Ace has a very interesting post on The Toxic Self-Delusions of the Liberal Psychology. Read it.
posted by Helen at 6:09 PM
Thursday, August 02, 2007
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Wow. Big huge freaking amazing piles of wow. I always like reading Ace (though I don't yet give him the daily check-in that I do for this blog), but this one is an out-of-the-ballpark slam. He's totally calm and fair and thorough and razor-sharp, excoriating the American Left like a carpenter thoughtfully power-sanding some dubious timber.
Bloody brilliant.
Nice one, Ace.
The Toxic Self-Delusions of the People who Disagree with Me?
Get a life, Anon 8.02Am. caint deal wit it when your liberal shibboleths are destroyed, eh?
Well, you know. Fisking wouldn't work, because Ace is telling flat-out truth, with facts to back it up and a nearly absurd number of caveats to head off the usual overreactions. So messing with the headline is pretty much all that's left.
Another Toxic Self-Delusion: Liberals always respect other people's opinions, even if they disagree with them.
Yeah, go over to Kos & shovel that...
I have never met a leftist/liberal who wasnt an authoritarian at heart, who did not want to shove his/her opinions down your throat. Al this talk about "respecting the opinion of others", or "listening toal side of an argument", are all total, baldface, lies.
And BTW, the bridgecollapse in Minneapolis-St Paul is George bush's and Dick Cheney's fault!!! NOT!!! Some rather huffy caller to the Diane Rehm Show on NPR this morning actually said so!!!
This discussion reminds me of a comment made by William F. Buckley Jr. nearly twenty years ago. A moderator on a Sunday morning news program was trying unsuccessfully to get Mr. Buckley to admit that conservatives lack idealism and were therefore, in some way, deficient. He responded, "The essence of conservatism is a recognition of reality." It seems that the essence of liberalism, at least the form it has taken today, is a denial of reality.
To put in in Ellisonian terms: Some people would prefer that everything (the world and themselves) conform to their ideals, while others demand that it do so. I think many liberals, believing that they are right and good and that everything is perfectible, nowadays tend to demand rather than prefer. This might be why so many of them seem so angry and miserable.
Which is weird, because Ellis appears to me to have been a liberal idealist. But he wasn't angry or miserable - so maybe his therapy worked!
I may not totally identify with the sterotypical liberal this Ace is talking about, but I certainly don't count myself as a conservative.
The generalizations I read in his column are just silly. Anyone with incredibly strong opinions only see things their way- liberal or conservative. It is the inability to acknowledge another's reality that is the real problem with this country, not self-delusionment.
I don't think liberalism and conservatism mean what they used to mean, if they mean anything at all, these days. I hate words ending in "-ism." They always seem to be so vague that they could mean anything at all or they're corruptions of perfectly decent words that once you could have looked to a dictionary to for guidance regarding meaning.
I think it's more accurate to say that a woman who thinks she's adding to her "edginess quotient" by living with her extranged husband and his bedroom buddy ad thinks it makes her cool is an idiot. Moron also works. Fool, nitwit, lunatic, argument-for-retroactive-abortion.
I also like dumb-as-box-of-rocks.
And stupid. Another good word.
No need to pile on liberals and conservatives here. If they still exist, I mean. Maybe they've all been Raptured away and we just missed it. Could happen.
It seems that the essence of liberalism, at least the form it has taken today, is a denial of reality.
I think many liberals, believing that they are right and good and that everything is perfectible, nowadays tend to demand rather than prefer.
These are both great observations.
Danny, I am right of centre. It is just that I get suspicious when I see people congratulating themselves and their group.
We should be more worried about our own self-deception than that of anyone else.
Anon 08:02
I would recommend Thomas Sowell's Vision of the Anointed as an inspired diagnosis of contemporary political discourse. He also addresses (more deftly) some of the phenomena to which Ace of Spades refers.
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