{"id":40844,"date":"2017-11-14T03:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T08:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=40844"},"modified":"2017-11-13T09:42:25","modified_gmt":"2017-11-13T14:42:25","slug":"paradise-the-fall-and-the-second-coming-marxist-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2017\/11\/14\/paradise-the-fall-and-the-second-coming-marxist-style\/","title":{"rendered":"Paradise, the Fall, and the Second Coming … Marxist style"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the latest Libertarian Enterprise<\/em>, Sarah Hoyt<\/a> draws a few parallels between traditional Christian beliefs and modern-day progressive ones:<\/p>\n

First, I\u2019m going to say that this is to an extent the result of self-selection that has nothing to do with politics.<\/p>\n

The left has a narrative that is a just so story. It is, as was pointed out here, in the comments, a Christian heresy, but one that caters to fake \u201crationalism.\u201d What I mean is that the narrative of the leftist\/communist\/socialist story includes all the comforting high points of Christianity but avoids the opprobrium of \u201csuperstition\u201d cast by enlightenment onto traditional Christianity.<\/p>\n

Leftism, whatever they call it, has its roots in Marxism, and Marxism offers a comforting view of paradise (primitive times, when property was communal and blah blah blah. If the flavor is feminist, it was communal property and ruling matriarchs) fall (we discovered something that changed us. These days it\u2019s fashionable in academic circles to blame agriculture, which apparently was no good, very bad, terrible for us, even though, you know, it allowed us to colonize the Earth and have a vast and varied population. In the seventies it was war. There are as many candidates for the liberal sin that caused human fall, as there is for the Christian sin, and honestly, none of them make a heck of a lot of sense) and redemption (here it\u2019s different from Christian redemption, where each individual redeems himself, but the species can\u2019t be redeemed till the second coming. Um\u2026 scratch that. Perhaps not that different. It is assumed that the evils of the human species are because we are not designed to live in \u201ccapitalism\u201d which these dodos seem to think is any kind of trade or hierarchy. They actually do call monarchies \u201ccapitalist\u201d even absolute monarchies. And because we are distorted and made \u201cevil\u201d by this structure, when the communist state withers away into a perfect classless, communal society, we\u2019ll be redeemed, as surely as by the second coming. Frankly, at least the second coming is more plausible from a scientific point of view. At least it doesn\u2019t require a bloated, totalitarian state to behave in ways that no totalitarian, bloated state ever behaved. And while our species might have no experience of the Son of the Creator returning again in full glory this time to rule over us, we do have endless experience of totalitarian states.)<\/p>\n

However, all of this mystical belief is dressed up in \u201cscience.\u201d History is taught with the idea that it has an arrow and the arrow leads inevitably to collectivism, and because they only teach select portions of history, the poor kids are convinced of it.<\/p>\n

This is partly what I meant by self-selected. The people who tend to gravitate left, PARTICULARLY those older than say 25, are the GOOD kids. This is something that is rarely appreciated, and poor things, they view themselves as daring rebels. It\u2019s sort of pathetic, actually. (Having grown up in a village, I\u2019ve had a great chance to observe human nature, and one of the inevitable funny twists of the human mind is that the most flexible of humans like to think themselves steadfast and inflexible. The kindest flatter themselves they\u2019re cruel. Meek women think they\u2019re termagants. I\u2019m not sure why, really. It just seems to be an invariable part of the human \u201cpackage.\u201d)<\/p>\n

They\u2019re the people who went to school and listened really well, and answered what the teachers wanted to hear. They\u2019re the ones who internalized lessons, and explanations, and the ones who want to have a system in which to integrate everything they learn. Everything has to \u201cfit\u201d in their world view.<\/p>\n

I kind of understand that because I too like \u201cgrand unified theories.\u201d It\u2019s just that after the age of fourteen, I started discovery too many things that didn\u2019t fit anything they\u2019d taught me.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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