Joe Cooper
2015-05-31 21:03:26 UTC
It was Albert Einstein who defined insanity as doing the same thing over
and over again and expecting different results. On some levels, he was
correct, but insanity is actually the substitution of fantasy for
reality. The guy who believes hes Napoleon Bonaparte reincarnated and
who is obsessively planning to re-conquer Europe is certifiably insane.
The woman who believes she is Gaia and therefore divinized as a goddess
is a nut case. Both are completely out of touch with reality and everyone
surrounding them knows it.
But wholesale denial of reality is not limited to just the occasional
individual. Insanity can and does afflict whole groups of people. As
Charles Mackay stated in his work Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the
Madness of Crowds (1841),
We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one
object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become
simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their
attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.
How true.
Here in America, the madness of crowds is upon us. The Left has so
suppressed the knowledge of reality and has so affixed itself to delusion
that the crowds who comprise it and who follow it would have been
straitjacketed a decade or two ago.
What are a few of the insane ideas being promulgated as truth by
progressives?
One current insanity on the home front is the concept of gender
fluidity. Translated from newspeak into everyday language, gender
fluidity means that any man can declare himself by fiat to be a woman --
or vice versa.
Another is that the unborn child within the womb is not really human but
is potential human life. It is insane to say that a fetus is a
potential human being. It either is human or it is not.
Yet another sign the Left is completely detached from reality is the idea
is that money may, like gender, be declared to be money strictly by fiat
without any particular regard to underlying worth. Still another
illusory concept is the idea that no system of morality; no governmental
structure, and no religion can be acknowledged as having a position of
superiority in comparison with another. Yet another is that the entire
world order, material and societal, can be completely retrofitted in
accordance with progressive thinking with only good results.
Theres more -- much more -- of course. Any reader could probably give at
least a dozen more examples.
How and why did the Left (and sometimes members of the Right who join
them) go mad?
We can look to Eric Voegelins Science, Politics and Gnosticism for some
answers. Voegelin states that advocacy of most twentieth century
nostrums such as the quackery of communism require that the thinker
suppresses an essential element of reality in order to be able to
construct an image of man, or society, or history to suit his desires.
He writes that in order for the Left to maintain their dogma, certain
realities must be excluded from thinking. We shall not find the answer
on the level of theoretic argument; for we have obviously gone beyond
reason, if the relation to reality is so greatly disturbed that essential
elements are on principle excluded from consideration.
In other words, in order to believe in the current dogmas of the Left,
including the spurious quasi religion of manmade climate change, one
must suspend huge chunks of reality, effectually denying elements and
evidence of the created order (science) as well as refusing to see the
nature of humanity and society as they really are (philosophy and
theology).
But the Lefts denial of reality also means concealment of its ultimate
goals. Among those goals are the wish for absolute rule and the
conversion of humans by force rather than by reason and persuasion.
There is collateral damage that must be accepted if the Left is to
succeed. One is the certainty that there are things human beings cannot
change just because humans want them to change and/or plan detailed
programs to change them. Among those realities are the basic material and
spiritual constitution of human beings and the powerlessness of humans in
the face of an unremittingly unchanging natural order. There are certain
limitations built into the universe; certain fundamentals none of us can
change. The attempt to change or destroy fundamental realities results
not in transformation of the fixed order of being, but in mere
phantasmagorical fantasies that ultimately result in madness. The
attempt also results in the unmitigated suffering of humans as a neo-
Gnostic elite, who believe they have infallible insight into how things
should be, tries to destroy reality (things as they are) and to mold
humanity and history according to its capricious image.
As Voegelin puts it:
the will to power of the Gnostic who wants to rule the world has
triumphed over the humility of subordination of being. The result of
victory is not really the acquisition of power. The constitution of
being remains what it is -- beyond the thinkers lust for power.
[Reality] is not changed by the fact that a thinker drafts a program to
change it and fancies that he can implement that program. The result,
therefore, is not dominion over being, but a fantasy satisfaction . The
temptation [is]to fall from uncertain truth into certain untruth the
thread on which hangs our knowledge of the order of being, its origin and
meaning, is very thin.
