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Why Wont Liberals Listen to Reason?
The left believes that a clever elite can fix all the worlds problems; conservatives accept that human error can lead to disastrous outcomes. Liberals fancy themselves rational in contrast to conservatives dour acknowledgment of tradition and tragedy. Why, then, is the left so impossibly, stubbornly, counter-factually dense when it comes to the state of Israel (among other matters)?Liberal rationality is a pose. Knowledge is existential that is, we tend to ignore facts that apply to a world in which we will not exist at all. I saw that before the 2008 banking crash, when I tried to warn the industry that a crash was inevitable. Most of them said, in effect, If what youre saying is true, then I shouldnt have a job, so I wont think about it. Not long afterwards, most of them didnt. The left (and the European left in particular) doesnt like certain facts because they are dying literally. The triumph of the secular welfare state in Europe is associated with a catastrophic population decline. Three-fifths of southern Europeans will be elderly pensioners by mid-century. Of course, theyre going to go bankrupt. And Muslim society is fragile, and much of the Muslim world has entered a tailspin from which it wont recover. The left clings to the magical idea that if only Israel would roll over and die, and validate the illusions of the Muslims, that somehow this horrific future might be avoided. Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-10-07 |
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