Why the "progressive" mindset is as it is, and why it is so dangerous:
"It goes without saying that if utopia were possible,
anything done to achieve utopia would be permissible; and likewise any
opposition to utopia would be an evil so monstrous as to be beyond explanation.
That is why the cultists are not just appalled by opposition to their
featherbrained and bloodthirsty schemes, their desire to loot and lie and give
the guillotine work to do, they are honestly baffled by it.
The same reason that utopia, by being so valuable permits any
sacrifice needed to build it, and makes all opposition into devils and madmen,
so too does an emergency permit large sacrifices allegedly for the duration and
silences all opposition as being impermissible given the limited time and the
severity of the emergency.
This is why the cultists are always shouting at the top of
their lungs.
This is why the best health care system in history, with
little or nothing wrong with it, which, perhaps, to be made even better, could
have used a few minor tweaks, is described as a crisis demanding immediate
action.
A crisis is like a miniature utopia, in that the severity
allows foolish actions, like passing a law without reading it first. And any
objection to solving the crisis can be denounced as being prompted by an evil
desire to prolong or deepen the crisis, a wrongheadedness and willful blindness
to the looming severity of the coming disaster.
The end of the world is always immanent for the Cult. The
stakes are always all or nothing, world salvation or world damnation. Nothing
can be discussed calmly. Nothing can be discussed calmly for the same reason
there is no loyal opposition nor honorable rivals: everything opposed to the
cult must be described as absolutely bad and evil in all ways."[i]
The absolute
focus on achieving utopia in the present world, blinds the utopian progressive
to the rationality of the wisdom of their means in achieving it. If perfection
is just out of grasp, then many people would feel justified in doing what it
takes to reach that perfection. Not everyone of course, because there are many
people who are not guided by a utopian vision, but by principle and morals
grounded in the recognition of the fallen nature of man. But the utopian cultist
sees such people as the problem anyway. It is that such people will not agree with
them that utopia is possible that makes the progressive so angry at them, “Why
can’t you just see it you luddite!!” is the hysterical cry.
Why can’t we
see it? Because the vision is impossible and unrealistic and is creating so
much damage in the short term that the only rational conclusion is that if we
continue to follow this course things will get worse. That is why we cannot see
it. Because its not not really utopian at all.
What is
fascinating is this drive in the progressive for utopia, also explains the
hysteria of 2020-2022. The crisis of 2020 allowed the worst tendencies in
progressives to swing into full action, giving them great license, because a
majority of society was behind them for once. They managed to convince most of
society of the level of danger and of the utopian ability for their policies to
protect people from any and all dangers, and so society empowered them to run
free to their heart's desires. The minstrels promised utopia and the crowds fell
under their sway, as surely as if they were children listening to the pied-piper.
Because of
this licence granted by a permissive society they got to give into their inner desires in a way rarely seen in
Western society (which is why radical abortion and other policies happened as
well). They got to play into their long cherished goals of micro-managing
society at a minute level, they got to be the voice that guided people’s
actions down to who they could visit and when. They got to be the all-consuming
power and guidance stone in the lives of most of society, and they did not have
to give an account of it to really anyone. It's the perfect situation for the elitist who thinks their vision of society will solve all ills. Therefore, the more progressive the leader the more totalitarian the policies.
Most of
society believed them to such a degree, that the vast majority of people
willingly turned on those questioning the vast abuses of power committed as the
true problem, because we who questioned were getting in the way of a utopian
world without the virus. How selfish then were we? Of course this is not
rational thinking, but it didn’t need to be, it just needed to give people in
fear what they wanted to hear to not be afraid anymore.
Crises don't
change people as much as they reveal who they really are, and the recent crisis
revealed a deep sickness in much of the Aussie people, and sadly, also in the
Church and its leadership. A sickness that made Aussies and people across the
world susceptible to the most ludicrous of claims, simply because they bought
into the lie which was the basis of those claims. A utopian mindset has
overcome the West, probably because we have had it so good for so long, we
believe the only logical next step of progress is the Promise Land. But it is
not, it really isn’t and we should stop listening to people who think they can actually
achieve this.
[i] John
C Wright, Transhuman and Subhuman
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