The paper is very long and this is just an excerpt, but I urge everyone to save a copy and re-read it once a year as I am today. I posted this three years ago and many people responded that they thought it was the most important paper describing the left that they had ever read. I still think that it is for me. It is amazing how applicable it is to current events in society. I hope many will gain some insight from this paper in this new year. MC
Thank you for posting it.
Well worth the read. Pseudo-reality certainly describes any belief that a person can be the opposite sex of their DNA. We have businesses and government trying to make it a fireable offense or even a crime not to pretend that a person can be the opposite sex.
Bttt. Happy New Year!
I missed this when you posted it three years ago. It’s a great paper. Thanks.
It is indeed long. For anyone tempted to skip it, I would suggest reading a bit of the earlier sections to understand the author’s terminology, then go to the section, “The Caprice of the Party.” That is such a great capsulization of false intellectual movements throughout the ages (Communism, DEI, Climate Change, etc), that you will want to read more.
(And I don’t say the just because I have lately been thinking of Climate Change fanatics as modern Pharisees.)
Bottom line is, it’s a great road map for understanding and rejecting ideas that “only an intellectual could believe.”
The title is misleading.
Lindsay doesn’t go into the basic premise at length: psychopaths are the underlying cause and constructors of totalitarianism.
It’s a point I’ve made on this forum a number of times over the last two decades. It’s clear now that the history of the European monarchs shows that collectively, they are a clade of psychopaths of varying degree. So were the Asian “emperors” and their modern counterparts, the Communist dictators.
It’s actually a natural thing. Psychopaths live on manipulating others. And, they are relentless. So they never quit trying to dominate others using all means available to them.
Charlemagne forced all tribal leaders to kneel to him as if he were a deity. That was a hilarious concept since he claimed that the Christian deity had anointed him to rule. It’s really ordinary psychopathic behavior - using intimidation and extortion to force a non-psychopath to grovel. It’s what they live for. The idea that this means “God chose me to be king” is precisely what the American Revolution was fought over: denying that “Divine Right”.
But being who they are, they won’t quit. They’ll always be trying.
Comment: every federal worker, every police officer, every member of the “government” should be REQUIRED to take one of the psychopath profiling tests: PCL-R or later developments. The results should be public. And above a certain score should disqualify you from office.