April 19, 2012
Keith Preston discusses the ideology of present day Western elites. Topics include:
- Why Keith prefers the term “totalitarian humanism” to describe Political Correctness;
- Various theories on the origins of the totalitarian humanist world view and the conflict between realist and other-worldly thinking in traditional Western intellectual life;
- How the Left embraces the Other as a means of denying human nature and how totalitarian humanism has become the self-legitimating ideology of modern Western states;
- The demographics of totalitarian humanism and why the primary constituency for PC is found in the upper middle class;
- How the mainstream “culture wars” represents a class conflict between the rising culturally leftist upper middle class and the dying traditional WASP elites;
- Why a class revolution has occurred in Western civilization in recent decades that is comparable to the bourgeois revolutions against the traditional aristocratic orders that transpired in the 18th and 19th centuries.
