Timothy Birdnow

Michael Savage famously called Liberalism a mental disorder, and he was absolutely correct; one cannot find sanity in a philosophy so convoluted and at odds with rationality or common sense. I would argue further that it is a violation of Nature and Nature's God, a system of thought that is anti-nature and anti-life.

The 1960's saw the back to the land movement among the hippie crowd, and the utopian Left denounced industrial civilization as an abomination and artificial, yet what exactly have they been doing? Let me explain.

What is Nature? Nature is the material world around us, and the natural is the obeisance of laws inherent in the material order. What do natural laws demand of us? Well, they push us to labor to survive, and to thrive. All creatures seek to survive and thrive, attempting to propagate their own kind and expand their own territory. This is, or should be, self-evident; anyone who lives in a house knows that bugs try to get in, as do rodents and other creatures, especially at the onset of winter when it gets uncomfortable outside. Why? Because they find in your house a place that is comfortably warm, has food, water, in short, the things they need and want to live and thrive and prosper. The bugs or rodents don't care that they didn't build the house, only that it suits their needs. In the end you wind up calling an exterminator to rid yourself of these nuisances.

See, nature is all about increasing your lifestyle. A mouse will prefer living in your walls to nesting outside in the cold and damp. That is because your walls are better constructed, and take less effort for the squatter tenant to utilize.

This is true of most creatures, I might add. Few actually enjoy discomfort. Man is nearly alone in finding some moral objection to comfort or wealth or increased living standards.

Most animals and plants seek to alter their environments to suite them. Plants did it first, changing the Earth's atmosphere from a largely anoxic brew of methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and water vapor into the breathable air of today. They broke down the rocks and dust into soil, and helped to channel rivers and whatnot. We see this action today in places like Iceland where volcanoes create new land which is uninhabitable until lichens and mosses and whatnot break down the igneous rock into soil and grasses begin to grow. Eventually this rock in the sea becomes a true island and can be settled by animals, and eventually by Man.

Without the actions of living things the Earth would be more like Mars, rocky and dusty and barren.

And animals change their environment all the time. Anybody ever see a beaver pond? or a bear cave? I just found a huge hornet's nest on my cabin wall; some insects decided to change the environment and build their own home under the eaves of my cabin, to my sorrow. Mice and rats will chew up whatever is handy and pile it into a nest. And that is just a minor change; there are some creatures like locusts that will decimate the entire countryside. Bees, too, make profound changes to the environment by pollinating plants as they collect what they need.

Nature is all about building things. Yet the environmentalists tell us that Man is nothing but a destroyer, Shiva to the Natural World, rather than being a part of Nature.

There has been an anti-humanist streak in Liberalism for a long time, going back to the Romantic movement in the 19th century, certainly, and likely to the Enlightenment where a sort of worship of Nature became prevalent. There was the concept of the "Noble Savage" back in the 18th and early 19th century, the belief that it was better to be poor and unable to control one's environment than to be somehow "artificial". The early Liberals had some bizarre desire to be less comfortable, hungrier, colder, and more miserable. Why? It There has always been a strange estheticism in Man, and there have always been religious orders that emphasized poverty and discomfort. I don't understand it, but it is one of the quirks of human nature. I suspect it is a manifestation of psychological masochism, whereby the powerlessness of an individual over events is imbued with meaning by the person who sees his own lack of power. That is, you know you can't stop suffering so you embrace it to give the illusion of control. It's a weird quirk but it is present in most people to a degree. I suspect the Liberal embrace of Nature without embracing Nature's God led to this. It is very much the Sin of Adam and Eve insofar as they rejected the way God said it should be and placed themselves on the throne. Having done that they found themselves unhappy with being god (who wouldn't? It's a thankless job) and tried to restore that which was lost, but cannot because they reject the owner's manual.

So, by embracing Nature liberals have twisted and distorted it beyond all recognition, turning Man into a parasite on Nature rather than one of God's creatures acting according to the Divine Will.

