THE FALSE GOD 18C

Although the blatant ignorance exhibited by many on the 'left' of politics is frustrating and often mind-boggingly perverse, I do think the chickens are about to come home to roost for the apparatchiks of this intellectually mendicant ideology.

As Christopher Lasch has noted in the following quote, the easy way for people to avoid argument is to adopt the politically expedient stance of dismissing the debate on specious personal grounds.

As noted by the American academic Christopher Lasch, universities are no longer committed to independent critical inquiry “as it is no longer necessary to argue with opponents on intellectual grounds or to enter into their point of view. It is enough to dismiss them as Eurocentric, racist, sexist, homophobic – in other words as politically suspect”.

Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your viewpoint) the problems associated with this approach are evidenced in the type of  'debater' that such a pathway develops; specifically the 90lb weakling of the social stereotypical variety.

Just as our present cultures predisposition towards the heightened new metro-sexuality of 'gender fluidity' and other such nonsensical constructs, guarantees that watching warrior oriented cultures are rubbing their hands together with engorged avarice at the contemplation of future booty and plunder to come (unless we wake up in the West)....so too do those debaters who employ logic, facts and studiousness (maligned concepts amongst PoMo 'intellectuals) look forward to future conquests of flower-petal intellectuals scampering for their safe spaces at the de-legitimisation of their 'false god' called 18c.