LEFTISM IS REALITY DENIAL

The Left in one of its more open-minded moods.

by Brett Stevens

Very few people make it through the thought required to analyze Leftism to its roots. On the surface, we all know what it is: an outlook of supposed compassion which supports feminism, diversity, social welfare programs, and gay rights.

Underneath the surface, Leftism reveals itself as fundamentally an "ideology," or in other words a notion that human preferences for how the world "should be" are more important than how the world actually functions. This was formalized in The Enlightenment™ as the idea of "seeing the world through human reason" as expressed in the individual.

“REACTIONARIES” — AGAINST WHAT?

by Brett Stevens

They tell us we are reactionaries. Against what are we reacting?

The obvious answer is liberalism, since its mental lock on the population of the West is used to exclude any common sense that might limit the license of the mob.

But I think it goes farther: We are also reactionaries against hubris.

The modern definition for hubris is "excessive pride," but the original definition — the one that sent thousands of editors with liberal sympathies scurrying to erase, obliterate, and destroy — is more complex.