Anthrax Is Spread by Resentment

By Theodore Dalrymple. Theodore Dalrymple is the pen name of Anthony Daniels, a British physician and contributing editor to City Journal.

It was H.G. Wells who, only a few years after the development of the germ theory of disease, first realized the value of bacteria for terrorist purposes. In 1895, he published a story called "The Stolen Bacillus," in which an anarchist revolutionary worms his way into the confidence of a bacteriologist in order to obtain cholera germs to put in London's water supply.

Perhaps we should be a little more careful in the future about the way we stir up resentments by constant reference to wrongs and injustices, without any counterbalancing appreciation of historic achievements. If you want poison in the water supply, teach a generation that it is heir to nothing but oppression and injustice, and one of its members will oblige.
You said: The liberals "enable" this anger behavior as well (witness 60 minutes last night).

The left looks for the "root cause" and always comes up with anger. Then the recommendation is appeasement - or "do nothing".

Wow! Did you miss the point.

He said, "teach a generation that it is heir to nothing but oppression and injustice," which is just exactly what the liberals, most minority leaders, and our public shools have been doing for 60 years. He was just surprised the natural consequences of this idiocy have not occurred earlier, and frankly so am I.

His piont is, that we ought to stop teaching everyone that their victims that are owed something (like reparations).

Hank

>>>>>Moreover, for many years the intellectual and moral worth of a member of the intelligentsia has been measured by the vehemence of his criticism and rejection of the accomplishments of the past. Only anger over wrongs and injustices is considered a generous or constructive emotion; admiration for past achievement has been relegated to the status of swinish complacency, which is itself the passive handmaiden of oppression. And in an age dominated by mass media, it is hardly surprising that such an attitude should have communicated itself to the whole of society.

The identity of anger with virtue and generosity has become complete.

I plead guilty of speedreading and not reading the last paragraph....this is puzzling in light of the above.

Well, it is time we returned them the favor with our own resentment. What do those liberals have to say about the terrorism waged against women in Afganistan? THat's out of resentment for the US of A? I'm willing for liberals to try out their medicines, but THEY try it at THEIR OWN EXPENSE. Send a few liberal women to test the level of resentment over there.

Moreover, for many years the intellectual and moral worth of a member of the intelligentsia has been measured by the vehemence of his criticism and rejection of the accomplishments of the past. Only anger over wrongs and injustices is considered a generous or constructive emotion; admiration for past achievement has been relegated to the status of swinish complacency, which is itself the passive handmaiden of oppression. And in an age dominated by mass media, it is hardly surprising that such an attitude should have communicated itself to the whole of society.
The identity of anger with virtue and generosity has become complete.
I plead guilty of speedreading and not reading the last paragraph....this is puzzling in light of the above.

Here he is making the same point, that the pseudo-intellectual elite (educators, so called) have been totally negative in their teaching about the accomplishments of science and technology (medicine, twin towers, etc.) and only considered issues like, "destruction of the environment," worthy. This resulted in a "passive" (not enthusiatic enough) attitude toward what we would call the blessing of liberty and a free market. He's right here too.

All these sniveling complainers take the life-style and freedoms they enjoy for granted because we have failed to make a big enough issue of the fact that it is the creators who make their very lives possible.

Hank

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