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When the mighty Kerry struck out on Tuesday, Bay Area voters in their Dump Bush T-shirts found themselves on a salt shore. Of the eight patients San Francisco psychotherapist Frances Verrinder saw Wednesday, seven were upset and frightened to the point of tears.
In another part of town, Joyce Renaker began "eating chocolate and speaking in obscenities."
"Where do we hang our hope? For years I've been hanging it on the election," she said. "I'm floundering, disoriented."
Vicki Cormack found her neighbor on her knees, weeping. Ron Armstrong of San Francisco is waiting for his upstairs tenant to come out of his depression so he can ask him for the rent check.
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A timeless tale about the pitfalls of obsession and vengnence? About getting dragged down to the bottom of the sea by the punishing weight of all-conuming hatred? It's almost too funny to have been anything other than staged. The ironic reading selection couldn't possibly have been lost on this literate and urbane pair of sophisticates, could it?
Emasculation is another literary theme that was mis-appropriated to describe the mass depression at "Bush II: The Empire Strikes Back":
Books and movies were popular escapes. Concord law student Alex Simmons is rereading "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway "because it's about a guy who has his genitals cut off and that's how I feel."
It's okay, buddy, really. I mean, other the monumental callousness that comes from minimizing the suffering of eunuchs everywhere by comparing it to your post-election blues, you seem like a real nice guy.
But the award for incredibly self-righteous and self-involved nihilism goes to...
Penny Greenberg, who feels as if she does not belong in her own country anymore, offered, "My only consolation is that someday this planet will be a dead cinder in the universe and all the stupidity, greed, and intolerance and their sad, sad consequences will be lost to all memory."
I point this out because, ultimately, that's a perfect amplification of the common thread which runs through the vast majority of leftist/progressive thought -- nihilism.
It's as if the denizens of the Left found that the values which they held tightly to their breast for many years were suddenly revealed to be wrong or dysfunctional (really, now, what's the difference?), and in the sudden realization, came to reject all values. Unsurprisingly, we find Nietszche's diagnosis unerringly accurate to this day:
1 (1885-1886)
Toward an Outline
1. Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests? Point of departure: it is an error to consider "social distress" or "physiological degeneration" or, worse, corruption, as the cause of nihilism. Ours is the most decent and compassionate age. Distress, whether of the soul, body, or intellect, cannot of itself give birth to nihilism (i.e., the radical repudiation of value, meaning, and desirability). Such distress always permits a variety of interpretations. Rather: it is in one particular interpretation, the Christian-moral one, that nihilism is rooted.
2. The end of Christianity--at the hands of its own morality (which cannot be replaced), which turns against the Christian God (the sense of truthfulness, developed highly by Christianity, is nauseated by the falseness and mendaciousness of all Christian interpretations of the world and of history; rebound from "God is truth" to the fanatical faith "All is false"; Buddhism of action).
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4. Against "meaninglessness" on the one hand, against moral value judgments on the other: to what extent has all science and philosophy so far been influenced by moral judgments? and won't this net us the hostility of science? Or an anti-scientific mentality? Critique of Spinozism. Residues of Christian value judgments are found everywhere in socialistic and positivistic systems. A critique of Christian morality is still lacking
5. The nihilistic consequences of contemporary natural science (together with its attempts to escape into some beyond). The industry of its pursuit eventually leads to self-disintegration, opposition, an anti-scientific mentality. Since Copernicus man has been rolling from the center toward X.
6. The nihilistic consequences of the ways of thinking in politics and economics, where all "principles" are practically histrionic: the air of mediocrity, wretchedness, dishonesty, etc. Nationalism. Anarchism, etc. Punishment. The redeeming class and human being are lacking--the justifiers.
7. The nihilistic consequences of historiography and of the "practical historians," i.e., the romantics. The position of art: its position in the modern world absolutely lacking in originality. Its decline into gloom. Goethe's allegedly Olympian stance.
