There is no sacred text or body of philosophical work to provide authority. Like a school of fish, morality shifts on a dime and that new direction is assumed to be the general will and therefore the proper course. Morality in a liberal democracy is a riot with no real purpose, other than to feed the need of the people to feel they are the virtuous actor in the great drama of life.
Well, I think he is missing the point. Our liberal democracy used to be about fluffing the nest of the workers, and then the minorities. But if an evil policeman can snuff out the life of a poor helpless black, then what is the point of it? That is what I understand about the current moment. So everyone is all in a flutter.
John Gray, in Unherd, compares the current moment to late medieval flagellants. The Wokies know society is immoral, just like the flagellants. But they don't have a clue what to do about it, except to cancel anyone that disagrees with them. Then Gray goes off into the weeds talking about America's founding on the crimes of black slavery and the seizure of indigenous lands.
Let's go back to the Zman. Whaddya mean "there is no sacred text?" We have a century of lefty thought, from Marx to Marcuse, which is nothing if it is not a Bible of sacred texts. Only this Bible is staggeringly, mind-blowingly wrong about its analysis and its moral program. It accuses the capitalists and bourgeoisie of a program of oppression and hegemony that is flat wrong. The capitalists and the bourgeoisie are not that interested in political power. If you come to them complaining of some injustice they will likely listen to you and try to do something about it.
And the lefty solution to all problems is flat-out wrong. It always proposes some kind of top-down supervisory system to right all wrongs, run by people like them. When it could have suggested minor tweaks to encourage pro-social behavior.
For instance, instead of government education it could have proposed employer-supported schooling for the children of employees. Instead of government-run health care it could have beefed up the 19th century universe of mutual-aid societies.
Then, instead of forming its own churches to create communities of lefty belief it has infiltrated all the institutions of society, from government to corporations, and essentially forced its wokey secular religion on the whole of society.
I would say that all this has been a complete failure and thus the lefty adepts and advocates are beside themselves with rage, because the whole world was supposed to be perfect by now. And there are plenty of young kids perfectly happy to burn the place down if the police will only stand back and let them have at it.
Look at the last ten years.
How could our betters have screwed up the credit system and allowed a generational credit panic like 2008? I thought they were experts.
How could President Obama have screwed up the recovery with old and failed policies like free money for teachers, and cartelizing the health care system when what was needed was jobs, jobs, jobs.
How could the health care experts mis-predict the effect of the Wu Flu epidemic by an order of magnitude? What is the point of experts if they can't predict the future within an order of magnitude?
How could black men still be out-murdering white and brown young men by a factor of 8 times? What are experts and policy professionals for if not to solve social problems like over-representation in crime statistics?
The answer is obvious. Our betters are complete idiots whose world view has failed and who don't know what to do other than keep on keeping on, and making sure that they and theirs get all the top jobs, as of old.
So, the world is totally screwed up, and naturally the young'uns do what they have been carefully taught. They go out into the streets and make hand-lettered signs and peacefully protest as though they were helpless peasants from 1819 instead of educated scions of the middle class in 2020.
So, liberals, what exactly was the point of that "march through the institutions" and purging of everyone that disagreed with you? Because if you haven't created a perfect world by now I'd say that your world view and your shock troops occupying all the commanding heights of the institutions amounts to a big fat zero.
And there is nobody left in the "institutions" except mindless idiots like you. So who is going to repair them and reform them?
The "Nazis' favorite intellectual" Fritzi Nietzsche predicted it all. When God is Dead -- i.e., the progressive agenda has utterly failed -- then you get decadance, a dying of the old order. Hmm. Aren't we seeing that, with populist Trumps and Borises popping up all over as people lose faith in the old ways? And then we get to nihilism, with nobody believing in anything. Hmm. Wouldn't that exactly describe our AntiFa friends who certainly know how to bomb and burn, but don't have a constructive idea in their heads?
Let me be clear. The problem is not with the helpless victims, who are just responding to the perverse incentives set up by the clueless ruling class. The problem is not the Commoners, who just want to wive and thrive, obey the laws, go to work, and follow the rules.
The problem is our educated Gentry that just know that they are ordained to bend the arc of history towards justice. And if the last program to bend the arc of history didn't work, well, they have another one that is bound to work this time.
Well, I have an analysis of the present situation, a Vision of the Good Life that transcends the failed vision of the left. And it centers on the basic error of the lefty educated Gentry, that they are warrior heroes hacking their way through the unjust jungle towards a perfect world of equality and justice. Wrong! Real heroes are sacrificial heroes that sacrifice themselves on the border of Order and Chaos.
But I don't expect lefty idiots to have a clue what that means. Maybe it's time for you chaps to shut up and go read a book.
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