November 6, 2023

In a time when Jewish university students are hiding in the library attic from pro-Hamas mobs and N4 insurrectionists are battering at the gates of the White House our noble rulers are worrying about Islamophobia. Can you spell anti-Semitism, dear liberal friends?

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Is it possible that our liberal friends, who have had a chokehold on The Narrative for the last century, are losing their grip? It could happen, historians agree.

And by the way, what is the difference between a “cease-fire” and a “humanitarian pause?” Experts agree that more research is needed.

I tell you what I am worried about: all those BLACK LIVES MATTER yard-signs in my liberal neighborhood that are almost as common as subsidized EVs in the driveway recharging from their subsidized charging stations intermittently powered by subsidized solar panels on the roof. Perhaps it is time for devoted activists to start taping those over with an anti-Semitism Alert in the interest of “safety.”

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But why? Why are our lefty friends so dumb, from BLM to Palestine? I am reading Michael McConkey’s A Plea for Time in the Phenotype Wars, from his “Circulation of Elites” Substack. He reduces everything to Space vs. Time: Spatials vs. Temporals. What’s that? Just this:

The Left worldview has a space bias, “focused on administration, centralized control, and commerce.” The right worldview has a time bias, “focused on organic community, concrete institutions, and tradition.”

Let’s make it real simple: the Left’s world is Abstract World, and the right’s world is Life World.

Life World? That’s the German notion of Lebenswelt, or lifeworld, developed by Husserl.

In the real world some lefties have swung towards the center, like Jürgen Habermas in his Theory of Communicative Action. La Wik:

[Habermas] focuses on the lifeworld as consisting of socially and culturally sedimented linguistic meanings. It is the lived realm of informal, culturally-grounded understandings and mutual accommodations.