How I Became a Superior Person

[mystery-ak]

March 5, 2024
How I Became a Superior Person
By David R. Carlin

When I was a young man (a long time ago) I decided to be a political liberal, and this for two overlapping reasons.

For one, I approved of the political values of liberals. They were pro-civil liberties (free speech, free press, etc.). They were pro-labor union. They were pro-equality for Blacks (Negroes as they were called in those days). And so was I.

For another, liberals seemed to me to be intellectually and morally superior to political conservatives, who struck me as being, on average, rather stupid and rather morally insensitive. I wanted to belong to the class of people who were smart and good. If I were to become one of them, I too would be smart and good.

I admired the intellect of liberals. They were broadminded, not narrow-minded like conservatives. Their minds were subtle and nuanced and complex, not simplistic like conservative minds. They were highly educated, well-informed. And they had good taste in music, painting, and literature. There was nothing boorish about them.

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[rustynail]

Good article with some interesting comments.

[AllThatJazzZ]

 

[Free Vulcan]

I completely reject his premise. If you go back to the hippie revolutionary days, of which I'm just old enough to remember, you'll find in their literature the same radical ideas that are now in place. The ultimate master plan was the Fabian long march thru the institutions.

The air of intellectuality and elitism was just for the useful idiots, smokescreen and cover for what was coming. They peddled that mile-wide-inch-deep sense of superiority to people who had it relatively easy v. earlier generations and didn't know who things really worked, then just kept recycling it to succeeding generations raised in suburbanite convenience and with ever more deficient education.

Now everyone's like 'whoa, hey, what's going on here?' What's going on is you got played sucka.

[Bigun]

I completely reject his premise. If you go back to the hippie revolutionary days, of which I'm just old enough to remember, you'll find in their literature the same radical ideas that are now in place. The ultimate master plan was the Fabian long march thru the institutions.

The air of intellectuality and elitism was just for the useful idiots, smokescreen and cover for what was coming. They peddled that mile-wide-inch-deep sense of superiority to people who had it relatively easy v. earlier generations and didn't know who things really worked, then just kept recycling it to succeeding generations raised in suburbanite convenience and with ever more deficient education.

Now everyone's like 'whoa, hey, what's going on here?' What's going on is you got played sucka.

  Absolutely right! Been going on here ever since many of the participants in the failed socialist revolutions in Western Europe that occurred around 1848 came here shortly thereafter to escape the hangman in their home countries.

[Smokin Joe]

Absolutely right! Been going on here ever since many of the participants in the failed socialist revolutions in Western Europe that occurred around 1848 came here shortly thereafter to escape the hangman in their home countries.

But you miss the  point. All that need be for those mental midgets standing on their predecessors' shoulders to credibly claim to be giants, is for their predecessors' history to be lost, hidden, left out of the curriculum of those they are about to exploit. Which is why history is eliminated, philosophy is eliminated, so those proposing nonsense that has ever hurt the masses and benefited those who claim to be elites can claim their nonsense as a "New" idea.

Here we go again.

[Cyber Liberty]

Now that I read his story, I am positive he's still a snob.  He hasn't changed a bit.   

[Bigun]

But you miss the  point. All that need be for those mental midgets standing on their predecessors' shoulders to credibly claim to be giants, is for their predecessors' history to be lost, hidden, left out of the curriculum of those they are about to exploit. Which is why history is eliminated, philosophy is eliminated, so those proposing nonsense that has ever hurt the masses and benefited those who claim to be elites can claim their nonsense as a "New" idea.

Here we go again.

https://twitter.com/KennethRWebster/status/1765037339339010068

[Cyber Liberty]

https://twitter.com/KennethRWebster/status/1765037339339010068

https://twitter.com/EndWokeness/status/1765005503040499813

Check out the Community Note.

[roamer_1]

But you miss the  point. All that need be for those mental midgets standing on their predecessors' shoulders to credibly claim to be giants, is for their predecessors' history to be lost, hidden, left out of the curriculum of those they are about to exploit. Which is why history is eliminated, philosophy is eliminated, so those proposing nonsense that has ever hurt the masses and benefited those who claim to be elites can claim their nonsense as a "New" idea.

Here we go again.

Again. 

 

[roamer_1]

I completely reject his premise. If you go back to the hippie revolutionary days, of which I'm just old enough to remember, you'll find in their literature the same radical ideas that are now in place. The ultimate master plan was the Fabian long march thru the institutions.

The air of intellectuality and elitism was just for the useful idiots, smokescreen and cover for what was coming. They peddled that mile-wide-inch-deep sense of superiority to people who had it relatively easy v. earlier generations and didn't know who things really worked, then just kept recycling it to succeeding generations raised in suburbanite convenience and with ever more deficient education.

Now everyone's like 'whoa, hey, what's going on here?' What's going on is you got played sucka.

That's right... Though I have never understood it. Knowledge is such a malleable thing, and wisdom sent Solomon down dark holes.

It then becomes no surprise that no-nothing 'elites' seek after dark things. Often in ignorance.

That sounds worse than I mean it to. But the quest for knowledge lost its way somewhere around Newtonian science. Thereafter, it soon became a directed weapon.

[unite for individuality]

I completely reject his premise. If you go back to the hippie revolutionary days, of which I'm just old enough to remember, you'll find in their literature the same radical ideas that are now in place. The ultimate master plan was the Fabian long march thru the institutions.

The air of intellectuality and elitism was just for the useful idiots, smokescreen and cover for what was coming. They peddled that mile-wide-inch-deep sense of superiority to people who had it relatively easy v. earlier generations and didn't know who (how) things really worked, then just kept recycling it to succeeding generations raised in suburbanite convenience and with ever more deficient education.

Now everyone's like 'whoa, hey, what's going on here?' What's going on is you got played sucka.

That is correct.  The "liberals" have ALWAYS been ALL style!
Their substance has ALWAYS been PURE EVIL!

[Fishrrman]

"The "liberals" have ALWAYS been ALL style!
Their substance has ALWAYS been PURE EVIL!"

Phil Ochs had 'em pegged:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLqKXrlD1TU