Vincent J. Curtis
25 July 2018
On Monday, July 23, the Spectator saw fit to publish a
letter of mind, penned a week earlier.
It ran as follows:
Having taken a week off for vacation, I returned to peruse
the last week of Spectator issues. The most striking thing was the level
and the quantity of hysteria both in opinion pieces and even in alleged news
pieces.
We read that Trump is a fascist. Trump is Putin’s
poodle. Trump doesn’t deserve to be treated fairly or honestly.
Ford is Trump. The use of the 1998-2015 Sex-Ed curricula endangers our
students. Social conservatives are inherently evil. Jordon Peterson
is a fascist, and so must be the guy who rents him a hall to speak in.
People need to get a grip. One reason why Trump has an
unshakeable hold on a large core of supporters, is the hysteria that comes from
his opponents. Anti-Trumpers are dismissed as simply finding new ways of
venting their hysteria. The little-leaguers go after Ford with an
obviousness that is tedious.
It must be that the progressives
realize that they are losing, and are losing their minds over it.
It didn’t take Andrea Horwath, leader on the Ontario NDP, long
to validate my claim that progressives were losing their minds after she
attacked Premier Ford that very day in the legislature on the Sex-Ed
issue. He’s a radical extremist, beholden to his wicked, social conservative
base, and regression in Sex-Ed was their payoff, she says.
“…prevent kids from learning about consent, cyberbullying,
gender identity, and LGBTQ families” she said.
(Poor progressive Andrea is not educated enough herself to
understand the intellectual farce that is gender-identity theory. Teaching gender-identity as fact is like
teaching the discredited caloric theory of heat or the phlogiston theory of
combustion as fact.)
Year Zero fanaticism was identified during the French
Revolution. The revolutionaries were going to create a new man and a new
society from scratch, disregarding all common sense. Year Zero was the
date of the Revolution. The experience with this led to the French
saying, “drive away Nature, and she returns at a gallop.”
The fact that a Sex-Ed program last used in 2014 is beyond
the pale, and only the 2015 program is sufficient is a sign of Year Zero
fanaticism. What about the Ontario students who went through school in
the 1960s, when there was no sex-ed program to speak of? How did they
figure out how to produce Gen X and Gen Y without 2015 approved
instruction? How did mankind make it through the last 40,000 years
without there even being an Ontario Ministry of Education?!
The implication is that Andrea Horwath holds the millennial
generation in utter contempt, believing them unable, without detailed
instruction, to figure out how to reproduce.
If I were more charitable, I would think that Andrea’s real
objection is not the education, but the morality that is transmitted through
the new program. That is entirely Marxist in orientation, and explains
her concern for the satisfaction of social conservatives. What defines
social conservativism except a position on moral rectitude and propriety?
Andrea finds these people inherently evil, and I’m sure, given the chance, she
would deprive them of the right to vote and the right to free expression.
With the fall of the Soviet Union, Marxism was exposed as an
utter failure. Committed Marxists turned their attention to the criticism,
the undermining, and the bringing low of successful, western democracies that
have free-market economies. The Global Warming hysteria is of a piece
with this. Breaking down social morals and encouraging division based on
race and class are other targets of this underground Marxian criticism.
What progressive-Marxist Andrea wants to preserve in the
2015 program is the moral code, because it is much more destructive of
Judeo-Christian morality and of Western values than the 2014 program was.
And this is entirely in keeping with modern Marxism.
Of course, I could be giving Andrea more credit than she
deserves. She could be simply be giving an utterly knee-jerk,
opportunistic reaction to change.
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