CFP:
Progressive Regressive Idiocy dragging us back to the Dark Ages.
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. —George Santayana “The Life of Reason”
Modern lefties refuse to listen to this central message of religion, that we fix the world by fixing ourselves, rather than fixing ourselves by remaking the world in our own broken image.—Daniel Greenfield “A Movement of Conspiracy Theories”
The “progressives” (a misnomer if there ever was one)—I mean regressives—they want to regress society back to a feudal-like lifestyle, if not pre-Christian paganism, are masters of pointing fingers and playing the blame-game. It is always his, her, or its fault—never theirs. They avoid personal responsibility like the plague.
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As well they should. I would not want to lay claim to regressive idiocy either. Let us take a look at some of the more ridiculous regressive talking points, shall we?
Deception and trickery coupled with acid criticism of everything moral….as “reactionary” is a standard fare among them. …By persistent permeation of the centers of information, education and government the deviates have been able to invest themselves with a “progressive” and “liberal” cover. Actually, they are a throwback to the animal past of ancient primitive man whose sex habits operated on an infantile level.—Zygmund Dobbs “Keynes at Harvard”
Relativism
This is the imbecilic notion that all opinions are equally valid. That is, the viewpoint of someone who tortures and rapes children is on a par with the viewpoint of a Mother Teresa. It is all relative you see. No one’s viewpoint is any more or less valid than another’s.
A bit of thought will show that relativism is a dangerously infantile philosophy. For example, anyone that believes in relativism must of necessity believe that the following viewpoints are as valid as any other viewpoint:
- Torturing babies is okay.
- Blinding kittens is groovy.
- Genocide is fine.
- Murdering someone for grins is totally all right.
- Poisoning puppies is cool.
- Stabbing random strangers is no better or worse than helping the homeless.
Get the drift? As I say, a dangerously infantile philosophy. Yet it has gained popularity because it provides a sort of (third-rate) intellectual cover for jejune “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law” type narcissism.
One of the more insidious subsets of relativism is “moral relativism,” which promotes the nihilistic concept that there is no right or wrong, good or bad. So, for example, poisoning and polluting the environment isn’t bad or wrong—there is no wrong, there is no bad—so have at it, pollute all you want.
While moral relativism is in many ways a widely held view, when we go beneath the surface we can see that there are insurmountable philosophical problems for the view. Given this, and given the problems of applying the view to daily life, we should reject it.—Michael W. Austin Ph.D. “Rejecting Moral Relativism”
Multiculturalism
Related to relativism, this foolishness contends that all cultures are equally legitimate, i.e. no culture is better or worse than another—there are no s—t holes. Everything and everywhere is on an equal footing.
If you should find yourself in the boonies of Borneo suffering from appendicitis, don’t worry about it. Just go see a local witch doctor and stop your whining. You aren’t a patriarchal colonialist bigot, are you? Well, are you?
For those if us who are not willfully blind and/or in denial to a pathological degree, it is blatantly obvious that some cultures are better than others. For anyone who has traveled to third world countries with an open mind and open eyes the benefits of western culture are blatantly on display.
Go to the post office, and the clerk would name an outrageous price for a stamp. After paying the bribe, you still didn’t know it if it would be mailed or thrown out. That was normal.
One of my most vivid memories was from the clinic. One day, as the wait grew hotter in the 110-degree heat, an old woman two feet from the medical aides—who were chatting in the shade of a mango tree instead of working—collapsed to the ground. They turned their heads so as not to see her and kept talking. She lay there in the dirt. Callousness to the sick was normal.
Americans think it is a universal human instinct to do unto others as you would have them do unto you. It’s not. It seems natural to us because we live in a Bible-based Judeo-Christian culture.
We think the Protestant work ethic is universal. It’s not. My town was full of young men doing nothing. There was no private enterprise. Private business was not illegal, just impossible, given the nightmare of a third-world bureaucratic kleptocracy. —Karen McQuillan “What I Learned in the Peace Corps in Africa: Trump Is Right”
Here again we see shining examples of the Thantatos principle innate to Leftism.
“The death drive…[opposed to] survival, propagation, sex, and other creative, life-producing drives.”
But let’s be honest: both Leftism and the dark ages are exemplary of the unalterable truths of human nature, far more than the past few hundred, historically aberrant years we’ve been fortunate enough to enjoy. What we’ve known is the exception, not even close to the rule.
Let’s not forget, the historic “dark ages” were the result of the spread of Islam in Europe.
Another tenet of the regressives, perhaps less fundamental but still very much central, is the idea that industrial technology is dirty and harms “spaceship Earth”. Nothing could be further from the truth. The evidence is overwhelming that as our technological expertise and individual and societal wealth increase, the places where we live and work keep getting cleaner and cleaner.
Could we do better? Sure. But devolving into a less developed world would mean living (briefly) with stinking piles of garbage and shit.
African society (and leftists) can be summed up in one word – – ENVY.
http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/envy-hatred_of_the_good_for_being_the_good.html
I’ve always believed that we are placed on earth for a specific purpose. Life isn’t supposed to be easy of fair or logical. Your exposure to the harsh realities of life are to learn from all the experiences and evolve spiritually.
Those that have no spiritual anchor are living a senseless and meaningless existence.
Last night’s lecture from Hillsdale College was about Burke, Thomas Paine and the genesis of the Right and Left. You can search it on YT. It was an excellent summary of why the American Left and Right believe what they do. The primary departure in thinking is based on the Left’s belief that humankind is perfectible; that we are born good and can keep getting better. Hard to imagine how they can still think this with all evidence to the contrary.
Let’s sum it up: there is a swamp/left/islamic cabal that wants to seize power to loot the nation – and kill anyone who resists.
Accepting control and direction from the busybodies on the left is something any true american will violently reject. The more they push for control the more resistance they’ll face.
AA…right. Only people who don’t know history believe people are basically good.
How long before a majority of Americans realize it? We’re running out of time.
A question:
If all cultures are equal, why does the Western culture have such a migration problem from other cultures and all those other cultures have virtually none?
@Tony R
You’re mostly correct. Dark Ages did start with the fall of Rome, but the spread of Islam and the depressing effect it had on trade in the Mediterranean Sea (due to Muslim piracy) kept the Dark Ages going for much longer than it would have gone on
C. S. Lewis:
“We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man. There is nothing progressive about being pig-headed and refusing to admit a mistake. And I think if you look at the present state of the world it’s pretty plain that humanity has been making some big mistake. We’re on the wrong road. And if that is so we must go back. Going back is the quickest way on.”