Excellent summary - that's really what liberalism does, it makes a moral virtue out of vulnerability and the lack of will to defend oneself or others. Leave it to Steyn to come up with the right phrase!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
This reminded me of the following that someone wrote (paraphrased):
Gun grabbers believe that a woman who has been raped and murdered is morally superior to a pistol-packing mama standing over the body of her attacker.
“Excellent summary - that’s really what liberalism does, it makes a moral virtue out of vulnerability and the lack of will to defend oneself or others...” ~ livius
That is merely one of the evils Leftist/Progressives are responsible for.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
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“....Now, what does the nihilist say about all this? What can he say? Since his first three commandments already condemn him to a godless and meaningless existence, what does it matter what you do — or when you it — ...
The only alternative to meaning is either chaos or enforced order. As such, these two extremes represent the two poles of the Democratic party. One pole is the enraged and infantile base, the primitive dailykos and moveonon.org types: the chaoticians, nihilists, barbarians, and infrahumans, while the other pole is the elites whom they empower in order to control themselves and everyone else — the Clintons, Edwards, Gores, and Obamas.
(I say “infrahuman” because leftists do not recognize humans as fundamentally distinct from animals, and therefore do not make the effort to actualize this uniquely quasi-divine station. They are anything but humanists, because theirs’ is the explicit philosophy of the animalization of the human, and all the consequences that flow from that. You may not think it is fair or illustrative, but Alec Baldwin’s abuse of his daughter is a case in point.
The leftist foregoes the task of mastering himself in favor of ceding his power to the collective, which he hopes will control him — in particular, his greed, his envy, and his paranoia and malevolence toward his fellow man. Obviously, Alec Baldwin is “out of control,” as are the majority of narcissistic Hollywoodenheads. It is rare that you would ever say of one, “ah, now here is a man who has mastered himself!” No. It is almost always the opposite. The less mastery, the further left; the list is endless.)
For the classical liberal [[ AKA today’s conservatives - see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Serfdom ]], the very task of this life is to transcend and perfect oneself by first mastering oneself. To say that there is not a trace of this attitude in leftism is an understatement, for it is rooted in the opposite premise: that there is no such thing as self-mastery (only “repression”), so you must be controlled by the state, by a powerful collective. A nation of virtuous people living in the light of their own awakened conscience would not even require laws.
Obviously, fallen humans being what they are, such an ideal state is not feasible, because it takes only a few irresponsible jerks to upset the whole balance. It’s like the freeways — you can have thousands of responsible drivers spontaneously interacting in a harmonious manner, but just one accident by some idiot will snarl the traffic and inconvenience everyone else.
Thus, leftism inevitably redounds to a situation in which inferior men rule the superior men, in part because the superior man has no desire to, or interest in, dominating others.
This is the real reason why there are so very few conservatives in politics, because politics draws from people who wish to control others, and a conservative has no desire to exercise this kind of power as a replacement for self-mastery.
And this is why virtually every professional group has been taken over by leftist activists, whether it is the educational establishment, the state department, the American Bar Association, the MSMistry of Truth, academia, or my idiotic group, the American Psychological Association — it doesn’t matter, for the principle is the same: the authorization of a kind of external power to control others as a substitute for the liberal doctrine of self-mastery. ..” [snip]~ Robert W.Godwin, Ph.D - Blogs as “Gagdad Bob”. (He is a clinical psychologist whose interdisciplinary work has focused on the relationship between contemporary psychoanalysis, chaos theory, and quantum physics.)
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