2 (Spring-Fall 1887)
What does nihilism mean? That the highest values devaluate themselves. The aim is lacking; "why?" finds no answer.
3 (Spring-Fall 1887)
Radical nihilism is the conviction of an absolute untenability of existence when it comes to the highest values one recognizes; plus the realization that we lack the least right to posit a beyond or an in-itself of things that might be "divine" or morality incarnate.
7 (Nov. 1887-March 1888)
The supreme values in whose service man should live, especially when they were very hard on him and exacted a high puce--these social values were erected over man to strengthen their voice, as if they were commands of God, as 'reality," as the true" world, as a hope and future world. Now that the shabby origin of these values is becoming clear, the universe seems to have lost value, seems "meaningless"--but that is only a transitional stage.
8 (1883-1888)
The nihilistic consequence (the belief in valuelessness) as a consequence of moral valuation: everything egoistic has come to disgust us (even though we realize the impossibility of the unegoistic); what is necessary has come to disgust us (even though we realize the impossibility of any liberum arbitrium or intelligible freedom"). We see that we cannot reach the sphere in which we have placed our values; but this does not by any means confer any value on that other sphere in which we live: on the contrary, we are weary because we have lost the main stimulus "In vain so far!"
This spirit informs the lengthy and, despite its condescension, almost even-handed post by John Perry Barlow
Boy, does this suck. Even with a couple of days of perspective, it still sucks. And it may suck for 4 more years.It may suck until sometime in late 2012, when the Mayans seem to think time and space will collapse and everything will suck everything into everything else. And that will really suck. But, for now, life goes on.
In all fairness, Mr. Barlow's post is excellent, and outside of this post, very devoid of suckage. Given the circumstances, it is a model of self-examination and lacks the vile recriminations of other commentators of Mr. Barlow's persuasion.
(To wit, the Chicago, Il. demonstration pictured at right. Indeed, while the nihilistic condition universally determines the Left, in this particular instance it crosses the realm into absurd self-mockery. Think about it, people: elections are legitimate even if you lose. tsk-tsk.)
Yet it is clear to this humble observer that Nietzsche is correct: the Left's morality is nothing more than an indominable and ascetic will-to-truth that eats itself -- it erodes its very foundations in the Christian tradition even as it tries to unsuccessfully adhere to its self-consciously declared morality, viz., communism. It is an ideology based in rejection of hypocrisy followed by a headlong flight into relativism and confusion, "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
This is not an advocacy of return to what Nietzsche calls "the falseness and mendaciousness of all Christian interpretations of the world and of history," rather it is an exhortation forward, into an artistic creation and re-creation of values for life.
All of us post-moderns must move past "post-ness" and into a future worth its own name, by searching and fearless revaluation of values -- lest we find, well, the world to be without value, without meaning. Returning to Nietzsche:
What has happened, at bottom? The feeling of valuelessness was reached with the realization that the overall character of existence may not be interpreted by means of the concept of "aim," the concept of "unity," or the concept of "truth." Existence has no goal or end; any comprehensive unity in the plurality of events is lacking: the character of existence is not "true," is false. One simply lacks any reason for convincing oneself that there is a true world. Briefly: the categories "aim," "unity," "being" which we used to project some value into the world--we pull out again; so the world looks valueless.
a.k.a. universalis interruptus.
Okay, so I brought out the big guns in this post, and because of this, maybe, just maybe, I'm as guilty of "the hyperbolic naiveté of man" as the next guy.
*sigh*
Since it's now become a bi-annual ritual in the public discourse, allow me to present my advice to the Democratic Party faithful: Turn away from self-centered nihilism. Ask yourself: what do I believe? (Stop. After enumerating today's talking points, ask yourself, what do I really believe?) Only then can you turn to the terribly brutal question few of you has heretofore found the strength to answer: Why?
Answering the "Why?" is the only way out of your quandary, silly wabbits. Best of luck y'all -- my money's on the other guy.
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