The Incarnation: Why the Church Cannot Disengage from Public Life ( The Latin Mass )
The Transition Period to Utopia (from "Schools Install Unisex Bathrooms")
The Transition Period According to Marx / Welfare State as Transition to Utopia
(from "Hear No Evil, See No Evil, Speak No Evil")
"Utopia. The Perennial Heresy" by Thomas Molnar (Sheed/Ward 1967)
The Liberal Hegemony (posted by Cornelis)Post 1 -- Utopianism, A Permanent Thought-Pattern; Immorality of Utopianism; Nightmarish Re-shaping of Life; Mechanization of Change
Post 2 -- Prediction and Utopia: A Distinction; Constant Elements in Utopian Thought
Post 3 -- Philosophical Motivation; The Historical Motivation; Permanence of the Utopian Temptation
(One of the authors whose FR articles are indexed at Deconstructing the Western Mind: Gramscian-Marxist Subversion of Faith and Education)
True enough, but if and when natural sentiments are wholly uprooted it will be done more by technology than by the sort of ideologies and utopias that were so popular in the 19th and 20th centuries. It won't be because you get people all chanting the same thing, but because you get them moving so quickly at the pace of the machine that the don't have time to think or question. If we all chant the same thing, of course, it certainly could hasten the day.
In any event, fascism was a "hot" ideology that relied on strong passions. You can see why people talk of "Islamofascism" today. It may not be a completely valid concept, but it picks up on the highly emotional and excited quality of both Fascism and today's Islamicist revolutionries. If we adopt tyranny it will be a much "cooler" or "colder" form, built more on the absence of strong passions or feelings. Or perhaps the dedicated few will rule over the passive majority.
Some day tyranny may rule over us. It would be a strange situation because it could fulfill the dreams of revolutionary utopians for social control, but be so technocratic and managed that it would leave the enthusiasts, if there are any left, confused and vaguely dissatisfied. Maybe that's the problem with utopias. People dream up highly rationalized schemes for society to satisfy their passions. If society is ever successfully reconstructed on rationalist lines, it's bye-bye to the passions that created the utopian plan to begin with. And what happens to the utopians who created the scheme? Some will become administrators, and others, outlaws.