tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post3524983124507771535..comments2024-03-29T12:03:37.344+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Attitudes and the Thought Police: opponents of Leftism cannot be subversiveBruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-38808732211917446302013-09-05T06:54:53.840+01:002013-09-05T06:54:53.840+01:00@ADA - I think that most people are seriously kidd...@ADA - I think that most people are seriously kidding themselves who believe they are subverting the Left - unless by subversion you mean something like simply being truthful, or Good, or making beautiful stuff. Subversion is the wrong mindset altogether. <br /><br />Totalitarian is a slippery word - it is used mainly by atheists, and is applied to 'theocracies' as well as to secular communist and national socialist societies - but 'theocracy' includes (or can include) some of the best Christian societies in history (in my judgement) - so totalitarian is a slippery concept...Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-62182879721620434972013-09-05T06:19:13.691+01:002013-09-05T06:19:13.691+01:00Here I quote John Derbyshire about the left:
&qu...Here I quote John Derbyshire about the left: <br /><br /><i>"Liberalism, remember, is a totalitarian ideology. It conforms to the general totalitarian principle of no center. That is to say, there is nothing in the middle of the spectrum, nothing that is not total. You totally approve of this or that, or else you are totally, raving hostile to it. You either love Big Brother, or else you must be plotting to assassinate him. If you are not loving, you are hating. This is the totalitarian mindset."</i><br /><br />Just so.<br /><br />As for not being able to be subversive to the left, I disagree completely. Leftism is a utopian cult, and these can be subverted any number of ways. They tear down because they wish to build up something in its place. Yes, you and I know that this utopian dream is a false promise from the Prince of Lies, and *his* objective is ultimately to have leftists tear down what was good and leave only ashes in its place. But that is neither what the leftists nor the lumpenproles believe. And perception is its own sort of reality.<br /><br />I agree that the left can't be defeated or subverted by using exactly their own tactics, but who would want to use those anyway? The left are bawling children, sniveling beggars, bloody-shirt-wavers, self-righteous tut-tutters, cheats, tattletales, bullies, hypocrites, playground taunters, witch hunters, cliquish snobs, and smarmy gits. I wouldn't stoop to their level if you paid me, and I wouldn't be any good at it if you did, because the mentality needed to do what they do is completely alien to me.<br /><br />But that doesn't mean that there aren't ways to subvert them.Anti-Democracy Activisthttp://antidem.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-61630212855101464352013-09-03T17:17:02.578+01:002013-09-03T17:17:02.578+01:00We seem to be getting somewhere :)
This business ...We seem to be getting somewhere :) <br />This business of attitudes, and judgments based upon implication and inference, is a core symptom of leftism. <br />Difficult to define it, or clearly see it for what it is, when you don't suffer from the madness that causes it.The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04323413604073160469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-53170714546595911102013-09-03T15:43:06.577+01:002013-09-03T15:43:06.577+01:00"This means that the Leftist focus on correct..."This means that the Leftist focus on correct attitudes, and the use of Thought Police tactics to enforce the required attitudes, approaches fairly close to being pure evil" - PC adherents are not merely rejecting God's words (as fairly harmless fictional nonsense) but increasingly seem to want them silenced.<br />Street preachers are now being arrested (see 25:35 in on video link below)for preaching God's word.<br />It is hard to watch this happening on the streets of England but vocalizing biblical guidance on immorality is now taken as an intolerable attack on the common PC good.<br /><br />http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2vu9CI5Ij4stephensnoreply@blogger.com