INTELLECT-CHALLENGED MINIMALISTS
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
~ Albert Einstein
A fourth sophistic attack by the academy and the left against American exceptionalism, Natural Law and the original intent of the constitutional framers, or what David Barton calls “the five malpractices of modern history,” is Minimalism. Barton defines it as “an unreasonable insistence on oversimplification – on reducing everything to monolithic causes and linear effects. Minimalism is easily recognizable in political campaign rhetoric: candidates take behemoth problems facing the nation – complicated difficulties that often have been decades in the making – and reduce them to one-line platitudes and campaign slogans. Minimalism is also apparent in the modern portrayal of history.”
Minimalism is chiefly exploited by single-issue groups looking to force their agenda to the head of public discourse. Since these movements frequently lack widespread public interest or support, they desperately seek to increase their standing by glomming on to an issue possessing much broader public appeal than their narrow agendas possess, thus making that person or organization appear to establish their goals. (PETA, NOW and the ACLU are leftist organizations adept at this.) In their tireless efforts to degrade and deconstruct America’s storied history, Minimalists thus portray America’s Founding Fathers as a bunch of rich white guys who were sexist, racist, atheist, secularist, slaveholding maniacs – or they use whatever demagogic language they think will further their agenda.
Minimalism irrationally promotes over-simplicity and reducing everything to simple-minded solutions that don’t involve critical thinking or thoughtful examination. Minimalism combines and conflates complex situations into robotic slogans while denigrating historical figures into rigid, stereotyped existence that conflicts with truth, realism and history. For example, Minimalism says since Jefferson made some disparaging comments near the end of his life discarding specific aspects of Christianity, he is labeled a lifelong atheist or deist, thus removing the need to examine any of the vast number of complex spiritual phases he struggled through – conflicts between good and evil all of us have wrestled with during this pilgrim’s journey we call life. Minimalists arrogantly ignore these complexities of our Founding Fathers because they are too difficult for popular intellectual consumption.
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