“We have arrived at an intellectual chaos”. Solzhenitsyn

“We have arrived at an intellectual chaos”.  Solzhenitsyn

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos, so,

how did we get here?

I think identity politics had much to do with it, though

Post Modernism came first, and won’t disappear.

Jaques Derrida was important and we fear

His influence is widespread in academia, where the verb to know

is regarded as blasphemous, along with concepts like being clear. 

We have arrived at an intellectual chaos, so, 

what are we going to do about it?  Intersectionality, seems to grow

into this vast sticky web, yet its proponents are all sincere,

they think that love of their fellow men, requires law, for it to show.

How did we get here?

How did they so misunderstand, Christ’s second commandment?  Why do they fear

freedom and seem desperate for legislation, what panic lies below

the surface of their thoughts that they’d take prison over being freer?

I think identity politics had much to do with it, though

that arose from this same impulse, libertarianism transmuted in to faux

outrage, which turned into this compulsion to clamp down, never to hear

the views of the other side. How far will it go?

Post Modernism came first, and won’t disappear

but each generation rejects what came before, each requires its own idea.

Does hope lie here? Or will the authoritarians borrow

the ways of the Medieval Church, Sharia, Soviet Russia, staying in or near

the seats of power, controlling the chaotic narrative, drowning us in slow

intellectual chaos.