I think there's also an element of narcissistic gnosticism here too.
The Social Justice disciple blessed with a higher "critical consciousness" doesn't need to worry about mortal trivialities like facts, reason, reality etc, they have been blessed with a higher form of spiritual knowledge that personally connects them to the sacred (and sets them above the rest of us).
The Marxist "ruthless criticism of all that exists" seems to reach its terminus and/or apotheosis in the minds of our young utopian radicals, who know nothing because all things that can be known have already been sentenced to death for their crimes against the egalitarian future (so what's the point?) and who live with their eyes always fixated on their handheld mirrors aka the dopamine crack pipes we call "phones", which always tell them that they are the fairest of them all, as well as the wisest and most "empathetic". They imagine themselves residing at the apex of all human wisdom and morality, thus there's no point in thinking, debating, in empirical testing and re-evalution or in compromise. There's really nothing left to do but "raise awareness" (of themselves) and join the armies of the Good in their battle to destroy the armies of the Evil (everyone not in their tribe).
The 21st-century children of the Permanent Revolution are like toddlers who visit your home and smash everything they can get their tiny hands on. They will destroy anything that doesn't flatter them or feed their desires and will call it "liberation". How could they ever be wrong, misguided or wicked when everyone and everything they know tells them the opposite?
The Jacobins were big fans of feelings and sensibility. Robespierre said: "To love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves".
I think there's also an element of narcissistic gnosticism here too.
The Social Justice disciple blessed with a higher "critical consciousness" doesn't need to worry about mortal trivialities like facts, reason, reality etc, they have been blessed with a higher form of spiritual knowledge that personally connects them to the sacred (and sets them above the rest of us).
The Marxist "ruthless criticism of all that exists" seems to reach its terminus and/or apotheosis in the minds of our young utopian radicals, who know nothing because all things that can be known have already been sentenced to death for their crimes against the egalitarian future (so what's the point?) and who live with their eyes always fixated on their handheld mirrors aka the dopamine crack pipes we call "phones", which always tell them that they are the fairest of them all, as well as the wisest and most "empathetic". They imagine themselves residing at the apex of all human wisdom and morality, thus there's no point in thinking, debating, in empirical testing and re-evalution or in compromise. There's really nothing left to do but "raise awareness" (of themselves) and join the armies of the Good in their battle to destroy the armies of the Evil (everyone not in their tribe).
The 21st-century children of the Permanent Revolution are like toddlers who visit your home and smash everything they can get their tiny hands on. They will destroy anything that doesn't flatter them or feed their desires and will call it "liberation". How could they ever be wrong, misguided or wicked when everyone and everything they know tells them the opposite?
The Jacobins were big fans of feelings and sensibility. Robespierre said: "To love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves".
LMAO