In a response to our recent post on the entropic influence of the political Left, commenter ‘Epicaric’ wrote:
It is my impression … that these forces have accelerated of late, shedding its once linear progression for a pace far more geometric in nature.
This is entirely ‘lawful’, and is exactly what we should expect. All of the erosive forces at work here — demographic displacement by poorly assimilated immigrants, low birthrates among cognitive elites, multiculturalism, galloping secularism, centralization of Federal power at the expense of local government, anti-traditionalism, hedonistic apathy, instutionalized disparagement of America’s history, mission, cultural heritage, and mythos, and behind it all the universal acid of radical doubt that is the “poison pill” of the Enlightenment itself — all of these things attack and corrode the horizontal ligatures of American civil society, leaving behind only an atomized population with no binding affinities save their vertical dependence upon a Federal leviathan that is, increasingly, the source of all guidance and blessings.
What this means is that as these forces do their work, they weaken at every point our society’s structural integrity — even as the disintegrative influences, particularly the destructive action of demographic replacement, intensify. It follows naturally, then, that the pace of decay accelerates.
In passing, we should note also that this horizontal ‘unbinding’ was, a century ago, the precursor of Fascism. The ancient symbol of the Fasces, from which the movement took its name, is a bundle of wooden rods, individually weak, but lashed together with an external binding. It is the perfect symbol for a society that has lost its organic, endogenous coherence, and so must be united by an artificial and external power.
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“Gradually, then suddenly”, all roads lead the Leftist Vandals to the gates of Rome (i.e., Western Civilization), viz.
Physics Road: Destruction via the Second Law of Thermodynamics;
Sociopolitical Road: A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles [Kindle Edition] Thomas Sowell (Author);
Socioreligious Road: Differences Between Left and Right.
It don’t look good for Western Civilization, yo.
“Gradually, Then Sudddenly”
Something about this post’s title makes me think of very large breasts.
Could it be the triple “d” in “Sudddenly”, Kevin?
Indddeed. So sumptuous.
Oops.
Latest nail in the coffin:
Marie Harf promoted to senior advisor, will focus on negotiations with Iran
Well Henry, as many nails as there already are we ain’t gonna have to waste any shells getting our ship of state deep sixed.
Well, she Harfed her way up. The State Dept. just couldn’t keep a talent like her I guess.
Actually, Robert, Harf is being promoted to senior advisor for strategic communications to Secretary of State John Kerry, where she will “continue her work leading on the Iran negotiations communications strategy.”
As she “Harfs her way up” the seniority staircase, this here senior barfs his way down to the bathroom …
Break me a f*cking give.
Excuse me Henry.
Pray tell, what does negotiations communications strategy mean (more or less) exactly? Harfing Farsi or, Farsifying the Harf?
Henry….omg, you’re right! I guess we need to find a way to tell JK that “negotiations communications strategy” actually means having James Taylor ready to travel with his guitar at a moments notice. I suspect JK will begin throwing things.
From Maverick Philosopher:
More likely, Robert, JK will be “hurling” rather than “throwing”.
My guess, JK, it’s farking horseshit.
May you Henry … of course you being circumspect may not be allowed so
Whitewall Hearken and shout (maybe a couple of times)
Fark the Harf. Edge her and, like saying (loudly of course) Remember the Alamo !!! Remember the Alamo !!!
But like I’m Jeremiading, Bear my admonitions in strut to keep the clean heart.
Say to yourselves You Pure of Heart:
“Jeremiad! Jihad I get but, not another of them counterfeit Viagras?”
Henry, David Horowitz has always been a good insight into the “liberal mind”. On another blog….yes sorry, there are others so don’t tell..a frequent commenter from Down Under tells us that the Conservatives there never allowed the Left to get away with using “liberal” as their own. A mistake we in the US made years ago.
Henry, in re your Horowitz quote — I’ll give ’em ‘reactionary’, at least in my case.
Reaction to the excesses of the Left is a good thing, Malcolm.