"The Left wants to destroy everything that exists..."
I have come to the same conclusion, but I'm afraid it just makes me sound like a madman. Most people, even esp most educated people, cannot and will not face this idea and its full meaning. All the endless dreary verbiage, all the pseudoradical sloganeering, all the phony moralism abou…
"The Left wants to destroy everything that exists..."
I have come to the same conclusion, but I'm afraid it just makes me sound like a madman. Most people, even esp most educated people, cannot and will not face this idea and its full meaning. All the endless dreary verbiage, all the pseudoradical sloganeering, all the phony moralism about "Equality" is simply a pretext and fig leaf on some combo of Nietzsche's Will to Power and Freud's Thanatos/death drive.
But it's all there out in the open:
“I saw the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and only solution to the cultural contradictions of the epoch.” György Lukács
Marx expressed views such as his belief in “the ruthless criticism of all that exists” (letter to Arnold Ruge) and “the forcible overthrow of the existing social order” (The Communist Manifesto). He expressed on a number of occasions his admiration for the words of Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust:
Yes, exactly. The whole Leftist juggernaut tearing through Western society for the last several hundred years is based on the will to power, but it is driven by a religious-like belief that humanity is somehow trapped in the world by society and by nature/reality itself. They rail against all strictures, and there will be no stopping them because they have an unshakable belief that if only they destroy the next barrier, and the next, and the next, that they will achieve Utopia.
Radical feminists are running up against this now. They are the only faction of the Left that is pushing back against Trans. They are having no success at all, no support, from the Left. Why should that be? It's because the very definition of this Leftism is that there can be no boundaries. Feminists thought that they could stop, stand, and assert that HERE was an absolute boundary: the existence of women as a concrete fact. Nope. The whole point is to perpetually erase boundaries, violently if necessary, because they rage against reality. They would be as gods.
The entire project is Slavery/servitude sold in the guise of Liberation, hatred sold in the guise of love, cruelty sold under the label of compassion, tolerance proclaimed in the name of intolerance, barbarism repackaged as enlightened civilization etc.
Jung wrote this in the 1950s, he was describing the 1930s, and it sounds like the 2020s:
"Everywhere in the West there are subversive minorities who, sheltered by our humanitarianism and our sense of justice, hold the incendiary torches ready, with nothing to stop the spread of their ideas except the critical reason of a single, fairly intelligent, mentally stable stratum of the population. One should not overestimate the thickness of this stratum. It varies from country to country in accordance with national temperament. Also, it is regionally dependent on public education and is subject to the influence of acutely disturbing factors of a political and economic nature."
Thanks, Sheryl! I feel less crazy all of a sudden ;)
I would thank you too, Clever, especially for that quote by Jung, except that after reading it I feel a little like jumping off a roof. The whole Covid fiasco showed me, for the first time in my life, how thin the layer of intelligent, stable citizenry really is. I'm not the same person as I was before seeing the lockdowns and the damage done.
Covidmania answered one of the main questions we've been asking about humanity since WW2, which is the question of the Good German.
We've been immersed for decades in the books and documentaries that show all those cheering Germans happily Heil Hitlering and kicking the nearest Jew, and then the narrator solemnly intones: How could such a sophisticated educated population not only swallow but absolutely worship such a demented hateful ideology?
But now we know: 9 out of 10 people will obediently follow any law, practice, or line of thought or dogma if their peer group is doing the same. When a mass movement or mass panic comes along it will sweep away all in its path like a hurricane, except for the few things sufficiently grounded.
And if you think the educated professional class will be of any help—they're even worse! Once someone works their whole life for a specific career, jumps through every hoop, has their entire identity based in their job title, if they are forced to choose between their career and all its perks and status vs. flimsy abstractions like truth, honesty, integrity, maybe 9.5 out of 10 will always choose to maintain status no matter what.
As my man Nietzsche said: "When a hundred stand together, all of them lose their minds and acquire different ones."
All this is bleak and saddening but, hey, it's better to know, better to keep your head and to plan accordingly.
Yes, now I know and I would always choose to know a truth....but in much wisdom is much sorrow.
On that note, though, I have found more and more truth in religion as a result of having my eyes opened, so something good has come of my epiphany. Simultaneously I am moved to "fight the good fight" against the madness and against despair, while also now knowing in the deepest way that I cannot ultimately put my faith in Man or in this fallen world.
"The Left wants to destroy everything that exists..."
