What Does the Left have left?

 Censorship is a double edged blade, with one of the side being serrated; the side that is serrated is applied to the speaker, while the smooth side is applied to listeners.  The way that censorship harms a society is that it stifles the intentions of both the speaker and the listener; many people seem to have forgotten that when a man’s tongue is cut out only message the world gets is that someone else is afraid of that man voicing his ideas.  Yet ideas don’t die, only the people who express them.

 For quite some time now politics has divided into four quadrants: on the vertical divide there the labels like Left and Right, while the horizontal divide there says Liberal at the bottom and Authoritarian at the top.  This is typically called The Political Compass and testing to see where you land is readily available on the public Internet.  If you the decide to take part in these sorts of tests, find three to five different sites as some will lean in one political direction while other sites will slant in the other.

 Dear reader, if you happen to be a progressive or happen to stumble across one, there is one question and one question only; that needs to be asked, which is ‘if and when you stop progressing, please describe the world that you will have built for me?’  This is the question, especially under scrutiny, that no one seems to be able to answer; probably be-cause they never really thought it through.

 Currently, a problem in many social conversations is that few people can define the Left and the Right with any certainty and so new words needed to be introduced into the lexicon to describe people outside of those two systems; one of those words is ‘woke’  and the other is ‘progressive’.  The second word, in the previous sentence is a good sounding word seeing as everyone wants to move forward, and yet this author is seeing only regression for the last decade plus, for there has been a plethora of unrest at the civilian level.  The first word was co-opted from a smaller portion of society and got perverted on its way to ubiquity within society; ‘woke’ means ‘to see’ or ‘to know’; yet what the subject matter for the seeing and knowing is now being prescribed, almost as if it was orthodoxy.

  The Enlightenment, circa the 18^th century, strove to chase away superstition and faith in favour of reason and it advocated for liberty, tolerance, fraternity, national rule by the people, a separation of church and as one might guess ‘progress’.  The problem that is now coming to light is that for some, mostly the selfish, there are certain perspectives where the those values are not to be held in equal balance for all; typical this is framed in the ‘rules for thee, but not for me’ sentence.  How this usually works is that one person demands their liberty, all the while demanding tolerance from others; for the idea of ‘fraternity’ seems to have been disposed of along with the contents of the chamber pot from last night.

 Once one accepts the idea of an apex predator within an ecosystem, the existence of an apex group member within said predatory group must be obvious; according to Darwin, all life is hierarchal.  Excluding humans, the rest of nature typically ignores the principle of might makes right, as the rest of nature knows not what is right or what is wrong.  The ideas of right and wrong are human values and even then there is no global consensus on this matter; the lion has no sympathy for the gazelle’s fate and the gazelle has no empathy for the hunger of the lion; for these are typically human traits and even then, these are not applicable to all humans.

  There are two main factors at play that have brought down the good intentions of The Enlightenment; those are Time and us Humans.  When given enough time many a human can and will solve a given problem and typically that problem can be stated as such: ‘I want a better life tomorrow than I have today, and then I want my children to have an even better life than what my tomorrow is going.’  This is a noble cause so long as one maintains a state of mind in which The Enlightenment is holistically considered.  Once any of the six pillars of said Enlightenment are forgotten, ignored, or stripped away, a new era must begin; to paraphrase Yoda from the Star Wars movies – “Begun, the “ME” Wars have.”

 The acts undertaken in WW2 wrought a plethora of damage around the globe, this is a fact.  Yet the most significant outcome of WW2 was the phrase ‘never again’.  The problem with the word ‘never’ is that it represents a very long time.  For us humans it typically lasts as long as living memory, which is typically three to four generations.  However yet as mentioned earlier people die, but when it comes to ideas, not so much.  We know this because some ideas no matter how good or bad always seem return. 

 The ‘never again’ mantra gave life to the UN, the EU and eventually the bureaucratically established ‘Deep State’ in many so called other ‘free countries’.  Seemingly, persons are being placed into positions of power where they can impact member countries, yet those persons are being moved ever more distant from the people.  Please understand that those in the UN are appointed and yet they are allowed to, or are trying to, set policies for the member states and beyond.  Perhaps paintings of the royals of old can be held up as a mirror to those presently seeking power while skirting the electoral process; though upon consideration, a picture of Dorian Grey may be more appropriate when one contemplates the sheer number of skeletons some of these power seekers have inside and outside of  their closets.

 There seems to be a metaphorical scent in the air and some people are starting to notice it is turning foul.  The saying ‘a house divided can not stand’ can be applied to nations as well, and there seems to be efforts towards dividing nations from the inside by stacking the political deck while pulling a slight of hand towards emptying the pot. Many people have heard the leader of the World Economic Forum proclaimed that people would have to adjust their lives to the ‘the new normal’; though it is becoming ever clearer that this phrase has expanded beyond Klaus Shwab’s intent towards taking over the world.

