more recent of

 

A more recent, or in fact the current state of something I think I previously posted.

The Left’s Love of Criminals

I think most people probably have very little idea of how extreme and strange hardcore leftist ideology is, lulled perhaps into imagining, insofar as the process is noticed at all, that the ideology’s insertion into the mainstream contemporary West legitimizes it, implies that it conforms to some way reasonable and good limits. I suppose the subconscious sense is that if a wild beast has got into your house, that must imply it is not wild at all, but domesticated. Reality acts as a soporific, however crass and bizarre its manifestations. 

So below, from Sergei Nechaev, influential 19th century Russian revolutionary, murderer and author of Cathecism of a Revolutionary:

“We are guided by hatred for everything not of the people, having no moral obligation or honor with regard to the world that we hate and from which we expect nothing but evil.”

He called on the ‘merciless destruction’ of the existing order, and the only morality was what furthered this cause of reducing society to chaos. Nechaev’s program of actions included intentionally betraying his own seemingly like-minded colleagues to the authorities, so that their ensuing imprisonment would further radicalize them, while murdering one now dissenting student, Ivan Ivanov, with the main intent apparently being to, through this act, psychically deepen the bonds of the rest of the revolutionary group together. This was a key inspiration for the character Pyotr Verkhovensky in the 1872 novel Demons by Dostoevsky, in which Verkhovensky exhorts his co-conspirators:

“Your whole step is towards getting everything destroyed: both the state and its morality. We alone will remain, having destined ourselves beforehand to assume power: we shall rally the smart ones to ourselves, and ride on the backs of the fools. This generation must be re-educated to make it worthy of freedom.”

‘Pronouns’, transgender Last Supper mockeries at the Olympics, and on on are exactly such societal destruction/re-education processes that the ideology calls on. So the principal job for the revolutionaries is destructive, not constructive. The entire social-political order is to be destroyed, it being All Bad and in total opposition to All Good of future utopia promised by the totalitarian cult. The existing state is the enemy with which it is at war.

So everything is good that erodes or damages the existent society, and again this is where people might have trouble seeing the dark logic of the progressive cause at work. Within the ideology every act or thought which damages the existent order is good, and thus one ends up then with every criminal act legitimised, through the ideological lens, ‘an act of protest.’ This following isn’t an unfair caricature, a libel on the ideology, but is the cult in its destructive aspects in full flow. 

Rape gangs erode the fabric of society. Therefore rape gangs are good.

It really is this extreme and deranged, And this is where one can pretty clearly glimpse or get an idea of the kind of dark spiritual energy that its adherents have opened themselves up to. And to add, in terms of extending the revolutionary logic at play, sanity is itself the target for destruction before the inner ‘utopia’ will rise from its ashes.

And so right now in the US for instance, basically activist judges are seeking to prevent the ridding of the country of illegally present members of very dangerous gangs such as MS13. Apart from the practicalities of being able to contract such people to carry out at a safe distance certain acts, this is simply the ideology at work. The criminal is by definition more true and good than the solid, law-abiding citizen, since the criminal by his acts undermines the social-order, whose existence is opposed to the progress cult. 

Of course, the defence of criminals by the ideologues will make a pretence to goodness and legitimacy, but the truth is regarding the actual ideology crime is good since it undermines the order sought to be destroyed. Whether this is all implemeted consciously or more subconsciously doesn’t matter too much - and anyone in sync with the cult is in large part no longer really an autonomous person anyway. The mind has become the host for the computer program, as it were, which is acting in the person’s place. 

These kind of manifestations are of course happening everywhere in the West, but just to give one recent and for me local example, RTE, the Irish national broadcaster, reports on a Guyanese man who viciously raped an 18 year old, two days after being allowed into the country as a migrant, despite the fact that he had just been expelled from the UK due to his offences as a convicted rapist. But the Irish authorities, supposedly serving the interests of their citizens, allowed this known rapist in, though they had no obligation whatsoever towards him. What is more odd here actually is the state media outlet actually reported on this case at all, since of course it itself is very much a re-educating servant of the cause:

Clutter

Where there’s clutter there’s shadows, and things can be hidden in the shadows.

Visages?

 

Game

“Would you like to play a game I came up with?”

“What kind of game?”

“Well, you begin somewhere, you head off, and then after a while, you try to find your way back to where you began from. And anyone who finds their way back to the beginning wins.”

“Why not just stay where you were to begin with?”

“Where would the fun be in that?”

characters

 

Ink 2004

Something extremely quick in its initial haphazard creation, but slow and difficult then to try to iron out a bit afterwards.

