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| Be careful what you wish for (part 94) |
As I've already hinted at in previous articles, the problem that America—and the wider West—has is mainly an excess of logic. This is what is generating the endless hysteria we keep seeing on the streets, TV screens, and social media. Such a statement might sound problematic, as hysteria is not normally seen as a product of logic. But logic that is based on false premises is quite capable of total insanity.
Another way to think of it is that we are losing "moral fuzziness," and thus exposing the bare bones of the ideological premises that the West has been blindly based on for so long.
"Moral fuzziness" is a key operative principle of almost any society. Saul Alinksy recognized this in his Fourth Rule when he said "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules," as most rules, moralities, or ideologies are riddled with contradictions, and the application of rigorous logic will expose this. But moral fuzziness has always been especially important for a society like the West, which claims to passionately believe in logic and universalist standards, but which is based on such blatantly flawed premises as gender and racial similitude.
But while attempts are being made to make computers more human-like, there is also "travel" in the other direction: i.e. humans are becoming more computer-like and developing minds with less nuance and subtlety that can only accept zero-one patterns. The NPC-meme is more than a meme. This sort of human degeneration is even truer of those Western states foolish enough to have based their political systems on a binary two-party system like the USA and to a slightly lesser extent the UK.
There are several factors that push humans towards a "zero-one" kind of mind. For example, an overactive, social-media driven society and the overwhelming complexity of data that we are confronted with compared with previous generations. But the bipolar structure of Anglo-Saxon society (government vs. opposition, prosecutor vs defender, confrontational culture, etc.) is clearly an accelerating factor. Living in the East, in a society that is geared to reduce confrontation as much as possible, these characteristics are particularly palpable to me.
Taking a macro view, it is obvious that the West and America in particular is going through a process of dehumanisation and polarisation, one that leeches and drains all "fuzziness"—and thus humanity—out of the system. This is reflected in political trends. In recent years those identifying as "centrists" have fallen in the most "advanced" societies:
The polarisation and desire for unnuanced simplicity is reflected in the divergence of America's two main political parties, something that was clearly revealed by polling data in 2017. In October that year, Pew Research published a wide-ranging report on the changing attitudes of American voter blocs over the last 23 years, and came to the conclusion that the country has never been more polarized.
The report stated:
BLM, when all is said and done, is an entirely logical movement. The underlying premise that all racial groups are absolutely equal leads inexorably to the conclusion that Blacks should be—on average—just as rich and successful as Whites, and therefore that there must be some invisible "Planet X" that is distorting them out of this natural trajectory. In the same way that Pluto was discovered so the invisible planet of "institutional" and "micro" racism is inferred.
But what BLM may not quite appreciate is that logic cuts both way. If you start off with flawed premises and then apply a rigorous, unrelenting train of logic to them, you don't necessarily get the truth and justice you think you will. Instead the rails take you to something called a reductio ad absurdum (reduction to absurdity).
This, by the way, was Socrates' favourite method of arguing, namely taking his opponents beliefs as a premise and then using a logical progression to reveal their absurd implications. The outcome of this method is inevitably to go back and change the premises from which the insanity flowed.
Right now BLM—as well as certain other Leftist identity groups—are engaged in a similar Socratic quest, taking the modern West's moral foundations in equality and following the logic train to total insanity, namely racism, hatred, and various forms of slavery targeted at the West's dominant and core groups. Following through on their logic of "group communism" (i.e. the total equality of all groups) they have no alternative but to call for a war on Whites.
It is unsurprising that many Blacks follow this path, but what about Whites?
Any White who continues to believe in the premise of racial similitude is thus forced by the logic and polarisation of the present day to submit themselves to an increasingly cucked and servile position. Those who don't, by contrast, are increasingly forced to follow the reverse logic of judging the premises by the insane results and therefore discarding them.
While the revolutionary logic of the situation has never been sharper or clearer, most Whites are still in a "state of fuzz." This is due to them being too busy with normie stuff to transcend their low-information lack of consciousness. But the trends are nevertheless clear and irrevocable. Already the "double standard" with which the media reports on Black and White crimes is becoming part of the national consciousness. Check Tucker if you don't believe me. A few more months of BLM working at this level should provide even greater results.
The only question is will the Dems be able to pull the reins of BLM hard enough in the months ahead to prevent America reaching its logical epiphany?
Another way to think of it is that we are losing "moral fuzziness," and thus exposing the bare bones of the ideological premises that the West has been blindly based on for so long.
"Moral fuzziness" is a key operative principle of almost any society. Saul Alinksy recognized this in his Fourth Rule when he said "Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules," as most rules, moralities, or ideologies are riddled with contradictions, and the application of rigorous logic will expose this. But moral fuzziness has always been especially important for a society like the West, which claims to passionately believe in logic and universalist standards, but which is based on such blatantly flawed premises as gender and racial similitude.
