Leftists are all in on exactly the wrong way to go

American Thinker ^ | 13 Nov, 2022 | Eric Utter

[MtnClimber]

And not just financially or in matters of law. No, this wrongness cuts much deeper.

Many on the left want to destroy anything old, historic or traditional, including statues, buildings, governments, and morality. They revel in tearing down people, standards, and ideas and are incapable of building anything or governing themselves...let alone anyone else. On occasion, they will seek to replace what they erase, substituting Baphomet or Beelzebub for Jesus Christ, for example.

These modern anarchists, though anything but philosophers, ironically piggyback on the past work of white men such as Søren Kierkegaard, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean-Paul Sartre, Friedrich Nietzsche, and other existentialists.

Sartre cleverly suggested that people are not like things (such as rocks or can-openers), which is why he used the term "no-thing-ness" to refer to the kind of being that people are. Unlike things, he said, humans do not have an intrinsic essence. A can-opener, for example, has an essence that was ascribed to it before it even existed. A designer created that object for the sake of opening cans. In this way, we can say that its essence preceded its existence. But according to Sartre, we are not designed by a God; therefore, we are unlike things. Hence "no-thing-ness."

And, since there is no designer, there is no intrinsic essence of human life, no "human nature," nothing that we are supposed to be. Therefore, states Sartre, we must invent our own purpose, or "essence." Whereas a can-opener's essence precedes its existence, the opposite is true for us. We exist first, and then we must create our essence later. This "fact" led Sartre to proclaim that we are "condemned to be free." This freedom in turn means that we are responsible for our lives, causing us to experience feelings of anxiety or despair.

[Salman]

Good points all around, but one more thing needs to be added. The current year left wing is promoted by ruling class institutions and bankrolled by major corporations.

So their stated goals are not really their goals. A genocide orders of magnitude beyond any of their previous horrors in part of their program, as an end in itself.

[V_TWIN]

Waited a while to see if anyone else responded to my post ......you were the only one.

Very disappointing......thank YOU though.

Have a blessed day.