Is the United States in the Midst of an Insurgency?
10/4/2020, 4:03:03 PM · 38 of 58
nathanbedford to Jim Noble; Lurker
Nathan Bedford's first maxim of American politics:
All politics is not local but ultimately racial
Many will be aware that I have been posting this maxim for years on these threads but have refrained from doing so recently because, although the maxim seems now to be more true than ever, it is to miss the whole peril of the insurgency which is now attempting to destroy our Constitution, suppress our liberties and seize control of the Republic.
To a hammer everything looks like a nail, and to a leftist politician everything looks racist. So the leftist politician reflexively beats down Republican nail heads with the hammer of the charge of racism. But now the game has moved far beyond racism as a mere political tactic for the left. It has become a symptom even as it remains a tool.
Even cursory armchair students of history know that ideas have consequences and one of those consequences is to shape elections. If that were the limit of the power of ideas one would be content to argue ideology in the context of an election. We are not in that situation today. Although leftist ideology will shape this election, it will not limit its onrush to the results of an election, nor will the left be content with any adverse results coming out of an election or a court decision whether the source is federal, state, local or multinational.
The new ideology which now dominates the bleak and arid soul of the left is best described and rigorously analyzed in a book called, Cynical Theory. The book traces the evolution of leftist thinking by picking it up at the point of The Frankfurt School which insinuated critical thinking into the bloodstream of society by originally infecting our schools.
Cynical theory describes the evolution of the Frankfurt school socialist philosophy and tells us why it is absolutely impervious to logic and why it is so successful in conquering vulnerable "liberal" minds.
This postmodern ideology is impervious to logic because it excludes logic from its calculus. The author of this article suggests that the leftist ideology successfully couples with black America because African-Americans believe themselves already oppressed so critical race theory, which postulates institutionalized racism, exploits a vulnerable demographic in our midst to upend the system. If Islam is impervious to reason, if Islam has a philosophy which encourages men to fly planes into buildings so they may have the 72 virgins in afterlife, it succeeds against reason and morality because it is a closed intellectual circle. How do you argue with that? Similarly, the plight of the African-American "community" has become a closed, intellectually sealed culture.
Add critical race theory, and the Black Lives Matter shock troops of the revolution are impervious to criticism just as they are impervious to logic. In fact logic, as noted above, has been consciously discarded. The cynical theory exposed by the authors of the book of the same title is that all Western epistemology must be rejected. That means the entire Enlightenment must go. All of this must be rejected because one society cannot be said to be better or more worthy than another. Hence, the scientific method created by the Western world is no better than the Stone Age superstition of a headhunter in Java.
Once one discards logic and with it the scientific method one can easily discard mathematics so 2 and 2 no longer equals 4, in fact 2 and 2 may not equal 4 because that is a Western, white man's, construct. If one can set aside mathematics as the French set aside the days of the week and the months of the year during the French Revolution, capturing racial politics is but child's play. If one can capture the white man's epistemology as Islam has conquered the minds of its adherents, you have a new pathology sweeping across every class and race. It is almost unstoppable because to oppose it is not just racist but grounded in the false idea that Western epistemology is something decent people should not adhere to.
The author is dead wrong when he asserts:
To defeat this insurgency, we must eliminate the dissatisfaction that drives the largest groups of actors.
Many of these actors are quite well-to-do and have no legitimate bitch about their lot in life. As for those who are truly poor, their problem is not their economic condition, their problem is their philosophy. In short they've got to get their minds right and no amount of government welfare systems will do that. In fact, history shows that government intervention along these lines brings about a result contrary to its benign intention, for example, breaking down African-American families and generating a dystopian ghetto.
Dealing with the symptoms, building projects in the ghetto or hiring more black police chiefs will not solve the problem of this soul sickness. The disease is impervious to this cure. We must find a way to restore the Judeo/Christian ethic for without it we are lost.
