Time Is The Target Of The Left.....

[PoliticalChic]

....all of the past and history, all learning, all enlightenment. Dark Ages underway.





1.Western Civilization is based the spiritual from Jerusalem, and the rational, from Greek culture.
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past. Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

But for the Left, whose promise is to replace God with man himself, they need to eradicate all history, and as they attempted via the French Revolution, to begin history all over, with the present as year one.
“The Revolutionary Convention established the calendar on October 5, 1793, setting its beginning (1 Vendémiaire, year I) to a date nearly a year prior (September 22, 1792), when the National Convention had proclaimed France a republic.” Britannica.

And such has been the aim of every totalitarian revolution.



2. At one time, this would have been shocking to educated folks….but a vastly different ethos has taken hold.

“5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property)

1. The Family

2. Individuality

3. Eternal Truths

4. Nations

5. The Past”

5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property) | Jon Miltimore

Marx’s manifesto is famous for summing up his theory of Communism with a single sentence: “Abolition of private property.” But this was hardly the only thing the philosopher believed must be abolished from bourgeois society in the proletariat's march to utopia. In his manifesto, Marx highlighted...

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3. In deciding that the past is undeserving of being studied, and honored, all sorts of corollary demands come with it, including the very basis of America’s creation, and the inspirations for our system of law. This is what they demand be erased:

“ The Bible is the wisdom of the West. It is from the precepts of the Bible that the legal systems of the West have been developed- systems, worked out over millennia, for dealing with inequality, with injustice, with greed, reducible t that which Christians call the Golden Rule, and the Jews had propounded as “That which is hateful to you, don not do to your neighbor.”
This is the great contribution of our Judeo-Christian foundation to Western civilization. The principles of justice are laid down in the Torah and the Gospels, and implemented through human actions memorialized in judicial codes.
The written laws and rules are codifications of the unwritten ones worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience.
It is these rules and laws which form a framework which allows the individual foreknowledge of that which is permitted and that which is forbidden.” David Mamet



4. What is the result when our courts assume the Left’s values, that the works of ‘old dead white men’ need not be valued?

“There are additional costs inflicted on the society by the Court’s systematic departures from the actual Constitution. Among them are anti-intellectualism, selective nihilism, a loss of the sense of the sacred, and the destruction of taboos.
… the nihilism is selective: those who deny moral truth frequently simultaneously take uncompromising positions on their own versions of such truth, and those positions are invariably to the left of the American center.”
Robert Bork, “A Country I No Longer Recognize”





And fully half of American citizens no longer recognize this nation.

 

[PoliticalChic]

....all of the past and history, all learning, all enlightenment. Dark Ages underway.





1.Western Civilization is based the spiritual from Jerusalem, and the rational, from Greek culture.
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past. Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics

But for the Left, whose promise is to replace God with man himself, they need to eradicate all history, and as they attempted via the French Revolution, to begin history all over, with the present as year one.
“The Revolutionary Convention established the calendar on October 5, 1793, setting its beginning (1 Vendémiaire, year I) to a date nearly a year prior (September 22, 1792), when the National Convention had proclaimed France a republic.” Britannica.

And such has been the aim of every totalitarian revolution.



2. At one time, this would have been shocking to educated folks….but a vastly different ethos has taken hold.

“5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property)

1. The Family

2. Individuality

3. Eternal Truths

4. Nations

5. The Past”

5 Things Marx Wanted to Abolish (Besides Private Property) | Jon Miltimore

Marx’s manifesto is famous for summing up his theory of Communism with a single sentence: “Abolition of private property.” But this was hardly the only thing the philosopher believed must be abolished from bourgeois society in the proletariat's march to utopia. In his manifesto, Marx highlighted...

fee.org

.





3. In deciding that the past is undeserving of being studied, and honored, all sorts of corollary demands come with it, including the very basis of America’s creation, and the inspirations for our system of law. This is what they demand be erased:

“ The Bible is the wisdom of the West. It is from the precepts of the Bible that the legal systems of the West have been developed- systems, worked out over millennia, for dealing with inequality, with injustice, with greed, reducible t that which Christians call the Golden Rule, and the Jews had propounded as “That which is hateful to you, don not do to your neighbor.”
This is the great contribution of our Judeo-Christian foundation to Western civilization. The principles of justice are laid down in the Torah and the Gospels, and implemented through human actions memorialized in judicial codes.
The written laws and rules are codifications of the unwritten ones worked out over millennia as the result of human interactions and experience.
It is these rules and laws which form a framework which allows the individual foreknowledge of that which is permitted and that which is forbidden.” David Mamet



4. What is the result when our courts assume the Left’s values, that the works of ‘old dead white men’ need not be valued?

