Dear Friends,
It seems to me, it is time to recognize post modernism for what it is, and ostracize it, like the ancient Greeks did to anything or anyone that threatened their liberty. Post modernism, the philosophy that posits, every idea, scientific theory and mindset are mental constructs based on the acquisition of power. Therefore even that which is empirically proven… is wrong. Since all thought and exercise of power is a means to more power, they believe, even mathematics itself, the quintessentially unbiased science, is racist. One cannot argue a point with someone who eschews reality as a construct to forward power over others. Without some frame of reference discourse cannot happen. Without discourse the only thing left is raw power, violence, and we see the post modernists advocating for it’s use.
The ancient Greeks, under the Laws of Solon, practiced the ostracism. Solon was elected the equivalent of dictator of ancient Athens. A problem had arisen and civil war was about to break out. Solon was seen as the only man wise enough to solve the problem. He did, and also changed the laws of Draco to his own. The most important of which is the ostracism. Anyone who had amassed too much power, according to Solon, was a threat to Athenian democracy, (liberty) and should be ostracized. The people would take a vote on shards of pottery called Ostracon, and if they voted to ostracize the individual, he was banished from Athens for a period of years. This innovation gave the ordinary citizen the novel power to forestall tyrants, before they became too powerful.
The US founders were adamant, both the Federalists and the Anti federalists agreed with Solon, that massed power is always a threat to liberty itself, and unaccountable power being the greatest threat. All the great thinkers have understood this fact, from Solon to Lord Acton. Post modernism, on the other hand, seeks to mass power from around the Globe… and place it in the hands of unelected new class apparatchiks. Which makes it a philosophy worthy of ostracism on it’s face. Moreover, post modernism as a philosophy, is intended to overthrow the nation state, and therefore is anti constitutional. Since all Constitutions are based on the nation state they were written in. Eliminate the state and the constitution is defacto eliminated. Making post modernism a direct threat to our Constitution as well.
Our Constitution is based on the advances of the Enlightenment. We know that Enlightenment principles are good by their fruit, plus we know that the philosophy of envy, any way it appears, is bad, because it always has evil results. Enlightenment principles seek to use mankind’s self interest to improve the lot of man, while the philosophies of envy seek to improve the lot of man by harming those who get ahead. That the principles of envy are evil was the singular lesson of the Twentieth Century, yet they live on in post modernism. Philosophies that are based on envy, far from being innovations are throwbacks to the time before the Enlightenment, and are antithetical to it, and thereby our Constitution, (which is based on Enlightenment principles), as well.
Post modernism’s mother brought us the Killing fields, the classicide of the Kulaks, the famines of Stalin and Mao, WWII and National Socialism, the atrocities of the “Shining Path” and the rivers of blood the flowed from Paris after the Revolution. While it’s father is, Thrasymachus’ sophist philosophy of injustice masquerading as justice in service of power. Post modernism if given a chance promises to deliver human suffering on a scale we have yet to see nor could we imagine. Such evil must be pointed out and then ostracized else it will metastasize into a horror that cannot easily be solved. Solon was right, too much power in the hands of too few men is a mortal danger to liberty, especially if those men are psychopaths. We lock up dangers… maybe it’s time to ostracize the mortal danger of post modernism.
Post modernism is like a hydra, cut off a head an two more grow out. The way to kill a hydra then is not to cut off heads but to cut out it’s heart. The heart of post modernism is the lie, that people should be judge by the character the hegemony defines of their group, rather than the content of their character. Stop tolerating such bigotry and call it what it is. Stop lying to one another that bigotry to “stop bigotry” is no virtue, it’s the worst of vices. It self servingly justifies it’s own bigotry, by pointing at bigotry past, by people long dead. Cut the heart from the hydra and point out the self serving privilege of post modernists. They can harm others by rhetoric but are immune themselves because they deny logic and science. The philosophy of post modernism must be ostracized.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
