Posted on 03/31/2003 3:14:01 PM PST by kimoajax
Sat March 29, 2003
THE SOURCE OF LIBERAL GUILT Jack Wheeler
The self-loathing of the white American liberal is as well-established and documented as Einstein's Special Relativity theorems. A typical example is writer Susan Sontag's denouncement of the white race as "the cancer of human history." A racist hatred of one's own race (auto-racism) has become a defining characteristic of the liberal mind.
Yet the source of such suicidal guilt remains a mystery. Clearly understanding what disenables liberals from wanting to defend their culture is today a mortal necessity -- an absolute requirement if America is to be preserved and protected from Moslem Terrorists and other folk desirous of her demise.
Reflect for a moment on the extent to which tribespeople in a tribal, "primitive" culture suffuse their lives with superstition, witchcraft, sorcery, voodoo, "black magic," the "evil eye." The world for them is teeming with demons, spirits, ghosts and gods, all of whom are malicious and dangerous -- in a word, envious.
Envy is the source of tribal and traditional cultures' belief in Black Magic, the fear of the envious Evil Eye. The fundamental reason why certain cultures remain static and never evolve (e.g., present-day villages in Egypt and India that have pretty much stayed the same for millennia) is the overwhelming extent to which the entire lives of the people within them are dominated by envy and envy-avoidance: as anthropologists call it, the Envy Barrier.
It is an ultimate irony of modern times that liberal intellectuals consider themselves to be in the progressive vanguard of sophisticated contemporary thought -- when in reality their thinking is nothing but an atavism, a regression to a primitive tribal mentality. What the Left calls "exploitation" is what anthropologists call "black magic."
The primitive atavism of left-wing bromides like "the rich get richer and the poor get poorer" is best illustrated by arguing that one can be healthy only at the expense of others.
In order to be in superior health, bursting with energy and vitality, one has to make someone else sick or in poor health -- just like in order to be rich you have to make others poor. The healthy are healthy because they unjustly exploited and ripped off the sick, spiriting away the sick's fair share of health with black magic.
In fact, the sick are sick because the healthy are healthy. If this is absurd, then claiming the poor are poor because they have been exploited by the rich is equally so.
Pandering to the envious, and intimidating those who are afraid of them, has been the path to power of all modern demagogues from Lenin and Hitler to Yassir Arafat and Osama bin Laden.
All three of the great political pathologies of the 20th century are Religions of Envy: Nazism, preaching race-envy toward "rich exploitative Jews"; Communism preaching class-envy toward "rich exploitative bourgeois"; Moslem Terrorism preaching culture-envy toward "the rich exploitative West."
Liberalism is a Religion of Envy-Avoidance.
So here we discover the secret fear at the source of the suicidal liberal mind. It is envy which makes a Nazi, Communist, or Terrorist. It is the fear of being envied which makes a Liberal, and is the source of "liberal guilt."
This is most easily seen in the children of wealthy parents. Successful businessmen who have made it on their own, for example, normally have a respect for the effort and the economic system that makes success possible. Their children, who have not had to work for it, are easier targets for guilt-mongering by the envious. So they assume a posture of liberal compassion as an envy-deflection device: "Please don't envy me for my father's money -- look at all the liberal causes and government social programs I advocate!" Teddy Kennedy is the archetype of this phenomenon.
This is also why Hollywood is so liberal. The vast amounts of money movie stars make is so grossly disproportionate to the effort it took them to make it that they feel it is unearned. So they apologize for it.
The Liberal's strategy is to apologize for his success in order to appease the envious. Liberalism is thus not a political ideology or set of beliefs. It is an envy-deflection device, a psychological strategy to avoid being envied.
Then there are those who are terrified of envy even though they have earned success themselves. So many Jews are liberals because such lethal envy has been directed at Jews for so many centuries that it is little wonder they consider avoiding envy to be a necessity of life.
The lethality of Liberal Envy-Appeasement is that personally-felt guilt is projected onto the various social or tribal collectives to which the liberal belongs and are a part of his self-identity. Self-loathing is transformed into a loathing for one's society or race. White male liberals become auto-racist and auto-sexist: racists towards their own race, sexists towards their own sex. Dimestore demagogues like eco-fascist environmentalists, feminazis, animal and homosexual rights types, race hustlers like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, all get their strength from the liberal's fear of their Evil Eyes.
In the next To The Point email report: The Antidote to Envy.
Dr. Jack Wheeler Founder, Editor-in-Chief To The Point™ www.ToThePointNews.com
© 2003 To The Point, Inc.
Not to those that have heard or read Ayn Rand's speech to the 1974 West Point graduation class.
Click on the link, and ... please don't mind the obvious typing errors. They are not in the original.
What the autor has missed / left out of the equation, is that many actors/directors/especially writers, were far left Marxists, before they ever became better off /famous / elected.
Has my sanil mail arrived yet ?
No need for a rush reply. :-)
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