Intermarkets' Privacy Policy
Support


Donate to Ace of Spades HQ!


Contact
Ace:
aceofspadeshq at gee mail.com
Buck:
buck.throckmorton at protonmail.com
CBD:
cbd at cutjibnewsletter.com
joe mannix:
mannix2024 at proton.me
MisHum:
petmorons at gee mail.com
J.J. Sefton:
sefton at cutjibnewsletter.com


Recent Entries
Absent Friends
Bandersnatch 2024
GnuBreed 2024
Captain Hate 2023
moon_over_vermont 2023
westminsterdogshow 2023
Ann Wilson(Empire1) 2022
Dave In Texas 2022
Jesse in D.C. 2022
OregonMuse 2022
redc1c4 2021
Tami 2021
Chavez the Hugo 2020
Ibguy 2020
Rickl 2019
Joffen 2014
AoSHQ Writers Group
A site for members of the Horde to post their stories seeking beta readers, editing help, brainstorming, and story ideas. Also to share links to potential publishing outlets, writing help sites, and videos posting tips to get published. Contact OrangeEnt for info:
maildrop62 at proton dot me
Cutting The Cord And Email Security
Moron Meet-Ups






















« Mid-Morning Art Thread | Main | There's a Real Environmental Catastrophe Unfolding In Ohio and the Media Is Downplaying It Or Just Not Reporting It for Some Reason »
February 13, 2023

THE MORNING RANT: Which Form of Tyranny Would You Prefer When the Left Kills Off Western Civilization?

Here Lies Western Civilization.JPG


When the left has successfully killed off western civilization, which of the most likely alternatives would you prefer if you’re still around?

- American / European style wokeness
- Chinese style digital surveillance state
- Muslim sharia

This is a subject for which I’ve started to write an essay several times, but then stopped, because I really don’t have a thesis or recommendation, other than repeating how critical it is for us to aggressively fight back before all is lost and irrecoverable.

We have to save what’s left of western civilization, because all the replacement options are terrifying.

The American and European left have hyped bigotry, environmental apocalypse, and a bizarre gender agenda to aggressively destroy the institutions that civilization relies on. The foundations which hold up our civilization are being lost. These include family, patriotism, individualism, traditional faith, freedom, and the western canon.

Oh, they also want to eliminate reliable, carbon-based energy production, without there being a successor to it. That is akin to the deadly civilizational reorganization that Mao and Pol Pot attempted.

In Europe, its large and growing Muslim population has been agreeable to letting the woke left destroy the old order. But the Muslim/Woke alliance is only temporary, serving to extinguish the dying remnants of Judeo-Christian civilization, which is the last impediment to the emerging European caliphate.

With a collapsing birth rate and negative population growth - except for the Muslim population – and an ongoing wave of immigration, it is inevitable that much of western Europe will eventually become Muslim-majority. It may take many decades to become a total majority, but it will not be that long until the younger population in several European countries is Muslim-majority.

Just like “woke sharia” was imposed on America by a small number of activists seizing institutions and intimidating those in positions of authority, it won’t require a Muslim majority to impose sharia in Western Europe, just some very passionate zealots who defy the ruling class to stop them, at the risk of being called Islamophobic if there is any pushback.

The woke diversity brigades may eventually be surprised about what happened to their former allies’ tolerance for diversity when European Muslims no longer have to tolerate the left’s freak show.

After carbon “net zero” is fully implemented and Europeans and Americans have shivered in the cold long enough - and buried those who starved to death after the elimination of petroleum and modern agriculture - other forms of tyranny might be welcomed.

Whatever terrible things you might want to say about the Chinese surveillance state or Islamic sharia, they’re not opposed to carbon-based energy production.

Globalists and their cartel of monopoly corporations are deeply enamored with Chinese tyranny. They look at China’s ability to digitally cancel an individual’s existence and remotely put him under house arrest for any wrongthink as a model to emulate.

But again, once the woke left has destroyed the family and eliminated all energy production and food production in the West, will China’s modern surveillance state look better by comparison? Food and warm shelter are persuasive selling points when you no longer have access to those basic human needs.

Western civilization is imperfect because people are imperfect, but nothing else in human existence has done more to foster freedom and eliminate poverty than the civilization that the left is determined to destroy. Its destruction will lead to tyranny.

*****

The Green Project, The Quota Project, and the Androgyny Project

As I’ve noted before, Michael Lind’s politics and mine haven’t always aligned, but to his credit, he rejected the neo-conservative agenda of foreign wars and nation building while people like me were still trying to defend George W. Bush. I wrongly assumed at the time that if people were criticizing Bush, they were little different from Vietnam-era anti-military leftists. Mea culpa.

Anyhow, Mr. Lind has written a “read every word of it” article about the left’s war on western civilization. His diagnosis of the left’s suicidal agenda is spot on. He also rejects the notion of compromise when standing up to the fringe that has gained control of the left. Reality-based people must stop these crazy people, and above all else, it is imperative that rational, friends-of-the-working-class leftists dare to stand up against the woke agenda.


The Power Mad Utopians [Michael Lind / Tablet – 01/30/2023]

Lind breaks the woke agenda down into three utopian endeavors: the Green Project; the Quota Project; and the Androgyny Project.

Three social engineering projects define progressivism in the 2020s: the Green Project, the Quota Project, and the Androgyny Project.

