"Revolutions Have Consequences" or "Let Them Eat Kate"

Kate Smith's now removed statue

In this piece by Andrew Klaven, he makes some good points. But I heartily disagree with his assertion that when it comes to ideas (vs. personalities) that the Left and Right have a lot in common.

The difference between liberty and tyranny is ideational and philosophical. If you begin with a collectivist premise that a man doesn’t own himself, that he has no right to his property - you will inevitably end up with some form of Socialism and draconian punishment for dissenters. And the personalities of the Stalin, the Mao, the Castro, or the Maduro don’t matter. You will have North Korea.

If you begin with the premise that man is endowed by his Creator with self-evident inalienable rights, you will not have perfection, but you will have liberty and human flourishing. You will have South Korea.

As the Richard Weaver book title puts it: Ideas Have Consequences.

Progressivism is just repackaged Satanism: the delusional belief that man is perfectible and is on a trajectory toward perfection. Every single time when this idea takes root, it bears the fruit of the headless corpses of those who peacefully disagree (in the name of safety, of course), after such people failed to be re-educated in camps and prisons.

One has to wonder about how progressives in future times (say five years from now) will treat young people today from every ethnicity who sing along with their favorite pop tunes about rape and misogyny and where the n-word is used as punctuation.

One can only wonder if the formerly popular black entertainer Eddie Murphy, for example, will suffer the opprobrium of generations to come (maybe in the next six months) when they stumble upon his now obscure comedy, which, how to put it, is not affirming of the LGBTQ community.

There is so much outrage for the progressive archaeologist to unearth in the distant future (like, maybe this summer).

Maybe we’ll soon get a new clock and a new calendar and new names for the days of the week and a new statue in the remodeled Notre Dame Cathedral - as all of those old things are racist and not reflective of the establishment of the New Order (that is, April 2019, or if you prefer, Year Zero).

In the words of some forgotten old dead white European named Jacques Mallet du Pan (1749-1800): "A l'exemple de Saturne, la révolution dévore ses enfants," ("Like Saturn, the Revolution devours its children").