You'll need a whirling dickie-bow for this one TCR.
To my mind anti-ID is revolutionary in that it represents a full-frontal attack on the settled acceptance of the hierarchical structure of society which is, however imperfectly, legitimised by a Divine source being associated with the elite in ceremonial processes just as scientifically verifiable as the process whereby one comes to feel superior by shopping at Bloomingdale's.
The anti-IDers on here, and most others, are the poor bloody infantry who throw themselves forward into no-man's land oblivious of what they are about.
At the conscious intellectual level, Judge Jones notwithstanding, it aims at undermining the character structure engineered by the ruling classes over 1,000 years through their agents within the family, the church and the schools and on which the present organisation of society depends for its preservation as we know it and at weakening, ultimately destroying, the tensions between self-assertiveness and social restraint. Such tensions exist, as a fact, in all societies at the economic and the social/psychological (sexual) levels of organised human life.
Freud said that sexual repression, and presumably lesser forms of self-assertiveness, is the
sine qua non of civilised life and Reich, being a Marxist at the time, said that the chief social function of sexual repression was to secure the
existing class structure. And that the criticism by such repression is criticism of today's society.
To the extent that these tensions are thought necessary the decline of religion and the family and the school throw the burden of maintaining and managing them, as well as maybe, onto legislation and its enforcement which, with self-assertiveness being released by those declines ultimately requiring levels of terror (Orwell) or scientifically (artificially) created minds (Huxley).
Anti-ID aims to weaken the influence of family,church and school and obstruct their effects on the young.
As Miles Copeland always said --"Who gains?
The economic beneficiaries of anti-ID are self-evidently Big Business, Social Services, media, the legal profession and the scientific establishment, all of whose services will be needed to prevent anarchy as social restraint ceases to be arranged under the guidance of Divine Authority, however cynically manipulated, and which is very cost effective by comparison with what that alliance has in mind.
Those institutions, and their vast array of ancillaries, are seeking to break the old monopoly the Church used to have in managing the control of natural self-assertiveness. Obviously they are content to leave food production and other low status industrial activities alone. They are only interested in the stuff where "talk" is the limit of what is required of them.
They have even arrived at the point where a meeting or a conference or a symposium is a quasi-religious occasion and worthy of admiration without reference to the subject. Merely being present is a sign of social virtue.
And they have a vested interest in creating the social problems caused by a lack of internalised social restraints and, being human themselves, their own self assertiveness has the ambition to control everything and to become a sort of god which, in my opinion, it is perilous to worship.
At bottom, anti-ID is an attack on Capitalism, Private Property, Family, Dignity, Patriarchy, Love, Beauty, Art and in the end Science itself with Sexual Licence to sugar the pill. (Original Sin.)
As Reich wrote after studying Marx, Bachofen, Malinowski and much else-
Quote: When we consider that mother-right (matriarchy) is chacacterized by primitive communism and by the farthest-reaching sexual freedom, while father-right, wherever we encounter it, is characterized by private ownership, the enslavement of women, and sexual repression similar to our own, it is apparent that the first state is much closer to the natural state than the second one.. Therefore, if one wished to derive matriarchy from patriarchy it would be necessary to assume a violent reversal of historical development, the transformation of a highly complicated organism into a more primitive, more natural one. Every principle of historical scholarship would have to be abandoned in such a view.
I presume you all have a vague working knowledge of "farthest-reaching sexual freedom".
In the nature of the case - "You will wind up peeking through her keyhole down uopn your knees", (Bob Dylan--She Belongs To Me.)
You would be back to the Courts of Love. How could anyone with Lola's avvie not be an anti-IDer.
It is one thing to swing it past Judge Jones avoiding any references or even hints of matters which his daughters might faint clean away on hearing but it quite another to impeach the likes of Marx, Freud and Reich.
Cripes- the very structures you live among are 'in your face' evidence that anti-ID is totally unscientific.
The matriarchies produced nothing in all their long and unlamented existence when life was really nasty, brutish and short.
I can't see how any scientific mind could argue with that and especially not one in a nation which had a collective nervous breakdown when a tit was flashed at the Superbowl.