Bigger Than the Big Lie.

[I posted this on MeWe today, and wanted to reproduce it someplace where it would be easier to find.]

The left loved to toss around “The Big Lie” when discussing Trump’s allegations of widespread voter fraud.

Here’s the thing: There’s an entire category difference between an assertion which may be factually false (I’m not saying voter fraud did or didn’t happen, I’m saying that it’s a dispute of fact) and an assertion which literally could not be true.

The same ideological adherents which so cavalierly called accusations of voter fraud “The Big Lie” also insist with a straight face that:

• biological sex is irrelevant and meaningless beside the “truth” of “gender identity,” despite gender also being a wholly subjective social construct
• it is “anti-racist” and therefore virtuous to consider race front and center in all human interactions, to make judgments about character and human worth based entirely on skin color, and — not joking — to provide preferential medical care based on race; these are not expressions of racism, but are somehow “anti-racist”
• mathematics — literally the most objective discipline there is — is inherently racist
• in fact, the entire idea of “objectivity” is inherently colonizing and racist

These aren’t just errors, mistakes or inaccuracies. These are concepts that literally could not be factual. They are irrational. They are nonsensical. They are the equivalent of saying “Green is a triangular color.” They are not only false; a situation in which they could be true cannot be conceived. Many of them are actually self-refuting. (If objectivity is racist, how can you say that anything, including the idea of objectivity being racist, is objectively true and can be asserted in debate?)

This is not just introducing “The Big Lie” into a conversation where truth could be hypothetically determined. This is an attempt to inculcate a foundational irrationality to the collective thought process, so that nothing can be true. The end product of a push to accept any of the above as true, or even as being possibly true instead of categorically nonsensical — and, I would assert, the end goal of this push, as it’s a willing and deliberate effort — is to end up in a culture in which rationality is dismissed a priori. The concept that something, anything could be true in contrast to being false — that even if we don’t know what the answer is, that a correct answer could be — is being purposely annihilated. It hasn’t been about actual racism, sexism, etc. for a long time; those are merely the convenient sheepskins.

This is so much more than “The Big Lie.” It’s the wholesale annihilation of truth even as a concept, an effort to render the human mind blind to very idea that there could be anything objective, anything correct, anything provable, anything self-evident.

It is a push toward the wholesale, collective insanity of the human race.

It is objectively evil because it doesn’t just oppose good, or substitute evil for good; it defines good away and blinds the mind to the very notion that good could be.

It is Hell.

And some people are laboring with all of their faculties to make it happen all around you.