As I am not a Christian I do not care about any theocratic aspects of societies dominated by these as the political weapon of control.
Ideology can be as perilous as religion in this regard. Seldom do the actual people and nation have anything to do with why and how its leaders tend to act.
Islam in the west is a peril yet unknown to liberals and so they scuttle about with their new age lefty supporters bothering about nazis and racists when in fact a different and real threat hovers over them like the proverbial Damocletian sword. They're idiots with a capital "I".
I agree that the terms "liberal" and "fascist" are incompatible with regard to their definitions but neo-liberals have managed to combine them, possibly by means of a degraded Christianity based on caritas in a secular expression and sheer moral supremacy that has made some of them actually state that they think they are the evolution of an improved human species that is destined to rule the world on account of their attainment of moral beatitude in their planned Republic of Heaven on earth.
If one has a discrepancy like that motivating one's thinking and action, the results can only be disastrous at best and catastrophic at worst.
What a way to start the day! an espresso + croissant + a shot of Neo Fascist Liberalism. And it’s foggy outside, meteorologically and metaphorically.
I’m not a christian. Which is why, when defending the values of a christian society, I have to keep preventing MS Word from correcting to an upper case C. I’m with Woody Allen who couldn’t decide whether to raise one’s kids as atheists or agnostics.
I dissociate from any religious beliefs. For goodness sake, don’t people know what’s right and what’s wrong without having to go to a place of worship?
I nonetheless admire the French version of Roman Catholicism which is exceptionally non-prescriptive, chiming with their admirable laissez faire live-&-let-live secularity. It is tragic that, with such an enlightened outlook, France should have let itself over the years be lumbered with so many Muslims.
I suppose that is what happens when a succession of elected governments keep oscillating between neo fascist liberalism and right-wing authoritarianism. One can understand how this creates disillusion, distrust and resigned acquiescence among older citizens and unrest among younger citizens, mutating into civil disorder and mob rule, euphemised as “popular democracy”. (Q: What are you rebelling against? A: What have you got?). So-called idealism is powered by G.A.S (Group Accepted Sentiments), regressing into manic ideology.
Into this void of irrationalism it is easy to see how Political Correctness flourishes and mutates into Neo Liberal Fascism in the West and Neo Islamism in the Middle and Far East, leaving a disheartened, frightened, nervous silent majority of “non-believers/infidels, who keep a low profile, or go with the flow or, heaven help us, actually believe the ideology and assume it reflects society’s new precepts. This is how World Order degenerates and either rises out of the ruins into something better or settles into a dystopian Brave New World, a negative Utopia.
What do those who are concerned actually do about this?
- Intellectually analyse it to death? I suppose even negative stimulation is better than no stimulation.
- Start another social media that is merely a smaller newer me-too of Facebook or Twitter? In other words, try and make hay while the sun is setting but still shining, while console oneself with the fact that there is mortality?
- Start another social media (or smarter still, a sub-forum) that targets and engages with young people who rightly feel disenfranchised. Through an exchange of ideas, telling it as it really is, this could progress towards a new enlightenment. (One thing is for sure, without a full complement of government-paid bodyguards surrounding a circumspect Salman Rushdie life-style, staying online with a pseudonym will remain the order of the day – and it will probably need to comprise long conversational threads of briefly-stated digestible thoughts
that can build up rather than yawn-making commentaries from prehistorics like me, which will be largely ignored..