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| 2014-10-09 |
| There is no one that the left hates more than a man who does not hate, who goes through the day without outrage and who does not spend his life stewing with vindictive resentments. Leftists call it "privilege" now. They have called it apathy, escapism and a hundred other things. They will find a thousand other names for it as they march through the future centuries grinding their teeth and cursing their country for its backwardness, their people for their provincialism and their culture for its mercantilism. But privilege is simply freedom from resentment. To be of the left is to confuse perpetual outrage with righteousness. The professional leftist believes that the path to utopia on earth lies in constantly denouncing thought criminals until they have all been unthought so that only their kind of ethical and empathetic people walk the earth. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 Expanded a bit, this piece would make an excellent book. |
| Posted by: Anice Nim 2014-10-09 16:53 |
| #6 Leftism is a form of mental problems, mainly stemming from narcissism with hints of envy Freudian projection, neoteny, a lack of stoicism, bits of dunning kruger and often found in a sort of warped tribal-socipathy, where outgroup members are seen as disposable. I think of it as akin to hypo-aspergers/hyper-oxytocin with equivalent societal dysfunction. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2014-10-09 14:36 |
| #5 My favorite way to deal with the Cult of Warming is when they spout their stuff, tell them "I'm sorry, I don't believe in your religion, please stop preaching at me and trying to convert me to your religion" They get the weirdest look on their faces and start spluttering. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2014-10-09 10:17 |
| #4 The left's defeat comes when its ... its alarmist crises are met with laughter. I'm thinking, like Man-Made Global Climate Fluctuations. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2014-10-09 07:53 |
| #3 5 stars, two thumbs up. To be of the left is to confuse perpetual outrage with righteousness One of the great lines. Anything and everything that a leftist does or thinks is righteous to himself and his ilk. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2014-10-09 07:10 |
| #2 All thanks are due to Sultan Knish. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-10-09 05:35 |
| #1 "To be of the left is to confuse perpetual outrage with righteousness. The professional leftist believes that the path to utopia on earth lies in constantly denouncing thought criminals until they have all been unthought so that only their kind of ethical and empathetic people walk the earth." To that I would only add perpetual envy pretending to be righteousness. Good post, gromgoru. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2014-10-09 05:28 |