Saturday, April 08, 2017

The Rise Of Populism: an Explainer



It was obvious to anyone who has done even a little reading in the field of political philosophy that Barack Obama was a Marxist, not an economic Marxist but a political or cultural Marxist, whose thinking like that of The Frankfurt School and Saul Alinsky was based more on Marx's other book, The Communist Manifesto than on his impractical but good-looking-on-paper economic theories in Das Kapital. In fact, with its focus on the subjugation of the individual to the all powerful central state authority it can be argued that all Marx did was take the social structure of Zionism and replace God with The State.

If that is correct it would go some way to explaining the weird, oppressive laws enacted (by executive order, the democratic equivalent of rule by Imperial Decree,) in the United States during the final months of the Obama administration, not just by the outgoing president, Emperor and Pontifex Maximus Barack Hussein Obama, but by state legislatures in those states traditionally dominated by the Democratic party. As one would expect in California, the world capital of 'progressive' craziness a plethora of new and oppressive laws come into effect as Governor Moonbeam extends the reach of government into the lives of the states people and even animals, and a bizarre new law took effect in Illinois which required hairdressers to obtain training in domestic abuse prevention. 

Hairdressers as domestic abuse coulsellors? WTF?. The basis of the idea is the state would take advantage of the confidential relationship between a woman and her hairdresser to spot the symptoms of control frwakery or even violent abuse and guide the victim toward the embracing arms of agencies of government where she will be made dependent for life by a far more subtle form of abuse that is designed to convince its victims they cannot survive without support.

While not yet fully implemented this daft idea is now part of the qualification process for anyone seeking to become a hairdresser in Illinois and whichever other US states adopt the policy (the usual suspects being California, New York, Massachusetts, Colorado, Washington, Oregon and the north east we guess.)

What level of training hover the great and good of Illinois decided is appropriate to enable people to fulfil this complex and sensitive role, you might well ask. Anyone who wants to keep their job as a hairdresser will be required to undergo one hour of training every two years. His / her / zur ability to wield comb, scissors, hairdryer etc. being unchanged, the loss potential earnings should he / she / ze be stipped of the license to weild such weapons of mass beautification in order to provide a service as part of a commercial transaction clearly not seen as an injustice in the bizarro would of Cultural Marxism.




While Cultural Marxist are fond of babbling about the utopian dreams of Marx and followers who believe a perfect world would ensue if only people would stop being indiviuals, stop living for themselves and learn to 'live for each other' to use an often quoted and rarely understood phrase. In order to be able to help others we must first help ourselves. A rarely quoted comment on Cultural Marxism that I believe should be shouted from the rooftops is the warning the Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin gave Marx in 1870(ish) when he predicted that a Socialist or Communist government would quickly become more oppressive that the old absolute monarchies of Europe. Bakunin has been proved right in every nation where communism has been tried and even in democratic nations, elected governments of socialist parties have quickly developed authoritarian tendencies.

The rise of populism, symbolised by the victory of Donald Trump in the US election and the result of the UK's referendum on whether we should remain in the increasingly authoritarian vand federalist European Union isn’t the politics of rejecting the policies of politicians and experts, it is in fact a total rejection of the kind of “experts” who, having spent all their lives in schools and universities filling their head with theory and book - learning, feel themselves qualified to pontificate on a subject of which they have an almost total lack of understanding; life.

Such experts deserve more than voters' contempt disdain.
Educational qualifications and endorsement from state agencies are now seen by a growing proportion of the global population as measures of incompetence and a bureaucratic obsession with process and procedure and pedantic devotion to pointless rules and regulations. Qualifications it seems, nothing at all to do with intellectual capacity apart from objectivity. It isn’t the denial of reasoned argument but rather the logical end of it.


Thus we have come to a state where on one side we have the people who are not part of 'The State' and are intelligent (in many different ways), creative and self reliant, and the ones who have embedded themselves in the suffocating grip of bureaucracy and have lost the power to think critically and reason objectively and have become dependent on process and procedure, rules and regulations.







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