tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post7877559876041586577..comments2024-03-28T17:44:11.289+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: A hundred million dead - for *this*?Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-34551298065227558382013-07-19T22:27:31.780+01:002013-07-19T22:27:31.780+01:00Obedience is difficult, and resentment sells. It&#...Obedience is difficult, and resentment sells. It's like a bubble. Everyone thinks they can time the market. Then they die telling themselves that they did it all for their fellow man. Which they did.tgjnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-66847346599400211812013-07-17T19:36:13.660+01:002013-07-17T19:36:13.660+01:00When there is nothing to strive for, what is there...When there is nothing to strive for, what is there left? <br />Even leftists need something to strive for: the state of stasis in having nothing to strive for. <br />The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04323413604073160469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-39475403972887230062013-07-17T14:47:15.568+01:002013-07-17T14:47:15.568+01:00God's Heaven is a hierarchy, where I suspect n...God's Heaven is a hierarchy, where I suspect no two will be equal. Every seat in Heaven will be a pleasant one, and nobody will resent their place, but some will be elevated far, far above others.<br /><br />It astounds me too that anyone would visualize utopia as a place where everyone is equal. I think it takes a strong dose of the sin of Envy to distort one's thinking that deeply.<br /><br />Of course, modern liberals speak as if it were self-evident that equality is a great ideal. They almost preach explicitly that Envy is a Virtue, but they don't use the word "envy". It's one of the most obvious examples of the moral inversion of modernism.<br />Jonathan Cnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-1750153246991791362013-07-17T14:44:13.690+01:002013-07-17T14:44:13.690+01:00All the chaos, death, and destruction is always in...All the chaos, death, and destruction is always in vain. The insipid condition of absolute equality is inevitably superseded, sooner or later, by distinctions of rank and privilege. The Grand Duke is executed, the People's Commissar replaces him.JPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-85801890500419305352013-07-17T12:09:40.660+01:002013-07-17T12:09:40.660+01:00Not just paltry, but patently untrue.
"Gener...Not just paltry, but patently untrue.<br /><br />"General and private ... still met as equals": balls; the first commands, the second obeys.<br /><br />I'm a great fan of Orwell's writing but that doesn't mean that I must accept uncritically his every word.deariemenoreply@blogger.com