I have come to the same conclusion, but I'm afraid it just makes me sound like a madman. Most people, even esp most educated people, cannot and will not face this idea and its full meaning. All the endless dreary verbiage, all the pseudoradical sloganeering, all the phony moralism about "Equality" is simply a pretext and fig leaf on some combo of Nietzsche's Will to Power and Freud's Thanatos/death drive.
But it's all there out in the open:
“I saw the revolutionary destruction of society as the one and only solution to the cultural contradictions of the epoch.” György Lukács
Marx expressed views such as his belief in “the ruthless criticism of all that exists” (letter to Arnold Ruge) and “the forcible overthrow of the existing social order” (The Communist Manifesto). He expressed on a number of occasions his admiration for the words of Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust:
“I am the spirit that negates.
And rightly so, for all that comes to be
Deserves to perish wretchedly;
‘Twere better nothing would begin.
Thus everything that that your terms, sin,
Destruction, evil represent—
That is my proper element.”
Insightful comment. Love the Goethe lines.
Yes, exactly. The whole Leftist juggernaut tearing through Western society for the last several hundred years is based on the will to power, but it is driven by a religious-like belief that humanity is somehow trapped in the world by society and by nature/reality itself. They rail against all strictures, and there will be no stopping them because they have an unshakable belief that if only they destroy the next barrier, and the next, and the next, that they will achieve Utopia.
Radical feminists are running up against this now. They are the only faction of the Left that is pushing back against Trans. They are having no success at all, no support, from the Left. Why should that be? It's because the very definition of this Leftism is that there can be no boundaries. Feminists thought that they could stop, stand, and assert that HERE was an absolute boundary: the existence of women as a concrete fact. Nope. The whole point is to perpetually erase boundaries, violently if necessary, because they rage against reality. They would be as gods.
I really wish i cd disagree w a word u wrote...
The entire project is Slavery/servitude sold in the guise of Liberation, hatred sold in the guise of love, cruelty sold under the label of compassion, tolerance proclaimed in the name of intolerance, barbarism repackaged as enlightened civilization etc.
Jung wrote this in the 1950s, he was describing the 1930s, and it sounds like the 2020s:
"Everywhere in the West there are subversive minorities who, sheltered by our humanitarianism and our sense of justice, hold the incendiary torches ready, with nothing to stop the spread of their ideas except the critical reason of a single, fairly intelligent, mentally stable stratum of the population. One should not overestimate the thickness of this stratum. It varies from country to country in accordance with national temperament. Also, it is regionally dependent on public education and is subject to the influence of acutely disturbing factors of a political and economic nature."
Thanks, Sheryl! I feel less crazy all of a sudden ;)
I would thank you too, Clever, especially for that quote by Jung, except that after reading it I feel a little like jumping off a roof. The whole Covid fiasco showed me, for the first time in my life, how thin the layer of intelligent, stable citizenry really is. I'm not the same person as I was before seeing the lockdowns and the damage done.
Covidmania answered one of the main questions we've been asking about humanity since WW2, which is the question of the Good German.
We've been immersed for decades in the books and documentaries that show all those cheering Germans happily Heil Hitlering and kicking the nearest Jew, and then the narrator solemnly intones: How could such a sophisticated educated population not only swallow but absolutely worship such a demented hateful ideology?
But now we know: 9 out of 10 people will obediently follow any law, practice, or line of thought or dogma if their peer group is doing the same. When a mass movement or mass panic comes along it will sweep away all in its path like a hurricane, except for the few things sufficiently grounded.
And if you think the educated professional class will be of any help—they're even worse! Once someone works their whole life for a specific career, jumps through every hoop, has their entire identity based in their job title, if they are forced to choose between their career and all its perks and status vs. flimsy abstractions like truth, honesty, integrity, maybe 9.5 out of 10 will always choose to maintain status no matter what.
As my man Nietzsche said: "When a hundred stand together, all of them lose their minds and acquire different ones."
All this is bleak and saddening but, hey, it's better to know, better to keep your head and to plan accordingly.
Cheers!
Yes, now I know and I would always choose to know a truth....but in much wisdom is much sorrow.
On that note, though, I have found more and more truth in religion as a result of having my eyes opened, so something good has come of my epiphany. Simultaneously I am moved to "fight the good fight" against the madness and against despair, while also now knowing in the deepest way that I cannot ultimately put my faith in Man or in this fallen world.