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MAY 13, 2023

The final paragraph of Nathan Pinkoski essay about Americas most notorious intellectual charlatan, that term is old but descriptive of Fukuyama as Political/Moral Prophet: in sum it doesn’t take much to impress American Intellectual Provincials, who swoon at the mere mention of ‘The Old Man’.

Consider the lower echelon of this kind of ‘thinker’: ‘The Closing of the American Mind’ by Allan Bloom, ‘Clash of Civilizations’ by Samuel P. Huntington, and his racist tract ‘Who Are We?: The Challenges to America’s National Identity’ that identified the Mestizo Hordes as a threat to Anglo-Protestant virtue. Not to forget the ‘Coddling The American Mind’ by Professor Jonathan Haidt, a New Democratic political operative, inveighing against a radical ‘Ten Percent’ of political malcontents, from the Upper-Classes.

I will just highlight some of the phrases from the last paragraph of Nathan Pinkoski polemic, that takes his model to be, and not too distant from, Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God by Johnathan Edwards.

Today’s leftism may talk in old terms, but it desires neither equality nor justice. It is the slave of the inner self and the puppet of unlimited technological progress. Older liberals such as Fukuyama are unsettled by the regime that results. Yet they are unwilling to grapple with the philosophical and theological problems the new regime poses. Their solution is to turn “liberalism” into an ersatz centrism that gently regrets the excesses of the left while policing the right with great vigor. So, as the transhumanist machine accelerates, liberal centrists like Fukuyama are reduced to pious celebrations of creativity, innovation, and technological progress. They collaborate in the construction of the dystopia their younger selves feared would come to pass. That’s what American liberalism has become. It presides over the abolition of man.

https://www.firstthings.com/article/2023/06/fukuyama-v-fukuyama

The final sentence postulates ‘the abolition of man’ : The care and maintenance of masculine privilege, is the sine qua non of The Patriarchy and its ‘thinkers’. Senator Josh Hawley postulates on September 15, 2022:

The Left’s War On History Is Really A War On The God Of The Bible

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