(08-04-2023, 08:29 PM)Ninurta Wrote:(08-04-2023, 06:04 PM)dbcowboy Wrote: Anyone pushing for more or bigger government, anyone pushing for less freedoms and liberties is the bad guy.
Did you notice the following quote in the author's diatribe?
Quote:We also change the moral norms in ways that suit ourselves, never mind the cost to others. For example, there used to be a norm that discouraged people from having children outside of marriage, but that got washed away during our period of cultural dominance, as we eroded norms that seemed judgmental or that might inhibit individual freedom.
The author seems to be sublimely unaware that everything "his side" does inhibits individual freedom. Quite the contrary he appears to think - or wants US to think - that his side somehow promotes individual freedom. I don't see that, personally. What I see is everything they do inhibiting individual freedom. It's only logical to conclude that anyone with a collectivist mindset does not even comprehend individual freedom, only collective, hive-mind, thought.
Personally, I believe he's just trying to slip a few fast ones past us, and make us think things that are not true. A promotion of misinformation of sorts. Of course, he assumes he can do that, because clearly we are less educated than him, and therefore in his mind less intelligent... because that ivy-league education never explained to him the difference between the two. As a matter of fact, his indoctrination to make him believe he is at the top of the intellectual heap due to his over-education purposely conflates the two, just so that he could be indoctrinated into believing he is in the Master Race.
Therefore, only HIS "individual freedom" counts in his mind, and he in actuality has none. One does not have individual freedom in a hive. The hive will soon put an end to that if they ever detect it. Even the Queen Bee, at the end of the day when all is said and done, is really just another - privileged - member of the hive.
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Individuality is an anathema to the Marxists.