Then there’s the related phenomenon of the high profile, self-obsessed individuals who prate on endlessly about virtue and good causes, but whose personal lives are as selfish and chaotic as the next man’s, and usually more so. Think pampered, and self-centred film stars who go on about injustice or global warming, without doing anything about either; politicians, judges and others who flatter themselves by proclaiming their solidarity with every fashionable left-wing cause. Ted Kennedy is, of course, exhibit A.
These people are just driven by vanity, and confuse good deeds and good intentions. If you espouse the right cause, then you are a right-on sort of guy (and you can go on being as selfish and amoral in your personal life as you like).
And the funny thing is, it’s a phenomenon that you mostly see on the left.