The fall in to certain untruth is almost complete within the ranks of
the increasingly mentally disturbed Left.
Further, because so much of what the Left is promulgating is in fact
certain untruth, it must continually seek to cut off rational debates.
It abhors questions about the veracity of its dogma and praxis.
Leftists believe it is vitally important to prohibit questions that might
undermine them or their systems credibility. Nothing, absolutely
nothing, about the dogma of the Left is to be questioned. It is only to
be believed. That is one reason why the Lefts current chief flag
bearer, Hillary Clinton, so assiduously avoids questions. One must have
absolute faith in her.
Believing Christians and devout Jews have ideas about the created order
that are the polar opposite of the Left. They believe that created
reality is a God given thing to which humans gratefully accommodate
themselves. They do not believe that the created order was or is made by
human beings.
For progressives, such beliefs are to be silenced and quashed.
Progressive dogma is as sacred as Holy writ, but unlike the scriptures,
it is completely safe from exegesis or criticism. As Voegelin points
out, Leftists are types for whom a human inquiry has become a practical
impossibility.
In order to silence questions from the masses which it seeks to
indoctrinate, progressives seek to erase opposition by shutting down free
speech while pursuing the total destruction of any resistance.
Meanwhile, it continuously indulges in what Voegelin describes as
stubborn, demonic persistence in actions that passion incites.
In sum, the Lefts neo-Gnosticism and its accompanying lust for power and
authority mean the creation of multifarious governmental, bureaucratic
and administrative initiatives designed to destroy the current societal
order and to fundamentally transform the nation and the world according
to the fantastical dreams of an elite.
To accomplish such a transformation requires the ascendance of atheism
and the deification of Man as Superman. The human being becomes the
ruler of history and God is dead. In the place of the destruction of the
Christian concepts of salvation and redemption, the Left substitutes its
own salvific doctrines created entirely from the brains of elite humans
who have godlike clairvoyance concerning the future order of being. God
is permitted no input. Heaven will be a new world order springing like
the phoenix from the ashes of the civilization we presently know and live
in. No cost, human or material, is too great in order to achieve the
leftist dream. Gotterdammerung is a necessary and even beautiful thing.
Ultimately, as Voegelin points out, neo-gnostism requires the murder of
God and the total elevation of mans power. The aim of parousiastic
Gnosticism [as in Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidigger] is to destroy the order
of being, which is experienced as defective and unjust, and through mans
creative power to replace it with a perfect and just order.
The Left, in all its permutations, has fallen for the oldest lie in
history. Ye shall be as gods.
As we observe the destruction being wreaked on our beloved country by
leftist progressives, it is obvious that their obsession with destroying
the old order and fundamentally transforming the world is ultimately an
exercise in futility. Meanwhile, the attempts to create a fantasy
society are having disastrous consequences.
The core created order, no matter how it is tinkered with, and no matter
how much destruction the Left attempts to achieve, remains unperturbed.
It is simply not within mans purview to change the fundamental world
order established by the Creator. It is mans glorious task to submit
to, cooperate with and to be part of the divine redemptive plan for
humanity and creation.
There is hope.
It may be that great thinkers of the Judeo-Christian tradition may rise
up to destroy the insane leftist mental construct that will be, if not
confronted and destroyed, the Moloch that burns the magnificent edifice
of Western Judeo-Christian thought to ashes.
Source: http://bit.ly/1EL4088
--
"Next question: Why hasnt Obama ordered the Marine commandant at
Guantanamo Bay to stop providing an Islamic diet, prayer beads, prayer
rugs, and Korans to prisoners affiliated with al Qaeda, ISIL and other
terrorist groups if theyre not Islamic?" (Jan LaRue:
http://bit.ly/1ucU6Zp)
"Never underestimate the willingness of white progressives to be offended
on behalf of people who arent and to impose their will on those who
didnt ask for it." (Derek Hunter)
"Liberals never argue with one another over substance; their only dispute
is how to prevent the public from figuring out what they really
believe." (Ann Coulter)
and over again and expecting different results. On some levels, he was
correct, but insanity is actually the substitution of fantasy for
reality. The guy who believes hes Napoleon Bonaparte reincarnated and
who is obsessively planning to re-conquer Europe is certifiably insane.
