Back in 2018 I started writing that the left was best understood as a reaction against the modern Double Revolution in science and the modern economy. I coined the idea that the left was a Great Reaction back to the past.
At
the time I thought I was being a bit naughty, telling our educated
progressive friends that they weren’t progressive at all, but the real
reactionaries of the modern world.
I made up a maxim:
Socialism is a return to slavery; the welfare state is a return to feudalism; identity politics is neo-tribalism; reparations is neo-vengeance; activism a return to revolution... helpless victims are a return to sacrifice; totalitarianism is a return to the scapegoat; social justice is good old loot and plunder.I had no idea that in 2020 the helpless transgender victim Vicky -- formerly Willie -- would be unctiously interviewed on NPR advocating In Defense of Looting. And what is the three months of mostly peaceful protest in Portland, Oregon, but a return to the woke tribe’s defense of the streets of “their” Portland against the evil foreign tribe of the racist-sexist-homophobes.
On Saturday night the mostly peaceful protesters in Portland shot a man wearing a “Patriot Prayer” hat. Well, of course. How dare, how dare a Trump supporter show his ugly face in progressive Portland! Portland is woke territory and don’t you forget it, bigot..............
The problem for our educated class, the creatives, is to discover a new Meaning of Life, living as they do in the age after the Age of Revolution and, I believe, after the Age of Politics. It would be a life that is higher and nobler than teaching “oppressed peoples” to thirst for vengeance and beating up the white working class just for the thrill of it.
You see, wokies, if you’d ever read a book you’d know that defunding the police and reparations for slavery is reactionary, abandoning justice and the rule of law to return to the primitive culture of blood feuds, vengeance and the lex talionis........ To Read More....
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