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Boilerplate’s liberal reversal of reality
The way Boilerplate would have it, all this aggression exists in the world because WE haven’t yet brought freedom to these other countries. So WE have to keep striving forever to change the world, to make it free. This is our burden. It doesn’t occur to him that the lack of freedom he’s opposing has nothing to do with anything that we’re doing or not doing, that it may have something to do with those other countries. It doesn’t occur to him that the specific lack of freedom he’s concerned about has a specific source—the Koran. No, instead this knucklehead praises the Koran as one of the bases of American freedom and character!
Apparently Boilerplate has been much influenced by Natan Sharansky’s book on freedom, in which he argues that every country in the world can and should be free. But who is Sharansky, as the citizen of a country surrounded by unfree countries, to talk? Has Israel succeeded by its democratic example in making its Arab neighbors embrace freedom? Ah, but that little failure doesn’t matter, does it? For liberals, no failure ever matters. The only thing that matters is that moment of universalist consummation, which WILL be reached some day, and we SHALL overcome, and we just have to keep trying for it, and we just have to keep on thinkin’ about tomorrow, and no contrary thought is permitted into consciousness. Email entry |