₩ 33:R Hegelian Applied Social Darwinism

I cavil at the idea that Natchitoches is the Austin of Louisiana. I believe that residents of Austin, Texas are afflicted with a disease I call Hegelian Applied Social Darwinism (present day liberalism) because so many currents of errant thought and practice seem to converge and crystallize in that city more so than in any other metropolitan center in our country besides San Francisco. Maybe its just me and my semiscience of limited knowledge and subsequent fallible associations. Historically…

Typical symptoms of Austin's Hegelian Applied Social Darwinism include, but are not limited to:

 socially regressive polity of  classical conservatism

1. veneration of:
1. Supposedly  “noble” savagery "organic” food
2. erratic walking, speech patterns (many)
3. failure to carry through with life decisions (indeterminacy, fluctuation, inconsistency)
4. Fascination with small things (Lilliputiousness - generally inefficient  "mom and pop" stores)
5. Pastel and tie dye colors
6. the personification and deification of the earth (recycle mother nature's limited stores of goods[so that the government can forcefully redistribute not through trade it to other "less well off" and communist countries ])
7. government mandated manual slave labor especially for
1. Minorities - welfare is slavery
2. Women wearing tight clothing(prostitutes are often single mothers)
8. Destruction of individual personalities through false moral bullying( sacrificial rites  of environmentalism such as picking up dog droppings and placing them in small bags
9. Death - sin leads to death - but a pantheist world view assumes that death is a part of life. This is inherently inconsistent with a Christian worldview.
10. A determinism hold to a fatalistic( AKA fate, weird) view of the world  leading to leaps of non reason based on deceptive heart messages(feelings based on false presuppositions)[intangible motivating states of subjective awareness based on false premises]
11. Weakness - support of the large population of panhandlers
12. what is known(buy local[protectionism{pride of place, and economic envying}])

When you buy items from a local store, you are helping that store to gain a monopoly over a certain area. Monopoly is  inevitable.

13. Emphasis on holism: Environmentalism, health food, and exercise

2. hatred and carried out destruction of:
1.  large (SUV, shopping cart, overweight people, sky scrapers, profits, corporations, other countries(don't support sweatshops[that people choose as the best course of action])
2. machinery
3. Money, the tool with which men(who do not deal in whips or guns) deal
4. Chemistry(buy organic food, and don't ask what "organic" means, ban DDT to worsen malaria in third world countries)
5. Good (objective morality)
6. Unfamiliar(foreign trade) When Texas threatened to secede from the union, Austin threatened to secede from Texas.
7. happiness
8. consistency, following through with determination,
9. Economic strength

3. Moral Bullying of those who refuse to accept the irrational veneration of said things

Holism:

1 : the philosophic theory first formulated by Jan C. Smuts that the determining factors in nature are wholes (as organisms) which are irreducible to the sum of their parts and that the evolution of the universe is the record of the activity and making of these wholes

2 : a theory or doctrine according to which a whole cannot be analyzed without residue into the sum of its parts or reduced to discrete elements —  compare GESTALT PSYCHOLOGY, ORGANICISM

Austin is so soaked in regressive ideals that I see a very faint similarity to Natchitoches. I do not think of Natchitocheans  as viewing themselves as inherently better than all others in the state. When Natchitocheans are required by moral bullying to conceal dog excrements in plastic bags, and toilet paper rolls printed with President ₩'s face  are available for purchase at a local Natchitoches bookstore, then, and only then, will this conversation will continue.

Politics becomes religion if politics slowly but surely becomes statism.

I seem to remember Machen saying something like "Christianity + liberalism = liberalism".