I LOVE this part of the post, it's boiled down perfectly. I've also never heard the Pinker quote and it's a real gem:
"For them, the process of progress itself is defined by the identification, challenging, and removal of all forms of oppression. Finding oppression, pointing it out, and then challenging it is their moral imperative. This is what they refer to as “praxis”.
That’s why, as Steven Pinker has said, “Progressives hate progress.” To leftists, progress is only achieved through identification of oppression and injustice, not by recognizing progress and copying it forward."
When I learned that the first principle of understanding the current nasty Left is that they view all of society as nothing but individuals and groups divided into Oppressors and the victimized Oppressed, the first thing that occurred to me was that their actions are aimed at seizing that power themselves. Doesn't that just result in the radicals becoming the new (and presumably hated) Oppressors themselves? Why yes, yes it does.
Going a little deeper, you have to understand exactly what Tommy is talking about here---that the underlying philosophy/belief is set up to cause perpetual revolution. There's a "religious" belief that there really is a Utopia in humankind's future is only we can continue to destroy every group's position of power. The new society created by revolution will immediately be divided into those occupying positions of power, and those without, so that the revolution is never over. It will not be over until we come to a perfect society where all are exactly equal and there is no further struggle for power.
This belief is bat-shit crazy, if you have ever met any human beings. That's why it's completely religious because there's this inexplicable FAITH (based on the teachings of those who have somehow been blessed with "special knowledge"/Gnosis) that by destroying all of society, over and over and over for as long as it takes, we can become what amounts to a different animal. Human beings will somehow change into creatures who have no desire or need to act in any way that exercises power-over. Utopia.
I LOVE this part of the post, it's boiled down perfectly. I've also never heard the Pinker quote and it's a real gem:
"For them, the process of progress itself is defined by the identification, challenging, and removal of all forms of oppression. Finding oppression, pointing it out, and then challenging it is their moral imperative. This is what they refer to as “praxis”.
That’s why, as Steven Pinker has said, “Progressives hate progress.” To leftists, progress is only achieved through identification of oppression and injustice, not by recognizing progress and copying it forward."
Oh yeah, he has to nervously laugh every time he says it because someone is going to send him a nastygram!
If im reading this correctly you have to not only become but embrace that which you're fighting against. How do you square that circle?
Hi Deb and thanks so much for the subscribe! It's an honor.
Can you say more about your question? Maybe an example of becoming what your fighting.
When I learned that the first principle of understanding the current nasty Left is that they view all of society as nothing but individuals and groups divided into Oppressors and the victimized Oppressed, the first thing that occurred to me was that their actions are aimed at seizing that power themselves. Doesn't that just result in the radicals becoming the new (and presumably hated) Oppressors themselves? Why yes, yes it does.
Going a little deeper, you have to understand exactly what Tommy is talking about here---that the underlying philosophy/belief is set up to cause perpetual revolution. There's a "religious" belief that there really is a Utopia in humankind's future is only we can continue to destroy every group's position of power. The new society created by revolution will immediately be divided into those occupying positions of power, and those without, so that the revolution is never over. It will not be over until we come to a perfect society where all are exactly equal and there is no further struggle for power.
This belief is bat-shit crazy, if you have ever met any human beings. That's why it's completely religious because there's this inexplicable FAITH (based on the teachings of those who have somehow been blessed with "special knowledge"/Gnosis) that by destroying all of society, over and over and over for as long as it takes, we can become what amounts to a different animal. Human beings will somehow change into creatures who have no desire or need to act in any way that exercises power-over. Utopia.