“There are additional costs inflicted on the society by the Court’s systematic departures from the actual Constitution. Among them are anti-intellectualism, selective nihilism, a loss of the sense of the sacred, and the destruction of taboos.
… the nihilism is selective: those who deny moral truth frequently simultaneously take uncompromising positions on their own versions of such truth, and those positions are invariably to the left of the American center.”
Robert Bork, “A Country I No Longer Recognize”





And fully half of American citizens no longer recognize this nation.

The ‘funny’ emoticon appears to mean ‘That hurt…I wish I had a way to dispute it.”


And more pain for your sorts will follow.


Stay tuned.

 

[PoliticalChic]

5. It is hard to determine which comes first, the desire to abolish the past, or whether that is simply their way to abolish all moral truths, the sort worked out over millennia. I certainly see their need to erase morality, and all that is considered sacred, as, how else can the Left make themselves god?


The Left’s push to marginalize, silence, and/or ridicule all religious content from the schools and the public arena has been on the way since Roosevelt made his first choice for the Supreme Court a KKKer who hated religion.



“In all political societies which have had a durable existence, there has been some fixed point; something which men agreed in holding sacred; which it might or might not be lawful to contest in theory, but which no one could either fear or hope to see shaken in practice. . . . But when the questioning of these fundamental principles is (not an occasional disease but) the habitual condition of the body politic; . . . the state is virtually in a position of civil war; and can never long remain free from it in act or fact.”
John Stewart Mill


" When morality became privatized, the questions “what is right” became “what is right for me.” Feelings... became the arbiters of behavior. Rather than traditional taboos, only religiously based moral judgment was deemed taboo. The harm caused to abandoned spouses or children by adultery or desertion- harm that can be objectively documented in rates of ill health, depression, educational underachievement, criminal behavior- was all but ignored, while damage done to people’s feelings by condemnation of their adultery or desertion was considered unforgiveable."
"The World Turned Upside Down," Melanie Phillips, chapter 14

 

[PoliticalChic]

6. Erasing the past has fundamental requirements for government school.

The ascendency of the Democrats/Leftists is correctly called the modern ‘dark ages.’
“a period or stage marked by repressiveness, a lack of enlightenment or advanced knowledge, etc.”
Definition of Dark Ages | Dictionary.com




Here is the sort of collateral damage that comes with investing power in the forces of evil:

"A sustained effort is under way to deny children access to literature. Under the slogan #DisruptTexts, critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers and Twitter agitators are purging and propagandizing against classic texts—everything from Homer to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Dr. Seuss.

Their ethos holds that children shouldn’t have to read stories written in anything other than the present-day vernacular—especially those “in which racism, sexism, ableism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of hate are the norm,” as young-adult novelist Padma Venkatraman writes in School Library Journal. No author is valuable enough to spare, Ms. Venkatraman instructs: “Absolving Shakespeare of responsibility by mentioning that he lived at a time when hate-ridden sentiments prevailed, risks sending a subliminal message that academic excellence outweighs hateful rhetoric.”

The subtle complexities of literature are being reduced to the crude clanking of “intersectional” power struggles. Thus Seattle English teacher Evin Shinn tweeted in 2018 that he’d “rather die” than teach “The Scarlet Letter,” unless Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel is used to “fight against misogyny and slut-shaming.”

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Opinion | Even Homer Gets Mobbed
A Massachusetts school has banned ‘The Odyssey.’
www.wsj.com






“Using #DisruptTexts, school teachers, critical theory activists, and others have been promoting the removal of classic texts such as Homer. Apparently, kids should not read these texts because they promote “racism, sexism, ableism, anti-Semitism, and other forms of hate.”
According to Padma Venkatraman, a young-adult novelist, even authors as revered as Shakespeare should not be spared.” #DisruptTexts campaign aims to cancel classic literature in classrooms | USSA News | The Tea Party's Front Page


This is what you voted for if you voted for Biden.

The modern ‘Dark Ages.’

Ignorance glorified.

 

[PoliticalChic]

7. Even at the highest bastions of learning, even my alma mater, desires to ignore the past appears acceptable:

" Compare the humanists' hunger for learning with the resentment of a Columbia University undergraduate, who had been required by the school's core curriculum to study Mozart. She happens to be black, but her views are shared, to borrow a phrase, "across gender, sexuality, race and class."



"Why did I have to listen in music humanities to this Mozart?" she groused in a discussion of the curriculum reported by David Denby in "Great Books," his 1997 account of re-enrolling in Columbia's core curriculum. "My problem with the core is that it upholds the premises of white supremacy and racism. It's a racist core. Who is this Mozart, this Haydn, these superior white men? There are no women, no people of color." These are not the idiosyncratic thoughts of one disgruntled student; they represent the dominant ideology in the humanities today.


[Would it be painting with too broad a brush to say these are Biden voters?]


