They Are the Ones They Have Been Waiting For

Timothy Birdnow

Our friends Down Under are starting to get it.

The Fury of the Left Explained

From the Australian Spectator article:

In a recent Spectator Australiaarticle and subsequent interviews with Alan Jones and Graham Richardson, I summarised that ‘eucalypts are incinerators from hell dressed up as trees’ and said we have to consider replacing some of our eucalypt forests with non-fire-adapted species—which is already happening overseas, as Rebecca Weisser reported, ‘In Portugal and Spain they are starting to cut down the eucalypt forests, saying "These are too dangerous, we don’t want them”’

But not everyone is interested in a rational analysis. As Jones said, ‘After the Canberra fires, Jon Stanhope, the Chief Minister for the ACT, said we’ve got to stop planting native plants because they’re fire traps. Well, that was the end of Jon Stanhope—"don’t express such anti-religious views around here”!’

So the management of our forests comes down to how to combat the irrational ‘religious’ fanaticism of tree-hugging Lefties. Indeed, everywhere we look in the world we are faced with this problem of ‘how to combat the irrationality of the increasingly rabid Marxist, politically correctculture?’

Well, if honest biological thinking was able to get to the bottom of the problem of eucalypts—‘tell the story that’s never, ever been told’, as Jones said—might such thinking also be able to finally solve the problem of the madness of the Left? I believe it can.

When Jones, like many others, use the term ‘religion’ to describe the culture of the PC Left,they are intimating an underlying truth, which is that when we humans take up a cause that makes us feel good it can bring such astronomical relief to the extreme insecurity caused by our species’ tortured, ‘good and evil’–stricken so-called human condition that our attachment to that cause becomes more precious to us than any rational argument Plato, Darwin and Einstein combined could put to us!

The psychologist Jordan Peterson was recognising this in his response on Q&A last year to being asked about people’s attachment to climatism when he said, ‘People have things within their personal purview [scope of experience] that are difficult to deal with and that they’re avoiding and generally the way they avoid them is by adopting pseudo-moralistic stances on large-scale social issues, so they look good to their friends and neighbours’.

He's right, to a degree. It is an attempt to avoid the human condition. Rather, it is an attempt to ALTER the human condition to make reality more pleasing. In short, it is the sin of witchcraft, which is an attempt to artificially alter reality. Not all witches use eye of newt and warty toads.

In fact, it is a fundamental violation of the First Commandment "Thou Shalt not have Strange Gods Before Me."  Who are the strange gods?  Well, the Liberals are. THEY are placing themselves on the godhead in competition with the Almighty.

In 2005 Michael Savage famously called Liberalism a mental disorder. He was only half right; it IS a mental disorder, but it stems from a spiritual one. Pseudo gods usually are mad.

At any rate, the article continues:

The scientist Blaise Pascal spelt out the true horror of our species’ contradictory nature or condition when he wrote, ‘What a chimaera [multi-faceted being] then is man! What a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a contradiction, what a prodigy! Judge of all things, imbecile worm of the earth, repository of truth, a sewer of uncertainty and error, the glory and the scum of the universe!’ Shakespeare was equally revealing of the paradoxical nature of the human condition when he wrote, ‘What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty!… In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me.’

This extraordinary dichotomy that Pascal and Shakespeare have written about is what the human condition is. We humans embody this extreme ‘contradiction’ of being the most brilliantly clever of creatures, the ones who are ‘god’-‘like’ in our ‘infinite’ ‘faculty’ of ‘reason’ and ‘apprehension’, and yet we also behave in the seemingly completely unclever ‘monster[ous]’, ‘imbecile worm of the earth’, ‘sewer of uncertainty and error’, ‘scum of the universe’ ‘quintessence of dust’ way. Not only are we competitive, aggressive and selfish when the ideals of life are so obviously to be cooperative, loving and selfless, we are actually the meanest, most vicious of species, one that is only too capable of inflicting pain, cruelty, suffering and degradation.

And trying to face the truth of the extent of our contradictory nature while we couldn’t explain it has been absolutely unbearable. As the psychoanalyst Carl Jung said about trying to confront our seemingly ‘monster[ous]’, ‘scum of the universe’ condition: ‘When it [our shadow] appears… it is quite within the bounds of possibility for a man to recognize the relative evil of his nature, but it is a rare and shattering experience for him to gaze into the face of absolute evil’!

Or as Christianity asserts, Man was made in the image and likeness of God but through Original Sin threw it all away. So we have a dual nature. But the corruption has largely overcome the Divine within us.

That is why Christians say we must have the redemption of Christ. Without His savlation and grace we cannot overcome the evil within.

So that is the first left-wing-culture-destroying clarification that understanding the human condition enables—that while the right-wing has continued humanity’s heroic quest for understanding, the Left has given in to the temptation of relief-hunting and abandoned that all-important search.

The second clarification is even more serious, if that were possible—which is that the Left have not only given up the search for understanding, they are actively working against the finding of it. This is because their favoured feel-good cause of dogmatically insisting that everyone comply with PC, Marxist cooperative and selfless principles oppressesthe freedom of expression needed to find knowledge, ultimately the understanding of ourselves that alone can end our insecure condition and actually bring about a cooperative and loving world.

See, they think that the reason efforts in the past have failed is because they were never able to get everyone on board.

That is the Rousseauian belief in the Collective Will. All things are subject to the will of the majority, Rousseau believed, and nothing should exist outside of it. As long as there are people who break ranks and follow their individual beliefs and ideas the society cannot move toward the ideal they seek. So everyone must be FORCED to not just obey but embrace and celebrate.

It's why it's not enough to tolerate gay couples, for example; we are pushed to celebrate them, even at the expense of our fundamental beliefs. A Christian baker must bake a wedding cake for a gay wedding, like it or not. In fact, more so since the baker does NOT like it; he must be made to be complicit in the celebration of the relationship.

It is this endless effort to straightjacket humanity that is at the root of the Progressive philosophy. They seek not wisdom or enlightenment but obedience to dogma and surrender to their will.

As the author notes:


Nietzche is wrong. It is not "within our soul" because Man is inherently evil. THAT was and is the whole point of the Death and Resurrection of Christ; He is the only thing that can give us the strength to break this terrible chain that binds us. We cannot do it of our own strength.

I think author Jeremy Griffith, a biologist, has hit pretty close to the mark with this analysis. He falls short in that he never quite gets to the end of the trail, which is that neither passion nor reason can take us out of the carnal prison. Faith is the bridge between God and Man, not these other things. And that is THE thing we are all seeking, even the atheist, the pagan, and the Satanist. It is just that too often we try to get there by our own strength. We can't.

Liberals keep doubling down on that. And they ultimately refuse to believe in a transcendent God. Some believe in a kind of comic-book deity who is like a kindly grandpa who gives out candy and the like, but they don't understand their own spiritual emptiness and refuse to see the Almighty as their ultimate goal. That's why they work so hard on things of this Earth, the carnal works of mercy. They worship the creature rather than the Creator.

Mostly they worship themselves. They are the ones they have been waiting for.

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