Had I known Irving Kristol was alive I probably would have attempted to email him to let him know that I thought he would go down in history books as the philosopher who doomed civilization as we know it.
Irving Kristol is the original and self-labeled “neo-conservative” and father to William Kristol, one of the most influential men in Republican politics despite having an impressive record at being wrong on every prediction and judgment that’s been offered up for public consumption. Irving Kristol started off as a Trotskyist but rejected that in the 30s for Liberalism, only to reject that in the 60s following the rise of the New Left. Yet his book “Neo-Conservatism” shows that the old man never left behind that Leninist love of controlling the minds of the masses. In it, he praises Machiavelli was the first great “post-Christian” philosopher. He laments the “tragedy of ‘Multiculturalism'” and pines for the America of the 30s, which he saw as “stronger” and “healthier” than the America of the 60s. You know, before blacks were allowed to go to white schools. His interest in banning pornography is not from a sense of religious zealotry but from the belief that strong nations are built on strong families, which is why he identifies with Orthodoxy (be it Jewish or Christian) over that of Gnosticism. It’s kind of scary reading someone who divides the world the same way you do only takes the opposite side.
Knowing this, it’s all the more revolting seeing how the Kristols so easily manipulated people whose beliefs are so different than their own. They’re former Marxists who tricked their sheep into accusing the center-left of “socialism,” Jews defining through Hannity and O’Reilly what it means to be a modern Christian, segregationists trying to claim that they are the party of Martin Luther King Jr. But it’s their own failed attempt at creating a “bedrock of bourgeois capitalism” (Irving’s words) that has brought about this economic crisis, their own self-delusion of Communist-style “liberation” propaganda that has trapped us in two decade-spanning wars, and their own “left-wing” ideology of cultural relativity that has allowed them to question global warming, arguing that it’s a “religion” even as they lead a resurgence of Creationism. When New York is flooded by the oceans in 2040, I’ll blame Irving Kristol, and probably curse William Kristol’s own lying brat, not realizing that the bastard who brought about so much misery in my own generation is still alive and culpable.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8264260.stm