henry quirk wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 4:10 pm
Alexiev wrote: ↑Sat Jun 29, 2024 2:45 pm
I take Kipling's meaning to be: Reality, no matter how far a'field man goes with his fantasies, always asserts itself.
What brought it to mind: the latest iteration of the 'man can be woman' nonsense highlighted by AJ's and PK's exchange.
PK, like many of his ilk, fears to offend the deluded (so, to hell with reality) while AJ points out these deluded folk are
symptoms of a general disconnect from reality (and the
disease is far from having run its course [and it might be fatal]).
Woke belief is that "reality is constructed." That's one of their central convictions, always present in their literature. That is, that reality is a consensual delusion created by the enthusiasms of human beings, not an external reality that can "assert itself." What we call "reality" is merely the "reified" (their word) accretions of human culture, not the objective facts...but that we mistake these "constructions" for inevitablities, because they are "systemic" and have become "internalized" as "oppression." (again, using their preferred terms) Thus, their "liberatory praxis" is to extract us from our belief that reality is reality, and commit us to the delusion they are preferring -- for only when all of "society affirms" their delusion will it become the "reality" in which we live.
In other words, Henry, it's YOU who's holding them back from "the worker's paradise," or "the just society," or the next phase of "social evolution" and "progress" as they conceive them. And this is why they hate you so viciously, and attempt to bully you so relentlessly, and will even kill you if you make them; because you are the retrograde virus that is preventing the progressive dream from being realized for everybody else. They are the warriors of virtue, and you are the great Satan of their imaginings. Things which, in any other context, they would recognize as immoral and inhuman are things they are not only allowed to do to you, but are encouraged to do, and feel virtuous in doing.
So they can lie, harass, slander, censor, silence, strike, bludgeon, incarcerate, steal, burn and even murder, all while feeling an ever-loftier sense of moral purity while so doing. For their violence against you is proof to them of two things: firstly,
how wicked you are, that you have made them do unconscionable things to you, and secondly,
how righteous they are, that they are willing to sacrifice even their own basic human decency in order to dispatch you.
So Kropotkin et al will never admit their narrative is even flawed, let alone disingenuous and toxic. It will be affirmed, and affirmed, and affirmed...until it "reconstructs" reality, and thus becomes true.
Biden's not senile. Democrats never lie. Men can be women. Transing is affirming of identity. America is inherently racist. Capitalism destroys, but Communism offers ultimate freedom. Babies are not human beings. Euthanasia is fun. The press and the mass media never lie. The wars are necessary. Money can just be printed in unlimited supply. The economy is not faltering, oil is not expensive, and groceries remain cheap. COVID measures were necessary in the public interest. The universities are fine. Taxes are good. Borders should be open. Radical Islamists are peaceful. The government establishment works for our good. The democratic processes have never been subverted. Drugs should be legalized. The homeless should be on the streets. The world is being destroyed by climate change, but only in the West, and never by the East and South. The Chinese government is our friend. Technology will only really take us in the right direction, so whatever is invented will turn out to be good.
And so on. All these beliefs, and more, are in their stock of thing they plan to "construct" as true, merely by the power of compelling public belief in them. Reality will change. Truth is irrelevant.
And you, Henry, are the present problem...you, and your "firm grip on reality," which must be broken.
At this moment particularly, your mockery is misplaced and ineffective.
or just spouting the typical nonsense. There is a dial — 1 to 10 — next to the switch, and the test is to see: Do you send mild jolts at say level 2 or do you crank the bitch up to nine?