In American Greatness Edward Ring is spinning a tale of conspiracy, of the globalist billionaires willing the hell of Critical Race Theory upon us, with "The Origin and True Agenda of 'Anti-Racist' Politics."
Well, first of all, I don't think that really "anyone" is leading the Woke religion. Ring notes that the left's funding is coming from lefty billionaires and corporations.
It is coming from global corporations and leftist billionaires. The intent is to destroy the sense of shared identity that defines America. By doing this they will eliminate unified opposition to their agenda, which is to remake America into a mere economic unit where the vast majority of residents are of limited means and dependent on government entitlements, the middle class is wiped out, and the upper class exists to serve an elite oligarchy.
Well, I don't think the lefty billionaires and global corporations are that smart. I don't think they have a power plan of that depth and sophistication.
For instance, the corporations. They are just playing the angles. They know that their pots of gold are an eternal temptation to all governments and politicians, for politics has forever been a game of loot and plunder. So they are pal-ing up with the activists in the hope that they will be eaten last.
Then the lefty billionaires. I don't think of the @jacks and the Zucks as dark malevolent forces. They are just picking up the Zeitgest and going along for the ride. That's what humans do. There are only a couple of prophets in any era that redefine the meaning of life for everyone. Everyone else goes along to get along.
Now I believe that the religion -- Wokism if you like -- is a foolish and false religion. But it answers the call of Mircea Eliade in The Myth of the Eternal Return.
The primitive... cannot conceive of an unprovoked suffering; it arises from a personal fault... or from his neighbor's malevolence... but there is always a fault at the bottom of it[.]
Doesn't that describe our lefty friends to a "T"? There cannot just be different groups with different genetic and cultural inheritances optimized for life in different parts of the world. There must be a fault, the fault of racism.
And really, we are not just talking about primitive religion. All religion is trying to deal with the problem of suffering, and all religion tends towards the notion that someone is at fault. In religion this fault is assigned to evil spirits or to Satan. In Communism the fault is assigned to the bourgeoisie. In New Deal politics the fault is assigned to the "big corporations." In politics, of course, the fault is assigned to the out group, the hated enemy. So, of course, the practitioners of "anti-racism" have as a hated enemy the "white oppressor."
As I say in my maxims: "politics is division."
Then there is the other thing, issuing out of my maxim: "the only warrant for government power is existential peril."
If you are a ruling class courtier or a billionaire, you can probably find your "meaning of life" by battling some existential peril, because battling an existential peril requires more power to government and the ruling class. The current peril du jour is climate change. It really is magnificent. It is something you can't really measure, except through ruling-class-financed computer models. And it requires immense new powers for the ruling class and for their bribed apologists in the corporations. And unless we act now...
But I think that the salient question of our age is that the old instincts of defending the patch of land from marauders -- or alternatively attacking the neighbors and looting them -- doesn't work any more.
And that is due to a simple reason. In the old days the best patch of land for growing food equaled wealth and life. Everyone had an interest in stealing the best patch of land from its current owner. If you succeeded, you were rich and he was poor: Yay! If you failed, well, better luck next time.
But that is not how things work any more. The best thing now is for everyone to stay on their patch of land and make stuff and trade it. If you loot some guy's property you don't really make yourself richer; instead you have removed his contribution to the common wealth and made everyone poorer.
But, we are still programmed the other way, that loot and plunder benefits me if I loot my neighbor before he loots me. And we are still programmed to believe that if anything bad happens it has to be the result of malevolence.
Hey liberals, I think the next outbreak of malevolence will be the ordinary middle-class folks devastated by the Year of Lockdown. Old folks like me are looking at the booming stock market; gentry liberals are enjoying issuing rules and regulations. The poor are enjoying being able to stop paying rent.
But when it is all over, the people in the middle, that took in in the solar plexus, will be looking for someone to blame, and I don't think that the MSM and social media will succeed in pinning the whole thing on Trump and on "white oppressors."
Just sayin'.
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