The Green Project or Green New Deal is not satisfied with decarbonizing energy sources. It invokes climate change as an excuse to radically restructure the society of the U.S. and other advanced industrial democracies, from the way that food is grown to where people live to how people behave.

The Quota Project, embodied in the rote bureaucratic phrase “diversity, equity, and inclusion” (DEI), is another utopian project. Its goal is the radical restructuring of the U.S. and other Western societies on the basis of racial quotas… Like the Green Transition, the Quota Project is a radical utopian program of social reconstruction in search of an excuse that might justify it.

The Androgyny Project holds that gender identity is independent of biological sex and purely subjective… The bizarre theory that sex is entirely a social construction has led much of the trans-Atlantic establishment to attempt to impose speech codes on society.

It’s not a short essay, so I am just going to excerpt a few more quotes.

Like all utopian social engineering projects, the Green Project, the Quota Project, and the Androgyny Project are at odds with reality and are doomed to fail. The Green Project is doomed by physics and engineering. Today 80% of the world’s energy comes from fossil fuels.

The Androgyny Project, for its part, is bound to crash against reality in the form of human biology. I predict that in a generation the “progressive” policy of so-called “gender-affirming health care” will be viewed in hindsight the way the prescription of lobotomies and chemical castration as cures for homosexuality in the 1950s is viewed today.

An obvious question arises: If these utopian projects are so inherently at odds with reality, then how can widespread elite support for them in any given era be explained? The answer, in the case of today’s progressivism as well as various ideological manias of the past, is a combination of cowardice, careerism, and cash.

Cowardice: Nobody on today’s center-left wants to be ostracized for pointing out that solar and renewable energy cannot power an industrial civilization with 7 or 8 billion people.

Careerism: DEI provides lots of lucrative jobs, fellowships, HR positions, deanships, professorships, foundation grants, and corporate gifts.

Cash: Prophets are followed by profiteers

What can be done?

It took a broad-based coalition of liberals, social democrats, and populist conservatives to thwart the utopians of the Bush era center-right, and it will take an equally broad and varied coalition to block the insane social engineering projects of the Biden era center-left.

Good point, except that it is quite a stretch to call the woke agenda in the Biden era “center-left.” This whole piece refutes the notion that there is anything close to “center” about the woke agenda in the Biden era.

The struggle to break the power of the new utopian progressivism must be a struggle within the Democratic Party to reclaim the power now held by a small cadre of well-organized and well-financed progressive radicals. Freed from a forced association with Green lunatics, anti-racist lunatics, and androgynist lunatics, tomorrow’s center-left might focus again on sensible real-world projects like raising wages and increasing economic security for all.

All in all, this is a great piece, but I fear that it would take some crushing defeats at the polls for Democrats to get the backbone to stand up to the radical left, and unfortunately, there are certain “election fortifications” employed in blue and purple states to prevent those election losses from happening.

Lind concludes…

The diverse members of the anti-progressive front can and should use every peaceful method, from voting in elections to lawfare (litigation) to peaceful protest and satire, in order to frustrate, delay, damage, cripple, divert, stall, and ultimately topple and dismantle the three lumbering juggernauts of green lunacy, equity lunacy, and gender lunacy.

Be it Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Mao’s China, Castro’s Cuba, or Chavez’s Venezuela, when the left attempts to re-order society by force, widespread death and poverty follow. That will happen to us too if we don’t stop this woke insanity.

Songs of the Season

Tomorrow is Valentine’s Day! How about a beautiful love song to celebrate the day.

“The First Time Ever I saw Your Face” – Roberta Flack

The first time ever I saw your face
I thought the sun rose in your eyes
And the moon and the stars were the gifts you gave
To the dark and the endless skies, my love

And the first time ever I kissed your mouth
I felt the earth move in my hand
Like the trembling heart of a captive bird
That was there at my command, my love

And the first time ever I lay with you
I felt your heart so close to mine
And I knew our joy would fill the earth
And last 'til the end of time my love

The first time ever I saw your face
Your face, your face, your face

Have a great week.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

digg this
posted by Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

| Access Comments




Recent Comments
[/i][/b]andycanuck (hovnC)[/s][/u]: "Maral Salmassi @MaralSalmassi Despite claims made ..."

jimmymcnulty: "Are Australian pizzas served upside down. Asking ..."

Viggo Tarasov: "Hey, that tweezer thing can really pluck someone u ..."

Eromero: "322 German police valiantly confiscating a Swiss A ..."

Anna Puma: "BOLO Rowdy the kangaroo has jumped his fence an ..."

fd: "You can't leave Islam. They won't let you. ..."

[/b][/s][/u][/i]muldoon, astronomically challenged: "German police valiantly confiscating a Swiss Army ..."

Cicero (@cicero43): "Hamas clearly recognises that when the cultural es ..."

Ace-Endorsed Author A.H. Lloyd: "The only way you can defend this position is to ei ..."

Ciampino - See you don't solve it by banning guns: "303 BMW pretty low to ground ... at least it wasn ..."

NaCly Dog: "I had a UPS package assigned to a woman in another ..."

Dr. Not The 9 0'Clock News: "One high school history teacher I remember well, a ..."

Recent Entries
Search


Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
Powered by
Movable Type 2.64