Monday, January 02, 2017

The Progressive Missionaries of Unhappiness

Sultan Knish: The Progressive Missionaries of Unhappiness:
"There is no one that the left hates more than a man who does not hate, who goes through the day without outrage and who does not spend his life stewing with vindictive resentments.
Leftists call it “privilege” now. 
They have called it apathy, escapism and a hundred other things.
Image result for white privilegeā€They will find a thousand other names for it as they march through the future centuries grinding their teeth and cursing their country for its backwardness, their people for their provincialism and their culture for its mercantilism.
But privilege is simply freedom from resentment.
To be of the left is to confuse perpetual outrage with righteousness.
The professional leftist believes that the path to utopia on earth lies in constantly denouncing thought criminals until they have all been unthought so that only their kind of ethical and empathetic people walk the earth.
Like most utopians, they plan for a utopia that they could never actually live in.
Leftists without grievances are like an army without guns.
That is why leftist experiments in communes dissolved into denunciations, power grabs and authoritarian rules as soon the drugs ran out. 
Often even before.
The leftist isn’t seeking freedom from capitalism, religion, nationalism, racism, sexism, office dress codes, bar codes and any of the other great evils of the moment.
These are just the outrage fuel of the willfully outraged whose resentment has become both culture and religion.
What he wants is to express an egotistical grievance at a world that is not built around him.
His resentments came before his ideology. 
They are in a very real sense his ideology.
The idealistic leftist is a passing phenomenon.
He is useful for getting the actual work done while everyone else shouts.
Unless he is very dim, he eventually realizes that and heads off to volunteer in Africa.
Image result for angry liberalsThe core is the aggrieved leftist whose grievances merge with his storytelling skills into the compelling narrative of a narcissist.
The perpetually aggrieved deeply resent those who are oblivious to their anger.
It is the theme that dominates the literature, the music and the political writings of an infuriated left throwing its anger at a mindless mass that is perfectly happy collecting paychecks, living in the suburbs and watching television.
It is not their prosperity that the left hates, but their uncomplicated happiness.
It is this uncomplicated happiness that the left sets out to ruin at all costs..."
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