Sick of the Fascist<>Commie Circular Firing Squad
It was probably rude of me to interrupt the umpty-umpteenth nitpicking of the fascist/commie definitional argle-bargle that’s gripped American political partisans since the McCarthy era. (Explained here for all the trouble it’s caused). Not my concern anymore. There’s a bigger problem this kind of empty back and forth helps conceal. So I described the real problem in a comment I thought I’d share here with people who might actually read it:
Historical antecedents are useful, but they can also be counterproductive diversions. Parsing the differences and similarities between communism and fascism/Nazism is no longer useful because we are looking at a new paradigm. Both fascism and communism had an ideological base on which activist organizations and ultimately states were built. But once they had shown the power and elitist protections of the state there was no longer any need for ideology. What we’re facing now. The Deep State for its own sake. Anyone can join, every contradiction can be accommodated, as long as anything like Christian morality is prohibited.
What’s important is how this has been achieved, which is the real enemy we face. The new paradigm is accomplished by the establishment of profound impairments of consciousness, whose real purpose as a human development through time was to improve decision-making by enabling long term imagination of consequences. The purpose of gods in all religions. Consensus faith in long term consequences by a power higher and more far-sighted than human life.
The most terrible invention of the modern era was not nuclear weapons; it was the contagious because personally convenient spread of de facto atheism. There is no god, no afterlife, no punishment after death because life is a strictly material and transient phenomenon, gone forever with the last breath. Atheism (secularism for euphemism fans) has gone most of the way toward destroying western civilization. This has been achieved systematically by schooling successive generations of thought/knowledge/morality impaired children who grow up helpless against the dictates of organizations that possess their own self-serving subset of human consciousness; short term reward and punishment as the only code that matters. Artificial intelligence will screw this up further unless we learn what’s wrong and fix it.
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That was the comment. All the antecedents for the ideas presented are here at Instapunk and in its predecessors, including the Boomer Bible and its prescient Trinity of “Desire, Certainty, and Blame.” There is no political aim of the American left and its followers which is not intrinsic to this distillation of the Pontifical Harrier Parish ruled with an iron hand by Harry, First Babe of the Boom and the Lord of all you presently survey.
That’s all I have to say about this at the moment.
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