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https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/fights-in-advance-of-saturday-protest-in-charlottesville/2017/08/12/155fb636-7f13-11e7-83c7-5bd5460f0d7e_story.html?undefined=&utm_term=.ffba0ee1bc89&wpisrc=nl_headlines&wpmm=1. Compare to http://althouse.blogspot.com/2017/08/there-was-no-police-presence-we-were.html, a fine analysis by Harry Lewis regarding the role of the police in failing to separate the warring sides and more.
This blog is mainly about the missing terms in the media discussion of the Charlottesville riot: the fantasy of “unity,” present-mindedness, “fascism,” and discipline.
Moderation. The press has reverted during and after the weekend Charlottesville riot to its “moderate” position: condemning both (equally culpable) “extremists” as evil, while implying that its “moderation” is laudably (progressive). So the “moderate men” continue to hold the “center.” (See Yeats’s famous formulation: “The center cannot hold.”) Also, https://clarespark.com/2015/04/07/who-are-the-moderate-men/.)
This a deeply deceptive way of talking, for analysis suffers when we cannot identify class interests: what social groups inhabit the so-called “alt-Right”? Are they all “white” workers? Do the protesters know the first thing about actually existing “fascism” (that was distinctive in say, Italy vs. Germany, vs. France vs. Spain?) Von Mises would say that the only relevant contrasts are between (classical) Liberals and Collectivists.Unity.
And Fox News Channel (like the others) has been united in the hope that we can “come together” to defeat the dark forces on both sides. I have been wondering for some time if we are living in some variant of a “fascist dictatorship,” for (populist) Nazism stressed the Volk or the “people’s community,” in the effort to stamp out (divisive) communism, and the longing for an impossible unity reminds me of Hitler’s utopian deadly premise.
Any student of US history knows that sectionalism is paramount, and defies any attempt to reconcile the conflicting regions of our country. (https://clarespark.com/2014/03/13/what-is-cultural-relativism/.)
Discipline. Which brings me to the traditional Jewish imperative to subdue the negative part of “human nature.” This sets up a conflict with those ideologies that see the self as all good or all bad. So the press (including many assimilated Jewish journalists) calls for “love” all around, presumably encompassing faith, hope and charity.
Arthur Szyk, Lodz, Poland, ca 1939; pinterest.com
But the racism that is and was opposed by progressives/the New Left is not quickly or easily eliminated, for it is embedded in the existing major ideologies, each requiring separate analysis. For we must refrain from reading our current values into the past (present-mindedness), while still recognizing those pseudo-progressive institutions holding minorities back (e.g., teachers unions).
But such analysis is missing from our dumbed down culture where “ignorant armies clash by night.” (Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold)
The Clare Spark Blog 
The press coverage and statements of leftist politicians is pathetically biased and that they don’t care becomes more evident as time goes on. What an insight into those who were sure they would be ruling everyone else right now via Queen Hillary. I understand that a live broadcast on NPR that people could call in on did not go very well, for callers were very interested in 1.) where were the police instead of doing their jobs, 2.) why both sides of the extremes are not equally condemned.
Cloward-Piven is alive and well. If the left cannot rule, then it will ruin and claim victimhood at the same time.
Comment by harryschell — August 14, 2017 @ 10:02 pm |
You seem to be out to get “the left” but most Americans are culpable for the reasons I laid out in my blog. So look inside yourself and other ordinary Americans/citizens plus the noisy ones.
Comment by clarelspark — August 14, 2017 @ 10:06 pm |