The only thing I would add is that the lie originated not from the political world but from the academy itself, specifically postmodernist literary criticism. Yes, this was rooted in Marxism, but the source was "within the house" not outside of it.
Postmodernism's key invention is a (quite valid) skepticism of how accurately words can ever describe the real world. Its fatal flaw is the (totally absurd) claim that words create the world. Claiming "transwomen are women" is nonsensical under Aristotle; refusing to acknowledge it is violence under postmodernism.
Nearly everything else you describe in the academy flows from this.
Exactly right. You give the etiology in a nutshell. And yes, it did first hit Anglosphere universities’ literature departments. Imported from the Paris Left. Starting in the ‘80s, it spread outward to neighboring departments. I watched it happen firsthand.
It was all “within the house,” as you say. The *long march through the institutions* ended with a new Leninist vanguard. The Revolution would be overseen by those who analyze *signs*. Signs in the Saussurian sense.
And the “workers” to be liberated by this neo-Marxism? The next rising generation of academics, of course. Thus the Ponzi scheme aspect.
This is the history. It has nothing to do with the working class, whether in Britain or the US.
Yes to much of that. The part I reflected on and find most disturbing is the state of our institutions in the West, the inversion of feeling and moral ideal with truth, and the fall of the most important institutions (the universities) that are to forward the best of epistemology and epistemological methods. Sad beyond the tragedy and ultimately cruelty by those who enabled it all. https://brianbockath.substack.com/p/the-compassionate-answer-is-no
The Cockroach Cultists must tell a lie as disbelief in reality is the prerequisite for this religion. It is the occultists' trick to be a sorcerer of words embodied in theory sans an empirical base and call it science.
The only thing I would add is that the lie originated not from the political world but from the academy itself, specifically postmodernist literary criticism. Yes, this was rooted in Marxism, but the source was "within the house" not outside of it.
Postmodernism's key invention is a (quite valid) skepticism of how accurately words can ever describe the real world. Its fatal flaw is the (totally absurd) claim that words create the world. Claiming "transwomen are women" is nonsensical under Aristotle; refusing to acknowledge it is violence under postmodernism.
Nearly everything else you describe in the academy flows from this.
Exactly right. You give the etiology in a nutshell. And yes, it did first hit Anglosphere universities’ literature departments. Imported from the Paris Left. Starting in the ‘80s, it spread outward to neighboring departments. I watched it happen firsthand.
It was all “within the house,” as you say. The *long march through the institutions* ended with a new Leninist vanguard. The Revolution would be overseen by those who analyze *signs*. Signs in the Saussurian sense.
And the “workers” to be liberated by this neo-Marxism? The next rising generation of academics, of course. Thus the Ponzi scheme aspect.
This is the history. It has nothing to do with the working class, whether in Britain or the US.
Yes to much of that. The part I reflected on and find most disturbing is the state of our institutions in the West, the inversion of feeling and moral ideal with truth, and the fall of the most important institutions (the universities) that are to forward the best of epistemology and epistemological methods. Sad beyond the tragedy and ultimately cruelty by those who enabled it all. https://brianbockath.substack.com/p/the-compassionate-answer-is-no
Great thoughts. Unfortunately many people won't see the issues with academia unless they are directly affected by them.
The Cockroach Cultists must tell a lie as disbelief in reality is the prerequisite for this religion. It is the occultists' trick to be a sorcerer of words embodied in theory sans an empirical base and call it science.