The woman who believes she is Gaia and therefore divinized as a goddess
is a nut case. Both are completely out of touch with reality and everyone
surrounding them knows it.
But wholesale denial of reality is not limited to just the occasional
individual. Insanity can and does afflict whole groups of people. As
Charles Mackay stated in his work Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the
Madness of Crowds (1841),
We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one
object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become
simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their
attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first.
How true.
Here in America, the madness of crowds is upon us. The Left has so
suppressed the knowledge of reality and has so affixed itself to delusion
that the crowds who comprise it and who follow it would have been
straitjacketed a decade or two ago.
What are a few of the insane ideas being promulgated as truth by
progressives?
One current insanity on the home front is the concept of gender
fluidity. Translated from newspeak into everyday language, gender
fluidity means that any man can declare himself by fiat to be a woman --
or vice versa.
Another is that the unborn child within the womb is not really human but
is potential human life. It is insane to say that a fetus is a
potential human being. It either is human or it is not.
Yet another sign the Left is completely detached from reality is the idea
is that money may, like gender, be declared to be money strictly by fiat
without any particular regard to underlying worth. Still another
illusory concept is the idea that no system of morality; no governmental
structure, and no religion can be acknowledged as having a position of
superiority in comparison with another. Yet another is that the entire
world order, material and societal, can be completely retrofitted in
accordance with progressive thinking with only good results.
Theres more -- much more -- of course. Any reader could probably give at
least a dozen more examples.
How and why did the Left (and sometimes members of the Right who join
them) go mad?
We can look to Eric Voegelins Science, Politics and Gnosticism for some
answers. Voegelin states that advocacy of most twentieth century
nostrums such as the quackery of communism require that the thinker
suppresses an essential element of reality in order to be able to
construct an image of man, or society, or history to suit his desires.
He writes that in order for the Left to maintain their dogma, certain
realities must be excluded from thinking. We shall not find the answer
on the level of theoretic argument; for we have obviously gone beyond
reason, if the relation to reality is so greatly disturbed that essential
elements are on principle excluded from consideration.
In other words, in order to believe in the current dogmas of the Left,
including the spurious quasi religion of manmade climate change, one
must suspend huge chunks of reality, effectually denying elements and
evidence of the created order (science) as well as refusing to see the
nature of humanity and society as they really are (philosophy and
theology).
But the Lefts denial of reality also means concealment of its ultimate
goals. Among those goals are the wish for absolute rule and the
conversion of humans by force rather than by reason and persuasion.
There is collateral damage that must be accepted if the Left is to
succeed. One is the certainty that there are things human beings cannot
change just because humans want them to change and/or plan detailed
programs to change them. Among those realities are the basic material and
spiritual constitution of human beings and the powerlessness of humans in
the face of an unremittingly unchanging natural order. There are certain
limitations built into the universe; certain fundamentals none of us can
change. The attempt to change or destroy fundamental realities results
not in transformation of the fixed order of being, but in mere
phantasmagorical fantasies that ultimately result in madness. The
attempt also results in the unmitigated suffering of humans as a neo-
Gnostic elite, who believe they have infallible insight into how things
should be, tries to destroy reality (things as they are) and to mold
humanity and history according to its capricious image.
As Voegelin puts it:
the will to power of the Gnostic who wants to rule the world has
triumphed over the humility of subordination of being. The result of
victory is not really the acquisition of power. The constitution of
being remains what it is -- beyond the thinkers lust for power.
[Reality] is not changed by the fact that a thinker drafts a program to
change it and fancies that he can implement that program. The result,
therefore, is not dominion over being, but a fantasy satisfaction . The
temptation [is]to fall from uncertain truth into certain untruth the
thread on which hangs our knowledge of the order of being, its origin and
meaning, is very thin.
