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We all know, but the charge here is to make it sound like you are a conspiracy theorist, like the Masons, the Bilderburgers, New World Order, Truthers, Birthers, Warmers, Rosicrucians, etc., for this quickly dispatches you as a nut-job, so let us deal with that charge as easily as it is shallow and specious.
As Machiavelli would have it, a conspiracy is a group of malcontents each with the power, by exposure, to be contented. Therefore, the Left is not some shallow conspiracy.
Let us follow the line of Eric Hoffer. In early civilization, you had the god-king, a hereditary title based on birth to whom all power was vested. Now Pharaoh was not always top-drawer in the thinking department, and even if he was, the kingdom was vast, large, and people being people, unevolved in a few short centuries, complex. So there was a small group of priests and scholars in which all education was vested, they were the guardians of god, counting, writing and record keeping as well as serving as advisors. As long as we had kings, castes, or Oligarchy, they were the guardians of knowledge, culture and societal order (and trust me, religion was a valuable tool to them as the disseminated superstition to the unwashed masses).
Unfortunately for them, the enlightenment and the great Christian thinkers produced Liberalism (which is not what we call Liberalism today as it was redefined by the Left to include them so they could again regain their former position) and Liberalism was a merit-based system in which Education and Culture was not as much a factor as was providing the people with the goods and services they desired.
This meant that the former controllers, the visible guiding hands of Society and Economy were left outside of the halls of power and various forms of Democracy and Republic put men into government from the ranks of the meritorious who sprang from the unwashed, uneducated (culturally) masses. The Scribe Class was reduced to cloistered academics in the various Universities.
Of course, they did not take this sitting down and worked on the meritorious of the day, subtly with honey and with the ability to make them feel a little inferior for not being "cultured." So gradually they fought to expand the Universities, to make themselves relevant, to once again seek the side of the Sun-God. They used guilt, they used appeals to false authority, and they used the insecurity of the newly wealthy and went to work on their children to convince them that the University was their birthright and they are still working this pattern today, not as a planned conspiracy, but a collective unconscious drive to rule once again, for they have studied and are truly more meritorious than the simple inventors of do-dads and gadgets for the masses.
So we see the Left is the elite intelligentsia, those educators wanting to join their ranks, the children that are enthralled with them, the reporter who wants to prove how erudite he is, the actress who wants to demonstrate how culturally hip she is, the voter who imagines that secretly, unlike his fellows in the ranks of the unwashed masses, is one of the educated because he reads a lot, a whole lot.
But what the academic has not provided for these people in a foundational philosophy having chosen the ideals of Plato and the followers Nietzsche and Kant and the road to Relativism and that leaves the follower of the Scribes plastic, wavering in the wind willing to believe in anything at any time and fight for any cause without regard to its merit.
So that is who the Left is. A class frustrated by its loss of power using the magic bromide of "Education" to get blind and adoring followers to subject themselves to indoctrination in the hopes of redemption; a call to heaven, an altruistic cause, equality of outcome, fairness, a return to the primitive, a return to Eden.
As Machiavelli would have it, a conspiracy is a group of malcontents each with the power, by exposure, to be contented. Therefore, the Left is not some shallow conspiracy.
Let us follow the line of Eric Hoffer. In early civilization, you had the god-king, a hereditary title based on birth to whom all power was vested. Now Pharaoh was not always top-drawer in the thinking department, and even if he was, the kingdom was vast, large, and people being people, unevolved in a few short centuries, complex. So there was a small group of priests and scholars in which all education was vested, they were the guardians of god, counting, writing and record keeping as well as serving as advisors. As long as we had kings, castes, or Oligarchy, they were the guardians of knowledge, culture and societal order (and trust me, religion was a valuable tool to them as the disseminated superstition to the unwashed masses).
Unfortunately for them, the enlightenment and the great Christian thinkers produced Liberalism (which is not what we call Liberalism today as it was redefined by the Left to include them so they could again regain their former position) and Liberalism was a merit-based system in which Education and Culture was not as much a factor as was providing the people with the goods and services they desired.
This meant that the former controllers, the visible guiding hands of Society and Economy were left outside of the halls of power and various forms of Democracy and Republic put men into government from the ranks of the meritorious who sprang from the unwashed, uneducated (culturally) masses. The Scribe Class was reduced to cloistered academics in the various Universities.
Of course, they did not take this sitting down and worked on the meritorious of the day, subtly with honey and with the ability to make them feel a little inferior for not being "cultured." So gradually they fought to expand the Universities, to make themselves relevant, to once again seek the side of the Sun-God. They used guilt, they used appeals to false authority, and they used the insecurity of the newly wealthy and went to work on their children to convince them that the University was their birthright and they are still working this pattern today, not as a planned conspiracy, but a collective unconscious drive to rule once again, for they have studied and are truly more meritorious than the simple inventors of do-dads and gadgets for the masses.
So we see the Left is the elite intelligentsia, those educators wanting to join their ranks, the children that are enthralled with them, the reporter who wants to prove how erudite he is, the actress who wants to demonstrate how culturally hip she is, the voter who imagines that secretly, unlike his fellows in the ranks of the unwashed masses, is one of the educated because he reads a lot, a whole lot.
But what the academic has not provided for these people in a foundational philosophy having chosen the ideals of Plato and the followers Nietzsche and Kant and the road to Relativism and that leaves the follower of the Scribes plastic, wavering in the wind willing to believe in anything at any time and fight for any cause without regard to its merit.
So that is who the Left is. A class frustrated by its loss of power using the magic bromide of "Education" to get blind and adoring followers to subject themselves to indoctrination in the hopes of redemption; a call to heaven, an altruistic cause, equality of outcome, fairness, a return to the primitive, a return to Eden.
