BY DANIEL JUPP

Technocracy: The belief that most human beings are too stupid and worthless to administer their own fate and must cede all authority and decision making to a class of enlightened experts who know better than them.

Globalism: The belief that all human beings must come under a single global political authority, because allowing them sovereignty, nation states and independent rule creates opportunities for the unenlightened majority in any specific place to do things which the enlightened international elite do not favour.

Transhumanism: The belief that man in his natural state is an essentially worthless animal and that science and technology can be harnessed to create an evolutionary leap which nature has not supplied, elevating a chosen portion of humanity into a machine and human interface that erases the crude limitations of the shaved ape.

Environmentalism: The belief that man is a uniquely destructive and worthless animal who endangers all other life and the planet by his sinful exploitation and development and that humanity is a sort of virus or disease infecting the Earth that must be reduced or eliminated to restore an imagined Eden of Nature untroubled by Man.

Progressivism: the belief that every traditional and time-honoured aspect of human morality and society and its foundations in faith, family and tradition are worthless expressions of selfish power relations that must be abandoned in favour of radical and previously perverse alternatives.

Marxism: the belief that all human interactions can be understood in terms of economic greed and power and that a ruthless and savage purging of private ownership and a seizure of all power by an enlightened Party is both inevitable and worthy because it will lead to a new utopia in which greed and power do not exist.

Cultural Marxism: the belief in the application of Marxism through a lens of race and culture rather than through a lens of economics. The belief that western civilisation is uniquely representative of human evil, and that the rejection and obliteration of this civilisation and its replacement by racial and ideological alternatives will create a new utopia in which greed, power and racism don’t exist.

All these ideologies have shared features:

1. They demand radical and enormous change.

2. They don’t care if that change results in terrible consequences for most people.

3. By continuing to exist they surely recognise on past performance that the change they need requires mass murders and large-scale deaths.

4. They have contempt for most human beings and are founded on a misanthropic view of mankind itself.

5. They assume a utopian future follows from their radicalism, no matter how destructive and murderous that radicalism is.

6. They perceive everything once viewed as positive, and everything that has been most conducive to stable and enlightened society, as an impediment to the perfection they will fashion.

7. They are predicated on an elitist and Gnostic view that only a small group of people have the right to guide society.

8. They designate the unenlightened as worthless (useless eaters) but don’t consider their own adherents as possessed of any of the human flaws and power relations they perceive in everything and everyone else.

In short all of these ideologies, which are having an enormous effect on contemporary society and politics, are founded in hatred of mankind whilst claiming to be routes to a utopian future for mankind. All of them share a deep, abiding, fundamental disgust with humanity itself and a sense that humanity must be bullied, cajoled, forced and manipulated into a new and better form, both ideologically and physically.

They do not see any individual human life as sacred, or humanity itself as sacred or created in the image of God, but as a mulish and stupid, destructive and pathetic collective embarrassment that requires chastisement, punishment and instruction from their betters. And that these things must occur regardless of the consent or acceptance of most people, who are by definition as human beings too stupid and selfish to know what is best for them anyway.

Daniel Jupp is the author of A Gift for Treason: The Cultural Marxist Assault on Western Civilisation, which was published in 2019. He has had previous articles published by Spiked, The Spectator and Politicalite, and is a married father of two from Essex.