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Some modern Leftist lunacy is noted, described and analyzed in terms of causation - there is an implicit and unspecific appeal - demand, even - that this-time, now, 'we' do something about it (really do something about it).
Perhaps there is a momentary lift of spirits from reading robust and witty polemic; and a flicker of optimism that now 'we' know about it, and understand what is going-on - then 'we' can work together to... well... put a stop to this kind of thing, and do some other and better kind of thing... or something.
Trouble is that there is no we - just a handful of individuals who are recurrently being set-back and demoralized by the repeated recognition that there is no 'we' but only (to all intents and purposes) me.
So yes to analysis and understanding causation - but we, or should I say me - are going to stop pretending there is a we, and stop vaguely-hoping that we will do something about anything.
Witty polemic doth not make a we.
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Some years back, I was adamant with those in the MRM that there is no "men's" movement. There is only man's movement. I'll stand by that.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy witty polemic as an end itself. It's a middlebrow art form.
ReplyDeleteThe left specializes in being a 'we' as opposed to an individual 'I'. We all agree, we all know, we must stamp out, we need...
ReplyDeleteThe right is generally a little more realistic about one's own importance, which is to say, that one's is not very.