The Wrong-Wing Extremists. Part One
Is My Extremism in Defense of Truth and Common Sense a Vice?
Am I a right-wing extremist? I probably am, but I sure don’t like to think of myself as one. All those Joe Biden and Barack Hussein Obama and Xi Jinping and Khaled Mashal fans out there would probably call me one. My significant other calls me one. But the truth is, I like Bibi Netanyahu, and I even voted for the guy with orange hair back in '20. So, yes, if a right-wing extremist is what I must be, then a right-wing extremist is what I am.
I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately, and I realized that the word right has two meanings in English: right versus left, and right versus wrong. Therefore I’ve come to accept myself as a right-wing extremist by virtue of the fact that I am extremely opposed to the Wrong-Wing Extremists.
Up to now I’ve been following conventional “wisdom” and calling the Wrong-Wing Extremists the “Left.” By doing so, however, I’m just adding to the confusion.
Just what is meant by the “Left”? The New Left? The Old Left? The Far Left? The Warm Fuzzy Left? The Trotskyites? The Stalinists? The “Democrats” of the 1910’s, 1940’s, 1960’s, 2020’s? The folks who sat to the left of the President in revolutionary Paris in the National Assembly of 1789?
I’ve already written plenty about the “Left” and how they go rogue over and over again.
I’ve also written how they have wormed their way into the hearts of many of us and are perceived as the Warm, Fuzzy Left.
But I’m done with that “Left” stuff. From now on, I’m targeting the Wrong-Wing Extremists.
So, I’ll start by asserting the obvious: what is wrong with the Wrong-Wing Extremists? The short answer: they are Totalitarians. They want to control everyone and everything. Totally.
I’ve been meaning to write more about Totalitarians for a while now, and I probably will do so in more detail later. For now, I want to say that there are three kinds of Totalitarians:
The Class Totalitarians.
The Race Totalitarians.
The Pure Totalitarians.
More about them another time. Probably. Right now I want to get up to my knees in Earthspace physical reality and start making a list of Wrong-Wing Extremists.
This list can, and should be, sorted later. In the meantime, right off the top of my head:
Wrong-Wing Extremists List
Joe Biden
Adolf Hitler
Uncle Joe Stalin
Barack Hussein Obama
Xi Jinping
Klaus Schwab
Justin Trudeau
Paolo Freire
John Wilkes Booth
Kim Jong-Un
So far, so good. I can and probably will add to this list later, but it’s time to move on to something else.
Oh! Of course! There’s also Hillary Clinton (#11) and Jeffrey Epstein (#12.) But as I said, time to move on.
So, I guess the obvious next question is this: What are we Right-Wing Extremists going to do about the Wrong-Wing Extremists?
Remember, as I just wrote, the Wrong-Wing Extremists are Totalitarians. They want to control all of us, and not just control us a little bit, or partially, but totally.
And now they think they have the technology to do that: Social Media, Mainstream Media, facial recognition cameras, license plate cameras, instant control of our credit cards, big drones, little drones, loitering munitions drones, mRNA vaccines, booster mRNA vaccines, aircraft piloted by members of marginalized groups, aircraft whose doors fall off,… I could go on, but it’s time to get to the “on the other hand” part.
On the other hand:
What’s sauce for the goose… I’m going to rewrite that.
What’s proper for the goose is proper for the gander.
That’s the thing about technology. It cuts both ways. It always has. Take a piece of stone, for example. Something that can be chipped into a sharp object. They say the Aztecs ripped out the hearts of their sacrificial victims with “knives” of sharpened obsidian.
Tie a sharpened piece of stone to the end of a stick and you have a spear.
Make the spear 18 feet long, change the stone tip to a bronze tip, give a whole bunch of such spears to a group of your guys and you have…
Alexander the Great beating the Persian Empire.
The extra-long spear was called a sarissa. You can look it up, but I’ve got to move on.
Of course, compared to the totalitarian Wrong-Wing Extremists, the Persian empire was a bunch of pussycats, but a paradigm shift is a paradigm shift.
So here you are, if you are reading this. Consider Substack, at least for the time being, an 18-foot long sarissa spear for the good guys, the enemies of the Wrong-Wing Extremists, us Right-Wing Extremists.
They say knowledge is power, specifically that fellow Michel Foucault, the French intellectual who wrote about Knowledge-Power when he wasn’t being fisted by underaged North African boys. Or maybe while he was… who knows? Mrs. Foucault? Was there a Mrs. Foucault?
Now let’s face it, when there is a veritable tsunami of information, most of which should be regarded with extreme suspicion, is knowledge really power?
I say yes. Why? Because the word truth really does have a genuine correspondence with reality. If you’re a Persian infantryman, and a Macedonian hoplite sinks his sarissa spear deep into your abdomen, you aren’t creating your own reality. You’re experiencing it. If you’re a good Zoroastrian you might expect your immortal soul to pass on to the afterlife under the care of Ahura Mazda, but be that as it may, you will soon be dead, and the paradigm of who runs Persian turf will soon shift.
And so, my dear Right-Wing Extremist friends and allies, it time for all of us to go Yo-Ho-Ho and shift that paradigm.
This is just as great as part two!