Essentially Leftist Logos-Lovers Railing Against Leftism
It took me a long time to realize that all contemporary politics and virtually everything that connects to politics—economics, finance, culture, society in general, business, institutions, art, and organized religion—is of the left. And when I mean “of the left,” I mean exactly that. It’s leftism—all of it.
Yes, even the most conservative of conservative political parties, the most foaming at the mouth alt-rightist nationalist, and the most pious trad Christian clergyman are basically of the left for the simple reason that they continue to operate within an exclusively leftist framework under the delusion that some semblance of “the right” still exists there.
Newsflash. There is no “right” in contemporary politics. It’s all the left. All of it.
Rightists, conservatives, and so-called traditional Christians can’t seem to wrap their heads around this simple fact and continue to doggedly participate in a perceived left-right paradigm that simply does not exist.
Among the worst offenders are logos-centered Christians—you know, the ones who enjoy reminding everyone that Christ is Logos, the universal principle of law, order, and reason that underpins the reality of Creation and through which all things were created.
The metaphysics of most logos-centered Christians are easy enough to discern and grasp. For them, Christianity and reality are fundamentally objective. Reality does not submit to individuals; individuals submit to reality. Reality, then, is logos as law, or, more precisely, logos as supreme authority.
Within such metaphysical assumptions, the authority of the objective always takes precedence over the authority of the subjective for the simple fact that the subjective contains no real authority but is instead detached from “real” authority and, thus, self-consuming. If it were otherwise, there could be no objective facts; hence, no order, no beauty, truth, or goodness. No reality “out there.”
Along the same lines, Christianity is not and cannot be a predominantly private, personal, and spiritual matter; it must be rooted in submission to the external authority—to facts, to churches, to doctrines, to the Bible, to society, to tradition, to authority, to “reality”. Christianity has to be mostly "out there."
Anyway, the biggest beef logos-loving Christians have against leftists is the latter’s outright refusal to submit to the unavoidable authority of the Logos as an external authority.
The crux of the ongoing conflict resides in opposing the left’s relentless campaign to impose external unreality upon external reality and call it “reality”.
The war most logos-loving Christians wage against the left is an exclusively external affair, and it is through this externality, through this “out there” focus, through this purposeful choice of battlefields, that the left has already won and will continue to win.
Put another way, logos-loving Christians will never win the war against leftism if they continue to focus almost entirely on the authority of the Logos as an externality because any exclusively external focus is inherently leftist by default.
Thus, actively engaging and participating in leftist narratives by loyally showing up and filling the external role of “the right” does little more than positively fortify the left’s external unrealities.
Claiming rightist victories and progress in certain political, social, or economic matters that are wholly externally organized, promulgated, and dictated by the left is itself a form of leftist delusion.
Everything in the external is of the left today. Politics, economics, art, religion, culture, society, and everything else that comprises the System.
Of the left. All of it.
Thus, any spiritual submission to external “reality” today is submission to the left, not the Logos.
This should induce a pause for thought. Perhaps the Logos is not entirely about the external. Perhaps it’s more of an internal matter in this time and place.
Moreover, reality may require much more from us than mere submission to external authority.
Much, much more.
Yes, even the most conservative of conservative political parties, the most foaming at the mouth alt-rightist nationalist, and the most pious trad Christian clergyman are basically of the left for the simple reason that they continue to operate within an exclusively leftist framework under the delusion that some semblance of “the right” still exists there.
Newsflash. There is no “right” in contemporary politics. It’s all the left. All of it.
Rightists, conservatives, and so-called traditional Christians can’t seem to wrap their heads around this simple fact and continue to doggedly participate in a perceived left-right paradigm that simply does not exist.
Among the worst offenders are logos-centered Christians—you know, the ones who enjoy reminding everyone that Christ is Logos, the universal principle of law, order, and reason that underpins the reality of Creation and through which all things were created.
The metaphysics of most logos-centered Christians are easy enough to discern and grasp. For them, Christianity and reality are fundamentally objective. Reality does not submit to individuals; individuals submit to reality. Reality, then, is logos as law, or, more precisely, logos as supreme authority.
Within such metaphysical assumptions, the authority of the objective always takes precedence over the authority of the subjective for the simple fact that the subjective contains no real authority but is instead detached from “real” authority and, thus, self-consuming. If it were otherwise, there could be no objective facts; hence, no order, no beauty, truth, or goodness. No reality “out there.”
Along the same lines, Christianity is not and cannot be a predominantly private, personal, and spiritual matter; it must be rooted in submission to the external authority—to facts, to churches, to doctrines, to the Bible, to society, to tradition, to authority, to “reality”. Christianity has to be mostly "out there."
Anyway, the biggest beef logos-loving Christians have against leftists is the latter’s outright refusal to submit to the unavoidable authority of the Logos as an external authority.
The crux of the ongoing conflict resides in opposing the left’s relentless campaign to impose external unreality upon external reality and call it “reality”.
The war most logos-loving Christians wage against the left is an exclusively external affair, and it is through this externality, through this “out there” focus, through this purposeful choice of battlefields, that the left has already won and will continue to win.
Put another way, logos-loving Christians will never win the war against leftism if they continue to focus almost entirely on the authority of the Logos as an externality because any exclusively external focus is inherently leftist by default.
Thus, actively engaging and participating in leftist narratives by loyally showing up and filling the external role of “the right” does little more than positively fortify the left’s external unrealities.
Claiming rightist victories and progress in certain political, social, or economic matters that are wholly externally organized, promulgated, and dictated by the left is itself a form of leftist delusion.
Everything in the external is of the left today. Politics, economics, art, religion, culture, society, and everything else that comprises the System.
Of the left. All of it.
Thus, any spiritual submission to external “reality” today is submission to the left, not the Logos.
This should induce a pause for thought. Perhaps the Logos is not entirely about the external. Perhaps it’s more of an internal matter in this time and place.
Moreover, reality may require much more from us than mere submission to external authority.
Much, much more.
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