Leor Sapir: "The Assault on Children's Psyches"

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The left has adopted a cluster of patently false--in fact, insane--political/philosophical/cultural ideas that derive from e.g. Marxism (including critical theory), postmodernism, and other recent Continental literary/philosophical views. 

   These views have taken over the less-rigorous areas of the humanities and social sciences--disciplines and areas that dabble in philosophy, but which do not teach the history nor analytic skills required to do philosophy competently. Insane views have proliferated in these disciplines and areas. 

   Now, there's nothing wrong with thinking about and discussing insane ideas--in philosophy classrooms where such discussion is routine, (almost) everyone knows how to address and evaluate/criticize such views...and knows better than to try to remake society on the basis of them. 

   However, the philosophical dabblers don't know those things. And the disciplines in question are typically the ones in which natural analytical ability is least-common.

   Furthermore, they tend to be disciplines afflicted by politicization and a commitment to activism. Afflicted, that is, but an uncritical acceptance of Marx's dictum that the point of philosophy is to change the world, not understand it.

   And now these views have spread from academia to all our other institutions--as rational observers feared they might.

   This means that the nation is now afflicted by these ideas in practical ways. And that includes the psychological--and often physical--destruction of children.

   One tenet of the New Progressive Madness is that truth doesn't matter--or, at least, it doesn't matter as much as political results. So it should be subordinated thereto.

   One would think, however, that destroying the minds (and bodies) of children would count as a bad consequence. But here's a newish thing we have discovered about the New Progressive Madness: it does not, in fact, recognize those consequences as bad. In fact, it considers them good.

   This should be enough to convince every remaining sane American that the NPM is an abomination that must be rejected in the strongest possible terms. 

   Finally, though any of the above should be enough: it's also illuminating to understand that the destruction of the nation is a goal of the views from which NPM springs. That shouldn't matter. The incoherence of the ideas should be enough. Their rejection of truth should be enough. The horrific practical consequences should be enough... But it's also relevant to realize that the destruction of the West--and the USA in particular--is a feature, not a bug.