Wizard22 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2025 9:30 am
I believe Western societies, cultures, countries, and peoples will need to suffer a lot more, unfortunately, before "Far-Right-Evil-Hitler-Nazis" (according to Dpants) rise up and defend themselves. And this is his basic, repeated argument.
It is an argument that
works and that is why it is employed. Its use involves the ultimate moral condemnation which, among most, stops them in their tracks. They will not participate in openly thinking, much less talking, about a whole host of issues because of the wielded moral shade. It is far too dangerous, far too unsettling.
To gain or to recover self-consciousness and self-empowerment necessarily involves examining and confronting an ideological structure that has been
imposed on our societies through education and propaganda. These are powerful constructions and they can be understood as having been
installed in people at a deep level. Many of the tenets of Liberalism have been deeply associated with “moral goodness” so that to see and think differently
feels like genuine sin.
There is a whole set of definitions that underpinned traditional identification with Europeanness and these have been substantially undermined.
Unfortunately, it requires a Nietzschean resolve, or something close to it, to arrive at a foundational resolve that could be said to be “self preserving” in a social and cultural sense. The looseness of the Liberal moral structures, a type of acquiescent fluidity and weakness, function as a substantial barrier against a countervailing idea and value structure regaining ground.
We would have to better understand Flash’s age, where he was brought up, the sort of environment he grew up in, and about the sorts of political and social ideas and values he was raised up in, in order to be able to explain how his ideas undermine those “traditional commitments” of a manly sort. The notion of
manliness in super-relevant since, according to more strict ideas, a man has social responsibility in the “defense” of his family, community and nation. However, these values have been associated with all that is retrograde and anti-progressive.
