Within the
present stage of historical condition there are several leftist
subcultures:
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- There is a parasitic class including hedonists. Within
this,
there is an axis that believes it should be entitled to live for
the
moment without a sense of responsibility or seriousness -what is coming
to be seen as a civil right to a life without realistic unpleasant
consequences.
This life is to be enabled by 1) a combination of
rationalizations made
up of "virtual thought" (whose
acceptance is possible only in
relation to an artificially distorted
environment); and 2) the provision
of guaranteed economic sustenance
and survival (which is the supposed
obligation of a nebulously defined
social order). At the occupational
and bureaucratic level is a class
axis seeking a system inhabited by bland
incompetence, where zestful
creativity because its disturbing contrast
threatens to expose
somnolescent mediocrity is a systemic threat to be
suppressed or made
irrelevant to personal advancement.
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- Coordinate to this exists a
large class of people who
are looking for a place or system to hide in,
or are looking for a place
or system to hide in while they engage in
irresponsible self-amusement.
There is a type of escapism where people
hide from life and responsibility
by busying themselves in
financially-supported positions promoting or
administering social
issues or supposed problems. People inhabiting this
group create or
perpetuate social issues, then exploit them to hide in
positions
created by those issues. The Peace Corps provides an escapist
summer
camp for the immature and directionless during the interim until
they
can find a soft spot of similar orientation and requirements elsewhere.
University departments are filled with soft, politically-correct grants
awarded and administered by bureaucrats in soft comfortable positions
perpetuated by the awarding of those grants.....or
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- No Grand Design -
Just Pathological Evolution
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- Certainly, there was a serious
leftist strategy in America
in the 30s, the 20s, and before. But, from
the historical view of the period
since 1950, much of the development
of the American liberal/socialist
matrix is not of a grand design, but
rather of a too-tolerated evolution
of pathology and softness, and
evolution of the antitherapy of pathological
protectionism enabled by a
foppish culture in which there is an expanding
too-soft environment
that does not confront and correct such development.
By the
"antitherapy of pathological protectionism" is meant
that
increasing numbers of people have become inhabited by various forms
of
mental disorder and soft perversity, often as a relief or cure for
personal boredom or as a substitute for mature personal development, and
such people devise rationalizations protective of their condition. This
has been expanded into a mutual defense of the implicit form: "You
protect my pathology and softness, and I'll protect yours so that we can
both remain safe from pleas for maturity or responsibility forever."
Criticism of psychopathology in any form and directed toward any specific
form of pathology is regarded as a potential threat that may be applied
to any other pathological forms, and is to be extinguished through group
effort. The protection of pathology also serves the purpose of being a
sadistic attack upon society.
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- Essentially, beneath
noble-sounding demands to mitigate
all forms of unpleasant consequences
in the name of compassion, liberalism/socialism
has become the
explosive proliferation of all forms of original sin, dishonesty,
and
degeneracy, resulting in the production of unpleasant consequences
to
be compassionately mitigated by the system. Thus, what is exponentially
evolving is a corrupt social system which feeds back upon, and augments,
itself. This occurs when those who are victims of people as irresponsibly
calloused as themselves, or who are willing victims of themselves
(through
what has become a militant demand to participate in
liberated, but ultimately
destructive personal amusements and
excesses), point to their condition
of described victimhood, and
demand more compassion while accelerating
the protected and subsidized
behavior creating their condition.
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- Like the Matrix in the movie,
the resultant system has
taken on independent thought and concern for
its own growth and survival.
It has developed its own supportive
scholastic system. It has developed
its own system of
socially-reinforcing positive feedback conditioning
together with fear
of questioning its own existence. It has created millions
who have
become dependent upon it in one way or another for easy economic
existence. It has created millions of people who are dependent upon it
to create and maintain their condition of psychological denial and
perpetuation
of their soft condition. It has created millions who
enjoy the irresponsible
immediate pleasure that generates the
consequences and conditions underwriting
constant calls for enabling
constant compassionate remedy. Warped systems
produce warped
mentalities that perpetuate the system that produced them.
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- For
more of Robert Kocher's writing, go to the J. Orlin
Grabbe Website and
click on the Laissez Faire City Times
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