the “bloodstream”.
Look at Los Angeles with it’s cases of Medieval diseases – Typhus, Tyhoid, Measles and soon Bubonic Plague all thanks to White liberals running the city who refuse to do anything about the homeless infestation. And every day there are 1-2 to gang related killings.
Same with San Francisco and Seattle. All those cities are rotting.
And on the East Coast it’s even worse thanks to the high population of blacks in their cities.
This is the mid-stage infection of what liberal control does to society. It will only get worse from here.
Whitey isn’t meant for hamster-style urban high-density. While both Greeks and Romans had their metropolises, culturally they celebrated the rustic life. Celts and Teutons lived in villages, not cities. Cities, like the poor, will always be with us, but our heart is in the country and towns where you can know your neighbors. The Dunbar Number’s a big factor in happy human psychology in general, and Whites seem especially sensitive to its limits. Part of our superior empathy and social skills.
Lefty is all-in on urbanization. Which is funny since a previous iteration of lefty, perhaps one rooted in something more real, hated cities. Which goes to show that they’ve got no rooted philosophy, just ‘whatever feels good right now’,
High density urban centers are the human equivalent of anthills or beehives. It spurs to the transition to insect status.
TomA said: ” It spurs to the transition to insect status.”
Or the ” The Mouse Utopia Experiments.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgGLFozNM2o
As the stupids and corrupt keep getting hired to rob, er, run the cities, the sewers will fail. Cholera has returned to a’ Los, along with the Black Plague. Heard yesterday the homeless are literally sh*tting on the Boston Commons now, too. It’s called the Methadone Mile. Seems only yesterday Boston opened up the first Condom Nation storefront, big glass windows filled with rainbow colored goodies, right there for all the families with kids to see and marvel. The blacks? Try the main boulevard in Gary, Indiana. It looks like ten years after the apocalypse. Only things still open are… Read more »
So, Enlightenment bad, because leads to chaos. But, Science good, because rules. But, the Bible is good, because it provides rules. What rules decides what to do when they conflict?
I don’t consider the Enlightenment “bad”, rather it was the beginning of thought later taken to a conclusion not supported by observable/provable reality. There was at that time less knowledge of how to apply/test such thought/theory. I accept that.
The rules that match observable reality are to be preferred. The process for such may change as we grow more knowledgeable and wiser, but the start is always that there is an observable reality which we may discover.
“The rules that match observable reality are to be preferred.” But observable reality, at least in the narrow sense, is limited to physical and mechanical facts. In their own realm, they are an important aspect of truth. But they are not Truth-With-a-Capital-T, just appearances that don’t begin to explain the nature of things. The Good, the True, the Beautiful, love, spirituality can only be viewed in their secondary manifestations. Their essence is in a different level of being. (Hat tip: Plato.) Consciousness is not directly observable; nobody can explain how a thought enables a voluntary action. There is plenty of… Read more »
It’s important to realize that we will never know the TRUTH. Einstein would still be defeated by a 6 year old child in just 5 questions or so.
6yo…..Why is the sky blue
E—-Because light breaks down into a multi-color spectrum
6yo…..Why does light break down into a spectrum
E—-Because light particles/waves have a wavelength
6yo…..Why does light have a wavelength
E—-because that’s the way God wants it
P.S. Yes, I realize that I can’t even go 4 questions deep on that subject.
A lot of modern troubles are due to this kind of logical overreach. The very idea of the “progress” that is supposed to underlie progressivism is a leap of faith that started from a firm enough jumping off place after all. People could clearly see that the steam engine built in 1880 was more efficient, more powerful, better in every way, than one made in 1830. Obviously moral truth and social goods must progress the same way, right? But this is actually far from obvious and it is especially far from obvious that the specific agendas of the proggies represent… Read more »
Religion had given them the Thirty Years War. (And many others.)
Roman Catholics had murdered every other Christian variant in the West, such as St. Patrick’s Werbergundians, the Syrian Nestorians, and the Arianite “heresy”.
