18 thoughts on “Everything Is Problematic”

1. That puts Orwell’s “1984” in a whole different light. “Four legs good, two legs bad.” Not to mention that it was written just a decade or two after “Critical Theory” was established.

   They literally aren’t about truth, but about brainwashing and division. Or, if you will, calling evil good, and good evil. To me these people seem even more dangerous than your traditional Marxist.

   1. Erm. Better check the barn wall again. I think you meant “Animal Farm”. 😉

      1. Good catch. I did mean “Animal Farm”.

2. We can apply Critical Social Theory when someone can define what is a Socially Just Truth. Anything else is just Relativism. So far all I can come up with is: “Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You.” Where’s my honorary PhD in Sociology?

   1. A socially just truth is whatever it is that day. It is always changing as the Revolution is continuous.

      1. In other words: Relativism. In a world of subjectivism the only absolute truth is that I’m lying?

3. The Critical Theory link was especially helpful for me. It put much of today’s news & politics into perspective.

4. Q: Why is Trump destroying mailboxes?
   A: Because he’s transphobic.

5. “The death spasms of Marxism are driving its adherents crazier by the day.”

   But are these “death spasms” really true?

   1. Don’t be afraid to help make it true.

      1. Who is afraid?

         You accusing me of being afraid?

         My point is that after over 100 years of trying and 100 million dead, Marxism continues to be used…it’s still a thing.

         I think we may be kidding ourselves if we think it’s undergoing “death spasms”

         1. I get the sense McGehee agrees with you, but also wouldn’t mind enlisting your assistance in making it true. I suspect you aren’t afraid to assist in that effort, even if you might find it futile or unrealistic. Overall, perhaps I’m reading in too much inference in what was probably a minor note. As usual, wodun cleaves through the differences to put a finger on the issue.

   2. Marxism is ascendant. Some people are leaving the Democrat party but the party isn’t kicking out the Marxists. Only Democrats can change themselves and it took them decades to get where they are at. Like the plague, it will have to burn out on its own.

      1. I think both parties are vulnerable and both are skipping away from the mainstream. Dems are going full out Marxist while the Reps have gone the cult of personality route. What will the Republicans do if Trump is defeated or what will they run on in 2024? Stay the course, as we saw with Bush I post Reagan, lasts about one term. I think we are at a tipping point in history. After the next ten years NEITHER political party will look much like they do now or in EITHER the nineties or the naughts. My worst fear is one will try to outlaw the other. Hold onto your hat. It’s gonna get interesting.

         1. If we go by the Kaisich or Powell neo-con “Republican Party” all I can say is that a swamp divided creates amphibians?

6. So do our modern “Marxists” in all but name reject the historical model of the inevitable mega-death “labor camps”, “gulags” etc. or do they embrace it or just think it doesn’t apply to them?

   1. To combine three of my favorite topics, Marxists, Russians and firearms: they are convinced that Critical Theory Marxism will succeed based on the same theory that you will be okay playing Russian roulette with the barrel of a large caliber handgun held against your head as long as you replace the cartridge with a bullet with a blank.

      1. “…they are convinced that Critical Theory Marxism will succeed based on the same theory that you will be okay playing Russian roulette with the barrel of a large caliber handgun held against your head as long as you replace the cartridge with a bullet with a blank.”

         Jon-Erik Hexum would disagree…if he were still with us.

         https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon-Eric_Hexum#Death

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