Good points. And yeah, it is no like the right has had a much better program. But at least we are more honest, and not falling for the pathology that is defining yourself as a victim.
Curious too, I just unsubscribed from rarely certain, in a kind of house cleaning, one because he is not very prolific, but also I generally find the rarely certain trope to be a bit like mist.
Dreaming of utopia is one big driver; the other is the desire to feel holier/more sophisticated than thou (one's middle class peers in other words). As for the harm that all this brings, I keep coming back to TS Eliot: “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them........ because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
I can see how I come across as an enduring old school lefty. It's because my criticisms of modern 'leftish' thought focus on it being unmoored from that tradition and their naivety in not realising. I'm pretty damn close to agnostic myself, at this point.
I hate when they insist you pay to comment. Makes a stultified comment section pretty likely. Weird perk.
Wasn’t the bleeding heart leftie just the prior useful idiot? Weren’t they the Trojan Horse to get their foot in the door, creating dependent classes and aggressive deficit spending for social do-gooders to feel virtuous about? Isn’t this the natural progression?
Good points. And yeah, it is no like the right has had a much better program. But at least we are more honest, and not falling for the pathology that is defining yourself as a victim.
Curious too, I just unsubscribed from rarely certain, in a kind of house cleaning, one because he is not very prolific, but also I generally find the rarely certain trope to be a bit like mist.
Dreaming of utopia is one big driver; the other is the desire to feel holier/more sophisticated than thou (one's middle class peers in other words). As for the harm that all this brings, I keep coming back to TS Eliot: “Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm; but the harm does not interest them........ because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.”
I can see how I come across as an enduring old school lefty. It's because my criticisms of modern 'leftish' thought focus on it being unmoored from that tradition and their naivety in not realising. I'm pretty damn close to agnostic myself, at this point.
You say "Apparently commodifying race is right out".
Unless you are a liberal white woman claiming to be Native American?
I hate when they insist you pay to comment. Makes a stultified comment section pretty likely. Weird perk.
Wasn’t the bleeding heart leftie just the prior useful idiot? Weren’t they the Trojan Horse to get their foot in the door, creating dependent classes and aggressive deficit spending for social do-gooders to feel virtuous about? Isn’t this the natural progression?