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Why the Disembodied Left Will Die Out

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Johannes M. Koenraadt
Jul 02, 2026
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Samson and Delilah, by Anton van Dyck

American commentator Ben Shapiro of the failing Daily Wire famously stated in 2017, “I don’t give a damn about the ‘browning of America.’ Color doesn’t matter. Ideology does.” But living as disembodied spirits that reject their bodies lies at the heart of modern despair. Besides, spirits are racial.

In fact, we would never have experienced diversity, multiculturalism, or equality if we hadn’t first undergone the surgical split devised by René Descartes, the French philosopher who posited that minds and bodies were separate from one another. And ever since, the West collectively dived into the madness of pure rational existence disconnected from physical experience.

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