A comment on an article at Taki’s Magazine:-
The great obsession of liberals is radically free individualism. Unchosen obligations-to nation, God, family–get in the way of this concept. So too does the idea of inherited archetypes of good and bad behavior and obligations based on inherited and unchosen differences in nature, i.e., old/young, male/female, high born/low born. This is why liberals are atheists. This is why they’re feminists. This is why they love abortion. The thread is “liberating” human beings from the moral order.
And, I might add, it’s why they favour gay “marriage.”
Deeply, deeply insightful. I wondered a couple of days ago what the “Progressive” Left think they are progressing towards – well, this is the answer. The end-state is the total destruction of all moral reality, and it’s replacement with a fuzzy pantheism. Allow me to rewrite Dave Sim’s crazy ramblings into something I can get behind:
What is at issue, it seems to me, is the dichotomy which exists between the [Conservative] and [Liberal] interpretations of “out of the mouths of babes . . . ”
To a [conservative], this aphorism implies that “although children are unshaped and incomplete beings until they reach the age of their majority, it is an interesting naturally-occurring phenomenon that – apropos nothing and even in the earliest stages of verbal communication – a child will, on rare occasions, voice an observation which, in defiance of all rules of logic, is actually germane and relevant to an adjacent conversation taking place on a much higher plane of sentient communication.”
The [liberal] interpretation tends more in the direction of “. . . because children are, indeed, from Heaven and are pure and untainted and good and decent and true in all regards, full of pure love and joy and compassion and innocence, their utterances, likewise, are pure and untainted and good and decent and true in all regards and the sooner we can all set our hearts on a quest to find the purest and least minted and most decent six-year-old in the world and appoint him/her leader of the civilized world and do whatever he/she tells us to do without question, the sooner we will arrive at the utopia which is always just there over the rainbow.”
Put another way, I think the Prophet Isaiah’s well-known prognostication, “And a childe shall lead them . . . ” is one to warm the hearts of dim-bulb [liberal] everywhere and to chill the soul of every God-fearing [conservative].
Just to be clear, I have no time for Dave Sim, I think he’s a crazy misogynist. Although it’s interesting that I can write “conservative/right” and “liberal/left” for his “man” and “woman” and get a satisfactory result, to my mind at least. Does this mean I have weird issues conflating ideological preferences with gender? Well, maybe, but I’m not the only one. I’ll be writing about that in the future – the Mummy/Daddy hypothesis, I mean, not my own weird issues. At least not in the same piece.
