{"id":1724,"date":"2022-12-18T10:40:38","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T10:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/18\/civilizational-collapse-the-case-of-nyc\/"},"modified":"2022-12-18T10:40:38","modified_gmt":"2022-12-18T10:40:38","slug":"civilizational-collapse-the-case-of-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/12\/18\/civilizational-collapse-the-case-of-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilizational Collapse: The Case of NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Big Apple is now rotten to the core<\/a>, thanks to 'progressives.' There is no wisdom on the Left, no common sense, no basic decency. Cal Thomas:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The exodus of New Yorkers for less expensive and safer climes has been well documented. In 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 300,000 residents left New York state. I suspect the number this year will match or exceed that. High taxes, crime, and the cost of housing and living are all contributing factors. Police are leaving, too: 831 so far this year. Who can blame them, given the way they are treated?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It gives a new meaning to the opening line of the Frank Sinatra song \u201cStart spreading the news. I\u2019m leaving today.\u201d Except the leaving now is from, not to New York.   <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

One thing you need to know about 'progressives' is that the spirit that animates the leaders of their movement, if not every rank-and-file useful idiot and somnambulant fellow-traveller,  is the spirit of Mephistopheles. Goethe had his number:<\/span><\/p>\n

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I'll translate the first two lines. "I am the spirit that always negates! And rightly so. For the worth of all that comes to be is in its ceasing to be." This is the spirit of Mephisto and of Karl Marx, who quotes  it approvingly somewhere.  (Look it up! Why do I have to do all the work?)<\/span><\/p>\n

'Progressive' nihilism is supposed to issue in utopia and the immanentization of the eschaton<\/em>. But how do the destroyers know that it will? How do they know that burying the hard-won wisdom of the past and destroying what has taken centuries to build will clear the ground for the arisal of an earthly paradise? They don't know it. But we<\/em> know that past attempts have failed disastrously.  We know that from history, the same history that the 'progressives' with their latter-day equivalents of book burning will not learn from but will attempt to erase.<\/span><\/p>\n

You need to ask yourself whether you support the depredations of cultural Marxism which include ethno-masochistic wokery, 'critical' race-delusionality, reality-denying social constructivism, the celebration of grotesquerie, the canonization of worthless individuals, the destruction of monuments to the great and noble, the destruction of the family, the moral corruption of children, the excusing of brazen mendacity at the highest levels of government . . . and I'm just warming to my theme.<\/span><\/p>\n

One more thing. <\/span><\/p>\n

There are really only two effective ways of 'voting.' One is with your feet, as when, for example, New Yorkers head for DeSantisLand. The other is with your wallet.<\/span><\/p>\n

If your alma mater<\/em> supports the DEI agenda, politely<\/em> inform their financial officers that they will not receive one red cent from you as long as they do. This is something you can do that is not merely 'performative' as this word is now<\/a> being used. (For the record, I do not<\/em> approve of this linguistic innovation.)  For, as Lee Iaococca said, "When money talks, ideology walks."  Even the most irrational among us begin to think straight when money is on the table and their financial survival is on the line.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here<\/a> is a letter you are free to take as a model.<\/span><\/p>\n

For more on cultural collapse, take a gander at this seven-minute video<\/a> featuring the inimitable Camille Paglia.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Big Apple is now rotten to the core, thanks to 'progressives.' There is no wisdom on the Left, no common sense, no basic decency. Cal Thomas: The exodus of New Yorkers for less expensive and safer climes has been well documented. In 2021, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that 300,000 residents left New York … Continue reading “Civilizational Collapse: The Case of NYC”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}