A snapshot of the leftwing mindset
Today’s Guardian leader, purportedly on social class, is worth reading. It is utter rubbish. But it is worth reading because it is utter rubbish.
It is an informative compression of the muddled thinking of the reflex left: non sequitur piled on fallacy, piled on miscomprehension of both theory and real people, piled on all-or-nothing thinking, piled on misprision of fact, bonded together only with a sticky, sighing outrage. Read it out loud and you may find yourself using that furious-sobbing-child tone and plonking emphasis affected by professional radical activists—especially women—to convey how strongly they feel about the world. As is universally acknowledged, strength of feeling is the same as strength of argument.
Guy Herbert – Samizdata.Net
And he doesn’t stop there. I just didn’t want you to hurt your neck nodding. Go read.
I love it, Impersonal social forces are held to dominate, but paradoxically regarded as tools of the wicked if they do not do what is wanted.
They believe in witchcraft basically, the manipulation of impersonal forces brought to heel by summons and incantation. Social Paganism?