Days of Whine and Poses - the cultural left

It is one of those weird political inversions that those who fought the Cultural Left were trying to advance social and economic reforms, while all the time being blocked by those with sectional interests. Anyone who has worked in a large organisation knows it’s hard to get a consensus opinion. With the Cultural Left, it was impossible. So in political terms the Edmund Burkes of the world became radicals and the Robespierre’s became the conservatives.

The Cultural Left ignored the fact that modern Western civilisation stands on four pillars, and elected government is only one of them. Equally important is the rule of law. The other two are economic: the right to own private property and the right to buy and sell your property, goods, services and labour.

But analysis was irrelevant to the Cultural Left. Ultimately, it was not a question of whether a policy worked but whether it was right or wrong when judged by the standards of the Cultural Left.

Of course many of the Cultural Left still inhabit positions of power in the media so their voice won’t suddenly fall silent over night. Their incoherent manifesto will become history as their generation (and mine) becomes history. They will be studied by history students as a curio, an anomaly, a worthy footnote in this nation’s development.