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I came across the phrase 'leapfrogging' only a few days ago - apparently meaning the Leftist practice of ignoring experience - the concrete, obvious and near at hand; and leaping over it to the ideology - abstract, remote and far away (usually only experienced via the mass media).
Leapfrogging can also be conceptualized as a focus on the second order while taking for granted the first order: which is a kind of definition of Leftism and a reason why Leftism only emerges after the primary problems have ceased to be pressing.
Leapfrogging is indeed part of the very essence of Leftism - hence a potentially useful shorthand term.
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(Soviet Communism made a core principle of leapfrogging - it was the true Communist's duty not to alleviate specific instances of distress or injustice, since this might delay the revolution which would end all distress and injustices. Indeed, many modern revolutionary Leftist groups go further, and try to create distress and injustice, disorder, violence, death - in the belief that this will bring forward the revolution that we be a final solution. That seems like a wild extreme of leapfrogging, yet this wild extreme is propagated actively - albeit covertly - by elites active at the highest levels of national and world government.)
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Thus Leftism ignores and leapfrogs the problem of economic production (making stuff, doing stuff) in favor of the remote problem of distribution (moving stuff around); Leftism ignores education (learning stuff) and focuses on access to educational institutions and credentials; Leftism ignores duties and harps upon rights; ignores truth in favor of process - and so on.
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This is ultimately a product of Clever Sillies, of high IQ, abstracting and systemizing intellectuals whose abstracting tendency is compulsive (unless restrained by transcendental religion); since only those of high IQ can quickly and flexibly deploy the practice to an open-ended range of problems and issues.
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Intellectuals are trained - especially by the highbrow mass media, but also by educational institutions, to ignore the obvious conclusions and seek behind them.
Only by ignoring the obvious and moving behind it, can intellectuals demonstrate to themselves and others their superiority. This is the strategy of the modern elite mass media - indeed that is pretty much all that it does now.
The mass media takes an event, leapfrogs over the obvious and traditional interpretations (often without mentioning them) and reframes the issue for the elites. To favor the obvious interpretation is therefore to lack the intelligence to make this move, or deliberately to refuse to make it.
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Leapfrogging is therefore the prime mechanism of evil.
Since evil is the destruction of Good - Good is truth, beauty and virtue which are all obvious and common sensical (inbuilt, Natural Law).
Leftism leapfrogs over beauty into modern art, leapfrogs ugliness to modern architecture, leapfrogs virtue to hypocrisy, leapfrogs moral selfishness to reinterpret it as an act of revolutionary virtue (and leapfrogging the evil of revolution into the possibility of heaven on earth).
And so on and on, 24/7.
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Every act of Leftist leapfrogging is an assertion of the superiority of arbitrary and open-ended culture over unified and transcendental reality.
And for secular Leftism (and Leftism is intrinsically atheist - and insofar as any person is really Leftist to that extent they are atheist) every leapfrog is an act of destruction of the Good: an act of destroying spontaneous Natural Law (the universal sense of Good and evil).
Leftism is the main strategy of evil in modernity - and it is a strategy devised and implemented by intellectuals.
Intellectuals are therefore the main force for evil in modernist societies.
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The repentance (or replacement) of the intellectual elite is the necessary pre-requisite of awakening; otherwise the primary and pressing problems that threaten to destroy us will continue to be leapfrogged, rather than solved.
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