Bach - Erbarme Dich, Mein Gott from St Matthew Passion

 

Perhaps the greatest work of art in any medium by anyone ever - you could certainly argue its case. This recording was apparently for French tv, and the uploader has edited a few pieces together including the audio obtained separately to avoid things like a voiceover, and thus possibly the somewhat irritating opening of the video with the odd slow-motion stuff. I’ve chosen this version though, having just seen it, partly at least for the especially beautiful vocal performance, though the strings could maybe sound a bit richer. Not that I’d have a clue.

Here with a much slower tempo, accompanied by stills from films by Andrei Tarkovsky, who used Bach quite a bit in several of his films.

The Unwise

 Do not willingly test your mind with wanton thoughts that tempt you when you think you will not be overcome by them. For the wise have darkened and become foolish in this way.

St Isaac the Syrian

in town

 

Ink 1104

 

Coluors

Something from some quick messing about - not that messing about can’t be productive.

 

If you

“If you had no thoughts in your head, what would you do?”

“I suppose I’d have to go and get some.”

Fr Sergiy Baranov

 

I thought this was very impressive.

tumult detail

 

Tumult 2

 

Some refining done to this work from a few posts ago. 

Single Out

 “Barracks” Obama has a new single coming out: Just the Thought of Myself Is Enough to Get Me High. The song is said to be funky but also cerebral.

There is also a b side: I Am All the Love I Will Ever Need.

The Minimum

“Wouldn’t you like to order me to stay out on the porch, sir . . .  so as not to overhear something somehow, by chance . . .  because the rooms are tiny.”

“That’s a good idea; stay out on the porch. Take the umbrella.”

“Your umbrella . . . am I worth it, sir?” the captain oversweetened.

“Every man is worth an umbrella.”

“At one stroke you define the minimum of human rights . . .”

From Demons by Dostoevsky.

Figured

“You know what I figured out?”

“What?”

“Just because something is respectable doesn’t mean it’s decent.”

“I thought they always went together.”

“No. Not necessarily.”

Tumult

 A very quick ink piece from last night.

sir Was

 

The Academic Respectability of the Totalitarian Left

 Years back I studied history at university in Cork, and I remember being surprised in first year of that three year degree course of a couple of modules on the course, these being, however they were precisely titled, History through the Lens of Marxism, or Marxist History. The USSR was no more and the obvious connection of totalitarian communism  with Marxism was something I don’t think anyone was in doubt about, and the toxic nature of that regime and ideology was a given in the world I had grown up in. But now no one seemed to be batting an eyelid with Marxism playing quite a significant part in the collegiate studying and understanding of history. All of a sudden I was within an environment where Marxism was all very respectable. There were no enforced modules, for example, teaching history through an intellectual lens of Christianity! And just to add, Marxist ideology has a supposed perfect rational understanding of both the logic of past history, but also of future history, where it is progressing. And this includes of course a value judgement on this progress. It is the academics’ role to facilitate its progress. And it is all in short, an intellectual cult in which the intellectuals, through the means of takeover of the State take complete control of society. So it’s not hard to see the ideology’s appeal for thus inclined intellectuals!

Just one other snippet from that time: I remember someone I was friendly with, who was certainly bright and very pleasant to ever deal with, and who was studying Philosophy along with, I think, English. I remember being surprised not long after college when he had seemingly become an ardent convert to socialist ideology - he himself very much middle-class in his background. But he - and was espousing standard doctrine - was hoping the working-classes lives would become much worse, because until then there was no hope of the Revolution coming which would open up the glorious future, i.e. the triumph of the intellectual Marxist cult of which he was now one of the guardians. This can be achieved through the existing political system or, more excitingly, violently. (Then of course, of course, the plight of the working-classes, though it had seemed to be the entire point of the Left, was simply abandoned as an unproductive cause, and focus shifted entirely to issues like gender and racism as more useful to the cause.)

So that was always the essence of any cause in the hands of the Left, once we are in the Marxist realms. The superficial cause, such as the proletariat, is the weight used by the cult and its elites to gain power. I remember being amazed that this pleasant, well-meaning guy was hoping less well-off people’s lives would get worse! The stupid naivety from an intelligent person in this already exposed toxic belief system was almost incomprehensible to me. And one other thing I remember being aware of here: maybe that same night when he talked of his leanings, he and another friend had been watching some inane Hollywood comedy such as I at this stage in my life wouldn’t even think of sitting down to. But here, simultaneous to his utopian Marxist hopes, he’s intentionally dwelling within this inane level of consciousness, and one which of course was coming from the corporate entertainment world that is surely inimical to any grand hopes for humanity!

“A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways” (James 1:8).