Milton Down the Left
Welcome American Thinker readers!
I perform a philosophical autopsy on the liberal love for Muhammad in a piece at the American Thinker this morning.
There was a discussion at the AT about ``Leftist Fascists``, and how those on the right should not allow liberals to use it as a slur against them. James Lewis pointed out that Left Fascists are fascists too! I disagreed with the premise; Fascism and Nazism are both intellectual products of the Left, and this can be easily proven by following the intellectual currents of the 19th Century. (Fascism and Nazism are like the filoviruses; Fascism being Marburg, and Nazism the more deadly Ebola.) While reading `a couple of Rousseaus`-to paraphrase the President-I came upon that quote at the beginning of the piece. One thing lead to another, and viola!
This is, of course, a limited dissection of a very long and complicated issue, and I have little doubt that I`m going to catch 8 shades of hell over this piece; I could have easily written a book on the subject. I tried, in the interest of brevity, to analyze just a few key philosophical points. Also, I needed a narrative hook, and Milton fit entirely too well. (That`s going to make a lot of leftists blow their tops!)
The better we understand the philosophical underpinnings of modern liberalism (which has little to do with traditional Liberalism, but instead is merely the radical Left with a shave and haircut)the easier it is to defend against their tricks. When they say they support the troops, we can be confident that a good many of them do not, and predicate our actions accordingly. If President Bush understood them, he would never have gotten himself into the political bind in which he currently resides; He would have understood the need to defeat them, rather than work with them. The `New Tone`, the `uniter not divider` business has hurt the Republicans terribly, and if the President understood who and what he was dealing with he would have known these ideas would fail.
I hope in the future he reads a few Rousseaus and Nietszches.
I perform a philosophical autopsy on the liberal love for Muhammad in a piece at the American Thinker this morning.
There was a discussion at the AT about ``Leftist Fascists``, and how those on the right should not allow liberals to use it as a slur against them. James Lewis pointed out that Left Fascists are fascists too! I disagreed with the premise; Fascism and Nazism are both intellectual products of the Left, and this can be easily proven by following the intellectual currents of the 19th Century. (Fascism and Nazism are like the filoviruses; Fascism being Marburg, and Nazism the more deadly Ebola.) While reading `a couple of Rousseaus`-to paraphrase the President-I came upon that quote at the beginning of the piece. One thing lead to another, and viola!
This is, of course, a limited dissection of a very long and complicated issue, and I have little doubt that I`m going to catch 8 shades of hell over this piece; I could have easily written a book on the subject. I tried, in the interest of brevity, to analyze just a few key philosophical points. Also, I needed a narrative hook, and Milton fit entirely too well. (That`s going to make a lot of leftists blow their tops!)
The better we understand the philosophical underpinnings of modern liberalism (which has little to do with traditional Liberalism, but instead is merely the radical Left with a shave and haircut)the easier it is to defend against their tricks. When they say they support the troops, we can be confident that a good many of them do not, and predicate our actions accordingly. If President Bush understood them, he would never have gotten himself into the political bind in which he currently resides; He would have understood the need to defeat them, rather than work with them. The `New Tone`, the `uniter not divider` business has hurt the Republicans terribly, and if the President understood who and what he was dealing with he would have known these ideas would fail.
I hope in the future he reads a few Rousseaus and Nietszches.
posted by Timothy Birdnow | 5:36 AM
5 Comments:
Tim write the book and put me down as the first buyer. What I am finding out is that the Leftist really do try and protect Islam.They even resort to using Islamic debate strategies. If you pin them on a point they tell you that you dont know all the facts as they know them. If you persist they resort to name calling or labeling you Islamophobeist or racist. Then they attack your family and friends. I am sure that in face to face conversations they would resort to physical attacks. They are at best closed minded people who willingly accept slavery over freedom.
Thanks, Learner! You have got them pegged.
Great article, Timothy! Brief but so illuminating. I hope to read more on the topic "Liberals and Paradise Lost". It might explain why former Puritan strongholds like the Northeast are so liberal: liberalism as a "counterfeit" of true spirituality and utopia as the counterfeit of the true eden Eden.
Thank you, anonymous! You`re right; it does indeed explain why liberalism takes hold in apostate Christian strongholds like Massachussetts or Holland.
If you study the history of Liberalism you will notice that it is a kind of evil afterbirth of Protestantism, and the success of the Left came using many of the same methods and techniques pioneered by the Protestants-including the use of the printing press, development of an educational system to disseminate literature (before this a priest would have to explain the Bible and other works to the mostly illiterate congregation), etc.
Liberals co-opted these tactics, first allying themselves with the Protestants against the Catholic Church, then turning on them when they had accomplished their mission. Sound familiar? They think they can do the same thing with Islam.
This also explains the Religious Left; many of the more liberal Protestant sects-Methodists, Quakers, etc. believe that it is Man`s responsibility to build the Kingdom on Earth. This is the old (now largely discredited) Post-Millenialism, the belief that Christ will return after the Church has turned this weary old world into a paradise. Of course, if we are doing all the work anyway, it is a small step to dispense with the part about Jesus...
On weekends I don't read much online, so Monday is catch-up day. The AT article is great!
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