An individual who constantly regales her friends with humorous posts, recently sent me the following. As I do not know the identity of the statement’s author, I cannot give he/she their well-deserved credit. But the statement is inarguably true and a perfect summation of the absurdity of our contemporary “progressive” culture. It reads as follows: “We live in a time where intelligent people are being silenced so that stupid people won’t be offended.”
The Left’s devotion to “inclusiveness” entails the death of rational, critical thinking. While I harbor not an iota of bias towards anyone of a different Race or Sexual Orientation, I will inevitably find some of their ideas or behavior intellectually or morally repugnant. Absurdly, in today’s cultural climate, this automatically makes me a racist, homophobe, etc..
Implicit in Western Humanism from the time of the Ancient Greeks is the notion that Man is separated from the rest of the Animal world by his capacity to think, his Intellect being the key to genuine Human Progress. Implicit in the Left’s “principle” of Inclusiveness is the notion that we must love each other unconditionally, whatever the quality of the Ideas or Behavior before us. Inclusiveness in essence reduces us to the level of just another animal whose aspirations for Moral and Intellectual Integrity are mere delusions. It is an assault on the fundamental ontological assumption informing traditional Western Culture. And yet the accusation that the Left is literally trying to destroy Western Civilization is invariably denounced as just another ridiculous, right-wing “conspiracy theory.” That those who make that charge seem to have no understanding of the repercussions of their ideas ought not to surprise us, I suppose, as Intelligence is clearly not a priority in their degenerate word-view.