Wizard22 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 12, 2023 10:02 amBecause what do those on the political-Right do? Infight. Bicker. Argue. No cooperation. No hive-mind. Individualistic. Separated. Unorganized.
Why can't the political-Right organize?
In politics, and in political organization, there are organization-oriented types who create coalitions and try to keep them functioning in political action blocks. There are people who are oriented toward *activism* and all their doings serve that purpose. I do not see myself as one of those persons. I sit very much on the side-lines and observe what is going on.
However, I've certainly tried to keep up with contemporary events within my time limitations. I am aware of the entire gamut of ideological orientation -- from the most adamant Leftists all the way over to the most radical Right-leaning. Because I am American my primary cultural focus is America. What I can say about America is that it is in a terrible mess. I have written about my impressions and my summation involves metaphors like *the social and ideological glue that bound the country together is coming undone*.
As that binding glue comes undone -- and I am pretty sure that has come about because of shifting demographics initiated in the 1960s as well as through different levels of political activism which were initiated in the Sixties -- *unity* unravels. And when unity unravels it seems to me that the State realizes that it has to rise to the occasion and fill the social unity vacuum with that of governmental exertion of power. The US is a vast network of business interests. And those interests cannot allow civil discord to undermine the markets. My impression is that this situation of break-down in unity combined with the necessity of holding together markets leads to the situation where the government has to enforce unity through intervention on many different levels. It becomes a Federal police and intelligence issue and also an operation. The fate of the US seems to be in a crisis and frankly it is anyone's guess how the present situation of deep polarization will evolve.
My ideas are not going to be of much use to you if, as it seems, your chief concern is political organization. Because I am not an activist, and my orientation is toward understanding, and I am interested in *stating the truth* and less in making unreal or idealistic statements in order to rally people to a given cause, I see what is occurring today -- here I speak of the gains of the Critical Theory camp which is something more than *traditional leftism* and has become Hyper-Leftism of a very very strange sort -- as comparable to a giant wave that has been set in motion and is in the process of cresting or peaking. And like a (physical) wave it will have to fulfill itself and take things to the farthest point. I trust that the metaphor speaks for itself.
Now, you propose that there is some sort of *alternative* and that if only those who seem to oppose *what is occurring today* could rally together to work as an effective oppositional force that it would turn things around. Sure, on a forum like this where there are maybe 10 people maximum who participate in these threads, one can play a sort of game of team-up against those who come from very different political and social orientations. But that is all vain activity (IMO).
On the other hand there is the *real outside world* that moves in its own trajectory and over which no one of us has any influence at all. The forum is, I have gathered, a sort of pastime for many. I have participated in many forums over the years and I am very aware of their *function* for me. So I clarify my *purpose* and intention by stating it: I am only here to clarify my own thinking in regard to those issues we discuss.
Because what do those on the political-Right do? Infight. Bicker. Argue. No cooperation. No hive-mind. Individualistic. Separated. Unorganized.
There is no alternative to the *cresting wave* of the present because no one has a clear alternative. There are certainly people who make various propositions but there really is no *agreement* about what is needed. And anyway it is the *business community* (to put it very generally) that has the most substantial, and thus sustainable, interest in controlling and directing how things evolve.
What must "The Right" do? At the very least...wake the fuck up! If the Right can't wake up, then intellectuals like you and Immanuel Can, will continue bickering while your streets are invaded by BLM and George Soros funded Antifa members, your house burns down, your children 'transition', and then will the Right finally come around?
The Dissident (intellectual) Right that I am aware of has already *woken up* and, I suppose similarly to myself, realizes that it is impotent in any effective sense. It has no platform for *activism* except insofar as it can distribute ideas and opinions. My impression of those effort is that they have had definite influential reach however. But only in the realm of ideas.
Now, if the question is about what social and cultural powers and forces can begin to establish an *oppositional movement* against what we generally label as Wokism -- a term that really is far too glossary -- it is true that the Christian opposition movement (including Catholic organizations) are present in the struggle. They have, at the very least, an established platform that enables
some cohesion and unified action. So there is, for example, the Evangelical *support* for Donald Trump and their presence within the MAGA movement.
But these are people, I say with some regret, who believe some of the most outrageous and hallucinatory things that it is possible to believe. What they believe, when examined closely, is alarmingly weird. And what is alarmingly weird in what they believe filters out also in strange & bizarre ways. I have to make a reference here to our own Immanuel Can who is a Christian religious fanatic of the
first order. He is intelligent, he is well-read (with some limitations), and he is a barking lunatic when you actually examine what he thinks and what he is working for. He is a false-Conservative (again IMO) and he is, also IMO, part of the problem. He is absolutely closed to any idea or influence that is outside of his wheelhouse.
He is recalcitrance embodied.
It may seem that I am taking an opportunistic jab at him but that is a wrong impression. We have to become aware of what people are thinking, and what I mean by that is what their
perceptual system is. Christians are bound up in hopped-up fantasies that deal with Final Wars, Armageddon, End Times which amount to arrays of hallucinatory projected thought.
So, my impression is that all of this, everything taken together, and there is much more I should mention, is leading to an impossible situation that cannot be resolved. It seems to me -- and I regret saying it and thinking it -- things will have to go to their final lunatic points because:
We seem to be in a time of iridescence of madness all across the psychological skies. One has to guess as to what “normal” could be, should be, is!
