Posted on 04/29/2021 6:28:45 PM PDT by bitt
The past, we’re so often told, is a dystopia — a cauldron of backwardness and bigotry
Are citizens of liberal societies permitted to question liberalism? In theory, the answer is yes, given liberalism’s commitment to ‘free thought’ and ‘the marketplace of ideas’. Such tolerance is rarely in evidence in practice, however — a reality illustrated in hilarious fashion by a writer for a Washington magazine who recently decried ‘cancel culture’ even as he insisted that: ‘It’s absolutely necessary to de-platform public intellectuals who object to liberal democracy.’
To the liberal mind, to question liberalism risks opening portals to the past, a place populated by tyrannical kings, Catholic inquisitors, Spanish conquistadores, religious warriors, zealous apparatchiks, ‘collectivists’, fascists and sundry other ghastlies. Over the past few years, as voters registered discontent with the global liberal consensus, an entire cottage industry of books, essays and charities has sprung up to warn against revivifying the past.
The past, we’re so often told, is a dystopia — a cauldron of backwardness and bigotry. One that must be repressed at all costs.
Liberals disagree over where exactly lies the line dividing the enlightened time and the dark time. ‘Classical’ liberals tend to mark 1789, whereas ‘progressive’ liberals — noting that much of reality since that watershed year has failed to conform to their own liberal ideal — are uncomfortable with anything not from the present or the future. Hence they now issue fatwas against even the avatars of liberalism’s own recent past (Cher, Dr Seuss, J.K. Rowling, etc).
The current tendency to see the past as a foreign land of endless horrors brings with it periodic bursts of purges and violent iconoclasm — most recently, the statue-toppling of last year. In the realm of ideas, we see the inability of even Christian liberals to tolerate
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Liberalism is a mental disease
Liberalism is totalitarianism
They cannot leave you alone
They cant handle anyone not agreeing with them
They harass others around you, they attack livelihood, they get you fired
They wind up harassing, then attacking, then criminalizing and throwing in jail, then just executing
They essentially start a war with you and start escalating it
You cant coexist with people like this
Their philosophy makes it imposible.
Same with devout muslims, they live in warfare and taqiyaa.
1. Legislate. First they must make the evil they do lawful.
2. Confiscate. Next, they take what they want because they made it legal.
3. Incarcerate. Oppose them, and they jail you.
4. Incinerate. Oppose them loudly enough, you get executed and cremated. To save time though, sometimes you get cremated without being executed first.
A disease that needs to be removed
Liberalism is the greatest threat to America and the world.
I wonder how many people are going to read to the end where he says “classical liberalism” leads to “progressive liberalism” leads to tyranny.
Liberalism is a death cult.
Exterminated with extreme prejudice and malice!
True; liberalism is a mental disorder because of the exaggerated sense of self righteousness. Once the individual realizes that not everyone shares their narrow views, the idea of force becomes inevitable. These tragedies follow a regular pattern and always end up the same way - an exchange of violence.
Great Article.Thanks for posting, bitt.
“What we really need to do around here is to shoot a few more intellectuals.”- Nikita Kruschev
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