Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:46 pmIt has been for me a strange but also a curious conflict. All of my personal background, my university friends and friends growing up, and myself, were of that Left-Progressive orientation. When the Left was actually a Left that could be respected -- pro-family, anti-immigration (illegal immigration), antiwar, pro-free-speech, and opposed to corporate manipulation -- their platforms made sense. But everything has switched around in very strange ways in our present. To the degree that it is hard to sort things out. In fact I do not have it sorted out. Though I am aware that power-games and power-wars are going on all around us.
When I realized what Left-Progressivism
in its association with the State was set on, I naturally turned back to those who have been dispossessed in the sense expressed by Wilmot Robinson:
My life has many similar experiences. It seems you, myself, and seeds are all West Coast (Best Coast) spawns...well, it used to be the Best, only two or three decades ago...the "Left-Progressives" turned on almost all, or all, of their self-professed beliefs. This is something I critiqued and argued against
seeds, but didn't seem to make a dent. The post-hippies/hipsters on the West Coast, the leftovers of the 1970s counter-culture, claimed their primary value and morality in life was/is "World Peace". And yet, they would not vote nor support the likes of Donald Trump, even if that were the 'Devil's Price' for "World Peace". And the Trump-Derangement-Syndrome does represent the grave weakness and failing of the Liberal-Left/Progressives.
What it all revealed to me was/is—that they never actually cared or believed in their supposedly public Self-Righteousness and Justice. It was, and is, only about Political Power. That's what they
actually wanted. And they hoped, with the Hilary-Obama Administrations, that they would finally claim 100% full political power. They thought they were going to own the world. This is why they're so hung-up on Trump. This is why they are deranged. Again, because they are and were willing to expose themselves, that all of their previously 'Liberal' moral values and beliefs, were in fact
empty!! They had no real moral beliefs, no real Righteousness...because of their Secularist-Atheist-Agnostic metaphysical underpinnings.
They actually, truly believe in:
Nothing! Because they are the Nihilists. Their ideology and religion (the Religious-Left) is Nihilism!
To me, it was shocking, not that I hadn't had suspicions about them before...growing up with them all around me, on all sides...but primarily because of when, they thought they were safe, they 'exposed' themselves so brazenly, proudly, and auspiciously. As-if they wouldn't drive the moderates from their own ranks, who now cower and hide, waiting for the next social fad and virtue-signaling epidemic to wave a new flag and 'come out' again.
Much of this is what drove me to the "Conservative-Right". If I'm going to be forced to deal with religious Fundamentalists (from the Left), then I at least want them to be
Honest with their faith, mysticism, morality, ideology, etc. And in this, the Christian Fundamentalists are far more trustworthy. Because I don't want to have and raise children in a Liberal-Leftist "Utopia" that plants pornography in kids' libraries! Or that their Sin is now their
Pride Parades while they chastise Conservatives "what people do in the privacy of their own homes is not your business!" It's on the street! It's not in "their own homes"! It's in every child's hands, when they gain access to a smartphone!
Alexis Jacobi wrote: ↑Thu Apr 18, 2024 2:46 pmTherefore in respect to what Wizard has said in the above-quoted paragraph, I make my commitments with those who seem better aligned with those
general metaphysical principles that I have been outlining over the months and years. I have wavered though. For example in my conflicts with Immanuel Can (who is a terrible apologist for Christian values). Then the task become to go further to the root and to discern and try to understand, and if possible to appreciate, what is there at the very core of Traditional Catholicism. Because that is the most orignal nexus of Europe -- and it is to *Europe* that I make my personal commitment.
The more I reflect on this topic and your thread...
The more I understand the underpinnings and primary causes. America is not Europe. And Europe is not America. Yet almost all Americans identify as "American" far before "European" (or our ethnic countries), through the filter of "Classical Liberalism", in such a way that we (Americans) have a chance to "re-invent" ourselves, our culture, our identity, choosing which parts of our past (including Christianity) we will keep or throwaway. And this is most reflected in the recent century.
America is not adjusted (yet) to Imperialism. Our original governmental conception was/is:
strictly Republican. The Founding Fathers were deeply inspired by the Enlightenment period and philosophers, along with Græco-Roman posterity (reflecting the Roman Architecture in Washington DC). These were Anti-Catholic Protestants, who did not want to give the Pope a stronghold in America, out of historic grudges and warfare. The Anglicans were (and still are to this day, on this forum) resentful of Catholic ideological supremacy.
Here is a contradiction, perhaps the most obvious...
Anglicans (British Islanders) had a brief time of world Imperialism and Dominion, because of naval supremacy...but also had a Monarchy and Feudal Lord system to back it up. However, they did not want to cowtow to the Catholic Romans and Vatican. Thus they started their own (Per)version of Catholicism in their Anglican Church. Their 'Protest' was, and is, a political resentiment.
Yet, the American Protestants took the Roman Architecture and philosophical underpinnings. So this creates a duplicitous semblance of 'Christianity' in the West. And it worked and was practical, while in the early Colonial phases. It worked in the 1500s, 1600s, 1700s, and 1800s. But it's *NO LONGER* working the 1900s and 2000s. Because the nature of any Empire/Imperialism, especially a 'Globalist' one,
must have a centralized morality or an undisputed, absolute, Monotheistic Church.
The Founding Fathers could never have envisioned how large and domineering the Anglo Colonies would become...to today, after WWII, global air travel, smart phones, internet, etc.
Basically, the West is unfit to deal with the cultural clashes and moral panic occurring...because we don't have the proper foundations to deal with them (a centralized Church/Morality). Unlike the Roman Empire, which did (the CC).