Posted on 01/21/2002 1:16:50 PM PST by 45Auto
This is a perfect article for National Crybaby Day.
Stay well - stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown
"Teddy Kennedy is the archetype of this phenomenon."
Tremendous guilt for what they have, but not enough conviction to rid themselves of it, sufficiently to gain relief; no, they would rather rid you of what little you have.
Socialist countries seem to me to be a peculiar mix of equality and envy. When I spent some time in Norway, the first news story I was aware of had to do with envy. It seemed one family had built a deck on their house. The neighbors were up in arms, but not because the deck inconvenienced them in any way. They were simply unapologetically envious and felt justified in demanding the deck be torn down. It was sort of "Who does he think he is, building a deck on his house when his neighbors have none?"
I thought at the time bizarre, definitely unAmerican. Now not only has the envy industry arrived on our shores, we have perfected it.
Maybe the ideas in this article can help us get a handle on it and throw it back across the ocean.
- They do not want to win your fortune, they want you to lose it
- They do not want to succeed, they want you to fail
- They do not want to live, they want you to die
They desire nothing, they hate existence, and they keep running, each trying not to learn that the object of his hatred is himself….They are the essence of evil, they, those anti-living objects who seek, by devouring the world, to fill the selfless zero of their soul. It is not your wealth that they’re after. Theirs is a conspiracy against the mind, which means: against life and man.
Ayn Rand, "Galt’s Speech" from Atlas Shrugged, 1957
Today we live in the Age of Envy. The Age of Envy
"Envy" is not the emotion I have in mind, but it is the clearest manifestation of an emotion that has remained nameless; it is the only element of a complex emotional sum that men have permitted themselves to identify.
Envy is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semihuman cover for so inhuman an emotion that those who feel it seldom dare admit it even to themselves….That emotion is: hatred of the good for being the good.
This hatred is not resentment against some prescribed view of the good with which one does not agree….Hatred of the good for being the good means hatred of that which one regards as good by one’s own (conscious or subconscious) judgement. It means hatred of a person for possessing a value or virtue one regards as desirable.
If a child wants to get good grades in school, but is unable or unwilling to achieve them and begins to hate the children who do, that is hatred of the good. If a man regards intelligence as a value, but is troubled by self-doubt and begins to hate the men he judges to be intelligent, that is hatred of the good.
The nature of the particular values a man chooses to hold is not the primary factor in this issue (although irrational values may contribute a great deal to the formation of that emotion). The primary factor and distinguishing characteristic is an emotional mechanism set in reverse: a response of hatred, not toward human vices, but toward human virtues.
To be exact, the emotional mechanism is not set in reverse, but is set one way: its exponents do not experience love for evil men; their emotional range is limited to hatred or indifference. It is impossible to experience love, which is a response to values, when one’s automatized response to values is hatred.
--Ayn Rand, The Age of Envy, 1971
All forms of Socialism involve a denial of reality. Socialists are at war with nature. The very perception of equality as a goal, is the sheerest madness. There is no such thing as equality in nature.
For more on the techniques which have been used to control the susceptible by praying on their fears and compulsions, see The Lies of Socialism. For more on the Fabian corruption of Academia in pursuit of the compulsion for an undifferentiated humanity, see Myths & Myth Makers In American Higher Education.
We are arrayed against lunacy and madness, orchestrated by neurotic power seekers, desperate to destroy our culture, heritage and sense of identity. It could get very, very ugly, when more Americans wake up to what has really been happening.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
Liberalism in a nutshell....I only wish I could be as eloquent.
That is what I find to be truly frightening about the widening polarity between the left and right political factions in this country. The last 30-40 years have seen this gulf widening at a substantial rate. I can remember when the Demos and the Repubos, while somewhat divided on the proper role of government in the lives of a free people, were still on the same page when it came to the Bill of Rights.
Even that tired old hack, Hubert Humphrey, in retrospect, doesn't seem to be as vicious a socialist as DassHole and Teddy Kennedy are today. There seems to be a very clear line between those in the US Senate who desire total control of the wealth of the nation and those who seek power, but at a lesser level. The former make up nearly the entire Senate demorat contingency. Even Zell Miller, who seems like a 'conservative' Rat, still voted to acquit Bill the Rat in the face of strong evidence to the contrary. The absolute onslaught against the RKBA by the DemoRAT Party, the fight to render the clearly written 2nd Amendment moot, the clear use of race-baiting and the wish to foster hatred among new immigrants and America's poor, the drive to ensure the successful invasion of illegals from the south, does not speak well for the near future in America. Until recent times, I did not think that a second Civil War was possible; now I am not sure what to do in order to avoid it.
I don't often bookmark articles, but this one's a keeper!
There is just one assertion that Mr. Wheeler makes with which I take (huge, vociferous) issue: his phrase the self-loathing of the white American liberal. The white American liberal loathes his fellow whites (or fellow males, or fellow Americans, or fellow wealthy people, or fellow Christians....ad infinitum, depending upon how many 'oppressive' groups he considers himself to have been unfortunate enough to have been born into....). But he most definitely does not loathe himself.
On the contrary.
He has cast himself in the role of knight in shining armor -- the omniscient exception to the rule whose destiny it is to awaken those evil 'others' of his race/gender/nationality/economic status to the error of their ways. He has altruistically (*cough*) taken it upon himself to point out the sins of his ancestors, and the fact that the sins of the fathers have been visited upon their sons. Yet he is somehow a plane above the rest of his misguided 'siblings' and his calling consists of sanctimoniously making them aware of that fact (no matter how many revisions of history, character assassinations, fabrications of convenience....it takes). Self-loathing is not a popular pass-time among self-proclaimed, self-deified crusaders. Self-aggrandizement is more their style. They (surreptitiously) direct their loathing outward....
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