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UK riots: The end of the liberals' great moral delusion
h/t Instapundit
The Left has gone into overdrive in its attempts to rewrite the history of the riots, but the public knows the truth.
...The capacity for self-control, and the willingness to suppress one's innate selfishness or cruelty, is something that adults must consciously instil in children and reinforce in other adults by their attitudes to them. The indispensable tools of social stigma and moral judgment that communities used to have at their disposal for this purpose have been stripped away, and the result -- the fearless defiance of helpless authority -- is what we saw in its terrifying logical conclusion on the streets. That is what real people know: that they were right all along.
The root core problem of the Left is a simple one: it believes in the perfectability of humankind. To be 'progressive' is to believe that imperfect beings, if molded and led properly, one day would become perfect; the result of that would be Utopia.
The Left then simply cannot abide those religions that preach that mankind is and shall always be imperfect, and therefore must suppress religion. It cannot abide by the historical experience that teaches that men cannot and will never be perfect, and therefore must rewrite history. It cannot admit that 'perfection' is in the eye of the beholder, and therefore shall implement one and only one vision of perfection: that of the one man who becomes ruler.
Thus Bonaparte was the end result of the French revolution. Thus Lenin was the end result of the Bolshevik revolution. The characters change; the great moral delusion does not. |
| I wouldn't count on seeing 'the end of the liberals' great moral delusion.' They've kept those delusions in the face of incontrovertible evidence of the fact that they don't work. Their greatest asset is Attention Span Deficit Disorder. They're busy 'interpreting' the riots now. Eventually most of us will move on to thinking about other things and their 'interpretations' will be the received wisdom. |
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-08-22 |
