Right-wing conservatives are brainwashed, irrational, illiberal, ignorant, self-hating, and self-destructive. They mindlessly believe in god – and somewhat the collective – while rejecting reality, life, mankind, themselves, and happiness. They support the bad status quo while opposing change for the better. Conservatives embrace welfare statist tyranny, especially on personal and social issues. They’re selfless and sacrificial opponents of personal achievement and pleasure, who rarely smile, laugh, feel good about themselves, or have fun.
Left-wing progressives are brainwashed, irrational, illiberal, ignorant, self-hating, and self-destructive. They mindlessly believe in the collective – and somewhat god – while rejecting reality, life, mankind, themselves, and happiness. They support change for the worse while opposing the superior status quo. They’re selfless and sacrificial opponents of personal achievement and pleasure, who rarely smile, laugh, feel good about themselves, or have fun.
Straight-wing liberals are clear-thinking, rational, educated, self-loving, and self-ascending. They intelligently believe in the individual – and not god or the collective – while embracing, reality, life, mankind, themselves, and happiness. They support the status quo when it’s good, and change when it’s for the better. They reject welfare statist tyranny in favor of full social libertarianism and economic capitalism. They’re selfish and greedy lovers of personal achievement and pleasure, who frequently smile, laugh, feel good about themselves, and have fun.
No person or society is purely conservative, progressive, or liberal. All are some mixture. But the more liberal the individual and culture, the higher their level of greatness and happiness.
Some straight-wing liberals fancy themselves to be clear-thinking, rational, educated, self-loving, and self-ascending when they are just as brainwashed, irrational, illiberal, ignorant, and self-destructive as anyone else. The primary difference is that they are not self-hating. To the contrary, they tend to be profoundly narcissistic, and think that whatever has popped into their heads is profound wisdom, greater than the Wisdom of the Ages.
ReplyDeleteDan Sullivan -- I don't think liberals fall into those errors anywhere near as much as conservatives and progressives. By my definition, liberals believe in an epistemology of reason and science, and a metaphysics of naturalism and objectivism, which leads to real truth, which tends to be absolute and certain.
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