Leftism Is A Death Cult That May Kill Us All

“This man has the gift of death.” – Zardoz

Whoops, sorry!  Just a regular old death cult after all.

This is the second post about Leftist self-hatred this week.  This particular Leftist self-hatred is one that uniquely hurts the economy and even the prospects of the survival of humanity, so it’s par for the course for the most malignant philosophy ever to exist, outside of Taco Tuesday.

What spurred this was a note from a friend that suggested a post.  I knew where I wanted to go with it, since I had seen a graphic (from Nature Communications® which is a part of Nature™ the magazine, LINK) that surprised me.  I mean, knowing what I know about Leftists, it really shouldn’t have, but what got my attention is how starkly it shows the divide in the philosophies of Right and Left.  It’s presented pretty weirdly, so I’ll help out a bit on the interpretation since I’m a trained professional.

The graph is shown as a bullseye.  Why?  I think the researchers might have been drunk and had a bullseye graph generator, so they decided between shots of tequila that they’d use the damn thing since the University had paid for it anyway.  They then got the grad students to enter the data for free, and, boom, paper complete.

I remember watching a PBS® show on how fish swim.  They shocked a fish by putting an electrode up its behind so they could photograph it.  Who put the electrodes up the fish butts?  Grad students.

The concentric circles in the graph are pretty simple, though, and the innermost are the things closest to an individual. The rings get rather more distant as they go outwards until they get rather silly:

  1. All of your immediate family.
  2. All of your extended family.
  3. All of your closest friends.
  4. All of your friends (including distant).
  5. All of your acquaintances.
  6. All people you have ever met.
  7. All people in your country.
  8. All people on your continent.
  9. All people on all continents (apparently, screw those guys on islands, they suck anyway).
  10. All mammals (finally got the people on the islands and astronauts covered).
  11. All amphibians, reptiles, mammals, fish, and birds.
  12. All animals on earth including paramecia and amoebae.
  13. All animals in the universe, including alien lifeforms.
  14. All living things in the universe including plants and trees.
  15. All natural things in the universe including inert entities such as rocks.
  16. All things in existence.

So, that’s the scale – what things are the most important to you?  For me, this is an easy answer.  I like the things that closer to me better, and I could see my feelings about this covered very well under the title listed for “Conservatives”.

Is it just me, or does this graph look very, umm, happy?

In general, I like the people that are close to me more.  Yes, I care about Americans more than I care about people in Tannu Tuva, or people in Tanganyika, or even those pitiful island people.  I generally care more about my kids than yours, and I generally like all people better than rocks, though there are some exceptions that I make for ex-spouses and members of Antifa®.  Heck the entire meme below is encapsulated in the graph above:

Now if that isn’t what’s on his headstone, it sure should be.

Okay, that explains the Right, and how we generally feel according to statistics.  What about the Left?

Why did they pick 45°? 

Whoa, that’s amazingly different!  Lefties are really focused over to the end, with only a minor preference for humans and a lesser preference for people closer to them.  The perception of the granola-eating surrender chimp as the model for Leftism is once again validated.  They like these things best:

  1. All animals in the universe, including alien lifeforms.
  2. All living things in the universe including plants and trees.
  3. All natural things in the universe including inert entities such as rocks.

Rocks are more important to them than their parents.  And if their parents are as disappointed in them as I’m guessing they are, I can see why.  They hate themselves, so they hate the things that are closest to them.  You can see it when they throw themselves in front of cars when they protest, they have never won anything in life, so the only way they can win, they feel, is to have transferred virtue from their death.  “See, I told you I was a good person, but you never believed me!”  Thus, the victim Olympics where they compete based on victim status.  “Well, Bob, he stuck the victim status, but he wobbled on the virtue signal, and the blind gay judge with AIDs from Ethiopia gave him a 7.3.”

I wonder how many upvotes they got on Reddit®?

To be clear, I’m not sure I would like alien lifeforms at all unless they grilled well, and I think I would be just fine if an entire planet of intelligent, bloodthirsty cannibal lizard-people was wiped out, even in a slow and agonizing way, just to make sure that my family had slightly more comfortable air conditioning.  But enough about the people who are related to George Soros.

I’m not kidding.  I can come up with entire species that I’d love to see wiped from existence, and I’d start with mosquitos, gnats, wasps, and vegans.  Vegans especially, because they eat what my food eats, and that’s just selfish.

To be clear, I love the environment.  I love hiking, I love nature, I love hunting, I love trees.  The reason I love them is simple:  they exist to by enjoyed by Man.  If Man doesn’t exist?  None of these mean anything to me.  There are millions of cows alive on Earth right now.  Because we want to make cows happy?  No, because cows make us happy, especially when done medium rare with a nice crust.  To be clear, I think “nature” has no intrinsic value outside of what it can provide to Man.  But I love nature, because it’s awesome to man.

