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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

You Can't Beat Something With Nothing

 ... even when that something is really, really bad.

Dig this reaction from Chicago's black population at the prospect of still more "migrants" coming to the Windy City.

The progs' model of the world is completely wrong. At its center is a Marxist division of society into oppressors and oppressed. People are categorized by race, sex and gender and tightly grouped accordingly. The only dynamics of significance are power dynamics and the only solutions are political. That's it, that's a wrap, that's all she wrote.

Whites oppress blacks, men oppress women and straights oppress queers. Add in a couple existential crises and the worship of expertise and you've got the whole package.

It's all nonsense, of course. People of Color are not identical. People in general are not identical. Their theory would tell you that the scene shown above could never happen. Their model would predict that browns and blacks would march arm in arm, fighting the white supremacists who use social constructs and systemic racism to grind them down into the dirt. The model is clearly wrong.

So what? As Andrew Klavan has pointed out on his podcast, at least they have a model. Their model completely describes the world and is the basis for their moral decisions. Abortion, mutilating girls, racial segregation, anti-white racism, it all springs forth, logically from their model. You can point out all of the horrors resulting from their model, but if you never posit a competing model, then you're treating symptoms.

What is the red model? I don't hear anyone, not even Ron DeSantis, proposing one. In the past, reds have relied on the market and personal freedom to save the day. Well, the market has given us Google which acts to suppress speech it doesn't like. Dittos for the big social media platforms, save Twitter. The market has given us Amazon and Walmart, hollowing out American businesses. The market gave us offshoring which hollowed out American industrial cities.

The market plus individual freedom gave us PornHub and the obliteration of healthy, sexual relationships.

The reds can't explain why any of these things are wrong. What is the fundamental model of reality that allows you to derive morals and policies that protect the Normals from these things?

Unless the Republicans run Trump, it sure looks like they are going to crush the Democrats in 2024. There will be a brief halt in the insanity, but there will be no reversing course and heading back towards a healthy culture because there is no wholistic theory of reality to compete with the progs' Marxism.

For me, my model of the world is Catholic, mixed with a belief that people are individuals who act in their own self-interests. Government by its nature is inefficient and should be as small as possible. Throw in a romantic, chivalric model of sexual relations and that's probably a fairly complete model of reality right there.

Unless the reds come up with something like that, America will keep ratcheting leftwards with occasional pauses.

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2 comments:

  1. tim eisele5:55 AM

    Yes, I agree. The Republican party no longer seems to stand for anything, other than "not what the Democratic party wants".

    I'd like to add to your note that "Government by its nature is inefficient", that it isn't the fact of being a government that necessarily makes them inefficient, its the scale. Big corporations have the same problems with the things that cause inefficiency in government: excessive bureaucracy, central planning that doesn't take reality into account, ability to throw huge wads of money around without a lot of accountability, and hubris. In many ways, the big corporations are governments.

    And, the issue with using the Catholic church for a model, is that, right now, they can't even get a clear majority of people in the church to agree on what that model should be. Never mind the people outside the church.

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  2. Mostly Nothing6:25 AM

    I'm not as optimistic as you about the future. Everything shows that there should be a Republican revolution sweeping out the morons from the left that are ruining the company.

    However, take you example in Chicago. These people complaining either didn't vote or voted for someone that is further left, and more radical than Lori Lightfoot. It's not going to get better there, it's going to get worse. A lot worse. And all the usual suspect leftist cities are in a race to see which can burn completely to the ground first.

    Minneapolis has 29 people registered to run for the city council positions. I'm not sure how many wards there are. 10 or 12. Doesn't really matter.

    27 are DFL - Democratic-Farm-Labor, they took that name in the 40s or 50s when those parties merged. There hasn't been a farmer in that party in decades.

    1 is Democratic Socialist. Because the DFL isn't left enough.

    1 is a republican, whose speaking puts them to the left of the current representative in that ward. Which is in North Minneapolis, the poorest part of town. That current representative is the closest thing passing for a moderate.


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