In the most recent issue of First Things, a Russian writer, Eugene Vodolazkin, declares that “Stalin served as the instrument of a social aspiration to suicide.” I find this hard to believe or accept. After all, didn’t Stalin come to power at a time when Soviet citizens were still imbued with lots of idealism about the new society they were building? Well, I’m no expert on these things, so maybe not. Maybe enough of them had realized even as early as 1922 that the whole thing was going to crash someday, but they couldn’t back out gracefully, so they decided to choose a leader who was going to kill a lot of them. I leave it to others to decide if this makes any sense.
Still, I want to apply this idea to our situation today, namely, the situation in which liberals and leftists want to import as many Muslims as they can. I suppose it is possible that lots of leftists are so imbued with guilt about the past sins of the West in general and America in particular that they are willing to let the whole entity be destroyed, even if it means that their own most deeply held values will not survive the catastrophe. I haven’t brought this up before because it seemed so ... crazy. Would feminists really want their movement destroyed? How about gays? Do they really want gay liberation destroyed and themselves pushed back into the closet? But then again, maybe we are dealing with crazy people. After all, I should be able to say the following and have progressive agree with me or at least take my position seriously: “I don’t want more Muslims coming here because the ones who are here already have killed too many leftists.” The fact that this isn’t sufficient – the fact that nothing I can add to this (such as the fact that immigrants from other religious groups aren’t murderous the way Muslims are or that Muslims are also horribly sexist and homophobic) is sufficient – is as strong as any evidence I can think of that progressives these days are trying to commit suicide.
I have talked about various tendencies driving the leftist-Muslim alliance before (see here, here, and here), but I can’t say much more about this one. If this is about a social aspiration for suicide, then we are dealing with something for which my background in analytic philosophy didn’t train me. It’s something Freudian, I guess, except that I thought he had been discredited. Jungian, maybe? Forget limousine liberals, we are dealing with lemming leftists. And of course there’s plenty of evidence that leftists are crazy these days, as Trump derangement syndrome, especially concerning the firing of Comey, shows. But this leads to an important question:
How do you de-crazy half of the population?
You nailed it. They are indeed crazy and suicidal.
Posted by: Maya M | 05/18/2017 at 12:33 PM