The Moon?  Just rock without people.  And Soviet Russian ships that landed.  A crash is a landing, right?

Oddly, because of these heat maps, people on the Right go out to work to care for the people they know and their country.  Why was the Right the primary source of military recruits?  Because we like our nation more than we like other nations, and since we are focused on those around us, we’re fiercely individualistic, and focused on family and friends.  Why?  We like our families and friends, and if they’re loyal to us, we’re more than loyal to them.

When the chips were down and you needed help, would you rather have a friend on the Right, or one on the Left?

Thought so.

People on the Left, though, end up in the traditional Leftist positions, in academia, or, in government.  I’ll perhaps discuss in some future post a bit more on Leftism and academia if there’s interest.  For today, let’s focus on government.

The idea of government, at least as outlined in the Constitution, is simple, “establish justice, ensure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and, ensure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity”.  Note, even in the Constitution it talks about “ourselves and our posterity” and doesn’t mention the slave-pirate amoebas from the planet Melkor-7 or trees.

Wait, tell me about the slave girls again?

The people who gravitated to government over time, however, like control.  And that control includes enforcing their morals (which rate rocks above people).  And in 2023, those are the folks in charge of policy.  They like people who live elsewhere more than they like citizens of their own country, and the like clinging vines more than they like their second cousin.  Depending on the second cousin, I might agree, but the point remains:  they hate humanity.

Rather than environmental policy being about how to best work and preserve the environment for people, environmental policy is now viewed as either one of state control, or the idea that we’ll preserve a beetle that isn’t that much different than millions of other beetles rather than try to provide a future habitat for our grandchildren, or Keith Richards, whichever lives longer.  None of these policies have humans in mind.

Right now, I drive a huge pickup truck.  I might have bought a smaller pickup, but they can’t be sold because of fuel-efficiency standards – only my massive, hulking pickup with an interior bigger than my first apartment can be sold legally because huge pickups don’t have to meet car standards, but little ones do.  That’s also why sedans and station wagons disappeared and massive “sport utility vehicles” replaced them – a consequence of bad environmental policy.  I like using less gasoline, but .gov says I have to use more.

Hmmm.

Mussolini was lucky.  On his last day he got to hang out with his friends.

Other examples of this are things like nuclear power.  The Left has always hated nuclear power because it was something only First World societies could afford, and the thing the Left hates more than themselves is a winner.  How can we drag them back down?  Oh, yeah, we can make power so expensive and unreliable that no one can afford it.

The biggest question facing humanity in 2023 is energy.  Is an energy crisis coming?  It certainly is.  Will the regulations that the Leftists who like rocks better than their parents put into place make sense for people?  Unlikely, since the civilization of humans isn’t on their radar.

To be fair, since we’ve already demonstrated the self-hatred of humanity, it’s pretty simple to note that these consequences that put all of humanity at risk, might not be unintentional at all.

Is Leftism a death cult?

Not if you’re a rock.  Otherwise, yeah.

Author: John

Nobel-Prize Winning, MacArthur Genius Grant Near Recipient writing to you regularly about Fitness, Wealth, and Wisdom - How to be happy and how to be healthy. Oh, and rich.

46 thoughts on “Leftism Is A Death Cult That May Kill Us All”

  2. Leftism Is A Death Cult That May Kill Us All

    You’re getting closer: GOVERNMENT is a death cult that may kill us all. All the features Norman Rockwell was selling have turned out to be false. Theories of central planning were explored and proven not to work between 1920-1930. All those libertarians who were yelling at you in college have turned out to be mostly correct.

    Human beings are not an instinctual blank slate. The instinctual human politics is the chimpanzee troop, which is communism. But if you increase the human monkey troop size from 150 persons to 300 million, the factor of two million increase in group size and tax base makes the top monkeys too powerful. The tuning factors evolved into the instincts no longer work. Nutcase humans push their way to the top and try to kill everybody, for no other reasons than they’re nuts. Can you point to a top-ranked government official today anywhere in the world who isn’t selling self-loathing, and policies intended to push humans to go back to harvesting grain with hand tools?

    It’s not recognized that there are TWO kinds of mindsets for Nazis/Commies. There’s the mindset of Hitler/Stalin/Mao, and there’s the mindset of people who meekly get on boxcars without fighting.

    1. ‘Can you point to a top-ranked government official today anywhere in the world who isn’t selling self-loathing, and policies intended to push humans to go back to harvesting grain with hand tools?’

