House of Eratosthenes

This is my house, the only freedom of speech you own here is at my discretion. Shit on my kitchen floor too much and I’m showing your rude ass the door…I call pussy on you, sweetmeat. You dish it out like a bully, Arthur and cry like a girl when your bad behavior gets smacked back in your face. You don’t like rejection? Try behaving like a decent human being when having adult discussions.

Interesting the week that’s gone by, which this inglorious event concludes. All these events, what do they have in common? Ideology. Liberal ideology. It’s supposed to be making people all decent and wonderful and good…and let us not forget liberty-loving…and it’s failing quite miserably. Liberalism, which we were all supposed to be showing off last November to prove we want everyone to stop worrying about health & sickness, prove we’re not from Texas, prove we’re not racists…motivates Congressmen to shut out concerned citizens from “town hall” meetings, it motivates Presidents to create lists of said citizens who happen to have dissenting opinions. And it makes blog-posters act like jerks.

So I added my wisdom, as I so often do. I’m very giving that way. Because, after all, the issue isn’t that liberalism makes people act like jerks. It’s that people tend to forget liberalism makes people act like jerks.

He’s doing the Lord’s work, you know.

When Obama turns out to be a one-termer, it won’t be because people personally dislike Him, or even because they’re fed up with liberal politics. It will be because very large numbers of us will have figured out that professing allegiance to the more adorable position on any issue that comes along, does absolutely nothing to make you a better person.

On this particular week, thanks to Arthur, we have (I think) five reminders of this instead of just four. And then there’s next week, the week after that…fifty-two of ‘em per year. Liberal nastiness, it’s in our faces, all the time, and people will get sick and tired of it thank God. It’s really happening, and it’s happening because of twits like Arthur.

Don’t get mad. Get popcorn.

In fact, perhaps this is an apropos time to ask: Where’s the evidence that liberalism does anything to make people good? That’s supposed to be its one redeeming feature.

We’ve got Clinton flying over and rescuing those two people from North Korea…if you want to fall for that kind of thing. Anything else?

Liberalism makes me good by forcing you to do what I am too weak-willed to do myself.
- Jason | 08/07/2009 @ 22:30
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So I added my wisdom, as I so often do. I’m very giving that way.

I know *sniff*. I love you, man! *sniff* 😉

In fact, perhaps this is an apropos time to ask: Where’s the evidence that liberalism does anything to make people good? That’s supposed to be its one redeeming feature.

I got to the comments only to see that Jason pretty much beat me to my answer (and worded it remarkably well — it distills what I’ve often thought into something more concise. And we all know how I love a well-turned phrase — a distillate of wisdom.) It may have to become another Thing I Know.

What I was going to say was that liberalism (or more accurately, progressivism) does is to force people to do somebody’s idea of the “right” thing, but they do it for the wrong reasons. This causes them to try to focus on finding sneakier and sneakier ways around the system, while the system has to draft more and more draconian ways to stamp that out. Stainless steel rats and rat traps. It always… Always …. ALWAYS ends in tyranny.

It will be because very large numbers of us will have figured out that professing allegiance to the more adorable position on any issue that comes along, does absolutely nothing to make you a better person.

On that subject, being a big Thomas Sowell fan in the first place, when I saw the title of an older book of his, I had to order it.

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy (1996)

Heh! I’ll bet it’s great. It’ll probably get here later this week.
- philmon | 08/10/2009 @ 17:51

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