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Michael Caplan's avatar

You say "nihilism" and that's precisely right. Everyone should read "The Revolution of Nihilism: A Warning to the West", written in 1939 by a former Nazi supporter and ex-mayor of Danzig, Hermann Rauschning. It's a free download. Today's "revolution" is like Nazism in that it is essentially unprincipled and amoral, a faux-revolution - because however problematic most revolutions end up being, the French and Russians and Haitians had some real reasons to revolt. Combine this with the authentic, if illegitimate ideological conviction of today's "revolutionaries" and you get a thoroughly postmodern stew of meaningless but alluring abstractions, put into place through the combined efforts of fanatical ideologues and cynical careerists. It's truly the worst of both worlds. It's not revolutionary so much as itself counter-revolutionary, because it's attempting to overturn the one truly successful revolution in history, the American, 250 years after the fact. It's also no coincidence that, for all its blather about "indigenous rights", it demonizes the only successful repatriation of indigenous land in history, that of the Jews of Israel (also no coincidence that Israel, unlike the surrounding states that progressives prefer, is a pluralist democracy - everything they claim to espouse).

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Orwell’s Rabbit's avatar

I think one of the hallmarks of Wokeism is moral relativism (which, to your point, is amoral). Moral relativism is, along with its fraternal twin hypocrisy, one of my greatest dislikes...

For example, the Left used to be vehemently opposed to female circumcision (and, to a lesser extent, male circumcision), and indeed had international campaigns against it. They made the argument that such butchery, merely because “culture and beliefs” dictated it, could not be justified under any circumstances, even if the “victims” themselves desired it. Hmmmmm, nowadays they are MANDATING genital mutilation based on trans “culture and beliefs”, and because the “victims” themselves desire it! Either genital mutilation in service of one’s beliefs is OK, or it is NOT. To pretend that SOME beliefs justify it, while others don’t, is moral relativism. The same applies, mutatis mutandi, for all their issues, like race, criminality, censorship, etc.

You will never get moral “gold” from such moral dross. Alchemists don’t really exist, just as “women” don’t have penises.

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Darlene Keefer's avatar

A lot of history in a nutshell!!! Understood, Accurate, Enlightened. WoW. Thx.

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Merle's avatar

And the FBI is the Gestapo

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