      Bukele in El Salvador. Clearly loves his people and country. Not perfect, but at least trying.

      However, you are correct. Exception doesn’t disprove the rule.

    2. “Nazis/commies.”

      Many on the right don’t know this, but Fascism and National “Socialism” (Sozialismus has a very different meaning than “socialism”) are reactions against, and very opposed, to Marxism.
      Our government schools have done a great job keeping this from us, so that we don’t gravitate towards the philosophies that successfully opposed Marxism.
      That is, until International Capitalism came and rescued International Communism from the eeeevvvvviiiiilllllll Fascists.

      1. I view as cosmetic the differences in the mass-murdering political systems used in China, Russia, Germany, Italy, etc. in the 20th century. Listen to the sales pitches and they sound very different; but look at the distribution of military power among social classes and they’re almost the same.

        A recent sermon of self-loathing church service http://www.pbs.org/show/human-footprint (“Singapore: Designing a Megacity in Harmony with Nature”, “visionary architect Pearl Chee and legendary urban planner Professor Cheong Koon Hean”) was jarring, because the Singapore city planners clearly wanted their people to thrive. Maybe it got on PBS because Singapore is so dense that enforcement of policy is inescapable, once the aberrant populist ruler is gone.

    3. Well said. Sadly, libertarians miss that there needs to be a culture that can support libertarianism.

  3. There is a saying in aviation:

    Those than can do do, those that can’t teach, those that can’t teach work for the government. Go to the FAA web page and you’ll see its true.

  4. Therefore, in accordance with strict necessity and justice we must devote ourselves wholly and completely to unrestrained and relentless destruction, which must grow in a crescendo until there is nothing left of the existing social forms.

    –Mikhail Bakunin

    “We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror.”

    Karl Marx

    Control
    Oppress
    Victimize
    Isolate
    Divide

    Für Ihre Sicherheit. (It’s for your safety)

    1. Marx wants the terror, which describes the multiple civilizational breakdowns we have in front of us.

  5. the only way they can win, they feel, is to have transferred virtue from their death

    And I, for one, am totally okay with that. Maybe if you go out spectacularly enough, they will even name a Starbucks drink after you. Self-immolation at a Trump rally sounds just ducky, and we can all celebrate afterward with a Remember-the-ember frappa-sappa-soy-latte in a sippy cup.

  6. It’s presented pretty weirdly, so I’ll help out a bit on the interpretation since I’m a trained professional.

    Those are the first “bullseye” plots to which I’ve been exposed, but I found them pretty intuitive. Except for a couple of things. As you asked in your caption about 45 degrees, yeah, on what basis did they decide how to orient that radial distribution? Fundamentally, that could be presented more simply as an X-Y plot: (how much you care about things/people/etc) vs (how far away from you are they).

    I know this wouldn’t have been part of their survey, but one question that occurred to me quickly was: where’s God? I guess the answer is, since the Holy Spirit indwells every believer: right at the center. For unbelievers: far away, and getting farther all the time. Wake up, folks. It’s later than you think.

    2. Indeed. The inversion is revealed time and again.

      God’s hierarchy is the only way to order within the fallen world. Much of leftism – or whatever you prefer to call it, is a cult of death because at its core it rejects God and his Truth and the grace and love that is required to serve his order on earth, and replaces it with all matters of self-deification, golden goats and the other sins of the human condition quite clearly spelled out in Scripture.

      Yet even for those who have strayed from his Word still benefit from His order because fallen men in a fallen world cannot construct anything better even if they declare themselves gods.

      There is simply no better way to order a civilization, particularly one that by nature of that model will be successful in propagating and quite quickly encounter the problems of scale that are well known at this point. A return to kinism is in dire need.

      One quibble I have is with the death cult so often being characterized as “self-loathing”.

      While there are many who have hate in their hearts and many more who are unwittingly doing the work of evil through their pursuit of status in the inversion, most of the true believers do not hate themselves but rather hate US; they hate those who do not share in their cult, those who mock them and their beliefs by living a life of grace and fortitude in spite of being under the thumb of their cult in every way – except, to your point, in their hearts in communion with God and their brothers and sisters.

      Leftists have incredibly high self-regard. While the cogdis of turning away from their nature and God’s ordination and commandments torments them, I do not think it manifests as loathing of their person but can easily bee seen as such because their cult of death ultimately demands human sacrifice. Which they abide. Of the body and spirit.

      The distinction is that its the sacrifice of US and OUR children and way of life. That they will ultimately toss their kids to the volcano for status and inverted piety is true, as progress is wont, but this also shows that once the unifying force of God’s Truth is rejected, what can be considered “distant” is also relative.

    3. Yeah, why would anyone do this? I stand by my theory that the University paid for it, and they were gonna have to use it.