"Is Schuman content with a situation in which a Columbia student rails against having been asked merely to listen to Mozart because Mozart is a dead white male? Where might that student have picked up that attitude if not from the academy and its offshoots? Whiteness studies, black studies, feminist studies, and queer studies are not a fever dream of the “neocons.” For decades now, students have been taught to search for an echo of their own “voices” in the books they read and to reject those works that they believe “exclude” them, a remarkably narrow approach to the arts... Why not revel in the far more eloquent and surprising “voices” of Dreiser, Beerbohm, or Wells, for example, whose understanding of human passions and ability to craft sentences of stunning beauty and precision far outstrip our own?."
Nothing More Timeless Than Ignorance



Ignorance is prized in the Dark Ages.

 

[PoliticalChic]

8. While the target may have the title ‘the past,’ the feature that entail the title are actually the feature of our culture and our civilization. The forces of destruction, chaos and evil have won.



From the grave, Bork explains it.


Destruction “might have been written about the culture war in America and, indeed, in the West generally, a culture war in which the judiciary is deeply involved and for which it must accept a large degree of the responsibility. Almost every value, every virtue, every symbol, and every institution that was once taken as sacred, not to be overthrown in practice, has now been overthrown or is in question.

Among these are the Constitution itself (which has become a launching pad for a politically correct agenda), marriage and the family, religion, and the flag. Marriage and the family are mocked by the string of decisions protecting the vilest pornography as free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment and by the judicial drive to normalize homosexuality. Religion is denigrated and marginalized by the deformation of the establishment clause of that same amendment. Desecration of the American flag is now protected speech.²⁵ Some commentators dismiss the flag-burning decisions with the observation that there have since been few or no instances of desecration. The reason is probably that it is hardly worth bothering to desecrate a flag that has been reduced to a piece of cloth like any other, all by the empty rationalism of the Court.


…the decline of the sense of the sacred inevitably loosens societal bonds such as family, patriotism, and the like, while the resultant rise in individualism leads to conflict, disorder, and, ultimately, to the dissolution of society itself.”

 

[PoliticalChic]

9. The forces intent on eradication of the past must feel that they know better than all the thinkers who came before. The battle over survival of the past has taken place on the Supreme Court.

Justice Wm. Brennan, jr…1985 Georgetown speech supported the “transformative purpose” of the Constitution, in which he argued for an “aspiration to social justice, brotherhood, and human dignity…”

Brennan falls back on the idea that moderns should not be bound by “a world that is dead and gone.” Of course, there are lots of laws on the books today by folks dead and gone: Social Security laws, or the Civil Rights Act of 1964, or the Sixteenth Amendment imposing an income tax, and all nine justices who participated in Roe v. Wade are now dead. Would Brennan suggest ignoring any of these….or does he simply wish to allow judges to pick and choose which laws written by dead people we are to be bound by? No, this ‘transformative’ view would simply allow justices to erase parts of the Constitution.

While Justice Brennan advances the view that Originalists’ presumption is was “little more than arrogance cloaked in humility,” one should consider which view is truly arrogant: Brennan’s view is that those of us in the present generation are better able to judge than our benighted ancestors. Really? The American Constitution has survived for two centuries, the oldest and first such document in existence, and has inspired countless copies around the world. Through it we remain the freest and most fortunate people on earth.
Calibrisi, “Originalism”

 

[BertramN]

Get the high-top rubber boots out, it's really getting deep now.


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[PoliticalChic]

Get the high-top rubber boots out, it's really getting deep now.


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I searched you post for an intelligent response....alas, there was none.


Government school grad????

 

[d0gbreath]

tl;dr

 

[PoliticalChic]

tl;dr

The very same reason you did so poorly in school.

 

[PoliticalChic]

10. Just as desirous of destroying the past as any communists.....including Maoists......Democrats take their cue.


“Through 1966, secondary schools and colleges closed in China. Students -- many from the age of nine through eighteen -- followed Maoist directives to destroy things of the past that they believed should be no part of the new China: old customs, old habits, old culture and old thinking -- the "four olds." In a state of euphoria and with support from the government and army, the students went about China's cities and villages, wrecking old buildings, old temples and old art objects. To make a new and wonderful China, the Red Guards attacked as insufficiently revolutionary their parents, teachers, school administrators and everyone they could find as targets, including "intellectuals" and "capitalist roaders" within the Communist Party.



Filled with righteousness, the power of their numbers, and support from Mao, the campaigns for revolutionary change became violent. People seen as evil were beaten to death. Thousands of people died, including many who had committed suicide.