The Abrahamic Muslims tried to murder both Catholic and Orthodox empires. The Protestants burned ten times as many people at the stake as the Inquisitors.
And we wonder why “God’s will” was questioned?
Why do people always attribute the sins of man to religion. Find me one passage in the New Testament that tells you to conduct an inquisition or force convert someone. The problem is that most of the major religions are so observably “good” that we begin to assume that anything called a religion is good.
The beauty in art and architecture lie with the beholder. The only truth it has is what the viewer assigns to it. Fine art prices are fueled by investment frenzy. The price of fine architecture ends at the property line after the build costs are factored in. None the less realists can if they so desire appreciate these things as they see fit. When it come to sports cars motorcycles wine and women you only need to know what you like. De gustibus non est disputandum. That truth holds with just about anything. Leftists, progressives,communists, anti-fascists, democrats, whatever they are… Read more »
JMDGT said: “The beauty in art and architecture lie with the beholder. The only truth it has is what the viewer assigns to it.” I say, that philosophy is a make work project for mutants. None more so than philosophical idealism. ultimately is leads to cynicism, nihilism, critical theory, postmodernism and the post truth world. And I for one have had enough of that crap. Z Mans post is an examination of the end result of three hundred years of western philosophical speculations. The Elightinment prodject is disapering up it’s own asshole. Along with western art, architecture and philosophy. Prepare… Read more »
BT all that said it is still possible to appreciate what you find pleasing. Western is white. Whatever happens to the West happens to us. There is a lot worth salvaging in the West. We will re-form into a better version. Great art architecture and philosophy are timeless. Prepare accordingly. I have never been more ready. Bring it on.
I always suspected that b*stard Darwin was White. As if there are any rules to anything!
“It took 500 years for the Turks to remove the Armenians and Greeks from their native lands, but only 50 years of modernity for our displacement. Liberalism is conquest.”
Urbanus ll @UrbanusCrusade
One more:
“My Grandfather had 7 children, and a stay-at-home wife.
He had a high school education.
He put all of his children through private school.
Paid cash for every house he ever had.
Died without debt.
Left money for his family after he died.
He was typical middle class.”
Re: ” After all, the one place where all men are equal is in the cemetery. ”
You see – this is where we can apply some logic.
Just tell the nihilists and equality mongers that if they TRULY believe in what they claim to believe – they should just kill themselves.
We just need to insert the mental virus that the ultimate goal of their leftism – is their own death.
Preferably as soon as possible.
And by their own hand.
Just to prove how much the “believe”
This is one of your best.
This needs to be a video.
Agree, this was out of the park level.
My ass itches, and I want to scratch it. But I don’t, because asses are a social construct.
-2+2=5
“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two makes four. If that is granted, all else follows.”
-Winston Smith
John Gray had a article recently with similar observations;”
The classical liberal economist F.A. Hayek wrote in The Constitution of Liberty (1960): “Progress is movement for movement’s sake, for it is in the process of learning, and in the effects of having learned something new, that man enjoys the gift of his intelligence.” But what is it that is learnt in the course of this purposeless process? Admirable for the clarity and honesty with which it is stated, Hayek’s idea of progress is as much an expression of nihilism as Derrida’s project of deconstruction.”
https://unherd.com/2019/08/why-the-humanities-cant-be-saved/?=sideshare&fbclid=IwAR2PIfiOe8jWp_eCDOnl68bjetFrnNUFMYOByT8emgzeyweI-nU0JLiI7hc
Disagree. Nihilism? No, true humility.
“That also means so-called hate speech is a social construct, as it is rooted in the belief in racial and ethnic differences. If those differences are imaginary, then hate speech is imaginary as well.” I think you have that backwards. Hate speech is produced by hateful haters, who hate imaginary things called races. It’s real, and the Left can consistently denounce that. What they Left can’t do is engage in hate speech ITSELF, such as “I hate being white” or “I hate white men,” etc.
I’d hate this, if this was real and hate existed, which it doesn’t.