      It really is late. But it’s not too late. He’s waiting.

  7. Caring about rocks: “Hawaii official concerned with ‘equity’ delayed releasing water for more than 5 hours as wildfires raged: report”
    https://nypost.com/2023/08/19/hawaii-official-worried-about-equity-over-water/
    So this %&$/-hole should be hanging from whatever tree is left on Maui for contributing to the murder of 100+ people. Instead, he was transferred to another department.
    So yes, leftist worry more about water than people. Your analysis is spot on.

    1. The residents of the burnt town could today be forming a grand jury to charge the anti-firefighting government officials with arson or depraved-indifference murder. Why aren’t they? Why aren’t we talking about: why aren’t they? Are the voters criminal accessories? Do you think hiring a murderer by “voting” absolves you of moral liability for doing that murder?

      1. They all hide behind “qualified immunity.” I’ve been railing for years against it. And technically, it does not shield them from criminal liability, but they almost never face charges.

    2. I’ve been to the islands many times on vacation. You have to take into account their pagan and animist roots, which go back to the pre-missionary days. That type of mindset, coupled with the resentment towards Haoles, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, the missionaries from ALL faiths who settled there and developed agriculture and industry, have led to a backlash by the native Hawaiians. It is easy to see how a local political hack, in an effort to gain points with his own co-ethnics, could talk about this “sacred water” nonsense. They have sewn and must now reap. Bleib ubrig.

  8. A brilliant exposition, even for you, sir!

    JW: “The people who gravitated to government over time, however, like control.”

    “The Admiral”: “The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.”

    1. Thank you! Great point – and those that want to influence family and those close have no desire to rule over a state far away.

  9. CS Lewis described that Heatmap in The Screwtape Letters:

    Do what you will, there is going to be some benevolence, as well as some malice, in your patient’s soul. The great thing is to direct the malice to his immediate neighbours whom he meets every day and to thrust his benevolence out to the remote circumference, to people he does not know. The malice thus becomes wholly real and the benevolence largely imaginary. There is no good at all in inflaming his hatred of Germans if, at the same time, a promiscuous habit of charity is growing up between him and his mother, his employer, and the man he meets in the train.

    Think of your man as a series of concentric circles, his will being the innermost, his intellect coming next, and finally his fantasy… you must keep on shoving all the virtues outward ‘til they are finally located in the circle of fantasy, and all the desirable qualities inward…

    1. 10/10 quote comment. CS nails it even before I was born. Great insight, and great callback with eloquence.

  12. Am I misreading that graph? Do Liberals really value rocks in another galaxy to their own friends?

    Then again, odds are their friends are Liberals, and I’d prefer asteroids to them, too. (Insert joke here.)

  13. Sick puppies. And they’re getting sicker by the day. And damn proud of it, as they consider us sicko suckers.

  14. Haven’t read the OP yet. Earlier today on a cuckservative site I wrote that ‘feminism is a death cult’. Then, your post title.

    Such is the church, the real one.

  15. Yes, John, it is an upside-down and backward death cult. And yes, the leftists value everything more than man (except themselves, most of the time). That’s why every leftist political ideology places the State first and man last.

    1. They do. The Founding Fathers got it right and made it stick for a bit. Now we have to get it back.

  16. Great essay, thanks. And only two typos.
    Since youtube is evil, I use clipgrab to download your videos as mp3 files.
    (…as mp3s…as mp3’s….as mp3s’….)
    Even better than sqrpt. Thank you to all three for your free labor.
    (The opening of the show is so cheesy, I’m now lactose-intolerant.)

    1. It is cheesy! But The Mrs. (who is a professional) made me come up with something. Glad you enjoy!

      Where were the typos? I generally love to fix those.

  17. The University of Nebraska (Lincoln) did a study around 2009 where they had participants scroll through a series of pictures and they timed how long they looked at each picture.
    The pictures varied from peaceful fantastical art and scenes of happiness to pictures of bloodied corpses or car accidents.
    They then asked the participants whether they identified as “conservative” or “liberal”, and found that the conservative students would spend more time looking at the “problem” pictures whereas the liberal students would spend more time looking at the “happy” pictures.
    Deduction? Conseratives are more willing to deal with problems, and liberals don’t want to face them, or another analogy could be that conservatives are adults and liberals are children.

  18. John, I have to confess the days are more and more frequent where the love of entropy and chaos overcomes even my good spirits. There is an endgame that is slow rolling but inevitable; how this cannot be seen is beyond my comprehension.

    1. And it’s picking up speed. I’ll give 10-1 odds that on 8-25-25 we’ll look back at how good we had it in 2023.

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