CTRL-ALT-THINK: The Source Code of All Leftist Madness

[MeganC]

CTRL-ALT-THINK

The Source Code of All Leftist Madness

matthewdasilva.substack.com

Excerpts are posted here. Please go to the link to read the entire article.

"For decades, the Right has been aware that the Left is increasingly unreachable through rational argument and debate. There’s a growing sense between both groups that the two sides are becoming more alienated from each other. The root of that word, “alien” refers to one who is an outsider to the main group.

In the context of our politics, it’s not a strong enough term. An alien, whether they’re from another country or another planet, shares with us an existence in a universe with the same laws of physics. We may have different ideas or technologies but at the end of the day we both acknowledge the force of gravity as a real thing, for example.

The divide between the Right and the Left is much more profound than this. We may live together, but we do not share the same reality. Many of you utter similar statements, having experienced the same profound disconnect. The phenomenon of Lindsay Clancy fangirls is just one more of myriad recent examples.

The horrifying upshot of this alienness means we share so little in common as to be on the brink of a total breakdown in communications and within society itself."

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"In other words, to the Right, reality exists outside of us and it is detected and understood through our perception. This process is imperfect, which means when we learn something new about reality, we alter our assumptions accordingly.

The Left by and large does not share this assumption. To the left, reality is not merely perceived and experienced objectively but created through the act of interpretation. For a Leftist, reality is a canvas and interpretation adds flourishes that make it a better or worse place."

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"Because reality as a product of internal interpretive processes requires others to be mindful of the fragility of those constructs and thus interact in ways that will not destroy another’s idiosyncratic construction of reality."

 

[MeganC]

I keep seeing so much anti-realistic thought that this article neatly summarizes. I thought some others here might enjoy it as well.

 

[MeganC]

A well written comment on the article:

Great food for thought. My main question would be if anti-realism is the core operating program, or if it’s the means to an end of an even deeper or more central belief or set of beliefs. Leftists have long believed that there was already in place what they perhaps might view as an anti-realist system that told lies about women, about gay people, black people, etc. After all, we all should be equal. And yet, those pesky differences that won’t go away. So they think the problem goes to social programming. Little girls only like dolls because the patriarchy told them to. It’s the patriarchy that’s anti-realist, and it’s going to take a lot of de-programming to finally make everyone see.

They think, I believe, that their beautiful reality is there underneath, it just needs to be burnished and brought to light. I do think this can be traced back to the collapse in the belief in God. Their dream of equality is what rushed in to fill the vacuum of the equality conferred by a God that gave each of us a bit of His divine spirit, and who also subjects us to an unbiased judgment. It is a perverted and soulless Christianity they are acting out unknowingly. If the reality of the sexes needs to be thrown out to get us to the New Jerusalem, so be it.

 

[steve]

I look forward to reading the article, but I’m just going to throw this out there.

In some forms of Christianity there is a concept of “Name it and claim it”. They use a way of believing called “Manifesting” where they believe in an outcome and expect it to come to fruition in the manner in which they have believed.
Imo, liberalism is a religion. They just don’t recognize any gods.
They declare what they want the truth to be and fully expect the universe to line up with what they believe, because they wouldn’t believe it if it wasn’t true. They are actually “manifesting” reality. Logic doesn’t work with them because it doesn’t match what they feel. This is why the feeling-based gender is typically at the forefront.

We are seeing this play out in several national news stories and it is very tribal.

 

[MemeFan]

Less just say that leftist expect way great capability to shape reality than actually exist. What they do is actually punishing people who see that emperor is naked.

 

[steve]

Hoof-da
Having read it, I am a bit overwhelmed.