marxist, schmarxist & the whole kaboodle

Andrew Bolt blogs about the indefatigably stupid, Southpark-like caricature that is Kevin Rudd and his most recent inane tribute to the, anti Semitic Marxist, deceased ex-Chilean President Salvadore Allende, as Rudd's unfortunate tendency to open his mouth without reflecting too deeply about what emerges out of it. More often than not what he says at any one moment contradicts what he said just before it.

Although Rudd was once the prime minister of Australia ( I sometimes wonder whether Mark Latham might have actually been an improvement on what came after him!!!) his peripatetic wanderings around the globe have increasingly revealed to the public just how fortunate we were to have witnessed his demise from the top job.

Rudd's increasingly bizarre mutterings and wasteful squandering of public monies on behalf of winning him friends and UN votes outrageously underscores the self aggrandizing qualities that so many politicians of the left appear to display, and so few (sleuth-like, cynical, investigative?) 'journalists' appear to notice, hence the fact that Rudd's latest excesses whilst in Chile did not even stir their philosophical curiosities! What is it about these post-modern 'progressive' political elites (politicians, administrators and commentators) that makes them so blind to the excesses of socialistic jingoism?

Perhaps the answer might be found in the educational indoctrination that most of these unfortunates receive. I use the word indoctrination deliberately because the ideology that underpins the 'new educational imperatives' that exist in contemporary Australian higher (inroads are being made into the schooling at alarming rates, note the latest modern history curriculum [amongst other]) education follow the dictates of one of the modern world's most influential doctrinaire ideologues, i.e. Antonio Gramsci, and it is no accident that one of the centres of the worlds Gramscian revival is right here in Australia. His 'long march through the institutions' has borne fruit in ways that I am sure would amaze even his wildest expectations. One only has to consider that Obama, Cameron, Rudd, Gillard and many European leaders openly acknowledge his or his acolytes influences.

And what do we read about and watch on the various TV programs when the leaders of our country waste public monies, trash our heritage, promote hedonistic and potentially disastrous policies and mismanage our natural resources...we see how the various 'elite' commentators make mockery of those who lead lives of exemplary (but traditional) moral  attributes. We watch how they pick on the most elemental failings of those who represent the 'other' whilst ignoring or explaining away the excesses of those who choose to live without restraint.

Why is that?

Unfortunately to disagree nowadays no longer means to be able to live in harmony with difference, because in an environment where reason no longer matters, i.e. in a philosophically relativistic universe, to disagree with the ruling ideological hegemony is shorthand to being in rebellion against it (the totalitarian impulse), which therefore gives those in power the excuse to use all of the instruments of manipulation that are currently available to transform the intellectual environment in favour of those who hold the power. That is why you and I will generally only see someone like Tony Abbott when he is fluffing his lines (don't we all!), or whilst he is pursuing his fitness regimes (on his own time mind you), all the while being made a mockery of, or having his words taken out of context even absurdly so. All of this is all designed to show how conservative or traditional values are actually the reasons why we have racism, homophobia, Islamophobia, inhumanity towards refugees etc, etc. What is actually happening is a mass manipulation of the popular perspective (often even unknowingly), and here I say to my own astonishment...thank goodness for the Internet...even with all of its failings. Unfortunately however, even the Internet is being threatened with control by the ruling powers (if possible) or manipulated by information 'bombing' and hackers such as the amoral anarchist Assange who appears to have emerged as the patron Saint of anarchistic ideology. 

Welcome to our brave new world....incidentally I would recommend that we all re-read Orwell's classic novel to see just how prophetic he has been.