House of Eratosthenes

Mainstream news journalists — by which I mean that collection of Democrats employed by large corporations to push the sort of big government that prevents small corporations from competing with them — have been breathlessly speculating that the recent “Women’s Marches” around the country may be the beginning of a movement. The marches, funded in part by anti-American globalist billionaire George Soros, called forth such headlines as “Cathartic Moment or Enduring Movement” and “Women’s March Activists… Seek To Build a Movement.”

No one knows the future, of course, but I can’t help wondering if the marches, large as they were, were not rather the end of a movement, a fond farewell to an amalgam of obsolete leftist causes that either never had a reason to exist in the first place or have lost whatever reason they might once have had.

The Left, has we have come to know it, has been not quite so much a movement as a tired retread narrative. Should be easy to capture it by now, let me give it a shot. Let’s see…Young, idealistic and energetic revolutionaries are rebelling against the reality that an entrenched aristocracy consisting of rich old people and clergy are hoarding all of the wealth and the power for themselves. The egalitarian future boldly confronts the stagnated & halcyon past, and prevails. Along the way, we’re all called upon to embrace certain irreconcilable contradictions, like: We’re all going to be a lot better off when limited resources are redirected to enrich people who don’t even value material things. And, these young idealistic crusaders are ably represented by increasingly geriatric has-been hippies who haven’t had a single new idea amongst the whole lot of ’em in the better part of a century. And, the economy runs much moar-better when there are higher taxes. We’ve got to become a more color-blind society, and the best way to do that is to pay close attention to color when we think about hiring, promoting, contracting with & educating people.

It’s all a bunch of gelatinous nonsense, held together by the bitter tendrils of resentment. At its core, are the notions that unproductive people should be able to pull rank on the people who actually produce things, and tell them how to do their producing. And, the premiere asset of any sovereign nation is its tax code, which should be based on resentment and hate. If you happen to be rich, you must have stolen it. Unless you happen to be one of the rich people who lean left. And then you’re wonderful.

Another trademark of a dying movement is moral hyperbole geared toward keeping obsolete grudges and complaints alive. There is no one in prison in America for being black. People go to prison for committing violent crimes. The fact that blacks commit a disproportionate number of those crimes may be explained in any number of ways, but it’s pure fantasy to claim (as Barack Obama so often did) that systemic, institutional racism continues to exist.

Yes…nobody is actually succeeding or failing anywhere, the differences in standard of living must all have something to do with discrimination. Unless those differences happen to be pointed the right way.

Ask not why the left is dying. Ask instead why it’s taken so long. This reflects poorly on us all…those who sustained it, those who merely tolerated it…we are all stained.

I’m glad you’re dead, you vicious bastard…

“Yes…nobody is actually succeeding or failing anywhere, the differences in standard of living must all have something to do with discrimination.”

Oddly, despite the predictions of an Award Winning Economist concerning sociology, I practiced GREAT discrimination in my retirement portfolio.
Thanks to the (actual) diversity there, I’ve SOMEHOW managed to maintain the
standard of living to which I’ve become accustomed. All while maintaining a ridiculously
low “credit score”, due to my abject failure to enter into crushing debt, and pay “extra” to the rent seekers.
- CaptDMO | 01/31/2017 @ 09:46
It’s all a bunch of gelatinous nonsense, held together by the bitter tendrils of resentment.

Nice phrase! I’d nominate yourself for a BSIROHL, if you still do that.

This post speaks to one of the larger issues that got debated around here (whenever the Cuttlefish weren’t flailing desperately to derail it): the Left / Right dichotomy, and why that’s pretty much useless these days. Middle-aged people who are on their third master’s degree because they’re afraid to leave academia love to talk about “ideologies,” but the modern Left / Right split is all about coalitions. The fundamental premise of the modern “Left,” for example, is identity politics, which is both obviously self-contradictory and obviously self-defeating. Any meaningful discussion of ideology should start with the only two ideologies that matter: “Shut up and do as I say” vs. “Shut up and leave me alone.”

The Trump ascendancy is probably going to force that kind of realignment, as it’s clear the GOP would much rather keep their gravy train rolling than actually WIN anything, so-called “principles” be damned (see what I mean about this caesarism thing?). Meanwhile, every time Trump draws a breath, the “Left” go full retard, showing the world exactly what kind of brainless hyperactive ninnies they really are. One the “shut up and do as I say” party regroups and gets their shit together they’ll be truly dangerous, but for right now we can noodle around a bit thinking about categories…. while munching pretty much all the popcorn we can eat.

What a country!
- Severian | 01/31/2017 @ 12:32

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