Thursday, September 13, 2018

The Evils of Utopia

Yes! https://accordingtohoyt.com/2018/09/10/utopia-means-death/

I have long thought that the whole concept of a utopia is evil, in terms of what helps to create the best functioning sort of human society. One of the big errors that progressives make is this belief in a utopia, that if only the right people implemented the right policies, life would be perfect. Never going to happen.

And the attempt to do so causes immense harm.

The yearning after utopia is a human emotion. We all do it to some extent. But it's an irrational emotion which, if you give in to it, leads to horrible things. Like the hundreds of millions of people that have been killed by communists/socialists. The whole underpinnings of communism is based on a refusal to accept human nature and the insistence that it's possible to create a utopia, a "heaven on earth".


Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Political Theater

I'm surprised this blog is still here. Some things on the internet do last, if not forever.

Anyway, I'm getting tired of reading political blogs with nothing to show for it, so maybe I'll try to boil things down for a few blog posts. That's a way to spend less time on the internet...not.

The Kavanaugh confirmation hearings have been oh so tedious. It kind of surprises me that everybody can't see through the stupidity of the Democrat objections. There's no there there, just a bunch of political theater. Red meat thrown to their base. And it works. The idiocy that comes through from lefty relatives on Facebook shows that. It is, after all, the new religion, which has replaced the Christianity that the left has rejected.

(I can't bring myself to look through Facebook except every few weeks. It's just too depressing. If it's not friends and relatives revealing themselves as virtue-signaling idiots, it's friends and relatives humble-bragging about their great vacations and perfect children.)

I've come to believe that just like people turn pidgins into real, full-featured languages, people take a bunch of (not always well coordinated) beliefs and turn them into a religion. The human brain just isn't able to constantly be sifting and judging, so it simplifies and falls back on emotion. And I find the current progressive religion extraordinarily irritating. Anti-racism, multiculturalism, identity politics, white "privilege". It's all so non-rational and without any real basis. They like to think of themselves as the "reality-based community", as much more scientific than the right, and they're nothing of the kind.

Ok, there's a few paragraphs as a stake in the sand :)