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Richard Fulmer's avatar

In a recent interview, Nellie Bowles described the woke phenomenon as a revolution of the lazy. The body-positive movement; the drive to get rid of accelerated math classes; the defenestration of SAT testing; the rejection of meritocracy; and the condemnation of virtues like objectivity, perseverance, and punctuality as products of “white supremacy” are all but designed to make people comfortable with and in their mediocrity. All this is of a piece with western-style welfare systems that are geared less toward getting people out of poverty than to make them comfortable with and in their poverty.

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Poor Ed Wilson was slandered and savaged his whole life (and even posthumously) for poking holes in the sacred narratives of Communism and egalitarianism. And this by ostensibly educated people who proclaim themselves apostles of love and tolerance—and who posit some form of a wholly united humanity while not even being wise enough to see that the mailce and envy they exhibit are one of the main impediments to their supposed telos.

More Bakunin, who really had the Marxists' number even 150 years ago:

'The words “learned socialist” and “scientific socialism,” which recur constantly in the writings and speeches of the Lassalleans and Marxists, are proof in themselves that the pseudo-popular state will be nothing but the highly despotic government of the masses by a new and very small aristocracy of real or pretended scholars. The people are not learned, so they will be liberated in entirety from the cares of government and included in entirety in the governed herd. A fine liberation!'

There it is: "the highly despotic government of the masses by a new and very small aristocracy of real or pretended scholars..."

We will never be rid of this meddlesome clerisy of aspiring philospher-kings who imagine that their "critical consciousness" gives them divine right to rule, they seem to be a permanent caste in the post-Enlightenment West, taking after all the Popes, prophets, priesthoods and pseudo-Messiahs who preceded them.

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