The case for Universal Utopia Care

Another repost, from HP

The extremities of political ideology are places of utopia, be they of the left or right. The NF or the BNP are utopians of the highest order, as are Islamists. Even in Strassian thought or in the libertarian millieu, there is a golden age just waiting beyond the application of their prescription. Paleo-Conservatives think that 1954 (1825 in Peter Hitchen’s opinion) is utopia, a place sans discord or deviancy, a place of civilisation and ‘peace’ - Burke longed for a Lockean place of high church manners and civility to be ‘restored’ from the outrages of the Paris mob and the radicals of London.

Utopia is merely the perfect application of ideology onto reality, the ultimate aim of political radicals and extremists. That is why utopia - lit. no place is so accurate. The birth of the new Volk, the return of the Caliphate, the end of history, the Golden age, the return to the ideals of a past age or the promise of a new are battles against reality and humanity. The degree to which each school might seek to pursue its telos ranges widely, but utopias exists in every strand of political thought, just as elysiums accompany the religions.

The conservatism as common sense is merely part of their own ideological conception. If you didn’t critically assess such self conceptions, then fascists could be viewed as peaceful warriors pushed reluctantly to arms and Socialists would be awash with sex and good clothes. Both are self-conceited fallacies. The most successful ideologues in the west in the last 30 years have mainly been to the political right with their own ideal and conceivable society as a goal, just as the Keynesian/Socialist project of social engineering was in the 30 years before. They differ in their means and aims but not in their project to build a ‘better’ world, the interpretation of ‘better’ being their own conception of heaven on earth. Indeed extremities place a bipolar struggle deep into the route map towards this end. Manichean division and the promise of a reborn or renewed society are their positive and negative inducements.

Some commentators has a big spiel about making the right as being judged by a separate series of consideration with regards to political theory and science. The right (which to them means good guys, their definition is not very clear) is merely the real voice of humanity, plagued by demagogues and malcontents pointing towards false gods. Thus fascism is entirely a beast of the left, because one hack journo simplified a complex relationship to score partisan points against the Dems in the States (step forward Jonah Goldberg). Thus Islam is nowt but a theocratic brand of socialism. Thus the right is released from the need to critically think about itself as it is the font of humanity, beyond a veneer of tactical moderation.

I want a right that is clever, self-searching and honest, am I being utopian?