Do you hear the banging? Or has it become ambient noise?

William Staneski:

The drumbeat. It's always there. Day and night. Rain or shine. Winter or Summer. Sunday or Monday. It comes at you from every direction. It comes over the TV, the radio, at work, at school, in music, in the newspapers, from the politicians, in conversation with others, even in church. It wears you down. It robs you of the will to resist its message. Even short-lived victories, which stop it briefly, leave you with the knowledge that it will return; each minor victory bound to be lost to the redoubled efforts of this patient and persistent force. You can't escape it. It never stops. It never gives up. It never ends. It rains upon you from every possible angle, from every possible source.

It's the drumbeat of the left. It is political, philosophical, theological, and social. It pervades every activity. It is post-structural, post-modern, post-everything in the parlance of the day. It is tolerant, diverse, non-judgmental, non-discriminatory, egalitarian, politically correct, multicultural, globalist, and collectivist. It insists that there are no rights and wrongs, no moral absolutes. It turns everything upside down in its looking glass world. It denies the correctness of all that produced what our culture revered before the deconstruction of the world in accordance with the tenets of cultural Marxism.

It denies God, human exceptionalism, and the soul. We are reduced to Darwinian animals floundering in an amoral sea of meaninglessness. It is a product of the nihilistic, existentialist philosophical movement, which went hand in hand with modern art, atonal music, scientific materialism and modern physics, and the generally discordant nature of the twentieth century.

It is said that a fish is not aware of the water in which it swims since it is totally immersed in it. This is the way cultural Marxism is taking over our world in its inexorable Gramscian march. We swim in it. It enters every pore of our existence. It is everywhere. We can't escape it. Many people accept this world without even realizing it, just as the fish accepts the water in which it swims. They don't realize it as the left creates new conventional wisdom and new intuitions about truth.

The cultural Marxists convince us that the truth is that there is no truth. And even though this unresolvable paradox lies at the very center of all this, the constant drumbeat keeps the masses in line, anesthetized enough to not make an issue of it. Fed a constant diet of sex, drugs, poisonous pop culture, materialistic trinkets, and unkeepable promises of security provided by huge leftist government, ever more globalist in nature, the masses are diverted from realizing, as they are told there is no truth, that this claim itself is subject to the same test. It is logically impossible for the leftist drumbeat to be true by its own axioms.

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Do you hear the banging?  Or has it become ambient noise?

Comments

[Amy Alkon]

Don't kid yourself that the Republicans aren't a bunch of socialists, too. George Bush is the biggest Big Democrat we've had in office in years.

I'm no fan of either party, and thanks, I don't find it nihilistic to live an evidence-based life, and not worship Zeus or any other entity.

And no, I'm not a leftist. I'm classically liberal, a fiscal conservative who'd like government and all the religious nutters and Marxist nutters (meddlers right and left) out of my panties and my pockets, thanks.

[KansasGirl]

Amy, don't kid me. You are basically what? I've never met a classically liberal, what does that term mean? Your response is exactly what this article is about.

[Elmo]

No wonder Conservatives are so angry, and apparently insane. They've made their world so small, and restrictive, that almost everything is an infringement on their ideology. It's hilarious.

Oh, and Kansasgirl, you were responding to a Libertarian who is also infected by the Conservative mental disease. The both of you should feel at home together, although your religious devotion seems to have even rendered Libertarians the "enemy."

This is further evidence that Conservatism is a form of mental illness.

Have fun being antagonized by the inevitable drumbeat of progress. Knowing that such a myopic, and unintelligent human being as yourself is upset about all of this is more than satisfying.