13 March 2011

More resembles spaghetti than soup

When the corporate elite rule and abuse Western societies the left-wing calls it class privilege, but when the ruling families of the Middle East dominate those societies even more brutally the left-wing calls it national self-determination and the overthrowing of colonial rule. 
The left is of the West and all they are dealing with is their own sense of oppression, not the oppression of others elsewhere in the world. They use the example of colonialism and genocide to verify the oppression they feel locally in their own lives. They generalize the ideology but they don't have the moral strength to care about, not to mention to care for, the weak and oppressed. All they're doing really is caring for themselves. 
The left is  promulgating a world without authority, without sanctity, without duty, without office, without standards and practices and centrist institutions; a world of sentiment and the fulfillment of the evanescent creative moment and the glory of mass solidarity, of grace transcendant. They are drawn to the institutions of powerlessness and subordination such as the academy or the women's professions. 
Absent the rigors of consecration, what is left in a society is a ruling elite that serves its own personal honor and uses the instruments of social order for private advantage. What is left is a society with no genuine public space. A society without the rigors of consecration is instead made up of a mass of interwoven threads of inter-subjectivity, of money-favor threads or power-challenge threads, of honor/shame threads. It is a society that more resembles spaghetti than soup. 
The application of power of necessity revolves around an enormous vortex of mutual conspiracy of each against all rather than what operates in the West as due process of men applying laws to offices and submitting to duties and the standards and practices those duties uphold. 

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