Re: Cultural Marxism – Social Chaos

[Stephen D. Williams]

On 9/11/16 10:24 AM, Steve Kinney wrote:
> On 09/11/2016 06:10 AM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> > This is a link packed quick ref for those who might want to get up
> > to speed with a few concepts. So although short, for those not up
> > to speed, perhaps schedule a good hour or so.
>
>
> > Cultural Marxism – Social Chaos 'I believe in nothing and am
> > tolerant of everything!' Understanding the Social Chaos in Western
> > Society "A summary of the social chaos of cultural Marxism - sold
> > as a multicultural, diverse and equality based utopia"
> > http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/understanding-social-chaos-weste
> rn-society/ri16371
>
>
> (The author is a UK citizen and an English and social science teacher
> > living in SE Asia. Не currently works in China)

And that makes him an expert in American and Western culture?

Seems like a bozo who is failing to keep step with cultural evolution, including Supreme Court rulings and evolution of rights. 
He's not getting his way, so he's explaining why the system is wrong.  Things are not turning out the way they want, so there must
be chaos, by definition.  Wrong and wrong.

I can understand why people would get the wrong idea from watching the news, various fights, and vitriol.  But, in most places in
the US most of the time, the number of people in gangs committing crimes or otherwise acting out is minuscule.  A few people scream
and shout when something is up for discussion, then, for the most part, it's all over once a final decision has been made.  Varies a
little by area, but for something like 90% of the population, there is little conflict nearby.

>
> I will have to read that article again and see if it makes more or
> different sense with repetition.
>
> On the first pass I saw a dreary, oft-repeated propaganda screed
> composed of buzzwords about buzzwords, apparently aimed at an audience
> who need a constant supply of circular arguments to define and condemn
> their most hated enemies:  People who may happen to look like "one of
> them" but fail to hate, fear and endorse the murder of people who
> don't happen to look like them.  In their lexicon Marxist simply means
> "people we hate who must be killed."
>
> In my lexicon, Marxism denotes a failed 20th century political model
> based on 19th century industrial economics, surviving into the 21st
> century as a sterile debating society for pseudo-intellectuals.  But
> then I'm an anarchist:  I like general models applicable to a wide
> range of dynamic systems; don't like rigid, dogmatic, prescriptive
> models.
+1

>
> I interpret "social chaos in Western society" as a result of several
> driving factors:  Commercial marketing strategies creating
> pseudo-tribal identities for consumers, to sell them must-have and
> constantly changing gang identity and specialized status symbol
> products; political propaganda in a "divide the conquered" strategy
> that incites conflicts between these pseudo-tribes to keep them busy
> fighting among themselves; and cut-throat competition within and
> between these pseudo-tribes, as systematic looting by the very rich
> gradually reduces all of them to poverty.  Add constant, pervasive
> propaganda proving that things only money can buy define the worth of
> a human being, that nonconformity is a disease, and that violence
> solves problems (turn on a TV and stand back).  Viola:  Social chaos,
> made to order.

Outside of gangs in Chicago, Oakland, etc., and some deep South areas that want to hang on to discrimination no matter what, it is
hard to argue that there is any kind of "chaos".  Things evolve, as they have been, and some people are on the wrong side of
history.  Commercialism, political tactics, and other manipulations, including religious, have to continually evolve and work to
stay relevant.  Although sometimes it takes far too long, eventually most people see through the tactics and become resistant.  A
lot of overhead has been squeezed out of the system, benefiting consumers in most cases.  More evolution will help more than it hurts.

>
> Ask a True Believer and they will tell you that this post is a
> passionate defense of Marxism, and that I am a Race Traitor who
> deserves to be tortured and killed as a lesson and warning to others.
>  That's not my hyperbole; it's a nearly direct quote from one of them.
There's a reason that nobody listens to those people.

>
> :o)
>
>

sdw

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