Our social order is insane at the moment. We have lost the capacity for basic moral reasoning, or at least a large segment of our populace has. They live in a zombie world, where they recite propaganda. Leftists–Moral Sadeists–have made it so they can say up is down, and people will nod their heads and go out and repeat it.
Take Syria. The “rebels”, most of whom are not Syrian, are cutting the heads off of Christians, and torturing children. They are literally cannibalizing their enemies. None of this was happening under Assad. All of this is new.
And Obama says “support them”, and people who have claimed to viscerally oppose war their ENTIRE LIVES now say that we should support Syria. This is insanity. This is a loss of moral agency, of the capacity for principle based behavior.
Prior to the last election I posted about a dream I had where people were voluntarily allowing themselves to be decapitated, in a ceremonial procession. This process has been going on for a long time.
If you want to find zombies, look in our halls of allegedly higher learning. You will find genteel, well dressed, polite, polished people who are INSANE, who justify by ignoring the slaughter of MILLIONS of men, women and children; who ignore the massive and predictable horror in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia that followed our reckless and indefensible decision to abandon our allies there.
These people are not only still with us: they are running our government. Why won’t Obama bend on Obamacare? Simple: his vision is a totalitarian world in which he gets the massive narcissistic supply of being a dictator, and taking control of healthcare is only one short step in the direction he envisions. Not only does he not care about the predictable and preventable suffering that will attend the idiocy that is Obamacare, he intends MUCH MORE. He wants it to get much, much worse. He won’t suffer. His family won’t suffer. And that is sufficient.
Do you think Fidel Castro has EVER cared about children being treated for cancer with expired aspirin? Of course not. He is a sociopath. Functionally, so too is Obama. So are all of these people. These ideas make them like that. They can rationalize in principle the destruction of principle. They have found a way to discard all the advances of Western civilization, and fall back to the darkest periods of the human race, before any social order was possible.
And I want to be clear that OF COURSE they can found an order based on power and the fear of that power. But that is not a social order. We do not become more connected. On the contrary: this is the limit of alienation. This is making all human beings alone and solitary, without hope, without a sense of being.
In a formal sense, this is the essence of evil, because it is the polar opposite of love.