Another point on this topic....
dmb said to MRB:
If the bombastic titles of books by conservatives are any indication,
conservatives think that liberals are just plain evil.
MRB replied:
Again, we are in the area of "Frenchmen like to eat X." Generic labels rarely
cover what they're boomed as covering.
dmb says:
Ethnic stereotypes are hardly comparable to ideological profiles. The latter
would refer to a set of commonly held beliefs and attitudes while the former
would refer to things like traditional musical styles, cuisine and such. I
mean, to say that Frenchman like French food doesn't mean much, especially
since French fascists and French communists probably both like French food and
wear French clothes. It's apples and L'oranges, you know?
In the West, at least, beliefs systems like philosophies, religions and
political ideologies extend across national borders, language groups,
ethnicities and even historical eras. You can see the similarities across time
and space and from this we can make some reasonable generalizations about who
is who and what is what in the conflict of rival worldviews. I wonder, for
example, if you see any resemblance between the conservative base of today's
Republican Party and the sentiments expressed in the following concrete example
of an actual right-winger who is trying to get published these days. This guy
sure seems to me like one of those folks who thinks liberalism is an evil thing
that has to be stopped. Check it out and then tell me how sympathetic you might
be to his cause....
Oddly, this writer thinks "literary festivals" would be a good place to
confront what he sees as dangerous intellectuals.
He writes: “This is where many cultural Marxist/PC authors (the disgusting
cultural Marxist and traitorous bourgeois elite – the Marxist-Leninists’ of the
68 generation (or sympathisers of this group) meet and socialise. Prioritised
target groups make out the bulk of the participants who attend certain
literature conferences and festivals: Writers (90%+ of these individuals
support multiculturalism and usually portray their world view through their
works), editors and journalists in cultural Marxist/multiculturalist
publications, [and] a majority of individuals related to various “cultural
Marxist/politically correct” cultural settings and organisations.”
He also criticized the connection between academia in a piece titled “Political
Correctness: Deconstruction and Literature.” His manifesto spent pages
attacking a number of “Cultural Marxist” intellectuals, including Georg Lukacs,
Antonio Gramsci, Wilhelm Reich, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse and Theodor
Adorno. He blamed these two groups for spreading political correctness and
multiculturalism:
He writes: “The thing is that many of our political and cultural elites,
including politicians, NGO leaders, university professors/lecturers, writers,
journalists and editors – the individuals making up the majority of the so
called category A and B traitors, knows exactly what they are doing. They know
that they are contributing to a process of indirect cultural and demographical
genocide and they need to be held accountable for their actions.”
He also rails against college reading lists: “Unfortunately, that has not
stopped the cultural critics from indoctrinating this new generation in
feminist interpretation, Marxist philosophy and so-called ‘queer theory.’
Requirements for reading Shakespeare, Milton, Chaucer, and other dead white
males are disappearing, to be replaced by options to take studies in ‘The Roles
of Women in the Renaissance’ (an excuse to lament the sexism of the past) or
‘The Bible as Literature’ (a course designed to denigrate the Bible as cleverly
crafted fiction instead of God’s truth). The reliable saviour of the
intelligentsia is the common man and his common sense.”
This sort of thing is going to sound pretty sweet to the ears of American
conservatives, don't you think? Of course when they find out that these are the
words come from the 1500 page manifesto of Anders Breivik, the Norwegian man
accused of killing 76 liberal Norwegians they suddenly find they aren't so
sympathetic after all.
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