{"id":13283,"date":"2022-12-01T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2022-12-01T05:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=13283"},"modified":"2022-12-03T17:37:14","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T21:37:14","slug":"787-the-dictatorship-of-the-primitive-salim-mansur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/13283","title":{"rendered":"787 – The dictatorship of the primitive | Salim Mansur"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThere is something fundamentally primitive in this malady, this profound sickness that has overtaken Western man,\u201d laments Salim.<\/strong> \u201cIt was astounding. Everything that Rand wrote about is what we\u2019re living through. This is not a new debate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Drawing upon Rand\u2019s symbolic comparison of the Greek gods Apollo and Dionysus with the Right and Left respectively, Salim is led unavoidably to the conclusion that the making of civilizations is an individual undertaking, not a collective one.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the light of that reality, the collectivist wave now enveloping the West can itself be understood to be both the cause and symptom of civilization\u2019s collapse. <\/p>\n

At the root of collectivism\u2019s popular appeal lies the primitive ideology of Karl Marx \u201cwhich pretends to be rational science\u201d<\/strong> but is in reality not rational in any sense of the word. Calling for a \u201cdictatorship of the proletariat\u201d to resolve the \u201calienation of man from nature,\u201d Marxist doctrine denies not only the nature of man as a rational being, but the fact that left to \u201cnature\u201d alone, most of humanity would perish.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The evil irony is that in the denial of these realities, an agenda is revealed:<\/strong> the agenda of a death cult being romantically associated with a \u201cback to nature\u201d movement through state funded propaganda and the glaring absence of a fourth estate.<\/p>\n

It is an agenda that calls for crippling reductions in CO2 emissions,<\/strong> the gas of life. The restriction of oil and gasoline products,<\/strong> including the internal combustion engine, has been among plans that also will restrict private vehicle ownership and operation. More \u201cclimate change\u201d lockdowns<\/strong> are planned and have been announced months in advance. And individual \u201ccarbon footprints\u201d are to be tracked along with vaccine status and financial records via the planned \u201cvaccine passports\u201d to ultimate tyranny.<\/p>\n

Political initiatives, one and all, there\u2019s nothing natural about any of them. Only under the unnatural dictatorship of the primitive are such life-destroying agendas pursued.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Symbolically speaking, we must now call upon Apollo \u2013 the individual man of Reason – to set things Just Right again by acting in the solitary effort required to end the chaos of Dionysus.<\/p>\n

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In an effort to describe and explain the madness forcing various versions of a \u201cgreen agenda\u201d upon us, our guest Salim Mansur recently found himself drawn to a series of essays originally compiled in Ayn Rand\u2019s 1971 book \u201cThe New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution.\u201d (re-released in 1999 as \u201cReturn of the Primitive\u201d with additional essays [Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,520,25,5,596,28,2997,629,6,4,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-books","category-capitalism-politics","category-ethics","category-ideas","category-latest","category-music","category-objectivism","category-politics","category-reason","category-romanticism","issues-ayn-rand","issues-green-energy","issues-marxism","issues-objectivism","personalities-ayn-rand","personalities-mickey-spillane","guests-salim-mansur","category-12-id","category-520-id","category-25-id","category-5-id","category-596-id","category-28-id","category-2997-id","category-629-id","category-6-id","category-4-id","category-92-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13283"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13296,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13283\/revisions\/13296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}