Note: I use the term "similitude" here instead of "equality" because to speak of equality in the negative has now become "morally toxic" in our deranged society. Also "equality," as leftists wish to interpret it, essentially means the similarity and interchangeability of all, at both the individual and collective level—an obvious absurdity which they have shoehorned into our collective value system through their enormous cultural hegemony and privilege."Moral fuzziness" has been the one thing saving the West from itself. From 1945 until around 2010, the ideology of the West was "fuzzy equality," a nebulous belief in equality, but with a minimal focus on what this meant in detail. A natural reference point in understanding the utility of this is the computing term "fuzzy logic." A quick on-line guide explains it as follows:
The idea of fuzzy logic was first advanced by Dr. Lotfi Zadeh of the University of California at Berkeley in the 1960s. Dr. Zadeh was working on the problem of computer understanding of natural language. Natural language (like most other activities in life and indeed the universe) is not easily translated into the absolute terms of 0 and 1. (Whether everything is ultimately describable in binary terms is a philosophical question worth pursuing, but in practice much data we might want to feed a computer is in some state in between and so, frequently, are the results of computing.) It may help to see fuzzy logic as the way reasoning really works and binary or Boolean logic is simply a special case of it.In computing terms this is an attempt to make computers—and the machines they control—more amenable to humans. For example, a ride on a train governed by a fuzzy logic program is much more comfortable than one that isn't.
But while attempts are being made to make computers more human-like, there is also "travel" in the other direction: i.e. humans are becoming more computer-like and developing minds with less nuance and subtlety that can only accept zero-one patterns. The NPC-meme is more than a meme. This sort of human degeneration is even truer of those Western states foolish enough to have based their political systems on a binary two-party system like the USA and to a slightly lesser extent the UK.
There are several factors that push humans towards a "zero-one" kind of mind. For example, an overactive, social-media driven society and the overwhelming complexity of data that we are confronted with compared with previous generations. But the bipolar structure of Anglo-Saxon society (government vs. opposition, prosecutor vs defender, confrontational culture, etc.) is clearly an accelerating factor. Living in the East, in a society that is geared to reduce confrontation as much as possible, these characteristics are particularly palpable to me.
Taking a macro view, it is obvious that the West and America in particular is going through a process of dehumanisation and polarisation, one that leeches and drains all "fuzziness"—and thus humanity—out of the system. This is reflected in political trends. In recent years those identifying as "centrists" have fallen in the most "advanced" societies:
The polarisation and desire for unnuanced simplicity is reflected in the divergence of America's two main political parties, something that was clearly revealed by polling data in 2017. In October that year, Pew Research published a wide-ranging report on the changing attitudes of American voter blocs over the last 23 years, and came to the conclusion that the country has never been more polarized.
The report stated:
The divisions between Republicans and Democrats on fundamental political values – on government, race, immigration, national security, environmental protection and other areas – reached record levels during Barack Obama’s presidency. In Donald Trump’s first year as president, these gaps have grown even larger.What this means is that people are less willing to consider issues in complex, multifaceted ways that eschew simplicity. The Left in particular wants a hard logical emphasis on the underlying moral premises of West, namely those pertaining to equality. The result of this is that those premises are increasingly exposed to light and logic, whereas in the past they were cloaked in shadows and marinated in fuzziness,
And the magnitude of these differences dwarfs other divisions in society, along such lines as gender, race and ethnicity, religious observance or education.
A new study by Pew Research Center, based on surveys of more than 5,000 adults conducted over the summer, finds widening differences between Republicans and Democrats on a range of measures the Center has been asking about since 1994, as well as those with more recent trends. But in recent years, the gaps on several sets of political values in particular – including measures of attitudes about the social safety net, race and immigration – have increased dramatically.
BLM, when all is said and done, is an entirely logical movement. The underlying premise that all racial groups are absolutely equal leads inexorably to the conclusion that Blacks should be—on average—just as rich and successful as Whites, and therefore that there must be some invisible "Planet X" that is distorting them out of this natural trajectory. In the same way that Pluto was discovered so the invisible planet of "institutional" and "micro" racism is inferred.
But what BLM may not quite appreciate is that logic cuts both way. If you start off with flawed premises and then apply a rigorous, unrelenting train of logic to them, you don't necessarily get the truth and justice you think you will. Instead the rails take you to something called a reductio ad absurdum (reduction to absurdity).
This, by the way, was Socrates' favourite method of arguing, namely taking his opponents beliefs as a premise and then using a logical progression to reveal their absurd implications. The outcome of this method is inevitably to go back and change the premises from which the insanity flowed.
Right now BLM—as well as certain other Leftist identity groups—are engaged in a similar Socratic quest, taking the modern West's moral foundations in equality and following the logic train to total insanity, namely racism, hatred, and various forms of slavery targeted at the West's dominant and core groups. Following through on their logic of "group communism" (i.e. the total equality of all groups) they have no alternative but to call for a war on Whites.
It is unsurprising that many Blacks follow this path, but what about Whites?
Any White who continues to believe in the premise of racial similitude is thus forced by the logic and polarisation of the present day to submit themselves to an increasingly cucked and servile position. Those who don't, by contrast, are increasingly forced to follow the reverse logic of judging the premises by the insane results and therefore discarding them.
While the revolutionary logic of the situation has never been sharper or clearer, most Whites are still in a "state of fuzz." This is due to them being too busy with normie stuff to transcend their low-information lack of consciousness. But the trends are nevertheless clear and irrevocable. Already the "double standard" with which the media reports on Black and White crimes is becoming part of the national consciousness. Check Tucker if you don't believe me. A few more months of BLM working at this level should provide even greater results.
The only question is will the Dems be able to pull the reins of BLM hard enough in the months ahead to prevent America reaching its logical epiphany?
Colin Liddell is the Chief Editor of Affirmative Right and the author of Interviews & Obituaries, a collection of encounters with the famous and the dead. Support his work by buying it here. He is also featured in Arktos's A Fair Hearing: The Alt-Right in the Words of Its Members and Leaders.
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