The fall in to certain untruth is almost complete within the ranks of
the increasingly mentally disturbed Left.
Further, because so much of what the Left is promulgating is in fact
certain untruth, it must continually seek to cut off rational debates.
It abhors questions about the veracity of its dogma and praxis.
Leftists believe it is vitally important to prohibit questions that might
undermine them or their systems credibility. Nothing, absolutely
nothing, about the dogma of the Left is to be questioned. It is only to
be believed. That is one reason why the Lefts current chief flag
bearer, Hillary Clinton, so assiduously avoids questions. One must have
absolute faith in her.
Believing Christians and devout Jews have ideas about the created order
that are the polar opposite of the Left. They believe that created
reality is a God given thing to which humans gratefully accommodate
themselves. They do not believe that the created order was or is made by
human beings.
For progressives, such beliefs are to be silenced and quashed.
Progressive dogma is as sacred as Holy writ, but unlike the scriptures,
it is completely safe from exegesis or criticism. As Voegelin points
out, Leftists are types for whom a human inquiry has become a practical
impossibility.
In order to silence questions from the masses which it seeks to
indoctrinate, progressives seek to erase opposition by shutting down free
speech while pursuing the total destruction of any resistance.
Meanwhile, it continuously indulges in what Voegelin describes as
stubborn, demonic persistence in actions that passion incites.
In sum, the Lefts neo-Gnosticism and its accompanying lust for power and
authority mean the creation of multifarious governmental, bureaucratic
and administrative initiatives designed to destroy the current societal
order and to fundamentally transform the nation and the world according
to the fantastical dreams of an elite.
To accomplish such a transformation requires the ascendance of atheism
and the deification of Man as Superman. The human being becomes the
ruler of history and God is dead. In the place of the destruction of the
Christian concepts of salvation and redemption, the Left substitutes its
own salvific doctrines created entirely from the brains of elite humans
who have godlike clairvoyance concerning the future order of being. God
is permitted no input. Heaven will be a new world order springing like
the phoenix from the ashes of the civilization we presently know and live
in. No cost, human or material, is too great in order to achieve the
leftist dream. Gotterdammerung is a necessary and even beautiful thing.
Ultimately, as Voegelin points out, neo-gnostism requires the murder of
God and the total elevation of mans power. The aim of parousiastic
Gnosticism [as in Marx, Nietzsche, and Heidigger] is to destroy the order
of being, which is experienced as defective and unjust, and through mans
creative power to replace it with a perfect and just order.
The Left, in all its permutations, has fallen for the oldest lie in
history. Ye shall be as gods.
As we observe the destruction being wreaked on our beloved country by
leftist progressives, it is obvious that their obsession with destroying
the old order and fundamentally transforming the world is ultimately an
exercise in futility. Meanwhile, the attempts to create a fantasy
society are having disastrous consequences.
The core created order, no matter how it is tinkered with, and no matter
how much destruction the Left attempts to achieve, remains unperturbed.
It is simply not within mans purview to change the fundamental world
order established by the Creator. It is mans glorious task to submit
to, cooperate with and to be part of the divine redemptive plan for
humanity and creation.
There is hope.
It may be that great thinkers of the Judeo-Christian tradition may rise
up to destroy the insane leftist mental construct that will be, if not
confronted and destroyed, the Moloch that burns the magnificent edifice
of Western Judeo-Christian thought to ashes.
Source: http://bit.ly/1EL4088
--
"Next question: Why hasnt Obama ordered the Marine commandant at
Guantanamo Bay to stop providing an Islamic diet, prayer beads, prayer
rugs, and Korans to prisoners affiliated with al Qaeda, ISIL and other
terrorist groups if theyre not Islamic?" (Jan LaRue:
http://bit.ly/1ucU6Zp)
"Never underestimate the willingness of white progressives to be offended
on behalf of people who arent and to impose their will on those who
didnt ask for it." (Derek Hunter)
"Liberals never argue with one another over substance; their only dispute
is how to prevent the public from figuring out what they really
believe." (Ann Coulter)