Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Democratic convention notes: why do liars rule with Utopian strategies?
As I watched the democratic convention
last night I kept wondering why Utopian objectives are so hard to
understand yet alone stop? I think human nature is open to the
exploitation of very fuzzy “universal love” because it is an
exaggeration of kin and group love. Sad to say, both religion and politics have
exploited this weakness.
It is not only the strategic doctrines
of globalism and imperialism that are mistaken, it is the mistaken
view of human nature telling us that we are all universally the
same, equal, and able to love one another as brothers, if only evil
nationalism was curbed.
Utopian ideals are exploited now by
elites who in fact benefit unequally and gain power at the expense of
everyone else. Liars rule with these Utopian strategies.
This does not mean that realism is
unemotional, as is often thought. Romantic nationalism in music is
very emotional---think of Chopin, Wagner, Rachmaninoff---reflecting
real human nature in being kin, group, and nationally centered. Folk music, country music, and even
some rock music also often reflect romantic
nationalism---certainly black rap does---although in the 1960's folk
music was corrupted by modern liberalism.
Donald Trump, like Pat Buchanan
before him, is trying to bring a pause in the utopianism of
globalism, which is being exploited by selfish elites and is
destroying us internally and externally. Trump wants to bring back
realism in foreign and domestic policy. Nothing less than the
survival of the Western world depends on this change being made.
Am I also being Utopian in hoping for
economic nationalism, the return of the constitutional separation of
powers and states, and a New Romanticism in the arts? I believe I am
being starkly realistic. These things reflect real human nature and
are not utopian ideals.
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