GI, GO… a concept whose time has come…
let us take our modern day America, the left vs the right,
and what is one of the accusations the right makes
against the left, the left are ‘‘liberal elites’’ meaning
urban, east coast-west coast… New York or LA/Hollywood…
which is suggesting that the two coast are not engaged with
or understanding of the ‘‘real’’ America… all of which are pretty
solid buzz words meaning nothing… one of the fracture points
of this division is education…it is a fact that the more educated
one is, the more likely, that one is going to be liberal…
In other words, the educated person has more likely
read Anna Karenina or any one of the ‘‘dead white guys’’ classics…
I will be willing to bet that the average MAGA person has never
read Anna Karenina or Faust or even Shakespeare…
that they, MAGA, are not connected to the foundation of
Western civilization, which is the heart of America…
Both the Declaration of Independence and the American
Constitution were written with Enlightenment values…
The founding fathers were all about the Enlightenment and
its values…Benjamin Franklin was highly thought of in
Europe because he was considered a valued member of
the Enlightenment spirit in Europe…
But as IQ45 has made it clear, that the values of the
Enlightenment are not wanted, nor needed in America…
and he is supported by the conservative/MAGA crowd…
It is my contention that the right wing/MAGA crowd
are the ones who are not in the spirit of the American
ideal…for the values of the Enlightenment include
education, toleration, improvement/ striving for being
better, science, rationality, facts, thinking for oneself…
every single value rejected by conservatives/MAGA…
One of the essential points of the Enlightenment is
that tradition is not always the path forward and even
that has been rejected by the MAGA/conservatives…
Look at what the MAGA crowd has called for, a rejection
of education, a rejection of science, and even a rejection
of tradition…tradition would call for a following of the
Constitution and the Declaration and the MAGA crowd
has called for the null and void of both… for they have
attack almost every single amendment of the constitution
with the prominent exception of the second amendment…
criticize IQ45 and one is threatened with sanctions including jail…
please be my guest and publicly say IQ45 is an idiot,
and the MAGA crowd will attack you with threats…
that is the first amendment… IQ45 has threatened to remove
‘‘Birthright citizenship’’ which is enshrined in the 14 amendment,
he has attacked and violated the Due process Cause of both
the 5th, 6th and 14 amendments… jailing and deporting
Birthright citizens without due process…using the ICE as his
own private police force…basically, the Nazi’s SS…
But where is the Garbage IN, Garbage out part of this?
It comes from the very lack of the basic understanding
of the American Constitution and its principle and where
those principles come from… it comes from being uneducated…
and the vast majority of MAGA, conservatives are uneducated…
and being uneducated in the values and beliefs of
Western civilization… which are enshrined within
the literature of Western civilization… even with rejecting
the basic values of the bible… the new religious path in
America is called ''Rugged/Muscular Christianity"
which begins with a rejection of the words of Jesus…
Christianity, which is about being Masculine, and not
about Love, in being active and even aggressive, which
is clearly not in the bible… a Muscular Christian rejects
the saying listed in Mathew 5:39:
‘‘But I say unto you that ye resist not evil, but whosoever
shall smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other
also’’
A Muscular Christian would even advocate that the
‘‘true’’ Christian would strike first before allowing being
hit… a rather astonishing rejection of Jesus…
and his advocation of nonviolence… the new path allows,
even advocates violence to ‘‘protect’’ oneself… this rejection
of tradition, of a tradition that has lasted 2000 years brings
us to realize that the conservatives/MAGA have soundly
rejected the past, traditions that has lasted for centuries…
and why?
Because they are uneducated in what it means to be an American,
or even a Christian and I might even suggest that they are uneducated
in what it means to be human…because they haven’t or won’t read
the literature that brings us to what it means to be human…
for example, one of the great pieces of literature is Faust,
written by Goethe…Faust is directly tied into the bible…
In fact, I would suggest that without knowledge of the bible,
Faust doesn’t even make sense… and who among the MAGA
crowd has read Faust? I would venture none… certainly
the village idiot has never read it… and yet, you can’t make
sense of the modern era without knowing Faust…it very clearly
prophesizes the rest of the 19 and 20th century… (the book
was finished in 1832 shortly before Goethe’s death)
So, what exactly does being uneducated mean in this context?
it means a failure of knowing the sources or principles of
our modern world… not knowing the literature that helped
create our modern world… recall that books were the basis
of information since 1500 and were the source of information
up till 1900… 400 years of information that the modern world
was built upon… and if you don’t or can’t read that,
you can’t understand the information that built the modern
world… granted books like Dante’s Inferno was published
in 1321, but didn’t reach the masses until mass market books
came into being around 1500… you can’t understand the basis
of the modern world without knowing the information that they
used to base their understanding of the world…
you need some sort of tradition to understand our modern
world… or said another way, our modern world didn’t just
magically appear without any sort of precedent before it…
it, the modern world grew out of the old way of knowing, of
information… and without that information,
one is uniformed about the sources and principles
of the modern world… which is the exact description
of the modern day MAGA/conservative… they are
uneducated because they are uniformed, uneducated
about the literature that has informed and created the modern world…
let us pause and think about that…
and in my next post I shall continue…
Kropotkin