Horace Greeley once wrote, “There is no bigotry like 'free thought' run to seed.” We are currently living through the final and most threatening period of that “run to seed” process. The abominable philosophy of Postmodernism is being exposed down to its' vile totalitarian roots. All pretense and disguise is being stripped away.
Let's back up a minute to see how we got here. Modernism, the idea that logic and reason can be the tool by which humanity can fix its' problems, was itself a reaction to the much older European mindset which can only be called Christendom.
Christendom, or having society based on Christian thinking, succeeded the barbarism, paganism and pantheism which had previously dominated European thinking, going back to the mists of prehistory. Christianity came along, won the hearts and minds of the people, but then lost that allegiance because of the religious wars that accompanied the Protestant Reformation.
All the death and destruction of the religious wars caused people to lose faith that Christianity was the best path to good social order. The masses turned to logic, reason, and science as an alternative way of thinking, and the Renaissance was born.
The Renaissance moved the people further in the direction of reason. Even though folks retained some Christian beliefs, reason gradually became the guiding norm. By the late 1800's Nietzsche could accurately claim that God is dead, because almost no one mentioned God, or His will, in day to day conversation. Reason and logic had won out.
But then both World Wars happened, and the masses reacted with horror at seeing where logic and reason had led them. What's more, they also reacted with numb grief against the terrifying technology science had produced in fighting those secular wars. From that toxic stew Postmodernism was born in the hearts and minds of the masses.
Postmodernism, first of all rejects Modernism, with it's logic and reason. It also, however, rejects the earlier Christendom, so by a process of elimination, it came to the conclusion, finding a new basis of thinking: the idea that there is no objective truth. Some have referred to Postmodernism as nihilistic relativism, which means there is no belief, but everyone's ideas are as true as anyone else's. Nonetheless, it has always maintained an affinity for science, probably because science produces such nice toys. Also, science is not a worry to Postmodernism, because it can easily enough be rendered into “Scientism,” which is merely conducting “science” without being bound down by pesky things like objective, demonstrable truth.
Postmodernism, in the typical way that any philosophy operates once it has been accepted by the intellectuals, slowly seeped into the real world, day to day, lives of the masses. It thus has become the basis for almost all our current social insanity. Postmodern based Relativism rules the day in our society, with its' slogan of, “I have my truth, and you have yours.” So called tolerance is our highest value, and judgmentalism our only agreed upon sin (except for racism).
This Postmodern relativism paves the way for the complete splintering of society. The entire LGBTQ agenda is based on it. So are the modern schools of libertarian and anarchist thinking, along with all the other variations of utopian thinking, with their unspoken reliance on big government socialism. That unacknowledged and therefore unchallenged reliance on government largess makes it easy to ignore the fact that the masses must be somehow brought to a much higher level of social consciousness than they now demonstrate for any of those idealistic theories to work.
Additionally, Postmodernism has crept into the Church, with the idea that the Bible has been changed, so one is justified in holding only to those parts of scripture one finds pleasing, and rejecting any that call one to change. Those equivocations, and all the other varying amalgamations of “spiritual” and social thinking, (the easy synchronicity so many delude themselves with) seem to answer all human concerns, but they do so by ignoring the failings of human nature, and more importantly, by ignoring the Truth.
That then is exactly where Postmodernism is completely anti-Christian, because its' central tenet is that there is no Truth. Postmodernists insist that all truth is a social construct which doesn't exist in any kind of objective sense. That's why the simple statement that 2+2 = 4 is such a devastating statement against them because they say that nothing exists as truth on its own; it only exists as truth because everybody agrees it's true. They say that if those in power insist that 2+2=5, then for at least that one day, 2+2=5.
