Limbaugh's Radical Subjectivism Split the Republican Parrty

Traditionally neo-conservative talk radio guys put on the hat of naïve realism. Yek they can alternatively wear a cynic hat with less audience share. Generally though, naïve realism is the paradigm. Trying to understand Rush Limbaugh, worthwhile since he has 20 or 30 million occasional followers, and consider why he can be so completely daft on some points and accurate on others provides insight into the power of broadcast media to mess up American democracy.

Mr. Limbaugh’s erratic analytical method tends to divide up the Republican Party into separate wings comprising the aloof upper-class globalist blue-bloods and the scientifically dumb conservative followers of Rush transforming the Republicans into the intellectual constiuency of traditional Democrat donkeys leaving the important stuff to the brains of the outfit in talk radio. In times past Republicans were regarded as the more intellectually astute party leading the way with sharp business ideas with some fat cat industrialists that surged ahead. In those times there wasn’t such a vast gap between the very rich and the very poor. Rush Limbaugh tends to take the New Republican Dumb constituency on that long, black train leading to nowhere as a generality waiting for Godot.

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Surprisingly Rush made a conservative ingression into radical subjectivism standing with John Lennon in the Strawberry Fields nothing is real psychology of the Beatles classic. That is the intellectually limp leader has a right-wing version of popular subjectivism started perhaps by John Dewey with a topping of moral and epistemological relativism that droops down ecospheric reform and responsibility.

Radical epistemological subjectivism entered academia, politics, business and religion and even in to talk radio. Radical subjectivism allows the buck to be passed infinitely in theory.

Jesus Christ in saying that the king of God is within you was not establishing a purely subjective epistemology. Obviously Jesus was in the Kingdom of God for-himself yet existed in the world for-others. There are many ways to interpret the meaning of what Jesus said about the kingdom of God and of what the kingdom of God is, and where it is, yet it wasn’t a purely subjective epistemology. The kingdom of God may be experienced subjectively yet it is also founded or grounded in God. God is the objective-other as Sartre might have said, yet that pure objectivity is transcended through receiving Jesus Christ as one’s personal Lord and Savior. Jesus Christ is the sole way to God. Some find a sense of realized eschatology in the concept of the kingdom of God being within Christians as an initial entry of the developing kingdom of God that will fully emerge objectively at the end of temporal history. Well, to return to Rush Limbaugh and the left’s radical subjectivism…

The left notably took a turn in the 20^th century toward subjectivism and subjective psychology. A book named The Age of Fracture described some of the American political developments of that intellectual-theoretical trend. One didn’t expect Rush Limbaugh and naïve conservative realists to take a turn toward radical epistemological subjectivism too. Yet sharing that realm of radical subjectivism with the left was possible for those that wandered through the moral relativism and ethical subjectivism required for the moral immunity to Wall Street corruption leading to the 2008 crash. Where one has a kind of epistemological-intellectual libertarianism one can apply Derrida’s objective treatment of literature to the real world regarding it as subjective and amusing.

Whereas Karl Marx applied G.W.F. Hegel’s metaphysical induction to analysis of political evolution without the theoretical-teleogical paradigm, Rush Limbaugh seems to use a Sartrian phenomenalism with a topping of Marxist dialect to produce a weltanshauuung where everything is regarded as political with politics perhaps meaning a social process of adjudicative transaction.

In Limbaugh’s weltanshauung science is subject

tive and hence scientists produce political theories. Instead of studying the world and Universe objectively they study it subjectively within a social-political context and generate political points of affirmation or denial of an evolving socialist vs. capitalist dialectic. Limbaugh views vegetarianism and global warming theorists as political dupes or willing apparatchiks of the dark side of the dialectical force in the perennial battle of good vs. evil. Limbaugh is something of a Manichean or Zoroastrian existentialist soaked in the sauce of cold war era dialectical materialism morphed to a form where it is a dialectical evolution to nowhere besides entropy and the heat death of the Universe I suppose, after yielding maximal prophets-and its al a dream.

