Almost everything the Left does only makes sense when you understand that there are broadly two classes of people with wholly different rules, "the people" and "the enemies of the people," who are not considered valid people. This logic underlies ALL of their thinking.
"The people" are those who support Leftist theory and practice or who might still be trained to do so. "The enemies of the people" are those who resist or reject Leftism, have something Leftists don't want them to have, break from Leftism, or represent any opposing faction.
Nothing "the people" do, so long as it is consistent with advancing Leftism, is wrong. In fact, it's necessary and right. Violence, hate, and malice are"resistance." They are taught these are necessary moral goods and trained to believe it. Actions don't matter. Context does.
Nothing "the enemies of the people" do can be right. Even if it is, it's for the wrong reasons, so wrong. Everything they do is bad and must be punished. The only thing the can do is to confess over and over and start their journey to becoming a Leftist too.
"The people" are taught to hate "the enemies of the people" and to blame them for all failures of Leftism. Leftism is never wrong. It would always work but for "the enemies of the people." They must be hated for everything, then, and blamed for "hating the people."
Today, in Western Marxism, "the Enemy of the people" is Western Civilization and its hegemony, including its individual liberties and market economies. Everyone who supports these is an "enemy of the people." Everyone who hates it is "the people." Their violence is "resistance."
Israel is coded as Western, a British-American project to bring Western hegemony into the Middle East. Ireland is Western. It is therefore colonizing the millions of people who immigrated there in the last few years. America is Western. It must be dismantled.
It isn't more complicated than this. Nor is it particularly inconsistent. Almost everything in Leftism that doesn't make sense makes sense once you understand this simple split defines all of its thinking.
"Diversity" means "outside the enemies of the people," or "diverse compared to the background of Western hegemony." "Inclusion" means "including what's outside of the Western hegemony." That means people who support Leftism and hate "the enemies of the people." Just an example.
"For all" means "for all of 'the people.'" This means taking away from "the enemies of the people" and redistributing it among "the people," for "equity." Things that are "for all" are therefore just for some, and the source is what "the enemies of the people" have.
Until you comprehend that Leftist logic is truly a two-tiered hate-driven system that always excuses itself and allows any evil on its "enemies," you can't really understand them. Once you do, it's transparent and immediately apparent in almost everything they do. No mystery!
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My evening reading is exciting af, y'all. No shade to people, but this is the most autistic thing I've ever read in my life.
Take this part, for example, where it explains that people who aren't home a lot should live on high floors in high rises with views of nature and take weekend trips to "temporary hotel-type residences" where they can go outside.
The part about how education should be organized, which doesn't seem to have much to do with the ideal city at all and that features endless calculations about how many kids go where, seems to mirror some aspects of Community Schools. Parents are definitely unimportant.
Discussion, information, and facts rarely work on people trapped in totalitarian ideologies (like Woke) because they're mainly afraid it will be found out that they believe shameful things, as determined by the cult. The information you give them is a shameful thing to believe.
When you're dealing with a totalitarian (puritanical) cult, most of the people involved are in an "outer school" who barely know any of the doctrine. They just know it's shameful to believe certain things and so either won't (suppression) or hide them. newdiscourses.com/2023/03/wokene…
The "inner school" of the cult, which understands the doctrine, has already fully internalized the cult's shame structure and also has a profound intellectual commitment to it. They have to admit they were wrong about a lot, with consequences, in addition to facing the shaming.
In Critical Immigration Theory, immigrants, especially illegal aliens and refugees, are "the people." Settlers (anyone from Western Civilization, at home or elsewhere) are "enemies of the people." This makes sense of all of their confusing positions.
Israelis in Israel are settlers because of ties to Western Civilization. Enemies of the people. Irish people in Ireland are settlers because Western Civilization. Enemies of the people. Your land is stolen land because Westerners stole it, and the people deserve it.
There is no reverse colonization in Critical Immigration Theory. When you see from "the immigrant's standpoint," this is obvious. The settlers have excluded them from a fair share of society, and that's colonization. Taking back their share is "resistance" or "decolonization."
I increasingly think all mysticism is necessarily heresy. It's a desire for more than there is, or more than can be known to be, and therefore rooted in a dissatisfaction with Creation. Individually this matters little if kept in perspective, but it's a dangerous drug.
I got made fun of on here by mystics (heretics) the other day for asking (rhetorically) how a mystical experience can be verified. Of course it can't. That's a category error. In that it cannot be verified, it cannot be a basis for much personal action and or any instruction.
If a mystical experience can't be verified to be what it claims to be—and it cannot—then it cannot be trusted to be rightly interpreted as a basis for activity or instruction. Enjoy it. That's nice. Don't claim to know what it is. That's a "woke" veneer laid atop the experience.
We do not possess or have access to too many facts to make our way. The challenge is always determining which facts matter then figuring out what they indicate about the issue at hand. With 2+2=4, this is easy. With getting out of a desert, it might be harder, but nonetheless.
If you are lost in a desert or some other expansive waste, you can make shrewd guesses about certain things (certainly, you can determine a crude compass) and chart a defined course to follow. If you get somewhere useful (out or oasis), you proved your model/guesses. With a fact.
A term I really like for describing why everyone is crazy is the "vertically integrated messaging apparatus," which may be due to @wesyang. What it amounts to is a Propaganda Death Star beam that can be turned on and fired at a population to utterly derange and destroy it.
What a VIMA (vertically integrated messaging apparatus), aka Propaganda Death Star, does is creates reflexive messaging in lockstep coming from all levels, local media up through national plus politicians and corporations, to drive the same mystifying framing of target issues.
The VIMA creates and maintains the Current Thing, which is a deliberate disinformation operation concerning some real-world event that might (Israel/Hamas) or might not (George Floyd) be of real significance to create hostile political warfare impacts on target populations.