BMW: The Ultimate Running Amok Machine
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by Alex Linder.
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“Perhaps the most striking irony about leftism is the complete lack of self-awareness inside a culture that thinks its built on it. Irony, snark and their exhaustion are about all leftists do. Except for the other thing. Which is self-praise, the flip-side of witch-hunting. The flip side of hunting and burning heretics is coming up with new ways to praise oneself. All their terms amount to patting oneself on one’s back for being wonderful. For all their irony, they never notice this. That’s the head-shaking quality at the center of illiberalism. They are absolutely in earnest, irony unthinkable, when they use terms tolerance, sensitivity, right side of history, progressive. Leftists are often smart, but they have a blind spot that is lot bigger than a spot, it’s more like a sphere or a half. They are the moral equivalent of the kids who aren’t Charlie Bucket in the Dahl story. Everything is about them and their coolness and their moral excellence; never does it occur to them they are completely intolerant of an insensitive to anyone who disagrees with them. It doesn’t matter whether they believe in god or not, they are cultists. Cultists, as I define it, are those who must wall themselves off from outsiders who might not accept their premises because they are laughably opposed to reality. Cultists are hothouse flowers internally, no matter how armed and aggressive they may be on the outside, to mix metaphors. In very large measure the snark and obsession with irony or attempting to be post-ironic is simple silence-evasion. If you had to treat seriously the arguments proposed by those who disagree with you, you might find your own wanting. Leftists dare not risk that; strictly speaking, they have no arguments. They offer only smears and ludicrous equivalences they’ve bruited among themselves so often they forget how absurd they look to outsiders. For instance, leftists will claim that the state executing a killer is the same thing as what the killer did. They are not kidding or exaggerating, they really believe this.”
27 May, 2014 at 3:13 pm
After reading your column I can see why the Reds don’t go after you, Cap’n. They’re too intimidated by your erudition! They’re used to dealing with the Jerry Springer type Ku Klux Klowns, not someone who is capable of such feats of intellectual derring-do. I guess that summer internship at The Spotlight really paid off, eh?
28 May, 2014 at 11:48 am
“For instance, leftists will claim that the state executing a killer is the same thing as what the killer did. They are not kidding or exaggerating, they really believe this.”
They also believe that married sex is rape or prostitution.
They seem unable to make distinctions, which goes along quite well with their equality vibe.
A gun made out a piece of bread, mistakenly so, just by a kid eating it randomly, will get him sent to the principal.
But does not this go along with the Sermon on the Mount: “He who looks at a woman lustfully has ALREADY committed adultery with her.” “He who is angry with his brother has ALREADY committed murder.”
No distinction between thought and action. “Billy, you ate your bread to make it look like a gun. You must have hate in your heart. You are dangerous to yourself and others.”