Mark Levin in his Liberty and Tyranny quotes Eric Hoffer:

“Those who see their lives as spoiled and wasted crave equality and fraternity more than they do freedom. If they clamor for freedom, it is but freedom to establish equality and uniformity. The passion for equality is partly a passion for anonymity: to be one thread of many who make up a tunic; one thread not distinguishable from the others. No one can then point us out, measure us against others and expose our inferiority.”

I speak to this reprehensible, inexplicable conformity into which the left most earnestly seeks to inter us. I have always, always reacted viscerally against the notion of the”tribe”. Even when I was in the culture’s grip, nothing in me welcomed the intrusive insistence that we are one, we are the world.
It is this seeming implacable compulsion to erase significance, much like the unwillingness to comprehend the necessity of recognizing those absolutes that, regardless the obdurate denial of leftists, govern this world. And it is quite incomprehensible to me. I wither inside at the thought of the collective. I have no use for groups, find them ominous actually- especially if they chant.

I always am amused when it is suggested that those on the right are indoctrinated. I would suggest that there are very few who escape indoctrination on some level, to some degree. When I was much younger I used to imagine who I would be had I never had my world delivered to me via media and a public education – both entities sacrificing truth in their deluded social engineering quest. When someone denigrates your beliefs by suggesting that you couldn’t possibly have assembled your own point of view is insult enough. But to somehow be so lacking in self-awareness as to imagine that you yourself hadn’t also been subject to some indoctrination is simply obtuse.

Thing is, life usually can strip away conditioning that isn’t congruent with reality, assuming you spend much time in reality, something the ruling political class does very little of. Reality will not march to the Progressive tune of uniformity. To achieve this idiotic utopia, coercion must be used. Brainwashing, manipulation, and most grotesque, in my view, ravaging the language. Something that is done at such an alarming pace now I wouldn’t be surprised if they banned the dictionary for being so absolutist. How dare any tome claim to define anything. All is relative, everything is everything…”and they shall call good evil, and evil good…“

In the seventies Neil Simon sang a certain sentiment that grated my every nerve. “If you can’t be with the one you love, love the one you’re with..” he pattered, putting into innocuous melody the mantra of faceless promiscuity. Nothing matters. No one person matters. Any pliant body will do. Love is relative. Everything is relative….

How insidiously quiet the shriveling of the human soul is, you seem never to hear the scream until it is fading away.

Astrophysicist and author David Brin has noted the prevalence of the imperative of “otherness” — the mandate that one must try to see any dispute from the other party’s viewpoint — among Americans generally, and particularly among Americans who identify themselves as liberals. When he first wrote of it, he said he’d found it to be so strong that it had sunk below the rational level in most of the people he knew, and operated essentially without conscious invocation. (Link)

This is what I have come to call the CJS, or ‘Charles Johnson Syndrome’; when the inexorable detritus of liberal indoctrination leaves your everyday conservative defenseless in the face of the enemy, deprived of voice and sense after decades of leftist PC inculcation. In the case of LGF’s Charles Johnson, his liberal ideological underpinning proved to be far more deeply entrenched than his brief foray into conservatism could prevail against. Inevitably, the deeply held contempt for Christian-Judeo values that is preached incessantly to Americans from every media outlet their entire lives overruled any emerging comprehension of what he had for so long been trained to devalue. Eventually Charles dropped the demeanor of reasonable debate and became a little Blog-tator, weeding out of his robust conservative audience those who failed to adhere to Charles’s re-emerging amoral template.

A quick aside, commenting on this censorial nature of the left invites a topic too large to touch on here, and I do realize the right has resorted to a book-burning mentality often as well. However, I recall in the early months of my political awakening the utter confusion I experienced when these totalitarian traits came from what I had always assumed were liberal arenas, not having yet understood the transmogrification of liberalism. I feel safe saying that any ideology demanding suppression of opposing views has no Truth capable of contending on the battlefield. I have not called for censoring the left, but to ignore the fact that a reciprocal generosity is lacking is idiotic and obtuse. To subject oneself to the fallacy of hate legislation, the favored cudgel applied to “offensive” speech, under the pretense of practicing fairness, is to unleash the Orwellian whirlwind we now reap.

Getting back to the specific topic at hand, I ran into this CJS type “whirlwind” yesterday on Twitter, confronting in one woman this obdurate insistence that my conservative credentials (apparently someone is handing out certificates of conservative authenticity) were somehow faulty if I refuse to demonstrate tolerance for the gay class, or “the other” – a term condescendingly employed to ascribe a phobic aspect to perceived non-tolerance. Yet tolerance seems to have been redefined as acquiescence, a sacrifice of principles to the point of nullification in order to demonstrate some misguided notion of American ‘equality’ and ‘fairness’.

