Many people have commented often ask here: Where did he stop? In all,
efforts to stigmatize normal Flirting (while ignoring the rape & # 8221
migrants) to criminalize the failure to celebrate transsexuality, so many
people are wondering where is it ending. When this madness finally run its
course? The answer is & # 8230;
Never.
Modern Progressives like how they style suggests, are obsessed with what
they see as a new & # 8221. As Thomas Sowell has more than 20 years, it's
vital to their self-image they differentiate themselves from the rest
public, they considered hopelessly backward and morally inferior to
themselves. Yet it is actually in this instinct they do not prove to be new
at all. Peacock social justice today is nothing more than the latest
version of an old zealot that dates back to ancient Egypt. This is the
revolutionary zealot in the service of Year Zero cause.
What Year Zero?
The term itself comes from Pol Pot. He borrowed from the French, who in
their revolution said that the execution of Louis XVI was the event that
started the first year of the new revolutionary calendar. All events before
that date are not relevant, is not worth conserving, and should be deleted
from the memory, and all those who defended them, or were simply not enough
enthusiasm for the new era.
The remains of the dead royals were destroyed, churches were closed and
desecrated (who threw what was said to be the crown of thorns in the
gutter), and the defenders of the old order (or just those suspected of it
or are connected through him) were sent to the guillotine.
The impetus for a revolution Year Zero is to raze the existing culture to
the ground and build a new one from scratch. Any connection to the past,
whether in the form of art, law, or persons, must be erased. Pol Pot was
perhaps the most extreme in this area. Apparently everyone at any time was
likely to be killed. Even those who wore glasses were in danger of being
regarded as intellectuals and therefore an obstacle to the implementation
of Pol Pot's agrarian socialist paradise. Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
killed more people in their countries per capita than anyone else.
A year zero diet is far from totalitarianism. Not the same language itself
is safe. The use of terms Orwell was often mocked by the return of kings,
but the form of art goes way back. The pioneer of Newspeak was the pharaoh
Akhenaten, who sought to overthrow the old religious order in Egypt and
replace them with his household gods one god, Aton. Akhenaten closed
temples and banned the worship of the ancient gods, but it was just the
beginning. Akhenaten course cleared the names of the ancient gods, but he
went even cross the plural & # 8221 gods; inscriptions on all Egypt.
Prominent people would change their own names, usually to reflect solar
deities (for example, something like Wenamon to & # 8221 Wenare;) or incur
his favor or avoid his displeasure.
Even secular beliefs in the afterlife were immune to the revolution, like
the famous death prayers are no longer asked to lord of the dead, Osiris,
but Akhenaten. A representation was even found Aton defeat the gods of the
underworld. It would have been wonderful and appalling piece of propaganda
for an ancient Egyptian who have always been concerned about his eternal
life. It was a culture that, more than any other, has created whole
industries to ensure that people would be able to have a comfortable life
after death.
It's often said that communist propaganda was designed to be as
demoralizing as possible. The architecture in occupied Europe by the
Soviets, for example, was incredibly ugly. This is certainly a trend that's
been reported in our time, the celebration of the vulgar art, the
celebration of adiposity, the mandatory use of appropriate pronouns & #
8221. However, as we have seen, nothing of this is new. It is an age-old
technique to enforce submission to the revolution by compulsory amnesia.
Nothing about the past can be looked on with emotion or even spoke at all.
And it is certainly no coincidence that both ISIS and peacocks social
justice have a penchant for overthrowing statues. Both are driven by the
same instinct in the service of whatever conception of utopia.
What happens after the revolution?
Unfortunately for the zealots Year Zero, things never go the way they
expect. They're usually too busy accusing each other of anti-revolutionary
sentiment in a bid for power, or focusing on nonsense. Prioritize the
personal conduct of the population and the imposition of a manufactured
culture (and therefore ugly) makes for bad government.
People can not pay attention to one thing at a time, and the lack of
control attention lead you to make bad decisions in life. Akhenaten focused
so much on the revolution that the Hittites conquer Egypt sponsored Asian
vassals under his watch. The French Department was busy replacing the
calendar and accusing each other they neglected to manage the wars that the
country has entered a result of the Revolution.
In this vacuum of chaos stages usually some sort of lead the strong
reaction against the revolutionaries and restore order. After the chaos of
Akhenaten's regime, a general named Horemheb finally took control of the
country, with the domestic disorder caused the revolution and the
restoration of order, which included an ironic twist tables & # 8211; he
began to erase Akhenaten, his heirs, and his regime from memory.
This example repeated throughout the centuries. In order after Oliver
Cromwell's death intensified General George Monck and a restored monarchy
of Charles II, who is serving Cromwell s henchmen and destroy radical
factions like the fifth monarchy. Theaters were reopened and other excesses
of Cromwell overthrew the regime. The population was overjoyed.
140 years later, Napoleon would lead an armed coup, overthrowing the
Directory, and to end the reign of the revolutionary zero year in France.
Although he was not conservative by the standards of his time, Napoleon
continue to restore law and order, the church calendar, and other
revolutionary institutions had sought to overthrow, become immensely
popular.
These are just a few examples. Because the revolutionary year zero bring
such chaos and disorder, they demoralize and anger of the people, and
because they're extremely violent, few options remain for the discontented
population, but to rally the support of these strong men. They restore the
old order, but certain freedoms are often lost in the process. As leftists
in our culture become more violent and brazen, we would be well served by
remembering this model.
If the peacocks social justice think Donald Trump is a kind of strong man,
they might be surprised at what comes next, they should continue to do so
unbearably & # 8211; and all the evidence says they will.
Read more: An Introduction to French Revolution
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