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Home Front: Culture Wars
UK riots: The end of the liberals' great moral delusion
2011-08-22
h/t Instapundit
The Left has gone into overdrive in its attempts to rewrite the history of the riots, but the public knows the truth.

...The capacity for self-control, and the willingness to suppress one's innate selfishness or cruelty, is something that adults must consciously instil in children and reinforce in other adults by their attitudes to them. The indispensable tools of social stigma and moral judgment that communities used to have at their disposal for this purpose have been stripped away, and the result -- the fearless defiance of helpless authority -- is what we saw in its terrifying logical conclusion on the streets. That is what real people know: that they were right all along.
The root core problem of the Left is a simple one: it believes in the perfectability of humankind. To be 'progressive' is to believe that imperfect beings, if molded and led properly, one day would become perfect; the result of that would be Utopia.

The Left then simply cannot abide those religions that preach that mankind is and shall always be imperfect, and therefore must suppress religion. It cannot abide by the historical experience that teaches that men cannot and will never be perfect, and therefore must rewrite history. It cannot admit that 'perfection' is in the eye of the beholder, and therefore shall implement one and only one vision of perfection: that of the one man who becomes ruler.

Thus Bonaparte was the end result of the French revolution. Thus Lenin was the end result of the Bolshevik revolution. The characters change; the great moral delusion does not.
I wouldn't count on seeing 'the end of the liberals' great moral delusion.' They've kept those delusions in the face of incontrovertible evidence of the fact that they don't work. Their greatest asset is Attention Span Deficit Disorder. They're busy 'interpreting' the riots now. Eventually most of us will move on to thinking about other things and their 'interpretations' will be the received wisdom.
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#16  I think you missed the "Bullshit" On the end there.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2011-08-22 21:28  

#15  Kind of like the GOP's friend on Wall Street that created this economic mess...

Posted by someone who's never checked the Wall Street donor lists for the Donks. No man is blinder than he who will not see.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-08-22 20:58  

#14  If I were so monumentally wrong in sprading lies before known truths (see: Dodd, Frank, Goldman Sachs, Democrat Party), I would tremble before God too
Posted by: Frank G   2011-08-22 19:36  

#13  Gawd, another troll....
Posted by: Barbara   2011-08-22 19:23  

#12  "Some of the UK looters arrested were not at all deprived and came from well-to-do families. They violated ancient standards of behavior because they enjoyed it and they thought they could get away with it."

Kind of like the GOP's friend on Wall Street that created this economic mess...
Posted by: Trembling B4 G*d   2011-08-22 19:19  

#11  

I would think Stalin was. Lenin was the setup guy.
Posted by: davemac   2011-08-22 18:56  

#10  If the rioters are not being drawn and quartered or broken on the wheel, I'd call it more namby pamby silliness and laboring under the insane assumption that locking someone up equals punishment.

Incarceration isn't punishment. Flogging at least, would be punishment.
Posted by: Silentbrick - Halliburton Lost Drill Bit Division   2011-08-22 17:25  

#9  @Anguper Hupomosing941

I think they were just as mentally impoverished by a parental welfare state as the welfare trash doing the looting was. Once the separation between earning and getting is founded the rot of entitlement sets in.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2011-08-22 16:50  

#8  Early sentencing has been extremely harsh. And there are 3000 more to go.
Posted by: Goober Ulaimp3762   2011-08-22 15:47  

#7  Large population of Libyans have lived in England for some time. The English noticed on the news how well Libyans spoke the English language in Libya. I wonder what will happen now after the show is over. I would at least keep an eye on the Masque's in England upon their return. The welfare is so much better but the opportunity for mischief is greater.
Posted by: Dale   2011-08-22 15:24  

#6   Some of the UK looters arrested were not at all deprived and came from well-to-do families. They violated ancient standards of behavior because they enjoyed it and they thought they could get away with it.
Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418   2011-08-22 12:49  

#5  Did seem like it was an equal opportunity looting spree...
Posted by: Steve White   2011-08-22 12:03  

#4  Redneck

From watching in London alot of blacks were involved in London and Birmingham.In Manchester and Liverpool there was alot of whites involved in looting
Posted by: Squinty Glatch1099   2011-08-22 10:20  

#3  Listening to the MSM, only "Disaffected WHITES were rioting"
Bullshit.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2011-08-22 09:09  

#2  The left rode into power upon a narrative of the imperfections of society and civilization. What the left suppressed in its telling was the true history of mankind, largely of poverty and brutish behavior. The left's false promises have only delivered something even more imperfect, but with its destruction of institutions of civilization, leaves the masses with even less ability to rebuild the future without the usual pain man pays for such changes.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2011-08-22 08:28  

#1  There was a time within living memory when all reasonable grown-ups were considered to be on the same side. Parents, teachers, police, judges, politicians – decent citizens of every station and calling – formed an unspoken confederacy to uphold standards of behaviour within their own communities. But their shared values and expectations about human conduct were systematically undermined by a post-Sixties political ideology that preached wholesale disrespect for authority, and legitimised anti-social activity in the name of protest.

Was it Pelosi who said protest was patriotic? I know that was only as applied to Bush and was slanderous subversive sedition when spoken about The One. Certainly Pelosi's district is paramount in patriotic protest of the people.
Posted by: Bobby   2011-08-22 06:17  

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