Zero Tolerance, Evil Objects, and the Psychosis of the Left
Progressives
pride themselves on their highly evolved psyches, their awe-inspiring
good intentions and their admirable sense of right and wrong. Indeed,
so sure are they that they are right, disagreement can only be an
insult. Opposition triggers instant hatred, in a chorus chanted so
loudly that nothing said, no evidence presented, will be heard or
considered. Indeed, in order to cement a belief, whatever the left
decides to believe magically becomes new science, granted an exemption
from any sort of scientific process because the leftist has declared
that a consensus of leftists makes something scientific. Belief alone
is the sole test. This process is, quite literally, detached from
reality, as if written by an inebriated Charles Dodgson.
Yet,
how evolved or scientific is it to believe something that cannot be
true under the laws of nature? Isn’t history full of cultures that
believed in impossible things because their place in time, or the
limited information available to them, fed their fears and amplified
their illusions? Human sacrifice pleased their gods. Birth defects
were punishment for sin. Witchcraft explained accidents or
coincidences. Such creatures would be considered primitive and
un-evolved in our time, given the span of human progress, the explosion
of knowledge, and the fact that we are at the pinnacle of whatever
evolution we have undergone so far. We look back at the prejudices of
such people and recognize, from our more informed and enlightened perch,
that their beliefs were driven by their limited ability to know the
reasons for what occurred around them, and that in the absence of
knowledge, irrational fear needs the comfort of answers, even if
contrary to nature.
How
then to explain that, despite human progress, such people are still
among us in astounding numbers, defying the very Darwinian theories to
which they have vehemently sworn allegiance? Proudly, even
aggressively, they practice the ignorance our species has spent
centuries overcoming, reverting to the purely emotional embrace of
mythology and superstition to explain what they do not understand, or to
validate their deeply held prejudices, even though evidence refuting
their fantasies is readily at hand. Aside from the latest superstition
that weather is punishment for man’s misdeeds, fewer delusions are more
firmly held on the left than the pure certainty that guns, despite
being inanimate objects, are possessed of evil.
While
there are certainly progressives who rationally understand the
political obstacle that guns present to their political enslavement of
other men, such powerful operatives are numerically few, even if
possessed of much power. The majority of the delusional are of lower
influence but are innumerable, and appear convinced that their survival
depends on controlling or abolishing what they do not understand, and
which does not threaten them in any event.
Indeed,
in the example of guns, they expressly believe that some firearms
possess quantifiably greater evil than others, depending entirely on
their appearance, despite being lifeless objects. An equivalent belief
would be that a paring knife is certainly evil, but a carving knife is
purely demonic. To a rational person, such an unhinged thought process
more than merely hints at lunacy. Inanimate objects do not possess
inherent evil. It can’t be built in, absorbed or grown inside a gun.
In fact, the only things on Earth that have that ability are people.
And yet, despite living in a world defined by reality, evidence, facts,
logic and physics, progressives deny all truths that conflict with their
beliefs. They practice pure, unadulterated anti-intellectualism. They
have substituted magic and mythology for truth.
The
progressives’ ideation of guns fully crosses over into the talismanic
realm. At the capacity of their reasoning on this issue, they believe
that not just a gun but even a picture of a gun, or a shirt referencing a
gun, or fingers that clearly are not a gun, or a Pop-Tart bitten into
the shape of a gun is possessed of actual evil, and that all of these
exercise a remarkable, powerful influence on human feelings and action.
If not, why else “control” them? They believe these objects or images
emanate a force they cannot see or feel, but one they are absolutely
convinced is there and magically affects others, if only their
philosophical and political opponents on a range of similarly divergent
beliefs. Progressives personify the gun by attributing to it human
evil. What they believe is so ludicrous as to be, quite literally,
insane: each gun, even the idea of a gun, must be “controlled” or it
will do harm.
As
we have seen when behavior is unmoored from reality, the fears are
indulged and the voices appeased by irrational action. Just as the
mentally affected attacker is so disconnected from reality that he
believes his actions to be justified no matter the innocence of the
harmed, the progressive believes that all harm he or she does in the
name of conquering these inanimate objects is necessary. It is a
self-serving release of their emotions into concrete action, and by
asserting even defective control, they believe they are defeating what
is evil within their limited ability to understand. It matters not that
there is no actual connection between belief and reality. It only
matters what they believe. Truth and evidence, once valued commodities,
are now derided as the deceptive tools of modern day “deniers”.
Of
course, when irrational people are entirely convinced of imaginary
things, the only foolproof way to deal with the offending thing is to
destroy it. As we are beginning to see in the increasingly zealous
prosecution of absurd zero tolerance rules, such as suspending a
kindergartner for the equivalent of terrorism because he pointed his
finger, there is no middle ground. Scare them young, make examples of
the clearly innocent, and all will see and fall into line out of fear of
the state and those who will imprison you over imaginary threats.
Where
such psychosis leads is now on display in Connecticut, which has
adopted an Obama’esque “red line” by implementing a gun registration law
that most have refused to obey. Connecticut’s budding fascists must
either go Full Brownshirt in their determined assault on the
Constitution, thereby fomenting open revolt by those peacefully doing
what the Constitution protects, or they will have to back down and risk
criticism for not preventing the evil they believe the guns will do if
not forcibly taken from those who lack their total disconnection from
reality.
Throughout
history, the progressives of each era started with propaganda, then
“progressed” to banning, confiscation, imprisonment and worse. They are
the book burners of our age. Knowing they must rig the game to win,
they have enacted laws necessary to criminalize their fellow citizens.
No matter their assurances, the only thing that will quell their fear
and smother dissent is to wage war on the imaginary, extending their
control even to how one is allowed to think about make-believe things.
Despite their past denials, and their ridicule of those who employ logic
and reason, they have exposed themselves, finally forced by their
legislation to explain how far they are prepared to go to quiet the
voices in their heads. Confiscation is how far. Nothing else will ever
be enough.
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