Michael Smith: Living in the Age of Ignorance

From Michael Smith and his blogsite Unlicensed Punditry at Substack:

Everything is just so damn stupid now, it hurts.

And it is spreading faster than a Chinese gain of function enhanced coronavirus.

PETA now wants to rename baseball's "bullpen" because it is insensitive to bovine animals.

Not that I have chatted with every bull, but no bull I have ever encountered in a pasture, feed lot or barn has ever said to me, "You know, you humans are so inconsiderate of our feelings and culture."

Not a one.

People assume PETA is trying to elevate animals to the same level of existence as humans, but this is not that, it is about lowering the existence of humans to the level of animals.

We live in an age when the unserious is accepted as serious. This will be remembered by future generations as the Age of Ignorance (I guess it is logical to assume the Age of Enlightenment would be offset by an age of massive ignorance).

The real pandemic is one of stupidity, it isn't related to any virus.

And Ayn Rand predicted every bit of this idiocy in "Atlas Shrugged". I've long said that our prosperity, brought about by freedom and capitalism, is the greatest danger to mankind. The problem with such widespread prosperity is that people have the luxury of inventing new problems, and when they run out of real, serious problems because the supply is so limited, they turn to the fertile fields of myth, fantasy and fables to find raw material.

It is like the old Styx song, they have "Too Much Time on My Hands".

But more than just myth, fantasy and fables, the progressive left just lies. They make it up. All of it. They start with a lie for a premise and build a mountain of emotion on top of the lie.

Nothing the progressive left says is true – every single word is a defense of progressivism in a quest for power. The progressive left has abandoned any respect for propriety, any boundaries of logic or reason and any contact with facts or the truth.

Just think about some of the blatant contradictions the left normalizes in their quest for power:

• Progressive Jews ally with anti-Semitic movements (Palestinian and BDS movements)

• Feminists ally themselves with misogynists and sexists (Islamic organizations and people like Linda Sarsour)

• Progressive Christians ally with abortionists (“Christian” pastors “blessing” Planned Parenthood)

• The media praises freedom of the press and speech while allying with Democrats who praise restrictions of both (speech codes and de-platforming of conservatives on social media)

• Anti-racist movements ally with groups that made identity politics a matter of government policy

• Those crying for “civility” ally with violent groups (New Back Panthers, the Nation of Islam, and ANTIFA)

• Blame the right for “radicalizing crazy people” while radicalizing crazy people (former “Republican” consultant, Steve Schmidt on MSNBC)

• Election fraud is real when a Republican wins, never when a Democrat wins.

While Don Lemon of CNN proves he is politically colorblind by saying he doesn’t “see Democrats killing people because of political” issues, countless members of the media/Democrat operatives with bylines also perceive “coded language” in everything a Republican says and can hear “dog whistles” in everything the political right says or does.

As many have said, if you can hear a dog whistle, it might just be because you are the dog. Progressivism is a creeping disease.

Unlike Revolutionary Marxism, it will never start a fight. It is too smart for that kind of bourgeois violence. Progressivism is about behavior modification over an extended period of time – something I have referred to as “the long game”.

Progressivism is about controlling the words you can and cannot say and who is allowed to say them. It is about controlling the thoughts you can and cannot think and who is allowed to think those as well. I have always proposed that post-modern thought, collectivism, and the idea of “social justice” are symptoms of the disease of progressivism and progressivism is the disease of prosperity, of generations never having to face the fires of Hades in a fight for survival. Like the foppish and frivolous people of the Roaring Twenties, the current blizzard of our precious, special snowflakes was created by such a historical period where hardship is defined as not having the latest iPhone or suffering with slow broadband Internet.

That we would be here today was a historical inevitability.

Welcome to the Age of Ignorance.