How to Cope Under Progressive Tyranny

Like all normal Americans I am distressed and even peeved at the left's ongoing transformation of our country and its Ministry of Justice into its own brutal image. Frankly, it's almost enough to put a serious crimp in your day. But do we have anything to add to the discussion besides cold rage and lucid impotence? 

Impotent lucidity?

I try not to give a WTF at the farcical ontics of the looniparty clonecar one way or the other, for reasons of psychological equilibrium and transdimensional irony. 

Regarding the latter, a glance at history reveals how awful events can have unanticipated positive consequences, and vice versa. For example, Obama led to Trump, and we can only hope that the current tyranny will provoke a similar ironic surprise from History.    

So, the worst aspect of this nauseating spectacle is that it actually has me concerned about it, which interferes with my usual abiding in verticality. 

Nicolás, how did you cope in that Colombian hellhole our own progressives are trying so hard to emulate? 

First the bad news, I guess:

For the left the constitution is a shameful attack on the sovereignty of the people.

Democracy, good and hard, AKA mob rule, and the mobsters who rule the mob.

He is called liberal who does not understand that he has sacrificed freedom until it is too late to save him.

Or in our country, doesn't give a WTF about the demise of freedom, so long as it ends, whether expressed in speech, association, action, or thought.

A lexicon of ten words is sufficient for the Marxist to explain history.

That's positively verbose. Our Marxists need only three: Orange Man Bad.

The cult of humanity is celebrated with human sacrifices.

True. The Orange Man is their scapegoat, but he's just a synecdochus for the restavus.

When the progressive condemns, every intelligent man must feel alluded to.

That's true, and we are flattered. Until intelligence becomes a crime. 

But this is the Big One we'll be dilating upon this morning:

The left is a lexicographical tactic more than an ideological strategy.

But wait -- what about the coping mechanisms for living under progressive fascism?  

I do not want to conquer serenity, like a Stoic, but to welcome it, like a Christian.

Workin' on it. Best we can manage at the moment is a cynically detached and flatline stoicism. That and a lucid impotence. 

Let us live the militancy of Christianity with the good humor of the guerilla fighter, not with the glumness of the entrenched garrison. 

I get it, but this is California, not some comparatively advanced banana republic.

Christianity does not solve "problems"; it merely obliges us to live them at a higher level.

Okay, but how high? Can we buy some pot from you?

Civilizations are the summer buzzing of insects between two winters.

And I don't hear any crickets.

Defeats are never definitive when they are accepted with good humor.

Well ha f*cking ha. 

With good humor and pessimism it is possible to be neither wrong nor bored.

Yes, like when Bertie Wooster emitted a conspicuous chuckle. One of those hollow and bitter ones. 

Today the conservative is merely a passenger who suffers a shipwreck with dignity. 

Like this guy: 

Coincidentally, I've been reading a book called Homo Americanus: The Rise of Totalitarian Democracy in America, and chapter 4 is particularly timely, called American Newspeak. It dovetails nicely with what brother Nicolás says above about Dems and their unending attack on language. For truly truly, In the left's beginning is the word, and it's a whopper.

Janowski writes of the systematic misuse of language "without which totalitarianism is impossible," and "the indispensable role [it] plays in creating totalitarian reality" -- or rather "reality": 

Language, like everything else in totalitarianism, must be subject to rules and regulations. It is not merely an instrument of daily communication but a reality of its own. 

For 

[O]ne quickly notices that today's American Newspeak is fundamentally totalitarian. By accepting it, using it, we not only get caught in the totalitarian unreality, but we become its accessory cofounders.

Yes, accessories to the coldblooded murder of the English tongue, for which reason they ought to be taken out and hung. Heavens what a noise! Yet this is what the American population calls a higher education. 

Fidelity to the dictionary is resistance to tyrants.

Where does it start? I mean besides in Genesis 3? With something like the postmodern deconstruction that severs Word from Thing: "Totalitarian language cannot reflect the world. The opposite must happen," which is to say, the world "must reflect the thought that we express through language."

So, we don't just speak different languages, rather, one that refers to reality, and a tongue-twisted one that is the absurcular reality to which it refers. Once you've accomplished the latter, you've done Satan's heavy lifting, and the rest is commentary, whereby "one piece of nonsense [is] substituted for another piece of nonsense."

Literally because this non-sense world begins with its Idea rather than with the senses -- and by extension, with the left cerebral hemisphere over the right. It's why they want to force us to say That's a woman when we know damn well that That's a man, baby! 

Some say 1984 was off by 40 years, but in a conversation about the 11th edition of the Newspeak Dictionary, Winston Smith's interlocutor estimates that it won't be until 2050 that "all knowledge of Oldspeak will have disappeared," so we're right on schedule.

It's not even a consolation that these are sick individuals, since Newspeak assures its speakers that we are the sick ones -- the insurrectionists, the white supremacists, the anti-democracy terrorists. Nor are fact and reason any defense, since "ideological thinking is impervious to empirical facts and deaf to any non-ideological explanation."

We are the maladjusted ones, since we refuse to adapt to their sick perception of the world. But a good way to deny one's sickness is to compel everyone else to share the sickness. Of course,

Forcing others to live by bad ideas is to introduce chaos and disorder into people's lives, and thus to destroy society. 

So, mission accomplished. 

Ha f*cking ha.