The Schizophrenia of the New Left

[DieFree]

Human nature? What is that? That undecided destiny? Walking a tight rope, that! destiny. Watch and beware --- don't let the buffoons distract you as ye walk across. Even if they have bright orange assess dancing! 

[Basman]

It was bound to happen sooner or later. I predicted it would for years.

Stage Green failing is how we get Yellow... eventually. They are going to try to convert people to Stage Green till they exhaust themselves completely and are left with the only things that work, the systemic approach.

[Ulax]

We’re finally free to express ourselves whilst still retaining our respect and dignity of others.

[Hojo]

If you understand identity you see that all of this is made up garbage and mental illness. The left is pushing mental illness, Why??? Its madness on both ends. If the left could drop this garbage and we be allowed to call it out then they would be good. Hyper inclusivity ,so much that a mental illness that 3 percent of the population have is next to the logos of mega corps. No one hate gay or transgender people anymore we can drop it.

I think not dropping it after 12 years is making people angrier, buts its the corporations pushing it now.

Edited November 29 by Hojo

[BlueOak]

On 27/11/2024 at 7:03 PM, Oeaohoo said:

On the one hand: Thank God we’re finally free to express our true nature! All of our repressed desires have been liberated.

On the other hand: Human nature is evil, tribal, racist, bigoted, misogynistic, and must be overcome through a heavy program of brainwashing.

How do you square these completely contradictory ideas?

Elements of Socialism. It is the glue to regulate aspects of humanity that otherwise harm the collective, as well as provide for those who are stepped on by others.

[Oeaohoo]

On 28/11/2024 at 7:01 PM, Nilsi said:

The Psychosis of the Neo Conservatives¹

On one hand: ranting endlessly about those "degenerate progressives" with their corrosive relativism - accusing them of dismantling the sacred pillars of our civilization: hard work, strength, masculinity, and dominance.

On the other hand, here they are: a legion of beta males marinating in Cheeto dust, holed up in their mothers' basements, fetishizing obscure historical footnotes, and whining on Twitter about how leftists are the reason society disrespects them and women won’t touch them.

¹ Schizophrenia would be far too generous a term for a good Deleuzean.

This is pretty funny actually… 

[Oeaohoo]

On 28/11/2024 at 7:17 PM, Nilsi said:

I’d even agree, in that sense, that he could be called the last true altruist - fully aware and affirming of the fact that completing his work would cost him his sanity and, ultimately, his life.

In this sense Nietzsche was quite a Christian writer… Oops!

I’ve always felt that this is strongly suggested in aphorism 38 of The Antichrist:

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—I cannot, at this place, avoid a sigh. There are days when I am visited by a feeling blacker than the blackest melancholy—contempt of man.  Let me leave no doubt as to what I despise, whom I despise: it is the man of today, the man with whom I am unhappily contemporaneous. The man of today—I am suffocated by his foul breath!... Toward the past, like all who understand, I am full of tolerance, which is to say, generous self-control: with gloomy caution I pass through whole millenniums of this madhouse of a world, call it “Christianity,” “Christian faith” or the “Christian church,” as you will—I take care not to hold mankind responsible for its lunacies. But my feeling changes and breaks out irresistibly the moment I enter modern times, our times. Our age knows better.... What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent—it is indecent to be a Christian today. And here my disgust begins.—I look about me: not a word survives of what was once called “truth”; we can no longer bear to hear a priest pronounce the word. Even a man who makes the most modest pretensions to integrity must know that a theologian, a priest, a pope of today not only errs when he speaks, but actually lies—and that he no longer escapes blame for his lie through “innocence” or “ignorance.” The priest knows,  as every one knows, that there is no longer any “God,” or any “sinner,” or any “Saviour”—that “free will” and the “moral order of the world” are lies—: serious reflection, the profound self-conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it.... All the ideas of the church are now recognized for what they are—as the worst counterfeits in existence, invented to debase nature and all natural values; the priest himself is seen as he actually is—as the most dangerous form of parasite, as the venomous spider of creation.... We know, our conscience now knows—just what the real value of all those sinister inventions of priest and church has been and what ends they have served, with their debasement of humanity to a state of self-pollution, the very sight of which excites loathing,—the concepts “the other world,” “the last judgment,” “the immortality of the soul,” the “soul” itself: they are all merely so many instruments of torture, systems of cruelty, whereby the priest becomes master and remains master.... Every one knows this, but nevertheless things remain as before. What has become of the last trace of decent feeling, of self-respect, when our statesmen, otherwise an unconventional  class of men and thoroughly anti-Christian in their acts, now call themselves Christians and go to the communion-table?... A prince at the head of his armies, magnificent as the expression of the egoism and arrogance of his people—and yet acknowledging, without any shame, that he is a Christian!... Whom, then, does Christianity deny? what does it call “the world”? To be a soldier, to be a judge, to be a patriot; to defend one’s self; to be careful of one’s honour; to desire one’s own advantage; to be proud ... every act of everyday, every instinct, every valuation that shows itself in a deed, is now anti-Christian: what a monster of falsehood the modern man must be to call himself nevertheless, and without shame, a Christian!—

A very hard-hitting attack on the hypocrisy and empty, performative Pharisaism of modern religiosity!

Edited November 30 by Oeaohoo

[Carl-Richard]

On 27.11.2024 at 8:03 PM, Oeaohoo said:

On the one hand: Thank God we’re finally free to express our true nature! All of our repressed desires have been liberated.

On the other hand: Human nature is evil, tribal, racist, bigoted, misogynistic, and must be overcome through a heavy program of brainwashing.

How do you square these completely contradictory ideas?

Any organism's attempt at sustaining itself will involve gas and breaks. The Left just has a particular configuration of those. It would only be weird if there weren't such "contradictions".