Posted on 10/07/2022 5:03:12 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In 1921, Chatto & Windus published Aldous Huxley’s first novel, titled Crome Yellow. Meant to be satire, it was a far-cry from his most well-known dystopian work, Brave New World — but it includes a portentous passage, one that unambiguously encompasses the scope and character of the American left and the Democrat party:
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior ‘righteous indignation’ — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.
It’s almost like he had a crystal ball, writing that for an American audience in a post-Trump era….
What was introduced in a work of fiction, has now become reality, and we’ve seen it manifest in a nearly immeasurable number of ways. Emanating solely from the left, socially-encouraged transgressions have ranged from insidious, to outright murderous. The demonization of conservatives has been part of the movement for political “progress”; the drawing and quartering of babies in the womb is a peak freedom in the virtuous struggle for reproductive “justice”; and callous homicide is a justified act in the fight against “MAGA extremism.”
Although I introduced a Donna Brazile essay to the American Thinker readership last week, the breadth of her political proselytism was too vast not to address in a new context, which is this: Huxley’s posited theory, now reveals itself in perhaps the most frightening way of all — weaponized federal agencies targeting political opponents is accepted and encouraged, because it’s part and parcel in the ‘crusade’ against “threats to democracy.” From Brazile’s editorial:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
“Republicans represent an extremism that threatens [emphasis added] the very foundations of our republic.” - Joe Biden
Note that Deep State still refuses to talk about MAGA red Donald Dem DINOs...
Refuses to call us out, vilify us, threaten us.
Three guesses who Deep State really fears.
And you won’t need the first two.
P4L
Hadn’t heard of this novel, but adding it to my reading list.
Didn’t we get rid of chromate paints?
They always use the term ‘Our Democracy’ like they own it...................
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel........Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)
Thanks. Believe it or not I was trying to find some.
At a company I used to work at, we did mucho work for government military contracts, that required anti-corrosion zinc chromate primers on aluminum.
A guy in the paint shop used the out-of-date paint primer to paint his entire Camaro.
That car will never rust!......................
Captures Antifa, BLM, SDS, DNC in a nutshell.
Bttt
There may be (partial) true believers ala AOC, but the Klaus Schwabs, Hilary Clintons, etc. don't really believe it. But they will try to convince enough morons into it and use them as fodder against those who see through the bullpucky.
Thanks to Hegel and his theory of heroes + Nietzche and his theory of supermen and the will to power, some people believe that might makes right and the ends justify the means and that heroes and supermen transcend the ordinary moral judgment that is applied to the masses.
It’s almost like he had a crystal ball, writing that for an American audience in a post-Trump era….
Not everything is worth reading, not everyone, including me, has something useful to say.
Is Crome Yellow anything like Soylent Green?
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