Now, the environmentalists worship nature as god rather than as the medium in which they exist, and this new god is somehow transcendent insofar as Man is outside of it. Alienation, the motivating force for most liberals, comes from this purposeful divorce of the human from the natural world in which he lives. It is a bizarre situation; by embracing nature the liberal has divorced himself from her, and stands in horrible alienation.

Crazy, I know, but that is why liberalism is a mental disorder.

At any rate, the environmentalists seek to remove the hand of Man from nature because they think it somehow unnatural. They think that, say, a dusty desert is superior to a watered golf course, but most animals would disagree, and birds love to drop in on a well-watered lawn in Vegas or Death Valley or whatnot. See, THEY aren't crazy, and know a good thing when they see it. Man's control of nature is a boon to nonhuman species. Deer eat our gardens, so do rabbits. Many animals forage in dumpsters and whatnot. They know it's better to fill their bellies with our leftovers than to roam free in a pristine wilderness. A wilderness is a place for hunger and privation and want.

But the environmentalists have metastasized into a major force in human society, and they keep pushing to reduce our lives, to cut our power usage, to minimize our construction, to reduce our abilities to travel or to make things or to take steps to make life better for our poor. It is anti-life, a belief in the reversal of that which we have been doing all of our existence. From the moment we are born we seek to gain some measure of control over our environment, and over time we do. We benefit greatly from the control over our environment held by our parents and our neighbors, and children grow into adults who then bear that responsibility. But the environmentalists and indeed the Left want to reverse that.

Look, children used to die all the time in the "good old days" because we did not have adequate control of our environment. Couples would have ten kids hoping two would live. And often the mothers would die in childbirth, so a man \may have two or three wives in his life. That suffering stemmed entirely from a lack of proper control of the environment. Liberals want a return to that. Oh, they won't actually say that, focusing instead on cleanliness or health, but in the final analysis it comes down to that very thing.

Liberals are supporters of all manner of evils that are anti-natural. Abortion. Socialism, which provides plenty of poverty in the interest of "fairness". More people have died under Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, then under any system in history, and if you include Hitler, who was a leftist, you have quite a horrific tally. Liberals oppose cheap energy, meaning people are cold in winter and hot in summer. Pope Francis recently said air conditioning was a terrible blight on humanity. Huh? Air conditioning prevents people from dying from heat stroke, plus helps prevent mosquito-born illnesses. It is a wonderful invention, and something everyone should have. But Francis believes this Global Warming nonsense and so condemns it.

As Norman Rogers pointed out in an article at American Thinker:

"When Philip Kitcher said that some real pessimists think human extinction may be the result of failing to prevent global warming, a lady in the audience piped up with "they deserve it." One wonders why she didn't say, "We deserve it." Perhaps she views the Columbia community as separate from the human race."

And don't forget the vhemt.orgVoluntary Human Extinction Movement.. As I say, unnatural.

You have their support of unnatural practices. The modern liberal crusade is to normalize men who want to be women, and allowing them to use women’s bathrooms. This is a matter of insanity, yet they support this in the interest of "fairness”. Nature made them men, liberals told them they could be women. It is a usurpation of the godhead.

I could go on and on with the litany of evils the Left supports, but you get the gist; liberalism claims to be pro-human but it opposes the natural drive of humans to build, to create, to improve their lot in life. It is a philosophy that is anti-life and anti-natural. It is the true artifice.

Liberals even oppose the space program. If you go on liberal websites and read about, say, probes on Mars you will see a plethora of snarky comments about "now we're messing up a whole other planet" rather than cheering man's expansion of life to a dead, barren world. Liberals are all about pulling down, restricting, destroying. They hate the idea that we may build, create, expand. We have a number of planets or moons that can be settled by Man and by extension by other creatures from this world, and that should logically be a cause for rejoicing. Isn't it better to grown than to shrink, to live than to die? The Left says no. They are Shiva, the destroyer. In the end they are the ones who truly hate.

Michael Savage had no idea how correct he was when he called Liberalism a mental disorder. It is the child of the Marquis De Sade and Leopold Sacher Von Masoch. It is the warped, diseased view of anti-life.

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