The next tenet of postmodernism is just that; that truth is always dictated by those in power. That's where this kind of “free thought” drifts into dangerous, aggressive bigotry. Postmodernism persuades people that whoever has power gets to dictate truth. This acceptance of power instead of truth is, according to Postmodernism, not right or wrong, it's just how the world is,
That's the reason why, in all kinds of discussions and confrontations these days, people are so willing to let any semblance of civility go out the window. The thinking seems to be, “It is okay to do anything to win because I thereby get to impose my truth.” Consequently, interrupting, shouting down, and ignoring any logic or reason have become the common way to “win” modern arguments. Inciting blind fury in the other is considered good form.
Civility is not a virtue nor is it even a value recognized by a Postmodern mind. If they can use the law to manipulate the other side, they will use it to that purpose. But they deny the law any other purpose. They reject anything that will bind themselves, hence they insistently demand that we see ourselves as a democracy rather than as a republic.
That is why those on the left, with such resolute obtuseness, refuse to acknowledge that the founders specifically rejected democracy. No matter how many times you demonstrate this truth, either historically or philosophically, they will nod their heads, and simply continue to call our nation a democracy. Not everyone who mistakenly calls us a democracy do it with bad intentions, but those with a fully formed Postmodern mind do. They don't want the written words of the law to mean anything unless they can use it to manipulate others. As Postmodernists see it, at a bedrock level, being empowered to control what others say and think is the only point of getting power. The only point.
That's why interrupting people, preventing people from speaking, censoring and assaulting people have all become part of our “democracy.” Life becomes just a big never-ending battle of wills, which is what democracy has actually always been. The dynamic of democracy always devolves into mob rule. Not only does civility become impossible to a Postmodern mind, but civilization itself becomes impossible if we long remain trapped in this Postmodern mind. When everyone is given over to this thinking, of operating in the biblically warned against mode when, “every man does what is right in his own eyes,” nothing can work.
When everybody thinks they can do anything, it all becomes just a never-ending battle of wills with each other about everything at all times. It's been tried before. It's called barbarism. Furthermore, what we have today could get worse than barbarism ever was because people possessed of a Postmodern mindset will have trouble forming into even the most basic tribal units, which is what barbarism consists of.
This kind of thinking has never worked, and it can never work. It is a mental cancer. It has never worked on a small scale, on a medium scale, or on the largest scales. Think of the French Revolution and it's democratically driven “Reign of Terror”. A worldwide recurrence of that kind of terror would be the worst period in human history. Ever. Period. End of discussion.
That's how we go back to the stone age.
Observe the kind of society Postmodernism is leading us to. Note the mindless fighting we see in Walmarts, parks, airports, and even at Disneyland. All this violence among people who have no real reason to be fighting each other. Yet it seems that no disagreements get decided except by who can thrash the other. Our culture is declining to where most seem to once again embrace the ancient idea of trial by combat. What's more, the idea of a fair fight is long gone, with mobs assaulting individuals, and feeling triumphant by beating someone senseless. Whose streets? Our streets.
There is no denying that the Postmodern stance has real power. Somebody with that mindset can always force others to engage with them in violent competition. That, however, is why even when they win, they lose. While that process, of pitting all against all in a never ending hostile battle of wills might produce a few strong individuals, it will never bring us to being a decent and nurturing people.
Next, let's take another look at Friedrich Nietzsche, because so much of his thinking foreshadowed the thinking of Postmodernism. Virtually everything Nietzsche talked about, or at least that people took from him in the formation of Postmodern thinking, grows out of human minds that have been diseased and corrupted by the establishment of socialism.
The major themes in Nietzsche's writings, the ennui, the boredom, the alienation, lack of community, or purpose, up to and including the will to power and the denial of objective truth, all of it only comes up in a social matrix where the real challenges of life are provided by a distant, overweening government. People live and think that way only if everything is being provided for them; that is, they don't have to make things work. A working system is provided for them. While they might be required to perform some drudgerous task, they don't have to possess any working knowledge about how their food, shelter or safety are provided. They have only to accept it. This is very reminiscent of Alexis DeToqueville's warning about despotic democracy creating a timid, industrious, sheep like populace with government as the shepherd.
