Cultural revolutions are suicidal,
nihilistic, and incoherent. Those who survive such cannibalism do so by
arbitrarily exempting their leaders from their own rules of mandated
purity and no statute of limitations.
Since late May, the United States
has been convulsed by a cultural revolution unlike any seen in its
recent history. Statues have been toppled, often without any logic or
consistent grievance. Institutions have been renamed, again without
coherent consistency.
Christian iconography has been a
common target. Television shows have been taken off the air; particular
corporations boycotted; professional sports recalibrated into social
activist spectacles.
If there is any common denominator to
this madness, it is apparently that the past was toxic, and erasing it
in the present will make for a more just and united future.
For example, because of the
glorification of the imperialist and spoiler of native paradise
Christopher Columbus, his statue in Chicago must be removed nocturnally
by the order of the mayor—in order to restore peace of mind, social
justice, and calm. That act of iconoclasm will rectify things in the
present, and thus there will not be another 500 annual homicides in
Chicago.
But once names are replaced and commemoration destroyed, what exactly follows the erased?
Anarchy Is the Replacement
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