PLATO VS. PLATO

The difference between a leftist and a conservative is that the conservatives have to do their homework. Conservatives have to give logical reasons for their decisions unlike the leftist who makes what sounds like educated/moral proclamations but they never get asked the difficult questions.

“Trumps coming for our rights!”

Ok lefty; “which ones?”…..

”Um, you know, um. The ones!”

The left has captured the main stream media so they are seldom challenged on their positions, they live in an echo chamber so they really don’t have to have any knowledge about their various positions and nowadays when they are challenged by truth they experience such discomfort that they meltdown and scatter like cockroaches for their ‘safe places’.

The leftists can ‘throw money’ at every problem and never be asked where the money comes from and while at the same time trashing ‘capitalism’ as immoral. Leftists can attack from the moral high ground without actually occupying or even been anywhere near the actual high ground, in fact many live such immoral lives that it is hard to comprehend the intellectual dissonance. They can rubbish the military and the police while living safely under both’s protection. They inveigle billions of dollars into the hands of their union mates for ‘education’ and what we see is indoctrination, propaganda and ‘re-education’  while at the same time actual education goes down. Their solution…throw more money at the Teachers union.

Leftism conflates book knowledge with actual knowledge, this is why ‘computer models’ rule the world. This is the fatal conceit, this is why the climate change debacle is such a disaster, this is why the pilot hero of the Hudson river air-plane disaster was treated not as the hero he was but as a failure by the bureaucrats because the ‘computer models’ showed that he could have landed at the airport, that is until he introduced some reality into the equation and only then he was recognised for the hero he always was....but in the meantime the bureaucrats almost succeeded in trashing his reputation on the details of a computers output.

Knowledge and knowing are two very different things. Leftists think that they are more educated than most because so many of them live in the ivory towers. When you live in a vacuum of facts and only read or listen to what the main stream media says you are going to believe the fairy tales. Anybody can read in a book how to build a cupboard but it is a very different thing to actually build it.

      

Leftist thinking is fraudulent, often its little more than magical thinking, the same sort of thinking that small children indulge in before they grow up and take some responsibility, ergo Leftism is infantilising the population.

When the left loses power they have nothing left (‘scuse the pun). These days the extreme left at least do not believe in God, in family, in morality, in military protection, in law and order, in free enterprise or in freedom generally because they do not believe that human beings have the capacity to live free responsibly. Just listen to the left decrying Brexit and the Trump victory, what they hate about it is that 'ordinary people'(the deplorables) made the decisions. 

These are people who truly believe that they should be the rulers, the new aristocracy because they inhabit the aristocratic realm, the university's, they have the 'knowledge'. Many have been seduced by a perverted version of Plato's 'philosopher King' ideology, perverted because Plato theorised that the ideal King would be moved by knowledge rather than power, as opposed to knowledge which results in absolute power:

Plato argues that philosopher kings should be the rulers, as all philosophers aim to discover the ideal polis. The 'kallipolis', or the beautiful city, is a just city where political rule depends on knowledge, which philosopher kings possess, and not power.

Nietzsche was so on the button when he declared that the will to power will replace God in the 20th century and because of that the 20th century would become the bloodiest in human history. When you are in power you do not have to argue or convince people about the worth of your 'beliefs' you just impose your 'edicts' on the people and if they don't fall in line then they are fined, or jailed or persecuted in ways that re-educate them or if you are of the Mugabe strain, just eradicate them.