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 20th 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.