"Yes, sir! That's exactly who I am and what I am, sir. A victim, sir!" – A Clockwork Orange
What's black and white and red all over? A victim of an industrial accident at a newspaper printing press. (All memes today are as-found)
The inversion of virtues: I've written on this topic recently, but decided I needed to have another go at it. Part of the blogging theme is that my posts are limited in space. No one wants to read a 10,000-word post on PEZ
on Friday morning as they drink their coffee.
Virtues make a civilization worth living in. I'd rather live in a poor civilization with great values than a rich one with poor values, and both of those sound better than what we've got going on now. And I'd suggest that our current free-fall is due to that loss of virtue.
What were Epstein's last words before he committed suicide? "You don't have to do this! I promise I won't talk!"
Let's compare values at the peak of Roman Civilization, the peak of Western Civilization, and what the Left is shoving down our throats right now. For instance:
- Rome: Worshiped gods.
- The West: Worshiped God.
- The Left: Worship man (atheism) or the State.
See? Inversion. Who did the cultures idolize?
- Rome: Worshiped heroes.
- The West: Worshiped heroes and Saints.
- The Left: Worship victims.
See, that's not hard, and yet more inversion. What about sin?
- Rome: Sin of hubris.
- The West: Sin of pride.
- The Left: Sin of privilege.
I'll just quit making inversion comments, because this is a slam dunk. Who are the spiritual leaders?
- Rome:
- The West:
- The Left: Professors, Leftie politicians.
Ideals?
- Rome: Ideal was glory, excellence (Areté).
- The West: Ideal was holiness, modesty, courage.
- The Left: Social Justice, victimhood.
Ideal social class?
- Rome: Warriors and those who served their fellow men.
- The West: The middle class.
- The Left: The lower class, victims, victims, victims.
Even a virtue, charity, has been turned from a voluntary act that provides spiritual growth in the terms of the classic West, to taxation to provide forced "charity" to the (often) undeserving.
I'm thinking I don't want to know how my tax dollars are spent because I'm afraid all mine went to buy crack pipes in San Francisco.
This inversion bleeds over into all of society. "Drag Queen Story Hour"?
Wonder why they don't read to old folks in nursing homes, or to the blind? Whenever I hear about that, my mind sees:
And then there are questions that are more difficult to answer:
Inversion, of course, shows up in the obvious things:
Jazz Jennings is a transgender person who feels no need to change with no sense of irony:
And their goal is that you will live and produce and that you should be okay with not being meaningful or having any joy, so live in the pod, and eat the bugs, wagie.
And we now have a Marine Corps who worries about people's feelings. Perhaps they'll land with Nerf guns so that they won't have their feelings hurt.
But the pushback is well underway. Or overweigh:
But there's a catch:
And I think this has broken the Left, mentally:
And the internal contradictions in their "victimhood" matrix are starting to show:
Canada has shown that it certainly can't be trusted with the power of life and death:
The inversion has hit, but people (and maybe Higher Powers) are pushing back. And, I think we will win. Why? Because we're so very pretty. And? PEZ®.
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