The same syndrome is rearing it’s nasty head via those ‘conservatives’ who denounce we who refuse to incorporate the same moral equivocation in evaluating the “religion” of Islam, accelerated by the Ground Zero Mosque desecration. Atlas Shrugs has battled against this dhimmitude for a decade. It seems that in order to prove that Americans are essentially such superior, moral people that we will permit our own destruction. But there is nothing morally superior about accepting evil as a valid member of the community. To be bereft of all means of judging is to stand defenseless against all onslaught, as if by stubbornly clinging to the notion of “American equality” that we need become supine inferiors, ashamed of our traditions and identity.

This touches on so many of the maladies that have innervated the normally strong American will. I am reminded of an explanation given about the OT telling of Sodom & Gomorrah. Skeptics ask how could Lot be considered a righteous man when he was so ready to offer his daughters for the erotic pleasure of the crowd of men beating at his door seeking the angels they’d observed entering. The answer given was that Lot was quite used to the soup he swam in, inured to the evil practiced around him.It did not occur to him as unreasonable or untoward to offer his daughters. I think that is quite true of the American conservative. We are no longer appalled, nor do we even recognize, the evil that now parades about in the light of day. Those who consider themselves conservative, who subscribe to the values inherent in the founding of America, none the less, are quite oblivious to the memes or precepts that we have absorbed in this innocuous, familiar soup that contradict the core of the values we seek to preserve.

I am not going to delineate my thinking on the gay issue in this post, but the fact that I was attacked by the twitter conservative as an “intolerant fundie” because I hold a certain opinion of homosexuality serves to spotlight the fissure that threatens any unity Conservatives might achieve. For me, it goes to foundational principles. A poorly laid foundation may temporarily support the edifice built on it, but inevitably defective material will imperil the integrity of the entire structure, ultimately leading to it’s collapse. The defective material conservatives innocently bring into the mix is our relationship with nihilism. We are quite used to it. It is a seductress whose call we have long listened to. It is that element of the homosexual question that I object to.

Homosexual marriage is favored by the Left because of this nihilistic instinct, because of its potential to dismantle a natural-law-based, Judeo-Christian Civilization. Monogamous, heterosexual, child-centered marriage is the building block of the Left-detested real world it is bent on annihilating.

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A ruling that declares the State to be indifferent to the fruit of the family has struck the heart of the Left’s enemy. The practical conclusion is that self-contained gratification is of equal value as children.

Nihilism is advanced by the homosexual marriage debate because it affords the Left with “proof” of the evils of America. Far from being superior to other cultures, we still persecute the “other,” we are shown to be religious obscurantists, bigots, and even hypocrites since we criticize Islamic countries in which homosexuals are hung, but outlaw homosexual marriage. The Left deftly convinces Americans that only by shedding their traditional morals will they demonstrate true enlightenment, freedom, and what we heretofore falsely touted as national respect for freedom. (Link)

The nihilism inherent in homosexuality inevitably expresses itself in an enervated feminized society – regardless of how nice and clever and engaging it’s denizens are. And may I head off at the pass the accusation that by saying all of this, I am advocating for the eradication of gays. I most emphatically am not. But attempting to normalize an aberrant sexual behavior necessitates distorting reality to the point where the elitists now freely seek to convince us sheeple that there are no gender differences at all, as if by developing a “body of research” attached to a PHD is sufficient voodoo to belie reality.

The power of the Leftist culture lies in the illusion of its undisputed veracity.This illusion needs to be shattered.

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PDX 911 Truth on Frankfurt School Cultural Marxism in America from rcoones on Vimeo.

Valdas Anelauskas lives now in the USA having been driven out of his home country (Lithuania), under political exile, and is doing his best to expose the Frankfurt School and Cultural Marxism and how it is being implemented here in the USA.

He states in one of his writings:

“Today, reflecting on the time when we first arrived here, I realize how naive I was. Or perhaps ignorant. I really believed that the United States of America was a democratic and free country. Moreover, I imagined it to be a highly advanced and progressive nation, maybe even the most civilized country on earth in history. How foolish of me!”

He points out that many of the Marxist plans and ideology he saw in the USSR are actually happening here in the USA within popular social movements …. having different names but Marxist never the less. Most have no idea it is happening. Cultural Marxism is very much alive here and the plan is being carried out here and now. The location of the presentation had to be changed twice at the last minute because of disrupters.

(Disclaimer: Views and opinions presented here are for informational and educational purposes only and may not necessarily be those of the makers of this video)

I am trying to stir. Really.Truth of the matter is, I’ve darn near forgotten the mechanics of blogging. Doesn’t help that I can’t get this template, which I am fast becoming disenchanted with – to cooperate.
As far as the bear is concerned, well, we’ve been in hibernation. Or hiatus. Whatever. But hell, tides may be turning, one can hope,. If not, best go out having our say.

So, yes, we are stirring, but not yet awake.

Stay tuned….

H/T:@crystalyn