David McCullough is History: Why His Positive Portrayals Still Irk Critical Theory Pushers

I think you’re exactly right as far as you’ve gone but I also think there’s more to this than the people you’re pointing out.

Those people are the useful idiots, the minions, the disaffected and disgruntled and the flat out violent, dangerous sociopaths and psychopaths that the Left pulls into its orbit.

Think about this for a minute if you will. What is the biggest fear of those who LEAD the Left — When they’ll tell you the truth? What seems to be their biggest goal, because that is directly related to what they fear?

Most of them hate humanity, have some weird fixation on an idyllic, pastoral primitivism that they think they’ll live with all the modern conveniences. Almost all of them at the top, the real leaders not puppets like Joe Biden or the purple-haired land whale that lives down the street — want to see the human population of Earth decreased by several orders of magnitude.

Not themselves of course, they’re way too valuable to just take a long walk off a short pier and thereby save the planet their massive consumption of resources and energy.

I think what they really want is to kill off all the poor people they claim to champion. Because if you project the end result of almost every doctrine now espoused by the Left, a lot of deaths are the unavoidable conclusion to their schemes.

Take “global climate change”, it’s about the very most elitist doctrine possible to invent. If they succeeded in all they say they want to do … Poor people are going to starve and freeze to death all over the industrialized part of the world. If you can’t afford “green food” and “green energy” and “green living” you can’t afford heat in the winter, you starve and freeze.

Or using homosexuality and now transexualism as a wedge issue. Guess who cannot reproduce? The poor welfare mom in the inner city can do what Pete Buttgrudge and his male lover cannot, unless they spend a hell of a lot of money to do it vicariously. She can have a baby with little or no concerted effort, she can just let that happen. Lil’ Pete and Dave Ruben have to buy thiers. Less reproduction and now …

Transing children with butchery and life altering drugs is another step in getting rid of unwanted “breeders” and preventing unwanted breeding. The same goes for abortion too, btw. You not only take down another human mouth to feed, that baby won’t grow up to make more babies either.

Etc. Look at their policies with this in mind and it becomes clear that the natural, predictable outcome of all most all of their rainbows and unicorn farts is murder and death for a good chunk of humanity.

Those people have found a way to make being a maladjusted impressionable, ignorant misfit who will not or cannot reproduce — Very chic and trendy. They’re using the people you describe to achieve their goals. The people you describe are all too happy to let them do that.

It’s sick, a sickness of the soul. I often say there’s nothing new under the sun but this might be something new. We may not as a species be able to recover from these vicious people and the horror they want to see perpetrated.

What really galls me are the lies and that there are so many people willing to adopt them.

The Left thinks it’s doing “good” so anyone who opposes them is “evil”. When they are the ones perpetrating evil as I pointed out above.

“Good” no longer means, to them, “good for humanity”. It means “good for the planet” though the planet is in no significant clear and present peril from humanity. They lie that Earth is in peril and create an existential threat out of whole cloth so as to have an excuse to do what it bad for humanity. They have traded compassion for obsession and if you read what many are saying they despise the human race that they somehow magically consider themselves not to be a part of anymore. We both know the root of this spite for God’s children.

We had actual racism beaten in this country and under the guise of anti-racism they’ve resurrected and feed real racism.

Yes, I’ve read the last chapter along with the rest of The Book too. We both know how this ends but we’re seeing a concerted effort that amounts to murder on a scale never seen in history. We’ve already seen this ideology kill tens, maybe hundreds of millions in the last century. It’s spreading and every iteration is more virulent than the one before it.

I know Who is ultimately in charge but it seems clear to me that the threat, though ancient and continual, has morphed into something that is organized on a global scale and that’s new. It’s as though the evil in the world decided to combine forces and work together with an efficiency never experienced in history.

I can’t help thinking that we’re hurtling towards that last chapter in The Book.

Nice talking to you too, btw. Always a pleasure to have a conversation with someone knowledgeable and articulate.