China from Mao to Deng

 

[shoshi]

10. Just as desirous of destroying the past as any communists.....including Maoists......Democrats take their cue.


“Through 1966, secondary schools and colleges closed in China. Students -- many from the age of nine through eighteen -- followed Maoist directives to destroy things of the past that they believed should be no part of the new China: old customs, old habits, old culture and old thinking -- the "four olds." In a state of euphoria and with support from the government and army, the students went about China's cities and villages, wrecking old buildings, old temples and old art objects. To make a new and wonderful China, the Red Guards attacked as insufficiently revolutionary their parents, teachers, school administrators and everyone they could find as targets, including "intellectuals" and "capitalist roaders" within the Communist Party.



Filled with righteousness, the power of their numbers, and support from Mao, the campaigns for revolutionary change became violent. People seen as evil were beaten to death. Thousands of people died, including many who had committed suicide.

China from Mao to Deng

Did not millions of Chinese and Ukranians die from starvation because of government planning?

 

[shoshi]

China has abandoned principles of communism by allowing a free market. They had to. If not for the capitalist reforms China would be another Soviet union. They learned from the Soviets that the communist system is a failure.

 

[PoliticalChic]

10. Just as desirous of destroying the past as any communists.....including Maoists......Democrats take their cue.


“Through 1966, secondary schools and colleges closed in China. Students -- many from the age of nine through eighteen -- followed Maoist directives to destroy things of the past that they believed should be no part of the new China: old customs, old habits, old culture and old thinking -- the "four olds." In a state of euphoria and with support from the government and army, the students went about China's cities and villages, wrecking old buildings, old temples and old art objects. To make a new and wonderful China, the Red Guards attacked as insufficiently revolutionary their parents, teachers, school administrators and everyone they could find as targets, including "intellectuals" and "capitalist roaders" within the Communist Party.



Filled with righteousness, the power of their numbers, and support from Mao, the campaigns for revolutionary change became violent. People seen as evil were beaten to death. Thousands of people died, including many who had committed suicide.

China from Mao to Deng

Did not millions of Chinese and Ukranians die from starvation because of government planning?

Yes.

This might explain it to you:
"We must rid ourselves once and for all of the Quaker-Papist babble about the sanctity of human life." Leon Trotsky

"A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic."
Joseph Stalin

 

[PoliticalChic]

China has abandoned principles of communism by allowing a free market. They had to. If not for the capitalist reforms China would be another Soviet union. They learned from the Soviets that the communist system is a failure.

Don't be silly.

They are as Marxist as ever, with exceptions to bring in hard currency.

....under Obama’s idol, Mao Zedong, with total control of the nation and its economy, and the imposed death of some 30-80 million who didn’t jump quite high enough when Mao said ‘jump.’

Even his allies, longtime communists, were jailed or killed at Mao’s whim.

Even a hint of capitalism, free enterprise, or plain ol’ freedom was enough.



But famine and failure tore the face off the lies of Marx.



Finally, Mao was forced to give up his obsession…and a new leadership with new priorities took over. Party leader Deng Xiaoping remarked, "It doesn't matter whether the cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice." When Mao’s famine was evident, Deng abandoned many orthodox communist doctrines and attempted to incorporate elements of the free-enterprise system and other reforms into the Chinese economy. (Britannica.com)

 

[PoliticalChic]

China has abandoned principles of communism by allowing a free market. They had to. If not for the capitalist reforms China would be another Soviet union. They learned from the Soviets that the communist system is a failure.

Communist world domination remains key.

 

[Lastamender]

 

[shoshi]

I do not trust China. I know they agenda as you would say. I trust India more. India is our ally.

 

[BothWings]

I really wish people would stop subscribing to the "left vs right" lens of perspective imposed by all media today. We will never be able to recognize the face of the enemy is we continue to think like this. It empowers the 1% to pull the wool over our eyes and create decoys and distractions, and makes us into a controllable herd which just wanders in circles trying to find a truth which is NOT out there. The world is dominated by corporations who have grown large enough to own governments. It gets it's "leftist" label from it's collectivist nature. What it is...is a plutocratic monopoly the making. A monopoly on world control. Where various governments of the world have either been bought off or infiltrated with corporate friendly globalists. All of that is capitalism. It's not a "free" market though, that's for sure. The market has it's echelons of servitude, and is largely pyramidic in structure. We are allowed to live in the bubble we call democracy and think we choose what we get. Occasionally we get lucky and the 1% drops the ball like they did in 2016. But they are back on track now. Never think that the 1% is looking to create a socialist utopia. That's what attracts liberals. And that's what stirs the righties to do desperate things which only results in their censorship. That's the mask that fools you. You'll be bringing the wrong weapons to the fight if you do. What they want is to make us all into a herd of consumer milk cash cows. But first they have to divide us into groups which chase each other into the hole. It's ALL about the of funneling of people into servitude, and their cash up to the capstone in the end, not socialism in the Webster's definition of the word by any means.