Theos-Talk Archives (December 2002 Message tt00430)

"Steve Stubbs " wrote:
> One point. If there us such a thing as a "left wing website" that
> fact should be covered up, since as everyone knows only the right
> wing point of view is true, solid, honest, and reliable. Statements
> to the contrary are lies that should be vigorously opposed or
> suppressed

There are differences of opinion, and there are matters of fact. A
group of philosophers known as the Frankfurt School and founders of the
concept of political correctness have pushed a philosophy that matters
of fact are irrelevant when pushing their political philosophy. If the
facts don't fit their ideas, then it is the facts that need to be
altered, not their opinions. 

Part of the basis of their philosophy is that cultures are created out
of whole cloth, and Western Civilization and Christianity were designed
by the wealthy and powerful to oppress the poor and powerless. In their
mindset, it is only through the destruction of Western Civilization that
their Communist Paradise can occur, and that it will happen naturally,
in spite of the fact that, in the past, anarchy has always led to
feudalism. 

These ideas are the major guiding force of a highly influential sector
of the far left wing in the United States, and is every bit as dangerous
to freedom of Theosophical thought and far more insidious than the
Religious Right sector of the far right wing. It is the philosophy of
the Frankfurt School in particular that George Orwell was writing about
in his novel, 1984. 

I have heard Theosophists who would go ballistic over statements like,
"The United States is a Christian country" make statements like,
"Scientific method is a thought-form pushed by Western culture for the
purpose of persecuting minorities."

The so-called political "left wing" and "right wing" are actually
groups of many opinions translated onto a single axis. This results in
self contradictory ideas existing on both sides of this axis. There are
two important and inextricably linked things to remember, in terms of
political philosophy, especially when looked at from a Theosophical
point of view:

1) There is more than one correct solution to any problem, and the best
solution is dependent on the importance of the individual factors
involved.

2) Every problem is connected to every other problem, and therefore one
cannot properly look at solving one problem without considering the
effects of the solution on all other problems. 

The failure of current politics is based on the treatment of each
problem as being unconnected with others, and largely basing the
solution on which side of the single "left-right" axis one happens to be
on, rather than looking at the totality of the problems and solutions. 

Bart Lidofsky