September 15, 2024
...And Then The Abyss Stared Back
I don't agree with Kisin about everything, but he's dead right about this.
This is going to get some peoples hackles up, as on the face of it, criticizing/boycotting/cancelling a broadcaster for "platforming' someone with odious views is pretty much Woke 101. So an argument might be made that we must not become like them. In the absence of the actual context I'd generally tend to agree with that statement and I did not speak up when Tucker face-planted in his Putin interview, and Moscow grocery run, which took place in a literal Potempkin grocery store. I racked it up to a combination of historical ignorance and being rolled by a master of manipulation and a likely tight schedule. However, describing a holocaust-denying, Churchill-hating 2-didgit Jew-hating Chud as "The most respected independent historian in America" and not confronting him with hard questions about his asshattery is pretty low.
The most charitable possible explanation is still pretty bad, that is, Tucker is so guilt ridden over his support for the late unpleasantness in Iraq that he is basically becoming a mirror image of the corporatist establishment, believing anything that contradicts their view. No matter how odious. Even if you assume that the baseline worldview of the Uni-party is cackling, sadistic, young-adult-novel level villainous, sadistic evil (to be fair, not an unreasonable conclusion) it is important to not reject things that they might get right (like, oh, I don't know, the NAZIs were actually...bad...or that antisemitism is a particularly stupid notion that leads one to VERY dark places). If this is the case, the Tucker has been so traumatized by his experiences that he's become reactionary.
"Reactionary" is another of those terms that has been ruined by the left in their never ending battle against words and the ability to express non-leftist ideas as anything other than an epithet. However, it just means that someone is identified not by what they are for, but what they are against. They will react against anything seen as good and proper by those they oppose, even things (few as they might be) that are universally agreed upon; sort of a shallow hipster contrarianism. When someone has descended this far into demoralization then they really can't be taken seriously, since their views are simply an inverse of their opponents, rather than ideas that were weighed and thought out. I can probably be persuaded that Carlson, who has been, along with his family, viciously attacked, gotten fired, and received death threats from the left and their 5th columnists on the neocon-right has descended into this tar-pit of the mind. But I will need to be persuaded, and remember that this is the most charitable explanation for his behavior during this interview.
A less charitable view is that Tucker is chasing the algorithm and making bank off feeding the demoralized reactionaries and the old school, unreconstructed darkness that sees in the possibly ascendant right, something to attach themselves to, remora-like, and ride to power. Tucker in this case is nothing but a later day Father Coughlin playing footsie with the American political sewers that represent the darkest angels of human nature.
The woke left is a thing of abominable evil, supporting the butchery of Hamas, the genital mutilation of children, race hustling, violence, and policies, that even if well intentioned will result in (and are resulting in) disaster. It is natural to oppose them on all things, but even the stereotypical blue haired harpies wielding Gurkha castration knives probably think that the sky is blue and NAZIs are bad (the latter, somewhat ironic given that they support Hamas). It is not, therefore, advisable to adopt a position that the sky is brown and the NAZIS were poor oppressed victims of international Jewery, cruelly being denied their rightful lebensraum.
Antisemitism has been overwhelmingly a fixture of the left in the last 120 years. Even the vile German socialists were trying to make Marx's ideas work., We on the right have grown accustomed to pointing this out and the fact that "woke" ideology, with its general dismissal of competence & equality in favor of equity is inherently antisemitic. We on the right are mostly correct about this, but there IS an actual strain of this awful mental malignancy on the populist right. It's origins are much as in Europe, frustration with ones station, seasoned with envy and a belief that jews, who, do to their success-enabling culture and high IQ's are over represented in the upper echelons of society, must have somehow "cheated" this astutely avoids and self reflection and self improvement, perpetuating this vile meme and the socio-economic stagnation amongst losers of all stripes.
Today, we have a whole class of young men who have actually been singled out for torment by "the powers that be" both as a matter of intentionally vindictive policy as well as the side-effects of monetary and economic policy. These same young men are tormented in school and told that they are the cause of all the worlds problems and that they are monsters. They are also taught that true virtue and power is rightly held by the oppressed. It is inevitable that a percentage of these young men, given by their teachers only the binary choice between supplicant and master will choose the later and embrace the monster-hood they are told (ironically enough) is their birthright, especially if, as is so often the case today, they have no fathers to guide them through those difficult years. What we are NOT teaching is history, except in the most bizarro funhouse-mirror sort of way.
Into this mix comes a bunch of folks like Tucker, who take the fight to the tormentors of these young men. If those influencers do not point away from the abyss, but rather encourage their followers to stare into it and become one with it, then we are truly in for some dark times.
This utter demoralization of a whole generation of young men is why the last few years have seen Phenomena like Andrew Tate, the rise of antisemitism and various other vile crap on the right. I have a degree in history and this sort of thing, frankly scares me shitless, even as I understand the evolutionary and social dynamics that make it all too likely.
The left in it's current form is a monstrous thing and it must be opposed, however American Conservatism is fit to do so because it has historically been a movement based in the Scottish and English enlightenments, as opposed to the American left's current ideological roots in the French Terror and post-modern philosophy. If we allow our movement to become the monsters we are fighting, then not only do we lose any ethical or political argument to reform, we will trade one emerging dystopia for another.
I think free speech is vital. I support it's curtailment only in a few cases that can be counted on one injured hand. Child pr0n, actual military secrets, true death threats and doxxing. I cannot think of anything else that would justify actual censorship.
Free speech is profoundly important, and one of the reasons is that it allows folks to debate ideas and know where people stand. I do not call for Tucker to be banned. I do call for folks to engage in some pushback and not let the fiends like Daryll Cooper hijack the opposition to the left, and then leave us with no hope or choice. Free speech only works if it is a two way street.
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