Limbaugh’s weltanshaung shared with subjectivists of the radical left that fled there perhaps when Marxist-Stalinism lost its glint and Sartre provided the existentialist Critique of Dialectical Reason as a refuge for the philosophically challenged is reliant on the ultimate subjective nature of mass and energy and of its phenomenal nature. Science though is dedicated to the study of mass, energy and forms as well as a human being can do. Scientific results tend to approach the validity at least of that language has in publicly verifiable use. Science has produced some of the greater advances in the human condition. Applied science has relieved objective human suffering from disease. Good science can be applied with bad politics to do harm. Adolph Eichman used scientific fruit of technology and I.B.M. card readers to process Jews for extermination in the holocaust. Too many car making fossil fuels emissions generate greenhouse gasses contributing significantly to global warming causality. Science and technology produced automotive technology, bad politics want to continue to misapply it, deny any bad effects and deny any scientific capacity for objectivity. Science it is said by the politically maladroit produces just politics.

That point calls for some humor of course. I haven’t the time for that here. One can imagine Thomas Edison or Alexander Graham Bell, Albert Einstein or Isaac Newton producing political material instead of science and technology. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon were political merry pranksters and the Hiroshima bomb was just a political invention of no substance used to put Marxists in power and increase the size of government to super-enhanced. As Socrates said, the unexamined life is not worth living.

Human thinking and sentience is what distinguishes human beings from animals and even inanimate mass and energy. Human beings are organism too and simply being a happy organism isn’t really human. Human beings are sentient beings that need to think critically, rationally and objectively as possible. Man does not live by bread alone. So can science measure the atmospheric and sea surface temperature of the planet or what the atmosphere is made of-of course. Can science compare the present state of the thermal condition of the world to ages past-yes.

Human affairs of a social nature often are political.  Political-social responses to objective environmental challenges may have partisans of several sides on innumerable issues with various combinations of issues packaged occasionally so large as to comprise political party platforms. It would be just stupid though to claim that the potential for making anything a political issue negates the reality and potential for objective existence of the issue. In a sense the radical subjective epistemological theory of the left and of Rush Limbaugh too apparently denies the possibility of a democracy having any real issues to fix or respond to. Instead issues such as global warming when applied with the Limbaugh weltanshaung filter can be regarded as political illusion to support the dark side of the dialectical force and the demi-urge of doom egging on anti-Canutian political force.

Rush Limbaugh is not entirely wrong about particular political issues yet his theoretical competence is deficient to the point where he seems to be Talking Under the Influence –T.U.I. with an irrational, perhaps CO2 influenced giddiness(joking about this last point). He believes Vegetarianism or Veganism is political and doesn’t seem to be able to separate or distinguish what  the political is regarding issues and the issues for themselves. Vegetarians sometimes just don’t want to eat Bambi.

Some reincarnationists thought meat eating would consume some kindred spirit perhaps. There were religious and personal reasons for not eating animals, or eve health concerns in kosher proscriptions. Mad cow disease was caused with prions brought by feeding cattle dead cattle pieces. It required scientific objectivity to understand how the infection mechanisms worked. Even Rush Limbaugh’s artifical hearinh cochlear implants were developed with work by individuals with more than a radical subjective epistemology believing nothing is real.

It is fairly easy to misunderstand the philosophical points about epistemology that have developed since the pre-Socratics along to modern Super-String theory. Christians may have a different point of view about the nature of mass-energy in relation to spirit too, and spirit in relation to mass-energy can be regarded in different ways. Madonna the pop singer sang The Material Girl yet evolved interest in the neo-Gnostic Kabalah. Philo of Alexandria was defiantly not a naïve materialist. Even if all of thought, mind and body is made of matter (material), matter-mass-energy is itself perhaps a practico-inert substance of God presented for-others in Higgs field entanglement. For us matter is a potential practico-inert substance for reforming and manufacture that can be neither created or destroyed (generally). In the beginning there was brought into being a finite quantity of matter-energy brought or issued-spoken into the darkness when it was without form and void.

The way the Universe is today and its method of physical change in an ordered, logical paradigm within consistent characteristics of conduct including some room for uncertainty that permits a wide range of freedom of motion lets human minds experience the phenomenon of being and the objective characteristics of the Universe. Subjective and objective characteristics cohere within the phenomenon of being for humans to discover. The Universe is not just an experience of purely subjective epistemology presenting no moral or ethical concern to the rich or leftist totalitarians.