{"id":14954,"date":"2025-01-08T00:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-08T04:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/?p=14954"},"modified":"2025-01-11T14:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T18:44:07","slug":"894-mind-of-state-neoconservatisms-noble-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/14954","title":{"rendered":"894 &#8211; Mind of State\u2014Neoconservatism&#8217;s Noble Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/894-Plato-Aristotle-168x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"100\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14955\" \/><audio controls preload=\"none\"><source src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/BROADCASTS\/20250108-justRIGHT-894-MINDofSTATE-NeoconservatismsNobleLie.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\"><\/audio><br \/>\n<strong>&#8220;Neoconservatism is not an ideology; it is a state of mind,&#8221; asserts Salim Mansur<\/strong> &#8211; a state of mind ultimately based on the myth of the <strong>&#8220;Noble Lie.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tellingly, both of these terms &#8211; &#8216;neoconservatism&#8217; and the &#8216;Noble Lie&#8217; &#8211; are unknown to most people.  While the latter originates with the early philosophers like Plato and Aristotle, the former is a legacy of 20th century world history.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Essentially, neoconservatism is based on the &#8216;Noble Lie&#8217; that some people (the &#8216;elites&#8217;) are endowed with a natural right to rule other people (the masses).<\/strong>  As such, it is an attitude of the Left, and is perfectly consistent with the teachings and practice of Marxism.<\/p>\n<p>Turning lies into some kind of &#8216;noble&#8217; virtue is a necessity for all groups and ideologies of the Left, for the simple reason that <strong>Leftist ideas are not noble in any respect; they do not correspond to reality or to reason.<\/strong>  That&#8217;s why the consequences of their actions are so consistently destructive to humanity.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>One of neoconservatism&#8217;s current &#8216;noble lies&#8217; is its pretended advancement of &#8216;democracy&#8217; through perpetual war.<\/strong>   But like advocates of the &#8216;Noble Lie,&#8217; neoconservatives are completely opposed to democracy as government &#8220;of the people, by the people, and for the people.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p>Similarly, while uttering it own version of the &#8216;Noble Lie&#8217; in the name of &#8216;democracy,&#8217; <strong>America&#8217;s Democratic Party is utterly opposed to every democratic principle imaginable &#8211; from freedom of speech to honoring the results of elections.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And of course, the guardians of the Noble Lie have been those entrusted with exposing the lie: members of the corporate mainstream media &#8211; the so-called fourth estate.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the lies are now being identified and exposed, thanks to today&#8217;s alternate information platforms.  Of course, <strong>identifying the lies is just half of the equation. Identifying the truth is the other half, namely, that neoconservatives are advocates of global state tyranny.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thus if the nature of neoconservatism is indeed a &#8216;state of mind,&#8217; then it seems to us that one way to politically describe neoconservatism in a way that is Just Right would be:  a Mind of State.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/894-topics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/topics.gif\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/blog\/894-clips-credits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.justrightmedia.org\/images\/buttons\/clips_and_credits.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you found this presentation valuable please consider supporting us:<br \/>\n&#x1f9e1; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.me\/justrightmedia\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">PayPal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Neoconservatism is not an ideology; it is a state of mind,&#8221; asserts Salim Mansur &#8211; a state of mind ultimately based on the myth of the &#8220;Noble Lie.&#8221; Tellingly, both of these terms &#8211; &#8216;neoconservatism&#8217; and the &#8216;Noble Lie&#8217; &#8211; are unknown to most people. While the latter originates with the early philosophers like Plato <a href='https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/archives\/14954' class='excerpt-more'>[Continue Reading]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,596,28,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio","category-ideas","category-latest","category-politics","issues-american-history","issues-democracy","issues-immigration","issues-neocons","issues-noble-lie","category-12-id","category-596-id","category-28-id","category-6-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14954","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=14954"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14960,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14954\/revisions\/14960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justrightmedia.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}