The Left: Monsters, Inc.

How does one "process" absolute evil? I don't think it can be processed. In fact, it is the polar opposite of what can be made intelligible. It is unintelligibility incarnate: absurd, dark, dense, senseless, impenetrable. The Devil doing what he does best.

Yes, the monster will have its "reasons." Man can always furnish reasons, up to and including reasons for the murder of God himself. Which means that man can even provide reasons for the eradication of reason and crucifixion of truth. 

The progressive left is a monstrous ideology in the business of creating monsters. Which I mean literally:

In reality, man has the right to be legitimately traumatized only by monstrosities; he who is traumatized by less is himself a monster (Schuon).

Thus, by encouraging the resentful and weak-minded to identify as victims, the left produces violent monsters on a wholesale basis. And not just those whose victimhood legitimizes violence, but the intellectual monsters who provide the sick but seductive worldview the little monsters internalize. 

Another important point:

The Marxist does not think it possible to condemn except by distorting what he condemns.

Which comes first, the Marxism or the mechanism of distortion? I suspect the latter, which is why the same mechanism animates the progressive left. For example, in yesterday's most mainstream instance (there are obviously far more nauseating examples bubbling up from the sewers of the internet), MSNBC commentator Matthew Dowd proclaimed that Kirk was 

one of the most divisive, especially divisive younger figures in this who is constantly sort of pushing this sort of hate speech or sort of aimed at certain groups.

Divisive? Of course, in the sense that truth itself represents the division of truth and reality from error, illusion, and ideological fantasy.  

And I always go back to hateful thoughts, lead to hateful words, which then lead to hateful actions. And I think that’s the environment we’re in that people just you can’t stop with these sort of awful thoughts you have, and then saying these awkward words and not expect awful actions to take place. And that’s the unfortunate environment we’re in.

And I always go back to the people who think truth is hateful. To be sure, it may be painful. No one wants to hear that they have cancer. But does this make your oncologist a hater? And does this make surgery a hateful and awful action? 

People err in thinking that hatred isn't a pleasurable emotion. It is precisely because it is so pleasurably intoxicating that people will distort the target of hatred in order to hate in "good conscience." From Instapundit:

Live by the sword... Fuck Fascists. Fuck Nazis. Fuck bigots. 

Agreed: fuck them. But who and where are they? There are enough of them that we don't have to create imaginary ones.

This person gets it:

In Japan, Shinzo Abe was assassinated after the left spent years portraying him as a monster who deserved to die. 

In America, the left has normalized violent rhetoric and extreme performances -- like a comedian holding up a fake Trump head, burning Trump dolls at protests, or posting “Trump should die” online. Soon after, Trump himself narrowly survived an assassination attempt.

First dehumanize, then it's just a matter of political hygiene -- of taking out the trash. Exactly:

Charlie Kirk was the kind of conservative that progressives claim to like. Calm, rational, substantive, open to respectful engagement with the other side. But they unremittingly demonized him anyway.

That Kirk was calm, rational, and open doesn't make it better for the monster. Rather, it obviously makes it worse, for it reveals what the monster wishes to hide from himself.  

A generation of nutjobs have convinced themselves that disagreeing with them, and not simply giving them whatever they want, is violence and even genocide.  

And so they view physical violence against people who disagree with them as justified.

But again, they don't just "disagree." This is like saying that Hitler "disagreed" with Judaism, or that Stalin had his intellectual differences with the bourgeoisie. Rather, the hatred comes first, the ideology to legitimize the hatred second. And the hatred extends to reality itself, and to anyone that reminds them of reality.

There are few sources to consult at this meta-level of analysis. In fact, the only book I could think of is Gil Bailie's Violence Unveiled. Here is a note to myself:

The victim becomes the victimizer, so that any violence on the part of the victim becomes legitimate and sacred.

Thus, the awakened person -- awake to the mechanism of sacred violence -- is dangerous because he awakens people from the spell that legitimizes their violence as victims. The awakened person says: you are not victims.

Charlie Kirk: awake and dangerous, in fact, an existential danger to both the monsters and to the whole ideological mechanism that creates them: Monsters, Inc.

Even the most vicious campaigns of victimization -- including, astonishingly, even Hitler's -- have found it necessary to base their assertion of moral legitimacy on the claim that their goal was the protection or vindication of victims.

However savagely we behave, and however wickedly and selectively we wield this moral gavel, protecting or rescuing innocent victims has become the cultural imperative everywhere the biblical influence has been felt (Bailie). 

Especially on the left, which is not so much unbiblical as anti-biblical, which is to say, taking the biblical message about innocent victims and turning it upside down and inside out. In other words, just because God himself is a victim of history, this doesn't mean the self-styled victim renders himself a god thereby.

But there is a kind of omnipotence and omniscience that goes along with the privilege of victimhood, for first, if you're a victim, that is all you need to know (for you know everything you need to know), and second, if you can be a victim you can do anything. Certainly you can get away with anything, from murder and theft to conquest and genocide.  

Breaking news:

Recovered Rifle & Ammo Are Scrawled with Transgender, Antifa Messages

"This trans terrorist scrawled antifa and transgender death cult slogans on his gun and ammo -- exactly like the last trans terrorist child-murderer did." 

Sounds like a man made into a monster by being traumatized by less than monstrosities. But if Bailie is correct, this isn't news at all, but mankind's oldest mechanism for the legitimization of sacred violence:

Sacred violence is at the heart of primitive religion, and vestiges of it are at the heart of all "the kingdoms of this world."

And what is leftism but an ideological kingdom of this world, easily the most dynamic and successful political religion of the past 100 years? Charlie Kirk did his utmost to do battle with this dreadful kingdom of monsters, so no wonder it has struck back against the light. It won't be the last time. 

Well, that's my modest attempt to process the unintelligible and make sense of the absurd. 

I don't know what Lou Reed meant by the song, but I know what I mean: