“W Europe and too many here in America have lost their minds!”
My father was a contrary responder. If I said it was white, he would swear it was black. This contrarianism covered the entire spectrum of possible subjects. Dad’s responses, I think were caused by his Parkinson’s disease.
I notice this contrarianism in arguments put forward by liberals. An analysis I read of why liberals respond this way said, liberals are searching for a perfect world; utopia. They don’t know how to remold the present world into a utopia, but they do know that following the logical solutions laid down by generations of good leaders and thinkers did not result in them living in utopia today. Therefore, they respond to each situation with a diametrically opposing idea to the logical one. That way, surely, lies utopia.
Liberals, we are living in utopia. I think about this often as I wonder the aisles of Costco and Walmart admiring the thousands of nearly perfect products; most of which I can buy with a fractional hour of my labor. How much easier is it to clothe, feed and house ourselves today versus a million, a thousand or a hundred years ago? You can talk dirt about our elected leaders and then enjoy a Starbucks cappuccino made to your liking while you chat on a cell phone and conduct your banking online. No one will even yell back at your unhinged tirades. You, my friend, are already in utopia.
It sounds like Critical Theory, developed almost a century ago by the Frankfurt school commies. It’s what they used to enable their long march through our institutions.
Are you crazy? Apologizing for that?
That’s one of the best things I’ve read in a while and actually it COULD be directed at me because I forgot how we LIVE here!!
Air conditioner on 70, heat on 70 in the winter, fridge/freezer full of food/drinks. Clean Tap Water, phone to call ANYONE anywhere.
What you wrote should be required reading for many of the “poor” in this country.
You have nailed it. Excellent post.
Liberals have no idea of the existence of an optimum point.
We are living near the optimum. Any movement away from it tends to move us down, not up.
Sure, there are things we should do to broaden the optimum a bit. Enforce the Constitution, move back toward locally responsible schools, let the old media die...
They are all happening, and they are all opposed by the left, because they involve strengthening the optimum rather than radical change.