Scott
Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy
Joined: 24 May 2004
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 Posted: Wed Oct 27, 2004 6:02 pm Post subject: The Death of Shame |
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http://ornery.org/essays/warwatch/2004-10-17-2.html
| Quote: | How did American intellectual leadership pass to people who no longer even go through the motions of rigorous examination of ideas?
It's because they have no shame.
Shame is the innate human need to be thought well of by one's neighbors. It leads to the concealment of wrongdoing.
It is the motive behind hypocrisy -- the desire to continue to sin without paying the social penalties of being known to be a sinner.
So when the Left acts hypocritically, one can assume that they do feel shame, and for years I have made that mistake.
But I no longer believe it. Because the double standards of the Left today are not prompted by any sense that the lies and misbehavior they are concealing are wrong, but rather by the fact that the exposure of those lies and misbehavior would be politically inconvenient.
Indeed, the whole question of right or wrong is irrelevant to the thinking of the Left.
They speak the language of morality, declaring Bush to be evil (or variations on that theme), but in fact the Left lives in a moral universe in which there is only one moral virtue, and here it is:
It is good and right for power to be in the hands of the Left.
All "morality" on the Left and all "reasoning" on the Left flow from this unspoken axiom. |
I think he's hit the nail on the head.
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