There’s a lot of controversy going on in what might be called “the Right”, although that’s a bit simplistic (well, a lot simplistic). The “Left” is coasting, regurgitating memes that have been around for a century and a half at least — doing well, mind you, but that’s because their themes specifically do not address the intellectual component. Agriculture and industrialization are intellectual constructs that don’t match the “instincts” we picked up during the tens of millenia we spent wandering the savannah as hunter-gatherer-scavengers, so they’re difficult or impossible to frame in “instinctive” terms.

It’s infuriating, despite being somewhat amusing, to watch the abandonment of intellectual constructs, replacing them with primitive hunter-gatherer-scavenger ideals, being trumpeted as “intellectualism” or “elitism”. Balderdash. It isn’t Progressive, it’s retrogressive.

I’ve been trying to address some of those issues on my blog; particularly, the notion that we need to go back and re-think some of the basics, because the argument from the set of basics we now assume has been polluted by Leftoid Jesuitry.

If the “Right” can re-establish, via competing with one another, the intellectual basis of the things that keep us alive day to day, perhaps we can communicate it with others. The competition for attention is thus a good thing, though as always we need to watch out for con-men (and -women) and charismatic ideologues. Neither of those is “intellectual”.

Regards,
Ric