We Have Entered a Looking-Glass World
We live in an age characterized by belief – that is, belief in things that do not exist, belief in complete figments of unanchored imagination, abstractions that have no contact with or bearing on reality. Call it the age of irrealism, of pervasive virtuality, of estrangement from the objective world.
Consider several popular notions or beliefs, memes as they are sometimes called, which operate as delusions erroneously confirmed as fact.
There are more than two sexes, biology notwithstanding. Indeed, there are “57 Varieties” of gender. Also, in contradiction, gender is a “social construct.”
Islam is a “religion of peace.”
The university campus is aswarm with female victims of rape and sexual assault.
The planet is entering a carboniferous period as temperatures rise to unsustainable levels.
There is an organized and historical campaign in the Judeo-Christian West of men against women known as the “Patriarchy.”
There is a vast movement of White Supremacists ruthlessly oppressing those of other races and creeds.
America is bedeviled by institutional racism.
There is no such thing as truth.
Looting, vandalism and physical violence are legitimate forms of civil protest.
The value of people derives from their membership in a group rather than from their status as unique individuals.
We have entered the looking-glass world. None of these beliefs correspond to reality, as every sensible person knows. They are to a significant extent forms of what Angelo Codevilla calls “subrational submission,” or conformity to the political diktats of a leftist ruling class, but they transcend politics insofar as they are signs of a spreading cultural malady the inability to think. Years of bad education, political indoctrination, and welfare dependency have much to do with a demonstrable decline in intelligence and basic knowledge a veritable contagion of cultural illiteracy, to quote E.D. Hirsch.
I have spent more than ten years writing books and articles examining and refuting each one of these credos or presumptions with documented evidence. But common sense and a little attention to the world should be more than enough to show how such convictions are merely politically correct hallucinations – fantasies and fallacies that Sir Francis Bacon in the Novum Organum termed “Idols of the Theater,” sophistries propounded by influential authorities and unquestioningly accepted by the masses. The facts confute the memes.
Biology has determined that in the non-cellular world there are only males and females and that survival of the species depends on procreation. Every sane person knows this.
Islam is a violent and imperialistic religion and has been so since the early 7th Century. Every informed person knows this.
The university campus is one of the safest spaces in the country and sexual assault is rare. Every rational person knows this.
There is no AGW (Anthropogenic Global Warming), but there is climate change for the simple reason that climate is change, driven mainly by solar cycles. Moreover, carbon is an element absolutely essential for plant and crop growth. Every attentive person knows this.
There is no organized conspiracy in the Western world called the “Patriarchy” any more than there is something called the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. There are only men doing what they are supposed to do, including building a rich and inventive civilization from which everyone profits. Every honest person knows this.
There is no such beast as a widespread White Supremacy movement. Rather, apart from a fringe” of “Aryan” persuasion which is of little to no importance, there is a social group of “Caucasian” origin, emanating from Persia, the Middle East, Greece, Rome and Europe, that has created the most advanced civilization so far known to history. Every educated person knows this.
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