{"id":54743,"date":"2020-05-04T01:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T05:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=54743"},"modified":"2022-04-07T09:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T13:34:24","slug":"qotd-the-eternal-now-of-progressive-stasis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2020\/05\/04\/qotd-the-eternal-now-of-progressive-stasis\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: The eternal “now” of Progressive stasis"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The best practical definition of conservatism I’ve heard is “planting trees you won’t live to sit under.” I’ll die, and though nothing of me will remain, my home, my community, my nation, my civilization, my people<\/em> will remain … and I did my part, however small, to ensure it, by living my life well. My honor is my loyalty, as someone or other once said.<\/p>\n

None of that matters to the cultural marxist, though. How could it? As I wrote yesterday, to the fanatic, the past is one long catalog of freely chosen error. Nor is there any meaningful future<\/em> to a fanatic. That seems wrong, I realize, but consider that time passes through contrast. People will be born and die in the Communist Utopia, but since everyone will always have everything, human activity will be exquisitely pointless …<\/p>\n

Ignore what Leftists say. Watch what they do, and it’ll soon be obvious that what they long for above all things is stasis<\/em>. They want everyone and everything to be one way, and one way only, forever. Homosexuals are the most flamboyant example. Imagine that \u2014 having your entire life defined by your sexual attraction. I like blondes, but you know, if the right brunette came along I’d go for her. Heck, I’d even go for a ginger (I know, I know, I’m a monster). But according to the Left, that’s not allowed. I like blondes, and therefore I’m only allowed to like blondes. Oh, and I can only vote for Bernie Sanders, because he’s the attracted-to-blondes candidate, and I must support abortion, and use the word “cisgendered,” and …<\/p>\n

Thus, to the Leftist there’s no past, and no future either. There’s only now, and the only thing that matters now is power. How could it be otherwise?<\/p>\n

Severian, “The Endless Now”, Rotten Chestnuts<\/em><\/a>, 2020-01-23.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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