{"id":602,"date":"2023-03-20T11:58:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-20T11:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cranleigh.org\/politics\/?p=602"},"modified":"2023-11-15T08:17:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T08:17:24","slug":"the-threat-of-postmodernism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cranleigh.org\/politics\/2023\/03\/20\/the-threat-of-postmodernism\/","title":{"rendered":"The threat of postmodernism:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It is really easy to feel discomfort with the world. To feel as though there are pathological,<br>corrupt systems and methods of control out there in place, with the sole purpose of<br>negatively inflicting upon your life. This fear is not irrational by any stretch of the imagination,<br>and it&#8217;s a sentiment that most young people garner when they begin to conceptualise the<br>greatness of the world, and the different methods of power play simultaneously occurring at<br>all times, be it political or social. The response to this, particularly from young, typically left<br>leaning people (whilst that is a stereotype, it is one based on data), is to go out into the world<br>and try and control it. Because then, it can&#8217;t control you. This is a biologically motivated<br>response to fear that plays on the predator\/prey dynamic. If you become bigger than your<br>predator, you take its power away. If you control it, it can&#8217;t control you. This notion is greatly<br>justifiable, plausible and entirely moral in its origins and yet what we are seeing is that as this<br>notion becomes more mainstream as a means of dealing with the inequality and unjustifiably<br>corrupt world we live in, the result is a mob of tyrants. A mob of compassionate narcissists<br>that weaponise virtue to shut down any form of counter argument to their own. You see, the<br>motivation behind trying to control the world switches remarkably quickly from a means of<br>survival to something far more dangerous. It becomes the desire to be accredited with moral<br>virtue in the absence of the work necessary to actually attain it. Regardless of the original<br>intention behind their actions, it very quality escalates to becoming it. The result being a<br>group of people that think exactly the same, to the extent that the act of even thinking in and<br>of itself is slowly deteriorating. The question we need to be asking ourselves, is therefore:<br>why is a generation that is acting upon biologically positive motivations morphing into,<br>arguably, the most destructive generation yet?<br>The answer, from my perspective, is the widespread indoctrination of \u2018political correctness\u2019<br>and the implications that come with it. By implications, I&#8217;m referring to the paradoxical<br>amalgamation of neo marxism and the ideas of postmodernism, specifically the \u2018rejection of<br>epistemic certainty,\u2019 that had previously characterised the political sphere as well as the<br>sphere of discourse. Firstly, the reason why the alliance of postmodern and neo marxist<br>thinking is intrinsically paradoxical is because the very foundation of postmodernist thinking<br>is derived from the belief that there exist no canonical interpretations of the world, which<br>practically manifests itself in the rejection of any binary categorisation; ie the rejection of<br>gender as a concept. On the other hand, the neo Marxist ethos explicitly views the world in<br>an \u2018oppressor vs oppressed\u2019 manner, therefore by nature of viewing the world in a canonical<br>manner, it contradicts the ethos of the postmodernists. There is therefore no logical way to<br>explain the union of these two schools of political and philosophical thought. And under<br>absolutely no circumstances, should compassion be presented as an argument for the union<br>of these doctrines as history has shown us that the practical implications of these doctrines<br>has been murderous, tyrannical and by no means compassionate or even remotely morally<br>acceptable by any standards. The reason, therefore, why this union exists albeit<br>paradoxically, is because both the postmodernists and the neo-Marxists have something in<br>common. Both doctrines are driven ultimately, by resentment. You see both doctrines distil<br>the nature of the world down to power. They both view humanity as infinite numbers of unjust<br>hierarchies that are irrevocably bound together by power, and power alone. Not only does<br>this method of thinking attempt to reduce the nature of humanity, which is incomparably<br>complex, down to one idea alone, remarkably cynically, but it also simultaneously<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>perpetuates the \u2018oppressor vs oppressed\u2019 narrative that the Marxists view the world through<br>whilst producing an overwhelming sense of resentment. Logically, you can then determine<br>that, given both doctrines view the composition of humanity to be accredited only to power,<br>that the practitioners of said doctrines practise in the pursuit of power, driven by<br>resentment towards the natural order, and disguising themselves, most reprehensibly, as<br>compassionate. What activates these doctrines is therefore the blunt will to power, ironically<br>and remarkably hypocritically participating in exactly what they attempt to condemn in their<br>foundational arguments.<br>Now that we\u2019ve outlined what the motivational composition behind \u2018political correctness\u2019 is,<br>it&#8217;s very easy to understand its parasitic effect on society today, specifically on the younger<br>generations. These doctrines are invading our society. They have infected almost the<br>entirety of the educational system, which acts as the root to all else, by dominating the<br>humanities and slowly moving their way to the social sciences. The majority are being sold<br>the idea that these doctrines are positively motivated by compassionate intentions and are<br>blind to the moral corruption that actually activates the schools of thought. The younger<br>generations are also obviously more susceptible to accepting these notions as truth, given<br>the absence of being presented with anything else during the entirety of their lives. Before<br>we continue down this catastrophic road we are currently on, the deception that absolutely<br>covers this political agenda must be dismantled. Resentment and the demand for power\u2026<br>that&#8217;s what is motivating the forced indoctrination of these doctrines, not compassion.<br>Nietzsche actually predicted this overtaking of the radical left about 150 years ago, which is<br>quite remarkable considering that was largely before any of these doctrines were properly<br>formulated. The outcome he predicted was one where scientific truth holds no value,<br>individual liberty and speech are stripped from previously sovereign citizens with the act of<br>thinking ceasing to exist in its natural form. That prediction is manifesting into reality at this<br>very moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welcome to identity politics and political correctness\u2026 human beings? No. You\u2019re nothing<br>but your race, religion and gender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is really easy to feel discomfort with the world. 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