The tyranny of the shaman.

The Left want a religion. They abandoned God, so they are left with a strong delusion: that of shamanism. There is a reason that Maori Karakia are said before all official events in New Zealand while the Bishops of the disestablished church are shunned: pagan shamanism is murch more compatible with the authoritan left.

For the Cadre want religious authority. They love the whips, chains and auto da fe. They assume such will never be used on them.

There is an effort underfoot, in the media and in academia, to declare the Alt-Left a myth, to sweep it back under the rug, to reduce it, in effect, back to being a sickness not spoken of, a problem that has no name. I have had well-meaning friends tell me I should not use the term Alt-Left (or any of its synonyms: Regressive Left, CTRL Left, SJWism) because they are ‘pejoratives’ used only by the right to attack the left. In my experience, this is not true. Like canaries in the coal mine, liberals who do not (or no longer) subscribe to the Alt-Left ideology have been sounding the alarm about this creeping plague of repressive groupthink for quite a while now. I believe this attempt to dissuade our use of the term Alt-Left is purposeful (even if not consciously recognized by individuals who are doing it)?—?for how can we discuss something we cannot refer to by name?
When asked to define Alt-Left, I would describe it as a leftist but illiberal authoritarian ideology rooted in postmodernism and neo-Marxism that supports censorship, condones violence in response to speech, is obsessed with identity politics (much like the Alt-Right), and functions like a secular religion that gives its believers a sense of moral self-worth. It masquerades as a form of liberalism, but it has more in common with authoritarianism than its true believers can (or want to?) admit. It claims to speak for the marginalized, but it either ignores or attempts to hatefully shame members of marginalized groups who do not subscribe to the ideology. It is not simply Antifa; it is the ideology that undergirds Antifa, and it has swallowed much of BLM and intersectional third wave feminism. It wishes to swallow the whole of the left, the country, the world. It is rooted in nihilism, resentfulness, and arrogance, though it presents itself as being rooted in equality, justice and morality. It favors collectivism over individualism, statism over liberty, forced equality of outcome over freedom. Now…imagine if I had to say that mouthful every time I wished to talk about the Alt-Left because I bought into the notion that to give it a name it would be insulting to fellow liberals. No, to speak of it by name is to out it for what it is and to reduce some of its power.

What is the mechanism? Calling us all Nazis. This is now a word used to damn: the modern national socialist LARPers are to a man pathetic, and unable to handle any form of challenge. But that will not matter. To the left, anyone who is not them is able to be challenged.

This is the equivalent of the Red Guard cadre calling for a struggle session for you love not their Shaman Mao. You are outlawed, and they consider themselves invulnerable.

When someone today is calling someone a Nazi, they are effectively declaring that their rights no longer exist. They are saying it is ok to kill someone, and those that do should not fear arrest or imprisonment. When these new “outlaws” are killed, the government will not condemn their murders. Instead it will condemn the murdered as “outlaws.”

This is why the word “Nazi” is thrown around so much. The absurd and pathetic attacks on the Mises Institute and Tom Woods are indicative of this.

The power to take away a person’s rights merely by speaking the right word is intoxicating, and for those who have little authority elsewhere in life, it may be the only instance where they exercise any form of control. It also means that others will submit to their commands, out of fear of being called one.

It is, in many ways, akin to the state priests I wrote about so long ago. These priests administer rights, but also take them away. In a religious sense, it is a form of excommunication, and similar to when the Popes of old would place a bounty on someone’s head.

We may very well reach a point in this country where murders are carried out openly and no repercussions occur to those who carry them out. It will be acceptable to burn people’s homes to the ground, harass their children, and violate their spouses. All it will take is someone – the right person – calling them a “Nazi,” and enough fools in their community willing to let these atrocities happen because, as we saw repeatedly throughout the 20th Century, they lacked the moral fortitude to do anything out of fear of being the next person to have the dreaded smear branded on their name, too.

May that not happen. When the red terror starts, it is noxious. It burns out: this generally requires an imperator such as Napoleon or Pinochet. However, this is the way to bet. Historically, Shamans do not acknowledge limits, and this bunch have not lost enough on the primary school playground to know their limits.