Thanks to a very nice birthday gift of some book credits for Audible I'm no longer dithering about thinking I should be dead, and henjoying reading, meaing listening, to books again. Another book by Douglas Murray and Thomas Sowell's the Vision of the Anointed, are taking turns entertaining me. Well, depressing me too.
The Vision of teh Anointed is a fairly old book but it's awfully relevant right now. Liberaism is lieralism wherever you find it, and that's what Dowell means by "the vision of the anointed," the views of liberalism, the aointed bieng the way liberals think of themselves as appointed over everybody else to determine how to run the world. He wrote another book on gthe same subject, A COnflict of Visions, that I was trying to get through bewfore I got this owne, and this one is a lot easier to read and covers a lot of the same ground. It kind of romps along whackig down liberal ideas right and left with a welath of facts and statistics and mountains of common sense. I guess you can't whack much with a mountain can you. Oh well.
Actually, probably Sowell could whack with a mountain, twirl it over his head even and bring it crashing down on a liberal idea with barely any effort. Yep, the superman of the war between the visions.
Why on earth do we have to put up with this insanity? Why cat't we get rid of this utter stupidity? It's ruining the world. But it s purveyors are so smugly convinced of their rightness and the moral inferiority of their opponents we can't get past the sheer selfrighteous arrogance of their posturing.
Swowell contrasts what he calls the tragic view with the view of the anointed. the tragic view is realistic, the anointed's view is sheer imaginarary lunacy. You gotta read it, I can't do it justice. They are always setting out to right some wrong in society, just as it has been bgetting better as Sowell points out, and always make it worse and deny that thyey anmajkemake it worldse. Racism had just about disappeared and they'ver been treating it as a huge problemaem that tneeds their tender ministrations to make it go away. for instance. Or the crime rate, or poverty, etc etc. Whatever they decide is a problem they set out to cure it and make it ten times worrse. You've got to read it.
I've If I get my thoughts beter orgaized maybe I'll come back and say more.
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