To my opinion, liberalism is not only about avoiding pain but about avoiding life in general. For example, the First Law of Liberalism (after L. Auster) can be explained on this basis. Because the worse some alien group behaves, the more it makes our life intolerable, hence the more reasons are to avoid life. Any real attempt to improve the situation, to bring life and reason to the world, is therefore undermining liberalism. Actually, we are living in the environment which is in many details hostile to life, though physically comfortable.[1]Absolutely right.
I think that liberal males embrace pacificism, multiculturalism, and non-discrimination with a vengeance so that they can hide behind doctrines that never require them to fight, to resist, to criticize, or to cause "offense" (positively the worst thing that can ever inflicted upon a human being).
If military service is inherently wrong then one is insulated forever from the risk and frightful inconvenience of service. One can hide behind the service of others or within gated communities, safe from the realities of ethnic and religious strife – but always be free to weigh in with whatever inanities may flit across the brain stem. Similarly, one can hide behind drugs that obscure so many unpleasant realities.
When the aggressive enemy is too close to get away from, the liberal can roll over like a dog and sing the praises of multiculturalism; fanatical, unexamined equality; and the other ideas that guarantee national suicide. Liberals today are like the unresisting European Jews who left their homes at the orders of German troops. They cannot imagine that there are kinds of evil that cannot be negotiated with, that cannot be placated, that cannot be cajoled, that cannot be bribed, that can only be made war upon.
Liberalism is a fatal failure of intellect and of imagination. As drugs are to the physical body so Liberalism is to the body politic: subversive, parasitic, and destructive.
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The essence of liberalism courtesy Dimitri K. and the Colonel.
Notes
[1] Dimitri K. comment on "What Christianity requires in order not to be destructive of society." By Lawrence Auster, View from the Right, 8/31/07.
1 comments:
"Liberalism is a fatal failure of intellect and of imagination. As drugs are to the physical body so Liberalism is to the body politic: subversive, parasitic, and destructive."
I'm sure this is true, even if only some of the time. However, 'Religions allow people to justify abhorrant actions through their own self-righteous faith' is another blanket statement which is true, some of the time. But 'truth' (if such a concept exists) can rarely be found in such extreme positions.
Not all war can be avoided, but not all evil deserves war. The problem is agreeing on which is the case. Taking one position does not mean it couldn't be resolved through another. The outcome might be different, but does that make it wrong or worse than the other?
As for 'Liberalism is a fatal failure of intellect and of imagination', I think you need to stop offering straw men and better explain why or how. I will however say that Ted Nugent was very creative in caking himself in his own urine and feces to avoid the draft, and if his imaginative action was somehow a result of or can be attributed to his conservatism, then I'll give you that point unequivocally. Intellect not so much, but definitely imagination.
As far as hiding behind something to obscure reality, many conservatives hide behind patriotism or fear in order to convince themselves that the Patriot Act and loss of liberty is justified. Some feel they can't denounce a conservative government or its members as their dissent is somehow 'anti-american' or disloyal to their party. Gun advocates hide behind the 2nd amendment so they can own and/or hunt with assault rifles.
I'm obviously not a conservative, but I don't think I'm a liberal either. I'm pro abortion, but against partial-birth abortion. I'm not anti-war, but it does have a time and place. I think people need to help themselves, but those who are physically incapable should not be told to fuck off if they need help. I don't find words such as 'nigger' or 'kike' offensive, as it's the racist, bigoted asshole using them that we should be concerned about.
If nothing else, I think you need to stop classifying people to make your views appear to be more valid than they are. All sides do much of the same in different ways, but 'us against them' mentalities are far more subversive and destructive than any one political affiliation.
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