The drumbeat. It's always there. Day
and night. Rain or shine. Winter or Summer. Sunday or Monday. It comes
at you from every direction. It comes over the TV, the radio, at work,
at school, in music, in the newspapers, from the politicians, in conversation
with others, even in church. It wears you down. It robs you of the will
to resist its message. Even short-lived victories, which stop it briefly,
leave you with the knowledge that it will return; each minor victory bound
to be lost to the redoubled efforts of this patient and persistent force.
You can't escape it. It never stops. It never gives up. It never ends.
It rains upon you from every possible angle, from every possible source.
It's the drumbeat of the left. It is
political, philosophical, theological, and social. It pervades every activity.
It is post-structural, post-modern, post-everything in the parlance of
the day. It is tolerant, diverse, non-judgmental, non-discriminatory, egalitarian,
politically correct, multicultural, globalist, and collectivist. It insists
that there are no rights and wrongs, no moral absolutes. It turns everything
upside down in its looking glass world. It denies the correctness of all
that produced what our culture revered before the deconstruction of the
world in accordance with the tenets of cultural Marxism.
It denies God, human exceptionalism,
and the soul. We are reduced to Darwinian animals floundering in an amoral
sea of meaninglessness. It is a product of the nihilistic, existentialist
philosophical movement, which went hand in hand with modern art, atonal
music, scientific materialism and modern physics, and the generally discordant
nature of the twentieth century.
It is said that a fish is not aware
of the water in which it swims since it is totally immersed in it. This
is the way cultural Marxism is taking over our world in its inexorable
Gramscian
march. We swim in it. It enters every pore of our existence. It is
everywhere. We can't escape it. Many people accept this world without even
realizing it, just as the fish accepts the water in which it swims. They
don't realize it as the left creates new conventional wisdom and new intuitions
about truth.
The cultural Marxists convince us that
the truth is that there is no truth. And even though this unresolvable
paradox lies at the very center of all this, the constant drumbeat keeps
the masses in line, anesthetized enough to not make an issue of it. Fed
a constant diet of sex, drugs, poisonous pop culture, materialistic trinkets,
and unkeepable promises of security provided by huge leftist government,
ever more globalist in nature, the masses are diverted from realizing,
as they are told there is no truth, that this claim itself is subject to
the same test. It is logically impossible for the leftist drumbeat to be
true by its own axioms.
The principles upon which Western culture
rests and upon which America was built are under attack by these slow acting
but deadly forces. The drumbeat is grinding down the will of the West to
maintain itself. The ideas of individual sovereignty and responsibility,
natural rights, and objective truth have been derided by the left to the
point that many of our young people reject them, if, indeed, they are even
aware of them as the basis for our culture. All that ensures that a culture
will pass its ideas down from one generation to the next is its cultural
memory. The drumbeat is slowly but surely replacing our cultural memory.
As each school is renamed and the name
of a Founder or other great person from our history is removed from its
entrance way, we lose a bit of that memory. As our great authors and works
of Western culture are replaced with those in line with the message of
the drumbeat, we rapidly lose our cultural memory. As each school textbook
is rewritten to reflect the new ideas of family and cultural heritage,
our children are lost to the forces of the drumbeat as they learn to view
America and traditional Western culture as oppressive and imperialistic.
And it doesn't take long for there to be only a shell left, the substance
of our culture sucked out and destroyed by the cultural Marxists.
If you believe that all this is a paranoid
overreaction, you have plenty of company. Those of us who can still see
the water and hear the drumbeat are subject to attempts to make us sound
evil and foolish. To believe in traditional Western cultural values, American
Exceptionalism, God, and moral truth is to be branded as old fashioned
and foolish, even by the best assessments of those who have bought into
the cultural Marxist's message. And by the worst of them, we are branded
as stupid and evil, and in need of being destroyed.
It may be too late to do anything about
this as the world plays out its story. The power-hungry arrogance of human
beings seems to be the force that underlies the events carrying us forward
to the final chapter. And as this arrogance and lust for power feeds the
wills of those who would gain control of the world, humankind is gaining
just enough knowledge to destroy itself in that arrogance. Never before
in human history has there been such a confluence of forces. Technology,
globalism, and the leftist drumbeat are joining together in a way that
is allowing mankind to believe, on a worldwide scale, that it can control
its own destiny.
The main thing that is being ignored
in all this is human nature. It is all based upon the arrogant presumptions
of the elitist cultural Marxists concerning how people ought to act. It
leads to totalitarianism and destruction.
In truth, and in direct opposition to
the drumbeat, each human being must be accorded his or her natural rights,
individual sovereignty, and self responsibility to be in harmony with human
nature. Each of us must have the freedom to succeed or to fail. Western
culture, culminating in the great American experiment, has been perverted.
Due to these perversions, many failures have already occurred, which have
then, ironically, been used to justify further perversions of the same
sort as those which caused the problems to begin with.
Generally, these perversions are manifested
in bigger government, more laws, more bureaucracy, more regulations, more
taxes, and government controlled redistribution of wealth, more collectivism,
less individualism, and less freedom. We all hear it constantly from leftist
politicians as they add their part to the drumbeat: government must
do more to ensure Americans avoid the consequences of their choices.
We all know the song, sung to the cheers of the unthinking throngs who
would give up their very humanity for the promise of a free lunch. These
are the joys of cultural Marxism.
And the drumbeat goes on. |