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October 6, 2007
Terry Eagleton: Intelligentsia Isn't Moonbatty Enough
The culture elite has been known for conforming to puerile and irresponsible left-wing views for generations. But for some, the intelligentsia is no longer moonbatty enough.
Terry Eagleton, a "Marxist literary critic" and "professor of cultural theory" — i.e., overpaid useless person — is carrying on like Abigail Williams at the Salem Witch Trials that even British novelists are committing liberal heresy.
Beating his sunken breast in angst, Eagleton screams that Kingsley Amis is "a racist, anti-Semitic boor, a drink-sodden, selfhating reviler of women, gays and liberals." Kingsley's son Martin has suggested that Britain might not want to roll over and die in the face of imperialist Islam, causing Eagleton to shriek like a woman with a rat running up the inside of her dress about authoritarianism and injustice.
Weeping into his Chardonnay, Eagleton pules:
For almost the first time in two centuries, there is no eminent British poet, playwright or novelist prepared to question the foundations of the western way of life.
One might make an honourable exception of Harold Pinter, who has wisely decided that being a champagne socialist is better than being no socialist at all; but his most explicitly political work is also his most artistically dreary.
Surely a literary critic could grasp that this is no coincidence.
By the way, Pinter's "most explicitly political work" reads like the scribblings on the wall in a junior high boy's room. Here's a sample. His writing is so moonbatty and gratuitously awful, he was recently awarded a Nobel Prize.
According to Eagleton, even Christopher Hitchens, who just devoted a whole book to denouncing God, has "thrown in his lot with Washington's neocons."
It's a sad day for the pointy-headed when only Eagleton and his terrorist allies will "question the foundations of the western way of life."
But wait, isn't yammering endlessly about alleged authoritarianism and injustice part of the Western way of life? Isn't tolerating screeching weasels who side with our enemies part of the Western way of life? When there's no more Western way of life, what will happen Marxist literary critics and professors of cultural theory? Might they be forced do something constructive for a living?
On a tip from V the K.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 6, 2007 10:16 AM
Comments
That's the saddest thing about the grand socialist project. They can defeat conservatives and libertarians in their own countries, that little bit of the world which is truly free and western (though already less than it was). They don't really want to give up western hegemony, they have this belief that they can rule the world via the supranational organs they've created. They believe that the future is a world ruled by marxist postmodernists, "experts", academics, and so on.
What they just don't grasp is that once they've eaten away all the supports of westernism, they will fall into the abyss with the rest of us. To use intemperate language (who, moi?!) they are parasites unaware that they are devouring and destroying the host body upon which their lives depend.
An analogy, perhaps, is the Iranian Revolution. Originally a popular left revolution against the abuses of the Shah, they opened the way for the Ayatollahs and the collapse of all signs of westernism in Iran. In some respects it's a model for a likely future of the world in general.
I'm increasingly convinced that the non-left; conservatives, libertarians, christian, atheist, or whatever, need to work together and focus on the Biggest Issue; leftist internationalism. They're already a long way forward in their plan; organisations like the EU and UN with all their legions of liggers. What precise tactics will be effective against them is another matter, but successful tactics must be found or the lights are going out on progress and all the good things for people achieved over the past two millennia will be lost, perhaps forever. But I'll be honest, I have no idea where to even start.
Yes, my tinfoil hat is very comfy, thanks for asking.
Posted by: Ian from the EUSSR at October 6, 2007 10:46 AM
time for harry potter to step up and save the day.
Posted by: billfry at October 6, 2007 12:11 PM
On a minor quibble, Pinter won the Nobel Prize for literature, which like the peace prize is a joke. To lump in the skid mark who win the literature or peace prizes with Nobel Laureates in physics or chemistry is obscene.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 6, 2007 7:33 PM
"For almost the first time in two centuries, there is no eminent British poet, playwright or novelist prepared to question the foundations of the western way of life."
Uh, maybe after two centuries, it's time to move on to a new subject? Unfortunately, Eagleton is quite wrong, not only in his core beliefs but in his assessment of the current output of those Western intellectuals who find favor in establishment institutions, an output which continues to monolithically "question" and chip away at the foundations of the western way of life. Indeed, that's all they do. Maybe it's time for British writers to question the rigidly conformist assumptions and relentlessly negative effects of the Left.
Posted by: Beef at October 7, 2007 9:56 AM
