The Devil's Pleasure Palace: The Cult of Critical Theory and the Subversion of the West by Walsh Michael
Author:Walsh, Michael [Walsh, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
ISBN: 9781594037696
Publisher: Encounter Books
Published: 2015-08-10T16:00:00+00:00
And as the Austrian conductor Herbert von Karajan added centuries later, perhaps mindful of his own membership in the Nazi party when it stood him in good stead with the German authorities: “The truth is nowhere.”
But everything should not be negotiable. The Unholy Left would like it to be so, since negotiability is crucial to Critical Theory: What is truth? The truth is nowhere, answer the National Socialists. And yet, for leftists, their own philosophy is very much not debatable. Along the one-way street that is Marxism-Leninism, whether of the political or cultural variety, what’s mine is mine, and what’s yours is negotiable. It’s a Three Stooges routine that’s lasted long enough to achieve some sort of authenticity. As Noah Cross says to Jake Gittes in Chinatown: “Politicians, ugly buildings, and whores all get respectable if they last long enough.”
On the high ground, there is no negotiating. Only those on the low ground seek an advantage through palaver, temporary truces, and false flags. The Germans, faked out by Allied disinformation, were not entirely prepared for the D-Day onslaught. Other assaults on impregnable redoubts have been repelled, unless a siege finally starved out the defenders. The Germans besieged Leningrad for almost 900 days and still failed to take the city.
The classic ratio for attackers to defenders is three to one; and if the defenders have the odds on their side and open supply lines, they can last indefinitely. Vastly outnumbered by the forces of the Mahdi, General Gordon held out in Khartoum for ten months in 1884 and 1885, waiting for Prime Minister Gladstone to send a relief column, which arrived two days late; Gordon’s head was cut off by the Mahdi’s dervishes and stuck up in a tree, and his body was thrown into the Nile as food for the crocodiles. In an act of then-characteristic Western vengeance, shortly after the Mahdi’s death (probably from smallpox), General Kitchener annihilated the Muslim forces at Omdurman, outside Khartoum, destroyed the Mahdi’s tomb, severed the corpse’s head, threw the bones in the river, and either retained the skull or, by some accounts, sent it to Queen Victoria as a souvenir.
Today, the West takes the news of the latest Islamic beheading video in stride—that’s just what those Muslims do, people seem to think—but would never think of reciprocating in kind should the need arise. Indeed, the American way of warfare is to do nothing to “insult” the enemy except, perhaps, under exigent circumstances, kill him. Wars are no longer run by generals in the field but by lawyers; in Afghanistan, the decision to kill even a midlevel Taliban commander had to go through layers of sign-offs before a drone or sniper could take a shot. What wonders what Kitchener, who mowed down the Mahdi’s men without compunction, would have made of this moral cowardice disguised as morality. As Hilaire Belloc’s famous couplet has it: “Whatever happens, we have got / the Maxim gun and they have not.” But now we won’t use it, lest it be deemed “disproportionate,” “unmeasured,” or simply “unfair.
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