19 November 2022

The opposite of idealism is synthesis. Idealism is far more tempting to the intellectually disadvantaged because it is easy. You read the manifestos of angry people and if you can agree on a common foe, the principles in the manifesto can be absorbed so well and so completely, there is no need for additional thought or the hard work of reconciling differences and inconsistencies.

Oh, the horror of adopting an ideology that matches your gripes at 90% and having to dance a supremely uncomfortable dance in order to be bestowed the “virtue” granted by the almost-a-match philosopher and have yet to do the hard work of admitting you were wrong for those other 10% of observations or integrating experiences other than your own or admitting that a simple formula will not suffice to measure the complexity of a human society. We live in an age of intellectual laziness.. neigh, incapacity. People bark incessantly about their freedom while vomiting even more vociferously about other people trying to slip their control.

Shame.

Shame.

Shame.

The only good news is that societies that hate actual freedom as much as the USA are not long for this world.

Burn in Hell, Susan Strong, Profitess of Slavery.