Mayans and Incans Weren't Good at Mocking
16th Century Jesuit Priests and Contemporary Progressives have much in common
Glenn Beck’s podcast this week was an interview with Victor Davis Hanson, and something Hanson said in that podcast stuck with me. It was this he said in response to the inevitable “what do we do?” question when it comes to dealing with the literal insanity of the left, we should respond “politely but with contempt for what they are doing."
That is more difficult than it sounds.
The left is filled with messianic zeal – and I mean full on savior complex. Think of the Spanish Jesuits trying to convert South American natives to Christianity – that kind of zeal. In the 16th Century, there were priests sitting in Spain thinking, “You know, somewhere in the jungles, there is a Mayan who hasn’t heard of Jesus. We should get on a ship, sail for a few months, and find that dude and get his feet on the path to salvation even if we have to kill him, his culture and his civilization!”
I can pretty much assure you that right now, in New York, San Francisco or some other progressive enclave, there is a sleepless progressive thinking, “I will bet there is some ignorant unbeliever out there in the hinterlands who has not accepted St. Anthony of Fauci and his Lord and Savior and isn’t even wearing the required double mask vestments. We should convert his ass right now even if we have to kill him, his culture and his civilization!”
I guess the Mayans and Incas were not too good at mocking because things didn’t really turn out well for them.
There are some signs that even the most ardent Alinsky believers – like Bill Maher – are waking up. It certainly is not because they think conservatives are any less reprehensible, the smart progressives are finally realizing that they are taking casualties – because as Alinsky noted, it is impossible for any person or group to completely live up to their own rules, especially when forced to do so by their opposition. From #MeToo to making unfulfillable promises to #BLM, progressives are cancelling and eating their own.
But when viewed critically, the very fact that progs like Maher are speaking out against the left’s weapons of choice, faux racism and cancel culture, means contempt and mocking are working.
But that is a fire that deserves more coal shoveled on it.