The champions on the right side of current cultural arguments – which is to say, right-thinking, not Right-wing – offer little solace for those who follow them, or, more broadly, society at large (being depressed, pearl-clutching Cassandras, and/or Eeyores to a man it seems).
Their general, misjudged presumption – and cause of their huffing, tutting despondency – appears to be that all is lost, that the joke of anaemic wokism is actually an unstoppable force (guffaw), that enlightenment has had the plug pulled on it, etc., etc. and all that lies before us is a world of thoughtless, irrational conformism (in bed with sexual grotesquery) – all of which is myopic hogwash.
The fact of the matter is that the cultural war has already been won by those on the side of healthy common sense – day naturally following darkness – and the only questions that need answering is: How long until this benightedness ends, sense dawns and our leaders see clearly? And: What shape will society take, once today’s silliness has, like all childish phases, faded away?
But how will this come to pass, I hear you ask. When will it end? Who can say? Zealous ideologies tend to end in different ways – though all are authors of their own downfall.
It’s apparent that narcissistic bleeding hearts, in assisting fictitious victims at society’s expense, and promoting an anti-western, anti-conservative, anti-Judeo-Christian agenda, are sawing off the branch they sit upon. It is these weak creatures who need Western values to survive, who need effective policing to defend them, who need the tolerance of depravity and political protections that, in many respects, are antithetical to the immigrants they welcome, and the foreign cultures they abet. Insulated from reality by the nanny state, these activists forget that the system which protects them needs to be paid for and run by the sensible, competent people who they slight, spite, deny and undermine.
Worse yet, by constantly attacking the values of the majority (interfering with families, rewriting history, policing speech and killing ambition – by way of suffocating red tape), while reducing people’s standard of living (through the taxes needed for green-wheezes and dysfunctional government) they are prodding a bear that, if they keep it up, will one day awaken (and see bleeding hearts as meat to feast on).
Likewise, doomsday cults always peter out as their judgement days come and go with nothing happening. The public tire of them, or their followers grow bored and move on to a new threat to distract them from their personal inadequacies and existential dread.
Anyway, to buttress this optimism, let’s look to the past. As with concrete, so with social psychoses – viz they have a shelf life – be it Covidianism, the rule of Savonarola, or the Soviet Union (which was always going to lose the cold war – all the West had to do, a la Kissinger, was ensure an apocalypse was avoided while letting nature run its course). And so it goes with wokism. And climate apocalypticism. And the next dumb cult that follows.
No, cry the Private Frazers. The kids are being brainwashed by their teachers and professors and, just as the Eastern bloc countries indoctrinated children into communist thinking, a social cohort is being created that will forever have blind allegiance to the rainbow flag!
One needs only to travel to Eastern Europe today to see how effective said brainwashing was.
In short, though the surface of a river may freeze over, it thaws with time – and all the while the water is flowing beneath the ice.
To conclude, reformation of the western political system is long, long overdue – was overdue in fact by the 1990s – and however regrettable the corruption and ineptitude of our current political masters is, it is to be welcomed because it is hastening its inevitable demise.
Happy New Year
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