{"id":43987,"date":"2018-07-02T03:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-07-02T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=43987"},"modified":"2018-07-01T18:59:17","modified_gmt":"2018-07-01T22:59:17","slug":"the-holy-book-of-marx-and-the-religion-of-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/07\/02\/the-holy-book-of-marx-and-the-religion-of-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"The holy book of Marx and the religion of progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the latest Libertarian Enterprise<\/em>, Sarah Hoyt<\/a> discusses the religious nature of progressive thought in the western world:<\/p>\n

While the left not only filled every nook and cranny of twentieth century \u201cnarrative industries\u201d to the point the only way a conservative could work in one of those was under deep, deep cover, the engineers made the internet.<\/p>\n

The left didn\u2019t even know it really had any serious opposition left. You can\u2019t blame them too much. Even those of us who were very opposed and very disgusted kept it polite in public and treated them as retarded children who couldn\u2019t take opposition.<\/p>\n

Would it have made any difference if we\u2019d talked back, say 30 years ago?<\/p>\n

I doubt it.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You see, leftism is as much as anything else a religion. The crazy Marx with his vision of the future created an entire narrative from paradise (pre-capitalism, i.e. it never existed, guys, not even as apes. Apes, as we now know, trade) through fall into capitalism to eventual paradise again, where the New Man (what used to be called the Soviet Man) will be so altruistic and communally oriented that a government isn\u2019t needed. (Like the peace of Islam, there\u2019s only one way to obtain that, and no. Just no. Worldwide species extinction is as fantastical as the idea of that primordial paradise. Humans are humans, and someone will survive. I\u2019m just not interested in letting them send us back ten thousand years.)<\/p>\n

You hear it in the talk of the left \u2014 particularly the rather intellectually inbred fourth generation, who ate the pap the older people fed them and never had an original thought in their lives \u2014 stuff like calling us \u201creactionaries\u201d (when they\u2019re the ones in power, and have been for a long time, and the ones knee-jerk reacting) and talking about \u201cthe future\u201d as belonging utterly to them, and the arrow of history, as though history were the chart in their book, with an arrow beneath.<\/p>\n

Their faith doesn\u2019t align particularly well with reality. For instance there\u2019s the whole thing of them talking about us \u2014 always \u2014 as though we were the ones in power, when they have all the gatekeeping positions and all the contacts.<\/p>\n

This dissonance has required them to make up invisible monsters that give us all the power: Patriarchy (a laughable idiocy in America and weak everywhere in the west. While they refuse to see it in the Middle East and Latin America where it actually exists in spades.) Micro aggressions. White privilege (which is so strong that it gives an edge to concentration camp survivors.)<\/p>\n

All the while they refuse to admit the real privilege: Leftist privilege. The fastest way to rise in the narrative fields is to be lefter-than-thou. Because they\u2019re in charge and that\u2019s how the system is setup, so they can stay in charge.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately this has created their isolation. You see, every song, every movie, ever history book, every fictional book, assures them they\u2019ll win. They know that \u201cthe people united shall never be defeated.\u201d They also know that though held back by patriarchy, racism, sexism and all the micro aggressions, the people really are with them. HAVE TO BE, because they\u2019re ideology of the future, and history\u2019s arrow points to their paradise. Every book, movie, etc. says so either subtly or openly. So they KNOW. Everybody knows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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