How many times do I have to go over this. Race isn’t real, but racism is. Race doesn’t exist except in the minds of white people, who aren’t really a race but just think that they are. Sure we have superficial difference such as skin color but these are so minor as to be laughable. Unfortunately, whites seem to believe that these superficial differences matter and continue to be racist, either consciously or unconsciously. This results in systemic racism, the proof of which is differing outcomes among people of different colors, colors that are superficial. If whites would just give… Read more »
Where do (((fellow white people))) fit in?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_School
It’s not (just) the Frankfurt School, because this type of thinking is much earlier. For example, the black sociologist E. Franklin Frazier already published an article titled “The Pathology of Race Prejudice” in 1927.
In my opinion, the most important (((fellow white))) connection is the anthropological school of Franz Boas and his disciples.
Academic “consensus” about the race question had been achieved in the early 1930s in several disciplines (anthropology, psychology, sociology), well before the Frankfurt School could have had any influence in the USA.
Wherever they say they do.
That’s chilling. While the left mostly rejects logic, that’s the kind of logic they can get behind and follow through with.
From their perspective, it’s the only logical conclusion.
If you truly believe that there are no meaningful biological differences among people and that white racism causes so much harm in the world, literally to the point of killing people and that white refuse to give up that racism, the only thing to do is either expel them, control them or kill them.
They’re not going to expel us. Controlling us won’t stop group differences. That leaves one final solution.
Yup. Depressing but true.
Absolutely brilliant. Terrific post. Thoughtful, cogent, reasoned and if used correctly, arms for the man. Damn. Made my day.
We’re not quite there with regards to science. Here in the Bay Area you see virtue signs that say “In this house we believe…”. Along with Black Lives Matter and Women’s Rights Are Human Rights it says Science is Real.
Somewhat related: I’m waiting for a flight at SFO and they’ve stopped selling water in plastic bottles. To save the planet I suppose. Water is now only sold in these clunky metal bottles. Of course sodas are still sold in plastic.
Well that torches my fritters. “In this house” is a direct rip-off of “As to my house, we shall serve the Lord”, and it’s oddly clean, stable, work-worthy families.
(Triggered because I’m seeing ‘this house shall serve’ more and more, on cars all over the country. The people in those cars look simply like decent people. Not a tatoo in sight.)
Around here in the region of the Imperial Capital, our signs say “Hate has no home here.” It is in many front yards.
When I see those signs, that’s all I need to know: pathological altruists.
On the plus side, if you’re a homeless alcoholic, preferably non-white, looking for a place to sleep off a bender, find a house with one of those “all are welcome here” signs and make yourself at home.
Zman and fellow dissidents, I am curious, have you ever read “The Red Symphony?” It was the first piece of work that really opened my eyes as to what was REALLY going on. And yes, the subject of this article, is EXACTLY the purpose. There is no real set of rules, it is CONSTANT REVOLUTION of everything and anything. If there are no constructs, there is no OPPOSITION. Thus, humanity is simply turned into oxen, while the overlords/oligarchs run and own everything. THIS IS THE GOAL. Darwinian “science” was first the product of Darwin’s freemason grandfather and was “expounded” in… Read more »
You elucidate the reason as to why so few alive today know what COMINTERN was and how National Socialism is basically the same as National Communism, which is why USSR and Germany had a non-aggression pact.
But then why was Stalin our ally and what does that make modern China? Oh the webs we weave.
