Jordan Peterson’s message to the truckers is a prime example of why this Lockean absolutist philosophy that we can always achieve our goals through reasoned debate and protest will lead to a compromise that benefits all sides and classes doesn’t work out in the long-run:
Yes, turn away everyone. You good ol’ boys sure showed Trudeau what’s what! Look at all you accomplished! The fat fuck silver spoon who pretends to represent you is now out, and your oligarchs will pick another representative for you. Huzzah!
Conservatism of modernity, which really is just conservative liberalism, is really just a psyop. It acts as a conversion mechanism for the would-be dissidents to conform to what the regime wants all society to accept as fact and acceptable. Don’t agree? Well, look no further:
Now polls are dumb, yes, but this paints the picture that you know is true - not far back you could openly and proudly talk about your disdain for sexual degeneracy, but no longer. Many of these people who “support” this sin are really just people who don’t want to get fired from their job.
The machine is actively against you, and has its own pacification methods to keep you dedicated to its legitimacy. This is why when you protest and disagree, they say it is a representative of how free their system is, but when you actively push back against oppression, they flip flop and deem you domestic terrorists who must be blot out from reality and history. They did it to my ancestors, don’t think they won’t do it to you.
That is what sensible liberals and libertarians seem to not be able to get past. Regardless of my plethora of disagreements with both groups, my ultimate qualm is how unintentionally sedated they are and how they worship the same myth of progress as their oppressors. They think that democracy is this sacred, perfect system where, if you just let your voice get heard loud enough, progress will be had! It isn’t that Trudeau has ulterior motives, it’s just that he just needs us to hear him harder, and then PROGRESS CAN REIGN SUPREME ONCE MORE! This great myth - the myth of progress - is tantalizingly potent among those of more starry-eyed libertine persuasions. For liberals, they are obsessed with progress as a means to further civil liberties and wealth redistribution, for libertarians they see it as a means to further economic liberties and wealth creation. For both, they do not realize this myth is what imprisons them from any of their goals.
You see, what Jordan Peterson, and similar ilk, do not want to face is that this modus operandi of having their goals fulfilled is the god that failed them. If they ever face this fact, they either become horridly cynical and just want to maintain their own status and wealth within this oppressive system, or they break away from it as a dissident. You can hear it in Peterson’s language, how he says that so much progress was achieved in this great exercise of our right to freedom of thought and expression, but he actively refuses to think of the aftermath. Even if he does, he still sees this all as a mode for getting progress done. He doesn’t want to admit that subconscious knowing that if the truckers go home, the same degenerate, anti-spiritual regime will continue its dastardly tactics in other forms. I wouldn’t put it against them to target these good men who are doing their part to stand up for their people and their families.
And that is what those who worship democratic republicanism do not understand, that those in power will never offer you a leg to stand on. They want you to have a defeat, or a pyrrhic victory. They want you to think that any resistance is futile. They want you to think that the only way to get anything done is to call your fucking representative, to wave a picket sign, to flail about and use up your energy. This is why they continuously destroy myths of actual revolution and heroism of our Founding Fathers, of the Confederates, of the Texan Revolution, etc. They want you to think that real revolution is violet, and done through the regulation and modification inside the system.
That is why when these truckers finally break out of the box, and understand that this is a struggle for power that the system starts resenting them and spitting them out. We all start to realize the hypocrisy of what pushback the system allows (BLM burning down businesses) and not truckers standing up for the ability to not have their body injected with poison. This is why they don’t like it when you actually provide pushback. They hate that.
So for libertarians, understand you are doing nothing to get the small government and extreme freedom you want. Liberals, you are doing nothing for obtaining universal healthcare and rights for gays, or whatever the fuck you pretend to believe in. This is a struggle for power, and if you play the system’s game, you are making a deal with the devil that fucked your ability to get progress done.
Democracy is a cancer. Realize that if you ever want to achieve an end to your means.
“The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.”
Thomas Jefferson