(introduction)
“The defining characteristics of modern liberalism are radical egalitarianism (the equality of outcomes rather than of opportunities) and radical individualism (the drastic reduction of limits to personal gratification). These may seem an odd pair, for individualism means liberty and liberty produces inequality, while equality of outcomes means coercion and coercion destroys liberty. If they are to operate simultaneously, radical egalitarianism and radical individualism, where they would compete, must be kept apart, must operate in different areas of life.”
This quote is the most significant (in my opinion) of the whole book; it summarizes 'modern' (radical) liberalism in a nutshell, and exposes the huge contradiction of their mindset. He words it very well, but it did take me a couple reads to really understand. Everything they push for falls into the categories of either radical egalitarianism or radical individualism , but to truly embrace both policies is impossible because they counteract each other. Thus they must be separated for the convenience and plausibility of the left's 'cause'.
Radically enforcing any kind of policy that would guaranty that everyone ended up with the same amount of the same things regardless of what they truly merit (ties back to the first quote- "...distorts incentives by increasingly rejecting personal achievement as the criterion for the distribution of rewards”), is by it's definition unfair. While it may benefit the people who do not work or live responsibly, it is definitely infringing on the rights of the people who do work hard, do their share and more, while still receiving the same. That is unfair, in a democratic society at least, which is what this country used to be the epitome of. A prime example of egalitarianism gone wrong, is today's unnecessary and detrimental (even to the beneficiaries) affirmative action policies in school and workplace. Now we are leaning more and more toward a socialist 'turd-world country' (courtesy Michael Savage*).
And the other cause of the left is radical individualism- or basically, when convenient to their secular-progressive ideology, endlessly fighting for the individual's rights to offend; limitless self-gratification at any cost. The ACLU has the 'defining deviancy down' part down pat (that sounded funny i know lol*)- they are always finding the dirtiest debased cases to defend, from pedophiles to neo-nazis. Everything that is truly offensive and harmful is defended as 'free-speech', but something as innocent as an elementary-school kid praying is fought against, claiming their B.S. "separation of church and state," and distorting Thomas Jefferson's ideas regarding congress establishing any certain religion.
Democracy is never going to be good enough for them, so they fight on toward communism, thinking it will work. How many times must socialism fail before they realize Marx was wrong?
1 comment:
hah i never saw this one...omg scary and funny
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