Left wing dullness

If you think about it, the vast bulk of the intellectual energy of the Left over the past century has been devoted not to discovering the new, but protecting the old. Their minds are bent to affirming orthodoxy, in roughly the same way the best minds in the Catholic world were bent to the defense of the faith, the Church, and its dictator.

And this orthodoxy tells us to believe in the benign nature of an absolute despotism organized to reduce (or elevate, in some cases) all of us to the same economic and social status. It is an orthodoxy, on other words, fervently and violently dedicated to making the world and its inhabitants as deathly dull and indistinguishable from one another as possible.

And to add insult  to injury, it is all to be done for our own good.

Small wonder these people found the need to start talking nonsense 50 years ago. Clear thinking and the clear speech which follows it, can only be inimical to such wicked stupidity.

And to be clear, Marx, writing and prognosticating in the middle of the 19th century, WAS original. He was also wrong. That is why it is stupid to defend his ideas, and all the downstream ideas that follow and flow from his misanthropic logic.