First of all, you’re welcome and thank you for saying so.

You might point out to your daughter that communication is not possible when neither side understands or accepts the meanings of words. She is right that language is a living, ongoing process that evolves organically over time. If you try to read Chaucer in the original old English you’d better know a little French and German too or you won’t understand it.

However, that process has historically been one of coining new words or applying old words to more accurate description — Not obliquely and arbitrarily re-defining words already in common usage.

For example, I always cringe a little when watching historical movies set in the time before firearms became common and archery was the main means of throwing a projectile. When the leader or hero or whoever says “FIRE!” and everyone shoots arrows … That’s just not how it was done.

Using the word “fire” to denote the launch of a projectile didn’t come along until the advent of gunpowder. Because when you use gunpowder you are literally appling fire to launch a projectile.

Before firearms the idea of saying “FIRE!” would never have occurred to anyone in this context. There was no fire involved and even with flaming arrows saying “fire” would have simply been redundant.

If you had said “FIRE” to an archer using flaming arrows he would have just said “Yes, there is fire, and?”

They would not have said “I fired an arrow at ___”. They would have said “I loosed an arrow at ___”.

After the adoption of firearms if anyone said “I fired a shot at ___” the meaning would have been more than obvious. Even the word “shot” has changed somewhat from the original meaning of “round projectile”. A holdover to that time is still used when individual units of ammunition are referred to as “rounds” of ammo.

So language does change and when it does so it becomes more descriptive and clearer. Not descriptive of something else completely and more opaque.

Each generation has the privilege and opportunity to add to the language, not bastardize meanings to suit some sort of agenda. The difference lies in the intent and resultant information conveyed.

Because of agendas like that, now “Conservative” means ‘racist bigot who hates poor people and is wholly selfish’ … Because there has been a concerted effort to give the word “Conservative” that meaning by the enemies of conservatism.

Words are not being “re-cast to reflect real life”, obviously Conservatives are not the “real life” thing the Left tries to label us as. Study after study shows conservatives to be thoughtful, well adjusted, intelligent and more accepting than the Left which has redefined acceptance to mean “Thinking like a Leftist”.

There’s no “real life” involved here at all, it’s merely the weaponization of not language but the words themselves. Words have become rounds of ammunition to one certain political view.

Orwell covers this process in depth and was remarkably insightful for his day. If I were conversing on this topic with someone like your daughter I would not say the Left ‘stole’ words, I would say they weaponized them in order to control thought.

That process does not convey more information more accurately, just the opposite.

The problem then is that in using traditional values and thousands of years of acceptance of what amounts to the common sense accrued over generations — When we talk about something the other side isn’t hearing what we’re saying but what they think we’re saying. They are mentally translating on the fly and unaware they are doing so.

That is not communication and like so many other things the Left does it carries an intent to deceive by means of sophistry.

I’m willing to bet* that your daughter is sufficiently indoctrinated by her ‘education’ that she has become incapable of recognizing sophistry when she encounters it. I learned what sophistry was as a factor of my general education. It’s not something that is being taught in modern times because it is a tool of understanding and understanding is anathema to Leftist doctrine.

Which brings us right back to how the Left actively inhibits communication.

There are no people in my family that think they know more than me no matter how educated they are. I’m not bragging, just stating a fact. If they want to know about something they come to “Dad” or “Grampa” or “Uncle”, all of which are me. When there’s something my kids don’t know how to field with their kids, my grandbabies, they are told “Call Grampa and ask him about that.” If I don’t know, we learn together and I help guide them through the minefield of modern ideology.

Truth is still truth and the Left cannot bear up in the light of truth. I’m no dummy but I don’t know everything either. What I do have is the truth on my side and over a lifetime I’ve learned to sift information to find the truth or as close as is humanly possible.

*BTW, I don’t know your daughter and I mean no offense to you, these are just general observations of a ‘type’ that has become all too common.