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April 12, 2010
Money for Nothing and Chicks for Free
"When there's no money left in the till talk inevitably turns to what color of the garbage bins should be or whether Christians should be allowed to wear crucifixes to work.The really important public issues like carbon trading take center stage. Across the Atlantic in California, Victor Davis Hanson was noticing the same obsession with irrelevant forms in a state facing the same challenges as Britain. As the actual poverty rose in California the "socially conscious" turned in upon themselves, living in overpriced, politically correct communities, seeking solace in ambiance -- that is, living among people like themselves. Why? I have a theory. It allows them to be liberal and progressive in the abstract, without having to live the logical consequences of their utopianism, or deal with the underbelly of American life.
"This may explain the strange inverse relationship between shrinking resources and growing promises. When you can't provide the real then promise the fake. The bleaker the reality the more soaring the vision. The higher the price of oil, the smaller the military budget, the costlier the medical appliances the more grandiose the goals of the administraton become. Why aim for incremental environmental improvement when you can make the seas can fall. Never mind if one must accept a nuclear Iran; at least we'll have a world without nuclear weapons! If Israel can give up Jerusalem there'll be peace in the Middle East at last! Why fix the health care system where it's broken? Fix it all.
"And it's all going to happen in the future, that wondrous, inexhaustible cornucopia of a place which will lend us everything we want, and roll it over when we can't pay. It will do it even though its peopled by people that are too much trouble care for; like the children who should never be born because pregnancy, according to one judicial nominee being considered by the administration, is "involuntary servitude' comparable to slavery. Can you have a future without people, without cheap, abundant and secure energy? Can you have a future without truth? Why sure you can. Just you wait and see." -- Belmont Club » I Want My MTV
Posted by Vanderleun at April 12, 2010 3:09 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Your Say
"Can you have a future without truth? Why sure you can. Just you wait and see."
You can have any future - it is just that some futures are more comfortable than others.
Posted by: Mikey NTH at April 12, 2010 6:20 PM
Our effete, statist, progressive elite are laying the groundwork for a future that includes much fewer of them.
Posted by: TmjUtah at April 12, 2010 8:41 PM
Moral self-redemption. If a liberal takes a renewable cloth bag to the grocery store, his moral accounting system allows him to fly on a lear jet across the country to get that vegetable that was organically grown by the cool hippie farmer. Now that he purchased the organically grown version of an onion, he can fly back home. He has no guilt, one cancels out the other.
Although I like the idea of the renewable bags because the plastic ones seem to mulitply in my laundry room, I refuse to be seen with one of those because I think poorly of the people carrying them around. They think they are saying to me "look at me, I'm saving the planet," when in fact I hear "I'm a pompous ass who wants you to see how good I am."
What is the term in psychology where people block or justify a behavior they don't like in themselves to the point of denying they possess such a thing? repression? Liberals repress the dark side of their humanity. Conservatives are more in touch with the tragedy of the human condition.
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