I get confused, from day to day, about how I should characterize today's left...is it fascism today or socialism or communism, etc. It's hard to keep up, given how insane their hallucination they call reality is.
Speaking of Le Bon, look how prescient this is from over 125 years ago:
I get confused, from day to day, about how I should characterize today's left...is it fascism today or socialism or communism, etc. It's hard to keep up, given how insane their hallucination they call reality is.
Speaking of Le Bon, look how prescient this is from over 125 years ago:
Like religions (and Socialism is tending more and more to put on the guise of a religion) it propagates itself in any manner rather than by reason. Feeble in the extreme when it attempts to reason, and to support itself by economic arguments, it becomes on the contrary extremely powerful when it remains in the region of dreams, affirmations, and chimerical promises.
With what lever does it seek to raise the soul? With the sentiments of envy and hatred which it creates in the hearts of multitudes? To the crowd, no longer satisfied with political and civic equality, it proposes equality of condition, without dreaming that social inequalities are born of those natural inequalities that man has always been powerless to change."
Again, well thought out! Over time, they seem to evolve. Although, this, mu opinion, is another iteration of the 1789 Crowd. All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.
Eric Hoffer And another one: It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
You may be right.
I get confused, from day to day, about how I should characterize today's left...is it fascism today or socialism or communism, etc. It's hard to keep up, given how insane their hallucination they call reality is.
Speaking of Le Bon, look how prescient this is from over 125 years ago:
Like religions (and Socialism is tending more and more to put on the guise of a religion) it propagates itself in any manner rather than by reason. Feeble in the extreme when it attempts to reason, and to support itself by economic arguments, it becomes on the contrary extremely powerful when it remains in the region of dreams, affirmations, and chimerical promises.
With what lever does it seek to raise the soul? With the sentiments of envy and hatred which it creates in the hearts of multitudes? To the crowd, no longer satisfied with political and civic equality, it proposes equality of condition, without dreaming that social inequalities are born of those natural inequalities that man has always been powerless to change."
Again, well thought out! Over time, they seem to evolve. Although, this, mu opinion, is another iteration of the 1789 Crowd. All mass movements strive, therefore, to interpose a fact-proof screen between the faithful and the realities of the world. They do this by claiming that the ultimate and absolute truth is already embodied in their doctrine and that there is no truth nor certitude outside it. The facts on which the true believer bases his conclusions must not be derived from his experience or observation but from holy writ.
Eric Hoffer And another one: It is a wise man who said that there is no greater inequality than the equal treatment of unequals.
Felix Frankfurter
Oooh. I like that quote. Hadn't heard that one before
THANKS! The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
Perhaps in the future, they will be perpetuated by memes.
Socialism is a religion with an earthly reward. The reward is observably NOT economic. It is status. Hence biological leninism. Hence the eternal raznochintsy (intelligentsia, aka over-production of elites per Turchin). Hence: https://dailycaller.com/2018/01/13/how-to-trump-the-media-avoid-conservatives-biggest-mistake/