A Dark Future

For John, BLUF:  Sarah has a head of steam today.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Massed Confusion – Now with Footnotes

From her eponymous blog, According to Hoyt, Science Fiction Writer Sarah Hoyt wrote this piece for 27 November 2017.

Here is the lede plus three:

No, that’s not my life.  Why would you ask, other than the fact that I woke up with a non-functional computer and then got sidetracked into a million other things?  And this is really late.

Okay, fine, massed confusion IS my life, but it is not the kind of confusion I wanted to talk about.

Richard Fernandez was talking about the death of prestige on PJMedia.  He viewed it as a side effect of the recent sex scandals, but I think the sex scandals and the disintegration of our “respect” for people and institutions are more the result of two twin things:  first the fact that the left has been undermining established society for a long time, initially because once “capitalist” (which is to say normal) society vanished, paradise would magically appear, and since 91 in a sort of mad fury that they can’t have their little red wagon*; second the same left was, at the same time taking over all the institutions.

Their lack of respect for the institutions they took over, their complete inability to see what’s in front of their eyes, and the fact that their entire philosophy is based on resentment and envy — which means they’re convinced everyone else, everywhere else is getting away with stuff, and so they might as well — results in the “take over a respected institution; kill it; flay it; wear its skin and dance in front of the horrified people involved in that institution, demanding respect.

For the footnotes, go to the original.

Ms Hoyt fears the left would destroy civilization in order to save humanity, and would thus kill humanity along with it.  And, I think she is correct.  And, judging by Russia and China and Cuba and Cambodia and Venezuela, it would be ugly to boot.  Not that Chancellor Hitler did any better.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff