Understanding the WardChurchill Syndrome
People and organizations like Students for Academic Freedom, the Center for the Study of Popular Culture and the Academic Bill of Rights, and DiscoverTheNetwork along with Front Page Magazine and some other publications, both in print and online, are smoking out Ward Churchills. Not only are these people phony, they are intellectually second class (if that good), and utterly subversive if you advocate reason, reality, individual rights, capitalism, and America. They and their Leftist straphanger supporters in journalism, academia, and politics are screaming in agony right now because they are experiencing the disinfection that comes from exposure to sunlight and fresh air, parts of the reality they disavow.
You will, however, never understand them just by dealing with just the nefarious concretes of their lives and behaviors. You may be able to describe them, name them, and even detect them, but you will not understand them. Without the intellectual ammunition you need, you will not be able to deliver the coup d'grace, unless you find out what makes them tick mentally and where they came from.
You can begin this discovery by learning that these are "postmodernists." They represent a philosophical and cultural orientation giving us the Ward Churchills, and they are absolutely as thick as cockroaches in Florida in academia, the arts and entertainment, journalism, and even in politics.
You can begin to come to terms with postmodernists and postmodernism by reading our review, Deconstructing the Fifth Column Left, of a thoroughly clear and outstanding book, well worth your time and effort. That book is Stephen Hicks', Explaining Postmodernism.
Here are some tidbits from the review and Dr. Hicks' book:
“Postmodernism is … first a political movement.” (Hicks, page 186) At root, it carries the spirit and influence of Marxism. “ … [E]verything is relative … nothing can be known … everything is chaos.” (Hicks, page 189) “…[U]ltimately nothing matters.” (192) “Nihilism is close to the surface in the postmodern intellectual movement in a historically unprecedented way.” (Hicks, page 192)
Those who express postmodernism, I am subtitling as having the "WardChurchill Syndrome," in case postmodernism seems too abstract.
Highly characteristic of postmodernists is they use words as weapons. Note how these Leftists hurl extreme insults, epithets, accusations, and will not allow reasoned argumentation. They scream "racism," "sexism," "McCarthyism," and vulgarities as they shout down people who oppose them in any way. They will not argue; they FIGHT VERBALLY. Howard Dean's chronic bombast comes to mind as a cultural and political example, but he is no means alone. Postmodernists, e.g., love to call Pres. Bush "Hitler" and America "fascist." The truth does not matter to these people because their desired ends justify any means to achieve them. Besides, in their dim philosophy, there is no "truth." Some hurl objects at people and attack people physically while mouthing scatalogical invectives. It is all about political power, taken by any means and used by all means, without reason refereeing.
To repeat: To postmodernists, all is politics, and their goal is political power, by any means possible. Since postmodernism and postmodernists have totally disavowed reason, theirs is absolutely nothing but expressed FEELINGS, EMOTIONS. Theirs is an infantile narcissism obsessed with feelings and immediate gratification.
Well, if they are "postmodernists," what, then, is "modernism." Modernism means reality, reason, human autonomy, individualism, and “liberal capitalism.” These are the values of the Enlightenment and “neo-Enlightenment.” (Hicks, page 178).
What is the object of postmodernists' desires? It is SOCIALISM, the same socialism which has been tried and failed in absolutely every instance since it appeared on the scene some two centuries ago, as some panacea. But, postmodernists crave it like addicts crave heroin, with the same degree of rationality. They even reformed their philosophy so that it would justify socialism after their previous philosophies failed to support their socialist nirvana.
We are just getting started with postmodernists in this blog and on our website. We cannot leave them out of any concern with Islam because they have joined Islam at the hip (the "Unholy Alliance," as David Horowitz writes) because both seek the destruction of values, the highest of which is America.
On 28 February 2005, Front Page Magazine published another excellent article about those with the WardChurchill Syndrome, FrontPage magazine.com :: Churchill's Champions by Jacob Laksin. It is an article well worth reading because it supplies so many examples of what universities hire and tenure because alumni, donors, and legislators have been asleep at the switch.
It is time to wake up and take back America. Begin with factual articles like those on Front Page Magazine and DiscoverTheNetwork which tell the "whats" and the "hows," then digest Dr. Hicks' tremendous book Explaining Postmodernism why tells you the "whys." Then you will be ready to take some really effective action.
You will, however, never understand them just by dealing with just the nefarious concretes of their lives and behaviors. You may be able to describe them, name them, and even detect them, but you will not understand them. Without the intellectual ammunition you need, you will not be able to deliver the coup d'grace, unless you find out what makes them tick mentally and where they came from.
You can begin this discovery by learning that these are "postmodernists." They represent a philosophical and cultural orientation giving us the Ward Churchills, and they are absolutely as thick as cockroaches in Florida in academia, the arts and entertainment, journalism, and even in politics.
You can begin to come to terms with postmodernists and postmodernism by reading our review, Deconstructing the Fifth Column Left, of a thoroughly clear and outstanding book, well worth your time and effort. That book is Stephen Hicks', Explaining Postmodernism.
Here are some tidbits from the review and Dr. Hicks' book:
“Postmodernism is … first a political movement.” (Hicks, page 186) At root, it carries the spirit and influence of Marxism. “ … [E]verything is relative … nothing can be known … everything is chaos.” (Hicks, page 189) “…[U]ltimately nothing matters.” (192) “Nihilism is close to the surface in the postmodern intellectual movement in a historically unprecedented way.” (Hicks, page 192)
Those who express postmodernism, I am subtitling as having the "WardChurchill Syndrome," in case postmodernism seems too abstract.
Highly characteristic of postmodernists is they use words as weapons. Note how these Leftists hurl extreme insults, epithets, accusations, and will not allow reasoned argumentation. They scream "racism," "sexism," "McCarthyism," and vulgarities as they shout down people who oppose them in any way. They will not argue; they FIGHT VERBALLY. Howard Dean's chronic bombast comes to mind as a cultural and political example, but he is no means alone. Postmodernists, e.g., love to call Pres. Bush "Hitler" and America "fascist." The truth does not matter to these people because their desired ends justify any means to achieve them. Besides, in their dim philosophy, there is no "truth." Some hurl objects at people and attack people physically while mouthing scatalogical invectives. It is all about political power, taken by any means and used by all means, without reason refereeing.
To repeat: To postmodernists, all is politics, and their goal is political power, by any means possible. Since postmodernism and postmodernists have totally disavowed reason, theirs is absolutely nothing but expressed FEELINGS, EMOTIONS. Theirs is an infantile narcissism obsessed with feelings and immediate gratification.
Well, if they are "postmodernists," what, then, is "modernism." Modernism means reality, reason, human autonomy, individualism, and “liberal capitalism.” These are the values of the Enlightenment and “neo-Enlightenment.” (Hicks, page 178).
What is the object of postmodernists' desires? It is SOCIALISM, the same socialism which has been tried and failed in absolutely every instance since it appeared on the scene some two centuries ago, as some panacea. But, postmodernists crave it like addicts crave heroin, with the same degree of rationality. They even reformed their philosophy so that it would justify socialism after their previous philosophies failed to support their socialist nirvana.
We are just getting started with postmodernists in this blog and on our website. We cannot leave them out of any concern with Islam because they have joined Islam at the hip (the "Unholy Alliance," as David Horowitz writes) because both seek the destruction of values, the highest of which is America.
On 28 February 2005, Front Page Magazine published another excellent article about those with the WardChurchill Syndrome, FrontPage magazine.com :: Churchill's Champions by Jacob Laksin. It is an article well worth reading because it supplies so many examples of what universities hire and tenure because alumni, donors, and legislators have been asleep at the switch.
It is time to wake up and take back America. Begin with factual articles like those on Front Page Magazine and DiscoverTheNetwork which tell the "whats" and the "hows," then digest Dr. Hicks' tremendous book Explaining Postmodernism why tells you the "whys." Then you will be ready to take some really effective action.
posted by George Mason @ 3/01/2005 08:10:00 AM
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