The first video is a discussion between Dr. Gadi Taub and @GadSaad, where they talk about Gad’s ideas on the parasitic nature of woke ideologies.
Dr. Gadi Taub challenges the idea that woke ideology is a form of cultural Marxism, and he thinks it is instead based on extreme individualism, because the American left has individualistic roots.
So, Judith Butlers ideas, according to Gadi Taub, are not really Marxist, but rather individualistic, “the self-made man is not the self-made transgendered individual, … and the whole logic is that only I will decide who I am.“
It is inevitably both, and here’s why …
We think of Marxism as a collective ideology. But all collective ideologies, including religious ones, they are made up of the individuals that sign up to them, and the great flaw of collectivism is that the proponents think you can paper over the cracks of evolutionary individualism in humans and make us all the same, working for the cause, like ants. “Be nice!“
What the collectivist ideologues are deluded about is that they think you can rub out the individualism. They can’t. It turns out they are just as nasty in tooth and claw as anyone – they are not very nice.
When they try to destroy the individualism, they end up with two results:
1 – They destroy the soul of the masses of powerless individuals that are forced to comply.
2 – They suffer from factionailsm among the leadership, because individuals have individual and conflicting ideas about what the ideology entails. And those individuals are either: killed or imprisoned, or at best ostracized; or they take power as a new faction, that then destroys the previous faction. It depends on who you can convince to support you … preferably the army.
We have seen this in Russian Communism. And we see it in Islam and other religions. See the second video, “Emo Phillips – Golden Gate Bridge”, one of the best expositions of the problem.
Islam even has a methodology for dealing with it: Takfir.
Takfir is so refined it even has a counter. If you try to Takfir someone’s ass into being declared an apostate, and you are not convincing, or you can’t muster the support, you are Takfired yourself. It’s the sort of paradoxical idea that could only come out of an ideology so full of insane ideas, where it doesn’t seem out of place.
So, woke ideology is based on a collectivist a delusion coming face to face with reality of individualism.
In the American context, we have a hyper-individualism of self-identity, where everyone can possess different oppressed characteristics, and where the collective will support you, no matter how crazy. But … step out of line, slip up and vocalize your marginal oppression over another’s greater oppression, and you’ll find your ass Takfired.
The clue that it’s still a Marxist ideology? The enemies of Marxists are Nazis … and that’s what they’ll call you rather than ‘apostate‘, but it’s the same thing.
Die, heretic!
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