 In bygone days wars were fought over resources, first it was food, land, and slaves, then it became coal for heat and steal, with the last big ruckus and to a certain point still is on-going over oil and its variances.  Seemingly, the new landscape that has opened up for raping and pillaging are the narrative and the opinion.  The old saying ‘facts don’t care about your feelings’ has been renovated to the point where now many people’s feelings no longer care about the facts.  For these feelings-first people, there is also a ‘new normal’, for now the masses are ever increasingly shifting towards the social media platforms in their pursuit for the facts as an alternative to what appears to be some sort of orthodoxy centered entirely on faith, a faith which presents itself at a level similar to any fundamental religion.

 The use of the word faith above may be misplaced because with the religious faiths there is simply trust in what is true; where as these feelings-first people actually obfuscate existing facts be it by omission or by redirection; though those efforts seem to be failing due to the overwhelming nature of there attempts.  A prime example of this that is fooling no-one is the reporting on crime, which then gets coupled with the lack of reporting detail in the old style media.

 Please consider why many a media report on crime where the alleged perpetrator is described as “The police are seeking a tall man last seen in a dark jacket, black jeans, and a beard.”  This description is missing the obvious element of skin colour that should have been obvious when the beard was noted, thus leaving the reader with only assumption.  This situation is exasperated by the fact that if the perpetrator is white then typically is when skin colour is noted.  Much like any judge, the Main Stream Media should only address the facts while ignoring personal feelings, and personal political positioning.

 It used to be that both sides of the political divide within many a country could agree on what plagued most of said country’s citizens, with the only argument up for debate being which path is the best path towards a solution; this has been regulated to the dustbin of history as now even the problems can hardly ever be agreed upon regardless of the scale in which the discussions occur; be it at the local, the state, or national levels.  Terms such as ‘irregular immigration’ and ‘no person is illegal’ are forms of linguistic redirection in that these terms fail to admit the one simple fact; the law had been broken the moment the illegal migrant stepped one foot over the boarder. 

 The saying, ‘don’t bury you head in the sand’ got expanded to ‘when you bury your head in the sand you end up leaving your ass in the air.’  This has become a problem for the feelings-first people who obfuscate facts because, because while narrative can change opinion, the truth will remain, because the facts will not go away. 

What is called the political Left, has for the most part been running the West for just about forty years and frankly the West has changed and not for the better.  Over the last forty years the political elites have drifted away from the common people and when any politician tries to return to appealing to the common people, they are called ‘populist’ at best, or ‘far-right’ which is becoming evermore typical.  The use of the term ‘far-right’ as a pejorative is the indicator of the political leaning of those who use it.

 Now that the narrative has been set, it has to be asked, how are things going after the last few decades of the tutelage under the Left?  Here is a headline like list of some of current situations:

• Woman banned from gym, after complaining about being shown a penis in female change room.
• 28 year old man commits suicide after learning he will never be able to breastfeed the baby he wanted yet can’t have.
• Scandal erupts in England over Grooming Gang cover up, raped girls ignored.
• Pride parade held hostage by Hamas supporters by using a human road block.
• Climate Change Girl supports rocket strikes on Israeli citizens.
• Toronto Police refuse to enforce Obstructing Traffic Laws on people engaged in prayer. (Toronto Municipal Code 950 Section 950-300B)
• Since May 2021 at least 33 Canadian churches have burned to the ground.
• Young men being forced out of dating scene as #MeToo has been weaponized by women; are the men acting in an involuntarily or voluntarily way?
• Social media platform Rumble leaves France after threats of fines for not removing certain posts.
• China’s TikTok blocks Western content toward controlling their social narrative.
• Tim Hortons under fire for hiring only foreign students after government provides subsidies.
• Bill C-63, the Online Harm Act, draws criticism as it lacks any definition of what is harmful.

  Back in the 1970’s there was a popular statuette representing ‘See no evil, Say no evil, and Hear no evil’.  Unfortunately there wasn’t a forth monkey expressing ‘Do no evil’, though what that one would look like is beyond the scope of this writing.  While evil is understood to be wickedness and immorality, the chance for subjective analysis of what is wicked or immoral always exists, and many people will, if not almost must, leverage that to their advantage.  For Leftist, the three original monkeys are the archetype of their perfect world; unfortunately they can’t seem to incorporate the forth, consider the historical death counts in communist countries.

  The stated goal of the socialist and communist ideologies is to balance a society by eliminating greed, which has about the same percentage of success as cancelling human lust. 

 In a debate, Jordan B Peterson put forth the question ‘how do we know when the left has gone too far?’  The answer to Dr. Peterson’s question seems quite simple, when they don’t say anything about their evils, when they don’t want you to see their evils, and when they don’t want to anyone to hear about their evils.  In other words, when they achieve enough power to control the narrative rather than letting society decide what should or should not be spoken; for whoever controls the public discourse controls the social mindset, and by doing so, they are ignoring any understanding of the banality of evil, just like every other tyrant.

 "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." 

- Eric Hoffer, The Temper of Our Time -