The Inauguration of Mr Trump as US President has led to a telling contrast of three marches:
The media have given splash coverage to the second march, and had to at least report on the first. Tellingly, predictably, the third — an annual march in defense of life — will receive little coverage, and that will be overwhelmingly hostile.
(Notice this street level video of the second march — and no I am not endorsing Mr Jones et al or agreeing with much of what he says. But, his interaction documents the mindset of the marchers all too tellingly. Forgive the coarse slang reference in the video’s title, it is a measure of where our civilisation has reached — yes, the kitty-ear knitted pink caps are a very loaded reference to media coverage that twisted Mr Trump’s crude locker-room talk on how money, fame and looks make seduction all too easy [though he actually gave an ‘exception’] into a narrative of assault on women . . . which is now being stretched into the slogans about ‘fascist’ undermining of women and the ‘right’ to abort our posterity — now clearly amounting to 800+ millions in 40+ years. {Behold the power of loaded framing.])
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfuRA9GfBCA
How have we come to such a sad pass as a civilisation, in which the ongoing holocaust at a rate of a million unborn children per week is twisted into a “right” and those who have challenged this are regarded as enemies next to the Nazis?
Behold the power of agitprop, driven by decades of a cultural marxist long march through the institutions, backed by the domination of evolutionary materialism and its radical relativisation of moral principles such that to many, might/manipulation makes ‘right’ and ‘truth,’ ‘rights,’ ‘justice’ and more. Yes, origins issues and the prevailing imposition of evolutionary materialist scientism have sobering consequences. Consequences that were long since predicted and which we would be well advised to ponder.
Behold, also, Plato’s grim warning from nearly 2360 years ago, in the aftermath of the collapse of Athenian democracy:
Ath [in The Laws, Bk X 2,350+ ya]. . . .[The avant garde philosophers and poets, c. 360 BC] say that fire and water, and earth and air [i.e the classical “material” elements of the cosmos], all exist by nature and chance, and none of them by art . . . [such that] all that is in the heaven, as well as animals and all plants, and all the seasons come from these elements, not by the action of mind, as they say, or of any God, or from art, but as I was saying, by nature and chance only [ –> that is, evolutionary materialism is ancient and would trace all things to blind chance and mechanical necessity] . . . .
[Thus, they hold] that the principles of justice have no existence at all in nature, but that mankind are always disputing about them and altering them; and that the alterations which are made by art and by law have no basis in nature, but are of authority for the moment and at the time at which they are made.-
[ –> Relativism, too, is not new; complete with its radical amorality rooted in a worldview that has no foundational IS that can ground OUGHT, leading to an effectively arbitrary foundation only for morality, ethics and law: accident of personal preference, the ebbs and flows of power politics, accidents of history and and the shifting sands of manipulated community opinion driven by “winds and waves of doctrine and the cunning craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming . . . ” cf a video on Plato’s parable of the cave; from the perspective of pondering who set up the manipulative shadow-shows, why.]
These, my friends, are the sayings of wise men, poets and prose writers, which find a way into the minds of youth. They are told by them that the highest right is might,
[ –> Evolutionary materialism — having no IS that can properly ground OUGHT — leads to the promotion of amorality on which the only basis for “OUGHT” is seen to be might (and manipulation: might in “spin”) . . . ]
and in this way the young fall into impieties, under the idea that the Gods are not such as the law bids them imagine; and hence arise factions [ –> Evolutionary materialism-motivated amorality “naturally” leads to continual contentions and power struggles influenced by that amorality at the hands of ruthless power hungry nihilistic agendas], these philosophers inviting them to lead a true life according to nature, that is,to live in real dominion over others [ –> such amoral and/or nihilistic factions, if they gain power, “naturally” tend towards ruthless abuse and arbitrariness . . . they have not learned the habits nor accepted the principles of mutual respect, justice, fairness and keeping the civil peace of justice, so they will want to deceive, manipulate and crush — as the consistent history of radical revolutions over the past 250 years so plainly shows again and again], and not in legal subjection to them [–> nihilistic will to power not the spirit of justice and lawfulness].
We need to soberly reflect on where we are heading, in light of the lessons posed by the collapse of Athenian Democracy, and many other grim chapters of history. END
PS: Some may wish to challenge the global abortion number I have estimated. Recently, the media have briefly reported the Guttmacher numbers on Abortion rates, which boil down to 50+ millions per year. (There are hints that has been so for at least two decades but never mind.) Apply a simple linear trend since the ’70’s and take off 20% to be even more conservative:
(50mn/y x 40 yrs x 1/2) x 0.8 = 800 mns
A number that you simply are not going to see in the media.
To sustain this horrific trend, we see distortion, manipulation and corruption of the media, medicine, law, law-making, law enforcement, government, education and more. Worse, through the imposition of mass guilt of blood, we see benumbing of consciences and a mass hysteria of trying to justify a march of ruinous folly that projects rage at those who stand athwart the rush over the cliff:
PPS — U/D Jan 24th: Anyone who has been monitoring the media will have observed the side-track debate on crowd sizes that has been getting wall to wall coverage. I commented on it in no. 20 below as an example of agit-prop shadow show tactics. Let me show a telling video clip that reveals how the Trump crowd (and to head off a talk-point, no, I think his spokespeople mis-spoke and overestimated their crowd . . . ) was dishonestly talked down by the media:
Why do I stress this, highlighting it as an example?
To underscore the Plato’s Cave shadow-show distraction, distortion and caricature, attack the man, polarise and poison the climate tactics that are being used. This, in a context where the central issue on the table should be the ongoing abortion holocaust mounting up from 800+ millions at the rate of a million more victims per WEEK.
Reminder, the parable of Plato’s Cave (which also applies to community manipulation agendas):
Where also, it is worth our time to ponder my Straight vs Spin Grid for assessing news, media, education and views:
