Why the Modern Liberal Has Never Had a Mature Thought in His Life
This excerpt is from chapter 2 of The KinderGarden of Eden: How the Modern Liberal Thinks:
Like Adam and Eve just prior to eating from the apple, the Modern Liberal has never had a mature thought in his life. That is, he has never once attempted to gather the facts, study the evidence and weigh these things in a rational formulation in order to seek out the rightful answers. This is because, like Adam and Eve in Eden, he’s never once had to.
The Modern Liberal was born into a life as close to paradise as any human being since God first created man. Having come of age in or after the 1960s, virtually everything that virtually every other human being, in literally every other time and in literally every other place, had had to think about – at its most basic, how to avoid things like disease, hunger, poverty and physical pain – had all but been eradicated just prior to the Modern Liberal’s entry into the sentient world.
It’s easy to forget – or just to have never thought about it at all – but America after the Second World War was not only unlike anything man had ever known, it was, in fact, the culmination of a “five- thousand year leap” forward in time. It was eons ahead of the technologies and medicines from not just earlier millennia or earlier centuries but, in many important ways, from just years and even months before. And every new dawn brought the promise – if not yet the achievement – of still another miraculous stride.
Thanks to the recent advances of Western Civilization in general and the Great Generations of Americans in particular (where the near-perfect balance between God and science had been struck), things like polio, chicken pox, smallpox, the flu as a death sentence and virtually any and every other monstrous disease that had plagued humanity – including the plague – were simply never part of the Modern Liberal’s life and therefore played no part in the Modern Liberal’s “thinking.”
Sounds like what HG Wells wrote about 100 years ago – the Eloi- of course that was in the future, 20,000 years as I remember, maybe the future causht up to us that quick. What do I know?
The modern liberal’s quest: Freedom from Responibility.
Freedom from personal responsibility by turning over the protection of the personal to a centralized government. Responsibility remains, only removed from the individual and relocated in the parent power, namely the government. Humans can only act like non-discrimatory children if said children have the PARENT that orders and cares for the individual.
So, the liberal position is that people should vest authority in the state because the people can’t be trusted with vested authority? And the state is to operate with authority given it by people who can’t be trusted with authority?
I think i’ll go toss my wallet in the fire, so no one can steal it.
No, no, no and no. Your error is in holding to the notion of equality under the law, which, while it started quite a long time ago in Runnymede and gained its most explicit form in the US Constitution, is still a relatively new-fangled idea, as ideas go. It never really caught on in leftist circles. Their actual idea is, and always has been, the more ancient and revered form of social organisation – seen in many wonderful countries around the world – of a ruling elite and a toiling underclass. They would be the ruling elite, in case you ask.
“That is, he has never once attempted to gather the facts, study the evidence and weigh these things in a rational formulation in order to seek out the rightful answers”
Remember The Matrix? “Do you want the Red Pill or the Blue PiIl?” The modern liberal has taken the Blue Pill. They cannot think, they cannot reason. When you try to get them to drill down past the ‘fairness’ platitudes they get hostile. THey not only cannot think analytically, they don’t want to.
isn’t it their right not to think analytically, i guess if their ignorance leads to violence, like you all fear, then you will just have to kill them or incarcerate them, good luck….. but wait, then you would be the violent ones for knowing too much…idk