Posted on 03/22/2022 4:04:10 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Leftism is entropy and it portends death.
In Christianity and Culture, T.S. Eliot wrote of liberalism:
. . . it is something that tends to release energy rather than accumulate it, to relax, rather than to fortify. It is a movement not so much defined by its end, as by its starting point; away from, rather than towards, something definite. Our point of departure is more real to us than our destination; and the destination is likely to present a very different picture when arrived at, from the vaguer image formed in imagination. By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents, by licensing the opinions of the most foolish, by substituting instruction for education, by encouraging cleverness rather than wisdom, the upstart rather than the qualified, by fostering a notion of getting on to which the alternative is a hopeless apathy, Liberalism can prepare the way for that which is its own negative: the artificial, mechanized or brutalised control which is a desperate remedy for its chaos.
When one studies the Left from every angle, from inside and out, in both its historical manifestations and its present-day actions, then the human and social particularities cancel out, and its one essential characteristic—what we might call its “chief feature”—comes clearly into focus. That feature, that essence, is entropy: the implacable tendency of ordered systems to run down, to yield to chaos, to exhaust their source of energy, to rust, to decay, and to decompose.
Order is difference. It is inequalities, gradients, distinctions. It is this thing over here being dissimilar from that thing over there in a way that offers the potential for movement, for action, for work. Order is, as Eliot says, the accumulation of energy,
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The left seems to want to tear down the norms of society and replace them with garbage.
That right. The ironic thing is, it’s Russia (communism) through activists over the past 50 years that have been destroying the family and making the abnormal seem mainstream.
The left is a cancer that runs on emotions and denies facts and reality.
There's an element in US politics that has dedicated itself to the unworkable, illogical and dishonest.
It's hard to believe that America is the place universally recognized as the birthplace and the home of pragmatism.
Without a media committed to academic rigor and a Our Congress is where truth, honesty, hard facts and logic go to die!
There's an element in US politics that has dedicated itself to the unworkable, illogical and dishonest.
It's hard to believe that America is the place universally recognized as the birthplace and the home of pragmatism.
Without a media committed to academic rigor and persistent objectivity to monitor and challenge our elected officials/‘leaders’, and I mean ALL our leaders, we can never hope for better.
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Our Congress is where truth, honesty, hard facts and logic go to die!
There’s an element in US politics that has dedicated itself to the unworkable, illogical and dishonest.
It’s hard to believe that America is the place universally recognized as the birthplace and the home of pragmatism.
Without a media committed to academic rigor and persistent objectivity to monitor and challenge our elected officials/‘leaders’, and I mean ALL our leaders, we can never hope for better.
Poor T.S. Eliot. Another example of an unwoke, dead White man spouting imperialist racism. /s
Excellent.
Thank you for this post, Mtn. It reminded me of another quote of T. S. Eliot
“The World is trying the experiment of attempting to form a civilized but non-Christian mentality. The experiment will fail; but we must be very patient in awaiting its collapse; meanwhile redeeming the time: so that the Faith may be preserved alive through the dark ages before us; to renew and rebuild civilization, and save the World from suicide.”
- T. S. Eliot
Thoughts After Lambeth
Personally, I believe we can not save the world from suicide. Only the saving grace of God through His Son Jesus Christ can remedy our fallen nature.
God Given Talent, and The American Dream. I was telling my son that no one has talked about children developing their God Given Talent simply because God and The American Dream are being erased. If we were really going to let or allow children to develope their God Given Talents (and live the American Dream) it won’t require reviving God in Public, but rather destroying the National Teachers Unions and Associations, and secondly to segergate children by intelligence or ability in classrooms. Those who can achieve more will, but the rest will be LEFT behind.
bfl Great quote.
“…It is a movement not so much defined by its end, as by its starting point…”
And we are getting very near the end.
“By destroying traditional social habits of the people, by dissolving their natural collective consciousness into individual constituents…”
Thus, it breeds extreme corruption. The West, now dredging the very bottom of liberalism, has become terminally corrupt. Terminally.
I hope the corruption is not terminal, but it could be.
Great quote!
TSE nailed it !
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