{"id":918,"date":"2024-02-25T18:33:13","date_gmt":"2024-02-25T18:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/25\/civilization-versus-the-new-nihilists\/"},"modified":"2024-02-25T18:33:13","modified_gmt":"2024-02-25T18:33:13","slug":"civilization-versus-the-new-nihilists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2024\/02\/25\/civilization-versus-the-new-nihilists\/","title":{"rendered":"Civilization Versus the New Nihilists"},"content":{"rendered":"

 Victor Davis Hanson<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Put the question to your friends and acquaintances: Which side are you on?<\/em> If they are not on the side of civilization, cut them off.  Make them pay a price for their willful self-enstupidation. Why should they get the benefit of your friendship? If enough of us ostracize enough of them, this will have an effect.  (The usual ceteris paribus<\/em> qualifications apply.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Here's my take from 2017:<\/span><\/p>\n

The Nihilism of the Left<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n
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Leftists are so far gone that they are willing to protract their nihilism unto the destruction of the very secular values that they supposedly champion. Pascal Bruckner<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Generations of leftists saw the working class as the messianic leaven of a radiant humanity; now, willing to flirt with the most obscurantist bigotry and to betray their own principles, they [have] transferred their hopes to the Islamists.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Muslim as the new proletarian.<\/span><\/p>\n

The worst of the great religions, "the saddest and poorest form of theism," (Schopenhauer) is defended when a defining project of the Left was the cleansing of the earth of the "opium of the people." (Karl Marx, full quotation here<\/a>.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Add to that the absurdity that the Left, whose own secular values are secularizations of Christian notions, attacks Christianity viciously while cozying up to Islamists.<\/span><\/p>\n

It's insane, but then the Left is insane in any case.<\/span><\/p>\n

………………..<\/span><\/p>\n

And here<\/a> is another by my man Hanson, the writing machine, on the insanity of leftists.  It's on the russia, Russia, RUSSIA! hoax. To hell with these TDS-ers and their self-induced lunacy.  They don't seem to grasp that they have a moral obligation to exercise due diligence in the formation of their beliefs. That is an obligation that they regularly flout. <\/span><\/p>\n

There is just no moral or intellectual equivalence between Right and Left. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

 Victor Davis Hanson Put the question to your friends and acquaintances: Which side are you on? If they are not on the side of civilization, cut them off.  Make them pay a price for their willful self-enstupidation. Why should they get the benefit of your friendship? If enough of us ostracize enough of them, this … Continue reading “Civilization Versus the New Nihilists”<\/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":[147,180,315,165],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civilization-and-its-discontents","category-decline-of-the-west","category-nihilism","category-political-nihilism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918","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=918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}