Gen
3:4-5 KJV And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall
not surely die: (5) For God doth know that in the day ye
eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as
gods, knowing good and evil.
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Perhaps
the greatest trick Evil ever pulled was not convincing Man that Evil
does not exist, but convincing Man that none of his forebears had
learned anything worth knowing about it.
In
The Devil’s Pleasure Palace, author Michael Walsh exposes “Critical
Theory,” the foundational philosophical movement of the modern
left. The ideology came to prominence among post-WWII Central
European academe, primarily explored within the faculty of the Goethe
University in Frankfurt, as an attempt to explain away the horrific
inhumanity that the 20th Century’s embrace of statism — whether
in the form of Fascism, Nazism, Communism, or resurgent Islamism —
had so far brought to the modern world. Failing to recognize their
attempts to redefine morality as being the cause of all the
suffering, the Frankfurt School scholars instead theorized that
statism had bloodied half the Earth simply because Man had not yet
discarded enough of his history to be ready for it.
The
culture needed to go, not just the rule of law.
Critical
Theory taught that the act of criticism itself — burning each
pillar of Western society, be it bulletproofed reason, simple
economic law, and even (and especially) the notions of family,
marriage, and the risk calculations of casual sex — made for a
moral code of life. Burying the wisdom of the past — and nevermind
bothering to replace it with new decisions, just simply destroy —
was the future.
Writes
Walsh:
At
once overly intellectualized and emotionally juvenile, Critical
Theory — like Pandora’s Box — released a horde of demons into
the American psyche. When everything could be questioned, nothing
could be real, and the muscular, confident empiricism that had just
won the war gave way, in less than a generation, to a fashionable
central-European nihilism that was celebrated on college campuses
across the United States.
Seizing
the high ground of academe and the arts, the new Nihilists set about
dissolving the bedrock of the country, from patriotism to marriage to
the family to military service; they have sown … “destruction,
division, hatred, and calumny” — and all disguised as a search
for truth that will lead to human happiness here on earth.
Had
the West held firm by championing its foundational artistic and
literary accomplishments, perhaps we would have resisted the
Frankfurt School’s challenge, which led directly to the
administration of Barack Obama. For of course, the answers are there
in our canon already.
We
are profoundly lucky to be alive and able to review the great
cultural works of recorded history that predicted the inevitable
terror which Marxism would bring. We additionally have the historical
accounts. But in defeating the Frankfurt School’s challenge to the
culture, our foundational artistic commentary, from John Milton back
to Genesis, holds the key. Nihilism is dead, not G-d, but again we
failed to identify its embrace.
Walsh’s
book aims to defeat Critical Theory with an indefatigable defense of
Western culture, a rather thrilling approach to those of us who —
unlike Walsh, a classical music and opera expert and critic — never
received a proper education in these works precisely due to our
coming of age following the Frankfurt School’s invasion of American
academia.
What
an idea from Walsh — us dullards, whom Progressivism places with
the cavemen, can confront the left with proof that actual cavemen had
the left all figured out already.
Out
of necessity, the bearers of totalitarian ideology must convince
potential followers that everything they thought they knew about
morality is wrong. Evil needs to become Good — or at least
subjective – for one to trade in the Golden Rule for the
all-powerful state, and that’s how one would relay the story of all
human history while standing on one foot, from the Garden of Eden to
the Democratic Party. The rest is just commentary.
Walsh
implores us to reexamine our greatest cultural works, to confront the
Left with them, and perhaps they will understand that good and evil
are not up for “criticism,” but have necessarily held the same
definition for humanity since the first men and women to be in
possession of sufficiently advanced nervous systems. We aren’t
four-footed, clawed predators, for whom good is Genghis Khan and evil
is submission, as submission causes the end of those creatures. We
aren’t ants, for whom good is self-destruction in service of the
queen and evil is liberty, for ants die if they could embrace, say,
John Locke. Instead, we successfully presumed that human good has
something to do with the protection of each’s life, liberty, and
property, and that evil must always be the violation of those. And we
managed to figure this out the first time a human undertook the act
of self-defense, or felt empathy and revulsion upon seeing another
victimized.
Eventually,
we wrote and made music about it. The species, the nature of Man,
defines Good and Evil for us in the very structure of our bodies:
omnivores, bearing the ability to reason, built to comprehend its own
laws of Good and Evil like no other creature. As such, presuming that
the lives and works our forebears — of every single forebear —
has value in this pursuit of knowledge is rational.
Luckily
for the progressives, the obsession with “smashing” the past has
successfully prevented the leftist flock from not only learning that
their ideas are dead on arrival, but that, as their ideas come
200,000 years after the first person to understand good and evil,
they are as far from “progressive” or “post-modern” as any
word can be from its intended meaning. So, up until now, Critical
Theorists have not been able to suffer the fate they ironically
established as their own new definition of hell: to be exposed as
foolish, and worse — as dated.
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