Imprimis article

In an Imprimis article, Our Increasingly Unrecognizable Civilization, Mark Steyn lingers a bit on how Western civilization is indeed discernibly different than it was even 25 years ago, Steyn does not give in to the big Lie of the Left: people of difference should be the focal point of public discussion.  Steyn rightly points out that these issues are a distraction from the real war on certain folk by elites (a class war). All-in-all, though, Steyn’s pining fits well to address the issues the Left uses to distract us with. Steyn hits on a theme that has been a part of the posts, which is the care we need to take with the use of language by the Left. As long as we focus on how many genders there are or what and how we are to use pronouns, we lose grip of language around identity, nation, Empire, or reality. Steyn so rightly, and I quote, points out that “the Left wins because it seizes language. Take the policy of letting people vote who are not U.S. citizens and shouldn’t be voting. The Left calls this policy ‘counting every vote.’ Therefore someone who wants to make sure voters are citizens is opposed to ‘counting every vote.’ If we don’t take back the language, we will lose the truth”  I defer to the way Steyn puts it; though he is not the most elaborate in laying out in-depth issues, he brings forth the excellent idea underlined “about language,” that is central to the discourse of the Left. The master signifier crafts the rules we live by, the linguistic terrain we travel, and the words we use to describe our lives inevitably determine our existence.  Nietzsche once exclaimed, “The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it”  The Hegelian master/slave discourse, relevant here, takes up the issue of culture making as phenomenology. Still, as has been pointed out by Jacques Lacan, “the unconscious is structured like a language,” and this indicates the relationship we have to all language, political, cultural, or religious.  No matter the cause, language is central to the making of meaning and culture.

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