A short Purim vanity

It's been a while since I've posted a vanity (in fact there's been so much infighting here that I don't post as much as I used to), but I hope this one will be worth reading.

As many of you know, tomorrow night and next day (3/7-8) is Purim, the holiday that commemorates G-d's ever-governing providence, however well hidden, behind the scenes. It also celebrates irony, since the day that set aside for the annihilation of the Jews was instead the day they destroyed their enemies. Right now I can't think of anything we need to remind ourselves of more than these two things.

Whatever is happening, however dark and terrible things may seem, however "absent" G-d may appear, he is still there, directing all things in accordance with His plan. Behind the mask of apparent randomness and meaninglessness in history is G-d's hidden but guiding hand.

Sometimes, with G-d's help, the darkest moments can be transformed into the greatest victories. Right now things look dark indeed. We have the most radical president we've ever had in our history, and he's trying to silence opposition and overturn religious freedom in a way we've never seen before in this country--and he's still up for election! Can you imagine what will happen if, G-d forbid, he is re-elected?

Our G-dless enemies have declared war on us and will show us no mercy. The rules of civility they demand of us they refuse to be held to, for the simple reason that, although they don't believe in G-d, they still inexplicably and irrationally believe in "right" and "wrong," and they are absolutely certain that they are right, we are evil, and there is no lowness to which they can sink that isn't fully justified. Like the evil Haman's ancestors in the nation of `Amaleq, they believe that everything is random, that "things just happen."

However, this belief apparently doesn't apply to human history, which they somehow think is "programmed" to end in a G-dless "utopia." Only the people who are pushing history forward have rights (so they can perform their "historic mission"). Those who oppose the teleological unfolding of history have no rights. Indeed, abstract "rights" don't exist at all. "Rights" only exist to enable the "thesis of history" to keep pushing things "forward." It is useless to appeal to "free speech," because for our enemies "free speech" has no purpose whatsoever other than to enable them to speak in a way that advances the "great wheel of history" (as the Khmer Rouge, mach shemam, called it). This has been part of the dialectical philosophy since Hegel. And yet some conservatives still express surprise at leftist "hypocrisy." It isn't hypocrisy at all. They don't even believe we have any rights to oppose them, and if they haven't yet admitted this they probably soon will. Stop being surprised. Stop accusing them of "hypocrisy." Instead fight back.

I've long believed that one reason political correctness now rules with an iron hand is because we have been spineless cowards. Right now PC seems like an unstoppable, omnipotent dreadnaught. But if only one person will refuse to be silenced then it will spread. My personal (and probably controversial) stand on how to answer back our enemies is to tell them plainly that "good" and "evil" are either only what G-d declares them to be or else they do not exist and they have no moral grounds on which to object to anything. The "natural law" people will say this goes too far, but I think it is true (though it doesn't exhaust the truth) to take this position.

Right now the country is being tyrannized into accepting "gay marriage." There aren't enough homosexuals in the world to have created this monster. Most of the people pushing it are heterosexuals who hate G-d. When it comes to homosexuality appeals to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Founding Fathers are fruitless. It was not they who forbade male homosexuality on the pain of death. That was done by a much higher Authority . . . the only Authority we have to appeal to. The time has come to quite trying to out-Jefferson the Left (I know; they hate his interpretation of the Constitution, but they still love him for some reason!).

Finally, I note that as Purim is upon us Iran (the Persia of the Bible) is once again in the news, along with the constant talk of military action against it. We have heard this talk for ten years and absolutely nothing has happened. If bluster could obliterate a country, then Iran would only exist in the history books. But who knows . . . something may actually be about to happen.

I am by nature a pessimistic, melancholic person. It's hard for me to look past the darkness to see the G-dliness that lies underneath all things, so these words are as much for me as they are for everyone else. I guess what I'm trying to remind myself and the rest of you of in these dark times is that the Left is right about one thing and one thing only: history is teleological. But it isn't going to end up where they think it is, however much it may seem otherwise. Someone really does "secretly rule the world" . . . only it's no secret at all. The world is ruled by HaShem. Not by the Masons, not by the Devil, not by the Bilderbergers, not by "reptilians," and not by HaShem plus anyone else. It is run by HaShem and HaShem Alone Who works His own purposes. He has no evil counterpart or adversary whatsoever.

The ancient Jews of Persia fasted and prayed for three days. I don't know if we need to do something like this or not, but I do know that we need to cry out to Heaven for a rescue . . . and having done that, stand up and fight back. If we do not . . . though HaShem's ultimate World Purpose cannot be defeated, we will be . . . and we will deserve to be.

May HaShem Yitbarakh make us all to dwell beneath his Sukkah of peace at this frightful, frightening time.

I thought I specifically said it was heterosexuals who were pushing "gay rights." Perhaps you didn't read it very carefully.

At any rate, legalizing "gay marriage" definitely puts a country in danger of the wrath of G-d. As for male homosexuality being a capital offense, that's what it is. I was referring to Halakhah, not secular law, and that can't be changed.