That starts to explain why the people who actually have to make things work don't buy into this blather. Such people tend to be much more conservative minded. The ideas of ordered liberty and the rule of law make much more sense to them, because they see free self government as a system which can work in the real world.
This other stuff, this Postmodern drivel, can exist only within a protected socialist bubble. Within that bubble of socialism values are, as they say, nothing but artificial social constructs. But nature doesn't really allow us to live, and sustain, in artificial constructs. It's only when it's in a bubble like environment created by socialism that all this Postmodern stuff arises and resonates in peoples minds.
Consider someone like Congressman Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky). He graduated from MIT, received numerous patents, and ran a tech firm for years. Then he moved back to Kentucky and built his own house with wood cut on his own land. He lives a modern, off the grid life, and life looks good. He, and millions like him, have a good idea of what it takes to make things actually work. They know that 2+2=4, that there is a logical truth filled reality out there, which is ours to discover and use in an objective, reliable manner. Such do-ers tend to be conservatives, embracing our constitutional republic because it makes sense, it looks as though it can be made to work. It appears to be a sustainable way to conduct ourselves, as a nation, in the real world.
Postmodernism catapults us in a different direction. When we reject reason, logic, and 2+2=4, nothing we design will work. You're not gonna make it work whatever you do. That's why people are so given to these fanciful flights of political dreaming. They pretend like it's all just a game of who can come up with the best fiction about how things work and how things have to work. They know that nothing they are suggesting will ever be tried outside the bubble, so they are passionate about the bubble; it allows them to pretend.. It's not just young trans folks who are afflicted with this disease either. Many legislators, educators, administrators, and even corporate executives have bought into it.
In the current extreme scenario of this whole identity movement you can become whatever you want to become, and society has to accommodate and pay for it. How long until we have little girls, identifying as furrie dogs, competing and winning the Westminster dog show by demonstrating themselves to be more intelligent and obedient than the other dogs? Sticking to the Postmodern lies, it is impossible to say why that should not be allowed. One is compelled to ask: Where does this ridiculous insanity end?
The answer is that it ends when we get back to natural reality. We do that by getting back to the kind of government where people actually have to engage with reality to make things work. That's what it is about local community moral self government, the system our Constitution was designed to establish. By requiring most of the decisions of government to be made at the local level, it fully engages the intelligence and creativity of the human race in their own self governance. What's more, it is the only architecture of government that is likely to do that. The only way to achieve strong community spirit is if the community is truly self governing.
On a large scale, the socialism that is enabled by the machines combined with the ease our culture has built around itself allows people to live without really engaging in the necessities of their own survival. As an individual and then as a community, I (we) are to be provided with the necessities of life. Which is why such a system can easily lead to slavery, because those necessities are defined by the people in power, and can easily be changed, especially if done slowly. If the people are convinced they can no longer do anything on their own (and since they have rejected logic they truly can't) they can be driven to great oppression. Jonestown comes to mind. We might already be some distance down that road.
More importantly, and hopefully, when people are compelled to engage with the material world around them; To ensure the survival of themselves, their families, and their community, they will soon come to embrace the reality that there is objective Truth. Postmodernism will quickly wither and die in a free people.
But among a dependent and slavery bound people Postmodernism can take deep root and thrive. Then we will devolve into a never ending riotous battle of wills. No matter how bad it gets, however, those who feel their fanciful self identity must have the protection of that distant socialistic government will continue to clamor for ever more powerful distant government. Then the ongoing riotous behavior, and impossibility of civilized social cohesion will inevitably compel us to accept an authoritarian, totalitarian government. Democracy will inevitably end with either chaos or slavery.
Which is why I say, with tremendous conviction
Let us all declare war on Postmodernism
and
Death to democracy
Long live our Republic
Long live Liberty.
God bless America
oh, and
2+2 actually does = 4.
