Filter Down has always been accepted in all societies. Newly discovered ideas and techniques take a while to be accepted by the general population. Ideologues who refer to themselves as Idealists say that their progressive concepts have not yet “gotten accepted.”
This was legitimate in earlier times. In earlier societies basic knowledge remained fairly static, so the only dynamic was the filter down of the different TAKE on people’s knowledge and world view. But now we have a dynamic which is even more rapid than the fastest filter-down process. Today our view of reality itself changes far faster than the analysis of OLD world views filter down.
Marxism has filtered down into Political Correctness. But Marxism is a set of ideas derived from Kantian dialectics and, far more so, from the realities accepted in the mid-nineteenth century. Marx assumed that only human beings had institutions. Everyone in his time knew that only man had borders.
Marx assumed that only men had inequality. Marxism did not move a whit from those positions. Political Correctness is based on them today. Lysenko took over Soviet agriculture insisting that genetics was not important.
Today the Missing Frontal Lobes (MFLs) on our side get paid to debate the Communist fairy tale as if it were a serious point of view. If they took the Flat Earth Society that seriously, they would probably be institutionalized.
You will never get rid of this outdated crappola by taking it seriously. To coin a phrase:
When I was a child I thought as a child.
Now it is time to put away childish ways.
#1 by BGLass on 01/28/2010 - 10:38 am
I think I was born after Filter Down. We had to read Marx in school, mostly as a throwback, b/c HE stupidly thought the boy-girl thing was normal (v transgender, etc). In the German Ideology, he locates the initial split in labor/capital in a guy just wanting to live next to his girlfriend. So, first generation communism seemed to us like Filter Down. When science advanced, we learned, “class” was equated with “race” and “gender” under the heading “terms about oppression.” The dialectic of thesis/antithesis/synthesis, was now producing hybrids that were non-sythesizable. Teachers said this was good b/c it was “new knowledge.” even if it continued to proliferate in senseless hybrid configurations. As a kid, I feared this was somehow connected to me getting sick from shellfish-gene-injected red peppers that the government didn’t tell us about, so my folks sent me to psychotherapy. Thank God, this was after the 1960s, when MDs apparently removed the frontal lobes in something I was told had been called Lobotomy, as a way of correcting you if you happened to be born in a nation of MFLs. If I’d been born earlier in American history, during first generation communism, I would be MFL—b/c doctors removed frontal lobes then, a practice some circles want to bring back into vogue now. So I have a lot to be grateful for. Thanks for a post that brought back so many memories!
#2 by Dave on 01/28/2010 - 10:54 am
The only “filter down” that matters is the filter down of racially pure genes.
I just enunciated that greatest heresy of our times. It is what none dare mention, nature’s proof of ultimate victory.
There is no family of man.
There is no mankind.
Those are the two most important phrases in the English language.