A Wonder in Wonderland

A Wonder in Wonderland

Everyone looks for inflection points, moments in their lives, their families, their culture when things seem to peak and moments recede into new moments, the current hesitates before changing. The last snowflake before the avalanche. This might be one of those moments.

Here is a portion of a speech given recently, quoted in Jordan Peterson's article explaining why he resigned from his tenured position at the University of Toronto.

“The advocates of so-called so-called ‘social progress’ believe they are introducing humanity to some kind of a new and better consciousness. Godspeed, hoist the flags, as we say, go right ahead. The only thing that I want to say now is that their prescriptions are not new at all. It may come as a surprise to some people, but Russia has been there already. After the 1917 revolution, the Bolsheviks, relying on the dogmas of Marx and Engels, also said that they would change existing ways and customs, and not just political and economic ones, but the very notion of human morality and the foundations of a healthy society. The destruction of age-old values, religion, and relations between people, up to and including the total rejection of family (we had that, too), encouragement to inform on loved ones — all this was proclaimed progress and, by the way, was widely supported around the world back then and was quite fashionable, same as today. By the way, the Bolsheviks were absolutely intolerant of opinions other than theirs.

This, I believe, should call to mind some of what we are witnessing now. Looking at what is happening in a number of Western countries, we are amazed to see the domestic practices — which we, fortunately, have left, I hope — in the distant past. The fight for equality and against discrimination has turned into aggressive dogmatism bordering on absurdity, when the works of the great authors of the past — such as Shakespeare — are no longer taught at schools or universities, because their ideas are believed to be backward. The classics are declared backward and ignorant of the importance of gender or race. In Hollywood, memos are distributed about proper storytelling and how many characters of what color or gender should be in a movie. This is even worse than the agitprop department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.”

This is from Anna Mahjar-Barducci at MEMRI.org translation of this speech, recently given by.....wait for it....Vladimir Putin! Vlad the Impaler thinks the modern western thinking in society is 'bordering on absurdity,' worse than the old Central Committee agitprop.

Alice is stunned.