Saturday, December 24, 2022

Hegelian Justifications

Long ago, Estase remarked that the old Greek categories of Effectiveness and Excellence had been completely conflated. That is to say, success is prized so highly that even morally corrupt means are considered acceptable. The right's saying of "That's not my problem,"applies equally to poverty, racial issues, and now, even to our legal system. This degraded moral sensibility accompanied the transformation of right-wing politics into a mere attempt to safeguard the position of the well-off. 
First, Mark Levin depicted the Constitution as having right-wing ideology baked into the crust. When you only like our founding document based on a delusion, it leads the Trump faithful to, even after the Save Save America riot, say "We can't vote our way out of this, "showing their ongoing interest in violent revolution. 
Second, the acceptance of a morally rancid person like Orange Blatherskite was a sign that the moral rot of NTC (Nothing to Conserve) was already setting in. 
One of the consequences of conflating Effectiveness and Excellence is that the NTC people think and act like Marxists in the sense that success excuses every form of crime. In Marxism, this was due to the skeletal role Hegelianism plays, that also being its most dangerous component. Hegelianism taught that success would justify every crime. NTC has much the same viewpoint, accentuated by its judgment that the American left is actually satanic.