I read it very thoroughly, and I tried to use it to point out the mechanisms that we're all actually up against. Your examples are mine as well - you worry about "gay marriage," while I point out that marriage is religio/spiritual, and not a governmental grant. Should Jewish marraiges be subject to the approval of the State for their legitimacy? And as for executing gays, would you push for the replacement of the Constitution with Halakhah?

America is under attack, and that attack is of a very specific kind - the replacement of common law with administrative law, and the use of volatile issues in culture and religion as dividing cover stories for this unadmitted transfer of legal venue. Getting irritated with me for pointing it out doesn't change anything.

You ended your essay with: "I do know that we need to cry out to Heaven for a rescue . . . and having done that, stand up and fight back. If we do not . . . though HaShem's ultimate World Purpose cannot be defeated, we will be . . . and we will deserve to be."

Well what if God's answer doesn't require a Biblical Event? What if it just require the courage to look at what is actually being done, and how it's being done? Do firefighters ruminate on the morality of various bahaviors that can cause fires, or do they study how fires actually work, and how they can be stopped and prevented no matter what anyone believes?

From the article..””I’ve long believed that one reason political correctness now rules with an iron hand is because we have been spineless cowards. Right now PC seems like an unstoppable, omnipotent dreadnaught. But if only one person will refuse to be silenced then it will spread””

Actually,ZC, there is much more of an agenda of political correctness than most people realize

Here is some excerpts of a spot on article from academia.org regarding PC

The Origins of Political Correctness
Bill Lind, February 5, 2000
http://www.academia.org/the-origins-of-political-correctness/
Excerpts

It is the great disease of our century, the disease that has left tens of millions of people dead in Europe, in Russia, in China, indeed around the world. It is the disease of ideology. PC is not funny. PC is deadly serious.

If we look at it analytically, if we look at it historically, we quickly find out exactly what it is. Political Correctness is cultural Marxism. It is Marxism translated from economic into cultural terms. It is an effort that goes back not to the 1960s and the hippies and the peace movement, but back to World War I. If we compare the basic tenets of Political Correctness with classical Marxism the parallels are very obvious.

First of all, both are totalitarian ideologies. The totalitarian nature of Political Correctness is revealed nowhere more clearly than on college campuses, many of which at this point are small ivy covered North Koreas, where the student or faculty member who dares to cross any of the lines set up by the gender feminist or the homosexual-rights activists, or the local black or Hispanic group, or any of the other sainted “victims” groups that PC revolves around, quickly find themselves in judicial trouble. Within the small legal system of the college, they face formal charges – some star-chamber proceeding – and punishment. That is a little look into the future that Political Correctness intends for the nation as a whole.

Indeed, all ideologies are totalitarian because the essence of an ideology (I would note that conservatism correctly understood is not an ideology) is to take some philosophy and say on the basis of this philosophy certain things must be true – such as the whole of the history of our culture is the history of the oppression of women. Since reality contradicts that, reality must be forbidden. It must become forbidden to acknowledge the reality of our history. People must be forced to live a lie, and since people are naturally reluctant to live a lie, they naturally use their ears and eyes to look out and say, “Wait a minute. This isn’t true. I can see it isn’t true,” the power of the state must be put behind the demand to live a lie. That is why ideology invariably creates a totalitarian state.

Second, the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness, like economic Marxism, has a single factor explanation of history. Economic Marxism says that all of history is determined by ownership of means of production. Cultural Marxism, or Political Correctness, says that all history is determined by power, by which groups defined in terms of race, sex, etc., have power over which other groups. Nothing else matters. All literature, indeed, is about that. Everything in the past is about that one thing.

Third, just as in classical economic Marxism certain groups, i.e. workers and peasants, are a priori good, and other groups, i.e., the bourgeoisie and capital owners, are evil. In the cultural Marxism of Political Correctness certain groups are good – feminist women, (only feminist women, non-feminist women are deemed not to exist) blacks, Hispanics, homosexuals. These groups are determined to be “victims,” and therefore automatically good regardless of what any of them do. Similarly, white males are determined automatically to be evil, thereby becoming the equivalent of the bourgeoisie in economic Marxism.

Fourth, both economic and cultural Marxism rely on expropriation. When the classical Marxists, the communists, took over a country like Russia, they expropriated the bourgeoisie, they took away their property. Similarly, when the cultural Marxists take over a university campus, they expropriate through things like quotas for admissions. When a white student with superior qualifications is denied admittance to a college in favor of a black or Hispanic who isn’t as well qualified, the white student is expropriated. And indeed, affirmative action, in our whole society today, is a system of expropriation. White owned companies don’t get a contract because the contract is reserved for a company owned by, say, Hispanics or women. So expropriation is a principle tool for both forms of Marxism.

And finally, both have a method of analysis that automatically gives the answers they want. For the classical Marxist, it’s Marxist economics. For the cultural Marxist, it’s deconstruction. Deconstruction essentially takes any text, removes all meaning from it and re-inserts any meaning desired. So we find, for example, that all of Shakespeare is about the suppression of women, or the Bible is really about race and gender. All of these texts simply become grist for the mill, which proves that “all history is about which groups have power over which other groups.” So the parallels are very evident between the classical Marxism that we’re familiar with in the old Soviet Union and the cultural Marxism that we see today as Political Correctness.

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