Leftist ideologiy is fundamentally based around two things: 1) Absolutely everything is subjective. 2) Anything that anyone else has that I do not have must either be stolen or destroyed. Because I am envious of it.
It’s easy to understand when you realize how the mind of a leftist works. They’re not “pro”-rights of minorities, animals, women, impoverished nations, or any other cause for the disenfranchised behind which they claim to rally. Note that they always blame some successful, dominant group in society for the ills they oppose and seek to punish that group on behalf of the supposedly disenfranchised.
It is not and never has been about helping the downtrodden rise.
It is about destroying the successful, the effective, and the independent members of society. Not because they are doing anything that actually violates the rights of others, but precisely because they are successful, effective, and independent. Their sin is not some act of violence or fraud, but the mere state of being healthy human beings capable of sustaining themselves.
Rand called this “hatred of the good for being good,” and it embodies the soul of the modern left, or at least its useful idiot arm–SJWs, environmentalists, occupy, white knights, etc.). They will side with anything that is anti-US, anti-white male, anti-capitalist, and anti-Western.
Kaczynski made some comments on this tendency among leftists that were somewhat insightful, but I recommend reading Rand’s essay, The Age of Envy:
Today we live in the age of envy.
Envy is not the emotion I have in mind, but it is the clearest manifestation of an emotion that has remained nameless. It is the only eminent of a complex emotional sum that men have permitted themselves to identify.
Envy is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semihuman cover for so inhuman an emotion that those who feel it seldom dare admit it even to themselves. That emotion is hatred. Hatred of the good for being good.
This hatred is not resentment against some prescribed view the good with which one does not agree. Hatred of the good for being the good means hatred of that which one regards as good by one’s own (conscious or subconscious) judgement. It means hatred of a person for possessing a value or virtue one regards as desirable.
If a child wants to get good grades in school, but is unable or unwilling to achieve them and begins to hate the children who do, that is hatred of the good. The nature of the particular value a man chooses to hold is not the primary factor in this issue (although irrational values may contribute a great deal to the formation of that emotion). The primary factor and distinguishing characteristic is an emotional mechanism set in reverse: a response of hatred, not toward human vices, but toward human virtues.
To be exact, the emotional mechanism is not set in reverse, but is set one way: its exponents do not experience love forever men. Their emotional range is limited to hatred or indifference. It is impossible to experience love, which is a response to values, when one’s automated response to values is hatred.
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Tallest_Skil ago
Leftist ideologiy is fundamentally based around two things: 1) Absolutely everything is subjective. 2) Anything that anyone else has that I do not have must either be stolen or destroyed. Because I am envious of it.
It’s easy to understand when you realize how the mind of a leftist works. They’re not “pro”-rights of minorities, animals, women, impoverished nations, or any other cause for the disenfranchised behind which they claim to rally. Note that they always blame some successful, dominant group in society for the ills they oppose and seek to punish that group on behalf of the supposedly disenfranchised.
It is not and never has been about helping the downtrodden rise.
It is about destroying the successful, the effective, and the independent members of society. Not because they are doing anything that actually violates the rights of others, but precisely because they are successful, effective, and independent. Their sin is not some act of violence or fraud, but the mere state of being healthy human beings capable of sustaining themselves.
Rand called this “hatred of the good for being good,” and it embodies the soul of the modern left, or at least its useful idiot arm–SJWs, environmentalists, occupy, white knights, etc.). They will side with anything that is anti-US, anti-white male, anti-capitalist, and anti-Western.
Kaczynski made some comments on this tendency among leftists that were somewhat insightful, but I recommend reading Rand’s essay, The Age of Envy:
Today we live in the age of envy.
Envy is not the emotion I have in mind, but it is the clearest manifestation of an emotion that has remained nameless. It is the only eminent of a complex emotional sum that men have permitted themselves to identify.
Envy is regarded by most people as a petty, superficial emotion and, therefore, it serves as a semihuman cover for so inhuman an emotion that those who feel it seldom dare admit it even to themselves. That emotion is hatred. Hatred of the good for being good.
This hatred is not resentment against some prescribed view the good with which one does not agree. Hatred of the good for being the good means hatred of that which one regards as good by one’s own (conscious or subconscious) judgement. It means hatred of a person for possessing a value or virtue one regards as desirable.
If a child wants to get good grades in school, but is unable or unwilling to achieve them and begins to hate the children who do, that is hatred of the good. The nature of the particular value a man chooses to hold is not the primary factor in this issue (although irrational values may contribute a great deal to the formation of that emotion). The primary factor and distinguishing characteristic is an emotional mechanism set in reverse: a response of hatred, not toward human vices, but toward human virtues.
To be exact, the emotional mechanism is not set in reverse, but is set one way: its exponents do not experience love forever men. Their emotional range is limited to hatred or indifference. It is impossible to experience love, which is a response to values, when one’s automated response to values is hatred.