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Socialism is a disease and liberalism is a mental disorder.

This is a perfect article for National Crybaby Day.

[harpseal]

It does explain thereligous fervor of Leftists and may give us clues as to how to defeat them.

Stay well - stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[vbmoneyspender]

great article. The only addition I would make to the article is that when liberals are talking about evil white males being racist, or being greedy, or being intolerant, all they are doing is projecting their character flaws onto other people. I think alot of liberals secretly recognize that they have these character flaws, so in order to deal with their feelings of shame, they project their flaws onto other people. Perhaps that is just another facet of the envy impulse -- but instead of being envious of what people have, liberals are envious of the character flaws that other people don't have.

[First_Salute]

Bump.

[First_Salute]

"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.

[Marylander]

This is definitely a worthy read, a nice new idea, Aristotle notwithstanding. There are rich people whose spirit is killed by envy and poor people who are free of envy.

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.

[snopercod]

LIBERALS

• 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

The Age of Envy

Today we live in 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

[Marylander]

Eveybody has a BUMP but me!

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This was a great read. The author certainly does know how to hold people's interest. He doesn't differentiate as much as he could between 1) those who are envious, 2) those who want to appease or satisfy or exploit the envy of others, and 3) those who try to deflect or reduce that envy, though. It's also not clear that emulation is the antidote to envy. Sometimes the line between the two can be very thin indeed. Japan emulated the West successfully, but that did not prevent a truly horrific war. It could be that emulation can overcome envy, but sometimes the frustrations of emulation can produce yet more envy, as has happened in great rivalries between nations.

[Ohioan]

What we call modern "liberalism," is merely one of the facets of Fabian Socialism.

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

[eric_da_grate]

Envy is not simply hatred of someone for having something you don't -- it is the willingness to masochistically give up any chance of ever having that something yourself as long as the person you are envious of doesn't get to have it either.

Liberalism in a nutshell....I only wish I could be as eloquent.

[DoctorMichael]

No Pain or Fear or Guilt Bump.

[TheSarce]

Resurrecting this old thread because Jack Wheeler is on C-Span-2 right NOW giving a speech on this very subject.
4:30 am ET

I love how Cspan shows the interesting conservative events in the wee hours of the morning so they can say they covered them.

[GOPJ]

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.

They're right on this - it's "unearned". Maybe if actors enjoyed their ill gotten gains (OK, I'm kidding on this part) they might be able to stop inflicting liberal guilt on the rest of us and go about their self absorbed narcissistic lives.

[spodefly]

BTTT

[Rurudyne]

It’s amazing how this just stays relevant.