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Leftists Will Regret Winning the Culture War

4/8/2020

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Though it pains me to say it, the time to acknowledge the Left's ultimate victory in the so-called 'culture war' has come.

Denial offers no gains. Rationalization inspires no one. The eternal spring of hope for victory on this front has run dry. 

Ladies and gentlemen, when it comes to the 'culture war' in this world, we have been defeated - and roundly, too.

True, there is shame in concession, but it is better to feel shame than be tempted into delusion. We on the losing side must remain aligned with Reality - delusion is enemy territory; as such, we must allow it to remain firmly within enemy control.

Though difficult to do, we must relinquish the world to Left. We must be prepared to cede all of our worldly territory and yield all of our material riches. Let them have it. It will satiate their illusions of having achieved their objectives.

Yes, the Left is triumphant - the whole lot of them. That far-ranging spectrum of secularism, reductionism, materialism, humanism, positivism, atheism, and all the rest of it. Their legions run the gamut of our rapidly perishing societies - from the hungry-eyed communist to the cologne-scented financier and everything in between.

Of course, the Left greets such sweeping generalizations with scorn. "We are not one," the cry out as they celebrate. "It is they who are of the Left. Us? We are something different. And we will prove it by continuing the campaign until we, until our side, truly wins."

We, the vanquished, know better. Only two sides exist. On one side stands God's Loving Creation: Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. On the other, their opposite.

Either you are with Him, or you are against Him. And if you are against Him, you are of the Left. All else is wishful thinking. Soap bubbles. Nonsense. 

The Left has won the culture war. Their System has succeeded. They now possess everything. And through that, they will learn they possess nothing, but have instead themselves become possessed. 

The Left's victory in the material reveals their ultimate loss in the spiritual, for without the spiritual, the material is meaningless, and this meaninglessness is now their burden.

The System they have so painstakingly created will now consume itself. The Left's legacy will ultimately be one of self-defeat. And that is why we must relinquish any hold we may have on the material for now. We must render onto Caesar what is Caesar's. In the end it won't matter. The Left's daggers will find Caesar soon enough.

The only war that really matters and the only true victory to be had is spiritual. Without this victory the material is not worth having, as the Left will soon discover.

Our hope resides in spiritual victory and our faith in spiritual gain. Fear and despair fuel the culture war while the spiritual war is waged through conviction and love.

Evil lacks the weapons to defeat us on the spiritual battlefield. Nothing it hurls at us can penetrate our armor. The only thing Evil can do is tempt us to fall on our own swords. The only victory it can have is our own pointless and needless surrender. 

The Left has won the culture war and will thus lose all semblance of culture. Our task now is to remain aligned with Reality and fortify ourselves with faith, hope, and love.

Another culture will be required when the Left loses the culture they have won - and it will become our duty to create that culture, one soul at a time. 

​Starting with our own.

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william wildblood
4/8/2020 23:43:25

Excellent post, Francis. I particularly like this. "Only two sides exist. On one side stands God's Loving Creation: Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. On the other, their opposite." It really is God or not God. It's that simple. And eventually everything that is not God ends in nihilism or is revealed as nihilism. Disguise it as they like and they do try to disguise it, this is the fruit of all leftist dogma and ideology. Nothingness.

As you say, the left has won in the world because it has infected and contaminated everything else, everything that is not specifically God including many religions. But it will eventually eat itself and nothingness will end in nothing.

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Francis Berger
4/9/2020 08:01:21

@ William - Thanks for the comment. As you say, there is only one antidote for nihilism.

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NLR
4/9/2020 01:35:56

Good post, especially the conclusion:

"Another culture will be required when the Left loses the culture they have won - and it will become our duty to create that culture, one soul at a time. 

​Starting with our own. ”

This goes well with your previous post “No One Really Knows What is Going On” – many people who analyze either the current situation or the culture war discuss everything in terms of large numbers of people or those in positions of power doing this, that, or the other thing. “If only a critical mass of people would do …, then … would happen; If only … would pass these laws or enact such a measure, then …”, etc. Indeed, since the left believes in nothing more fundamental than whatever people happen to be doing at the time and since it has captured both the masses and the powerful, the left has won the culture war on its own terms. And furthermore, this kind of thinking is the water in which we swim. So much so that it has taken me a long time to realize that it is entirely wrongheaded. Even then it is hard to remember that fact or imagine where else cultural change might come from.

Yet, we know that what we see is not all there is. There is a deeper reality. And if something is worth doing or thinking by a critical mass of people then it is worth doing or thinking as an individual. You are right – the way forward is “to remain aligned with Reality and fortify ourselves with faith, hope, and love.” These are strange times, but whatever happens in the coming months or years, all I would hope is that I live long enough to see the light break through and help it, if I may.

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Francis Berger
4/9/2020 08:02:53

Thank you for the great comment, NLR. The deeper reality is the only reality. It encompasses everything. Without it, there is no reality - only meaninglessness.

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bruce charlton
4/9/2020 10:50:08

Very good. I agree that we must acknowledge realities - and ignore those who say that doing so is 'defeatism'.

To resist evil (spiritually) is good and necessary; but to believe in the incipient victory of Good in this world on the basis of delusional optimism is just dishonesty - and another type of sin.

I would only add that just as each human life is finite, so this *world* is time limited (being subject to entropy), and human culture/ civilisation is even more limited. It will all come to an end at some point, sooner or later. Perhaps sooner.

We should not suppose that sustaining either the planet, or biological life on the planet - or human life upon the planet or any particular form of human life - is any of our business or concern; since all are doomed to end.

To accept this mortal transience gracefully (and gratefully) is a virtue - as Tolkien realised and described so well.

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bruce charlton
4/9/2020 17:06:50

BTW - I don't think leftists will *regret* winning; because - so far as I can see - they never learn from experience. At least not while they remain leftists. They have never yet acknowledged the causal relationship between the policies they advocate, and the outcome. It's part of being a leftist that you never need to acknowledge you were wrong about anything. Thus, they *will* regret what happens, but will blame it on insufficient leftism...

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Francis Berger
4/9/2020 17:41:58

@ Bruce - Yes, that's a good point. I can't argue against it at all.

And if it wasn't insufficient leftism, then it would be insufficient System or something along those lines.

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