Ask why when the Tsar and Russia were our ally in WWI, we (the USA, Canada, and UK) hastened the travel of Trotsky to destroy Russia. The web goes back much further. Research Bernard Baruch and you will find many answers that have been carefully hidden. And I assure you, Germany and USSR were never “real” allies. Hitler was under the mistaken belief that Russia was still communist. It was not. Stalin was presented with his deal in “The Red Symphony” and he took it. The oligarchs are not all knowing. They were tricked and outmatched by Stalin first, then… Read more »
Let’s not be hasty in condemning men like Nietzsche, or even the anti-liberal Left. Nietzsche is a difficult man to pin down (“Tell me what you want, and I’ll supply the Nietzsche quote,” where he seems to affirm the position you wish to argue for). He had some interesting things to say about sex differences, for example. He can also be selectively appropriated, as the Left certainly has (one can appreciate Plato’s or Evola’s views on the political, without accepting Forms or Primordial Tradition, for example). If I had to name a single thinker who’s ideas most closely match this… Read more »
For another example of what I’m talking about, here is what Greg Johnson wrote not long ago: “What is postmodernism, and how is it inconsistent with a robust politics of identity? There are two senses of postmodernism. The first is postmodern philosophy. When people talk about postmodern philosophy, they mean things like the critique of Cartesianism, atomistic individualism, and other ideas that came out of modern Western philosophy. I have no quarrel with the postmodern attempt to get beyond modern Western philosophy. In fact, I agree with 90% of it. “The other kind of postmodernism comes out of literary and… Read more »
The kinder souls will laugh at it, while the less kind will dismiss it as vulgar degeneracy Interesting delineation there. I never really thought the people who did the laughing (or hazing) were kinder people than the ones who keep their opinion to themselves. The very basics of human biology start with the fact that humans come in two sexes. If the very axioms of human reality are now up for debate, then everything is up for debate, even the claims made by the Left. With no truth, nothing is false. The world is narrative of opinion. The first truth… Read more »
I say spirit > biology, so heck yes it’s spiritual warfare.
YES, this is absolutely spiritual warfare. The falling away from the basic right/wrong and Natural Law as taught by Christianity, is the basis for all of this.
…because bourgeoisie European and socialite American women had too much free time to think….
Oh, if only the deluded radical left would read this with an open mind. Therein lies the problem: that Truth is the enemy because it destroys all that they’ve been taught.
Their minds are closed tight.
A magnificent essay! I’m going to memorize it and recite it at gatherings of badthinkers. And maybe even goodthinkers. I think today’s posting also builds on yesterday’s. Progressivism seeks to destroy objective reality, and Progressivism is also used as a tool of distraction by our Corporate Overlords to strip mine the citizens. These two processes are like a pincer movement which will, if not checked, destroy Western Civilization. Having said all this, Z’s last two essays makes me curious as to “what comes next”, as he often writes. Maybe I’ve overlooked or forgotten some earlier posts or podcasts, and, more… Read more »
I’m a national monarchist at heart. Well, really an national oligarchicist, since the King can (and will) be replaced if necessary by the peers.
Riffing on Zman’s “negative identity” posts, I think one reason we’ve been flailing about is that America came to be defined as “not Communist.” When the USSR fell we had a national identity crisis. By then our Christian and European heritage had been demonized and removed from public life. Now people glom onto increasingly bizarre identities and nihilistic political movements to fill the void. It turns out you can’t have a country that makes any sense when it’s been reduced to consumerism and weird butt stuff. KMac calls America a shopping mall, E. Michael Jones “the gay disco.” I don’t… Read more »
Mr. Spock nailed our post-modern mess in one of Star Trek’s most telling moments: “Physical reality is consistent with universal laws. Where the laws do not operate, there is no reality.”
2 + 2 = 5 was bad enough, now we have 2 + 2 = whatever
The ultimate entitlement of a spoiled population: reality itself is what you want it to be.
Here is a deranged woman who LARPs as a man complaining about that time of the month:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nonbinary-period-menstruation_n_5b75ac1fe4b0182d49b1c2ed
This is a part of being a young woman, which you are. Wishing it away won’t make it go away.
The poet Horace wrote: “Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit.” You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.
Good essay.
If everything is equal and all opinion is equally worthless, then the only truth is Power.
The “truth” – is what survives – and what works.
Absent the Western world being overrun with POC, the world that survives will not be populated by homosexuals, transsexuals, lesbians, or any of the other assorted detrius that refuse to acknowledge the truth of what their genital’s purpose is.
I’ll take the “assault on rationality and order” for 5000 Alex.