Comments on: The Rise of Populism: Back to the Past https://newrationalist.com/rise-of-populism/ Reason in the face of dogma Tue, 08 Oct 2019 03:56:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.9.13 By: Editorial https://newrationalist.com/rise-of-populism/#comment-27 Tue, 08 Oct 2019 03:56:45 +0000 https://newrationalist.com/?p=418#comment-27 In reply to Jenean McBrearty.

That is a well put argument, Jenean.

]]> By: Jenean McBrearty https://newrationalist.com/rise-of-populism/#comment-26 Fri, 04 Oct 2019 16:02:28 +0000 https://newrationalist.com/?p=418#comment-26 Unfortunately, many people who consider “populism” haven’t read their Durkheim lately. Of course, with the rise and dominance of leftist collectivist insanity that’s peddled as chic, Functionalism has been sorely neglected as sort of a red-headed step-child of sociology, however, elites, political scientists, “experts” and those of that ilk, fail to understand the role that populism plays in providing a push-back to another sociologist, Max Weber’s insights about the impersonal, uncontrollable, and filled-with-hubris non-sense of the modern bureaucracy. Simply put, people need meaning in their personal life (not EVERYTHING is political), and globalism just doesn’t get it. The human being was not meant to have 7 billion best friends to whom he owes his every waking moment. (Business, on the other hand, “got it” early on —-markets may be global, but business relationships are based on personal, individual service.) Without the ‘glue’ of sameness identification, society falls apart. Identity politics, Balkinization, segmentation, the ubiquitous gadgets of non-communication, and the demise of the personal sense of a capable, self-interested individual self, devolves into nihilism, and that is exactly what populism, nativism, anti-immigration, and anti-assimilation, and a rejection of do-goodism seeks to remedy. To leftist “experts” there is no such thing as race except as a social construction, for example. …BS. DNA says otherwise. The same with cultural identities. Socially constructed, you say? BS. Things perceived as real are real in their consequences. (Thanks I.A. Thomas.) As for ‘climate change”… in the 1970’s, we were all going to freeze to death in the coming ice-age. The logic of believing that climate-change gurus can predict what’s going to happen in 12-100 years when they can’t even admit their projections are based on computer models (read crystal balls) and not reality, is just plain stupid. I know we’re pesky, but older folks with long memories can tell you much of what passes for science today is junk. Not only is populism here to stay, it’s going to congeal into the biggest civil war the world has ever witnessed unless these ‘elites’ and ‘experts’ pull their collective butts out of their behinds and start using their brains for a change.

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