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I am a guiltless sociopath.
This is a really great piece. I like this passage…………
"The house of guilt is built on taboos. Acts and thoughts which should automatically inspire guilt. If they do not inspire guilt in you, then they will inspire guilt in your neighbors, and, if your neighbors catch you not feeling properly guilty about something in the way that they do, they will deem you a bad person. And that will make them feel virtuous."
Americans keep giving money to the world and expect that one day an International rubber chicken dinner of some sort will be held in our honor.
Gawd-a-Mighty… is this feller ever 'on the money'. I love it!
LOL, One!
I loved that line too!!!
This article sounds like a primer….
to a college education.
No this sounds like a primer starting before even grade school. By college the progressives have already had far too many years planting stuff in their brains.
Great observation.
I think TOI has it, Ralph but, he says "sounds like".
What do you think participation trophies and not keeping score is, at the grade school level?
Championship trophies, keeping score, first place, second place,…………
all looked upon as being bullyish, besides,………
"boys will be boys" is sooooooo passe.
it's very dangerous actually.
Games, win and loose, are where boys are taught to win and loose "gracefully", to become Men.
The building blocks of civilization… OH, that's what's wrong on our sidewalks today…
Long ago I rejected all efforts made to instill "white American guilt" …
I've had a lovely, successful, happy life, thank you very much.
Long ago I rejected all efforts made to instill "white American guilt"…
Me TOO, DB… and then, when I was young and naive, I wondered WTH was wrong with me…
LOL, took me a few years to fathom it wasn't ME, it was them whose elevator didn't go all the way to the top.
Whew!!! Was I ever relieved…
yes exactly corn… "it wasn't ME, it was them.."
And now we are happy… and "They" are ass dragging hags… just saying.
This is a great piece!
So many quotable lines!
Just one, "The easiest way to trap a population in guilt is to praise them to the skies, swell their heads with their own greatness, and then pull out the rug from under them by blasting them for their shortcomings."
And who doesn't remember, "We have been dismissive, derisive."
I agree Nick… the whole dang thing is "quotable". That's why I said "I love it".
It's such a comfort to know others are having parallel thoughts to ours, isn't it?
This guy needs to be a regular feature for us.
I have always wondered why people so readily accepted the guilt foisted upon them using empty rhetoric and easily refuted charges. I know there are plenty of people who thrill at the idea that they are guilty of something and revel in the chaos it brings to their lives. The rest of us are too busy and whole to spend our time in that paradigm.
It seems that since we are no longer feeling suitably guilty over slavery, the guiltmongers are looking to make the global climate change our fault. That has lost its sheen, so what will they tell us we are to feel guilty about next? We were supposed to feel guilty about the woman on the soccer field in Afghanistan. It seems that is okay now because Our Dear Leader said so and the media mouthpieces have moved on to the next Great Cause. Pathetic.
Hi Red, haven't said hi in a while…
"the rest of us are too busy and whole"
The ultimate brick wall to those "empty rhetoric" pot stirrers.
The shining armor of our excellence.
I would suggest that a strong, New-Age free religious (Judeo-Christian specifically) core makes a difference. Strong training in discerning right from wrong in black and white (like the Ten Commandments) makes one less susceptible to charlatans who would separate one from their money/fealty/life direction. It is my opinion that the Left must flood us with all of this nonsense to keep us from thinking about and living in Truth. Distraction is one of Wormwood's finest tools.
I feel guilty that I don't feel guilty. Why am I so friggin' happy?
Damn it, if only we would have let……
the buffalo survive.
No wait, not remember the Alamo…….
no wait, not remember the Maine……
no wait, not dropped the A-bomb……..
no wait, not boot Obama out of office.
Oh I can't wait to plead GUILTY just one more time.
Every time the AssHat in Chief goes on his apology gig or some other whining liberal jerk tries to make us feel guilty about something, I glance up at my wall and read this……..then I flip them off.
I am an American
(D. Ault)
I owe you no apologies nor will I accept
those apologies made for me by others.
If you dislike me — you dislike me not for what I
am but for what you are not. By my own sweat,
I have created a lifestyle which I desire for all men.
To the world I have shared my wealth and given my
blood, not because of obligation — but by my own
free will. I have fed the hungry of the world. Many
bit my hand; I used the other hand.
I defeated my enemies in battle, then pulled them
up from the ashes of defeat. Once strong, they
again attacked; I turned the other cheek.
Though I am strong, I have never used my strength to rule
others. But do not misjudge me, I will not allow the
fear of my own strength to become my weakness.
If you wish to rise, I will give you a helping hand.
But by the grace of God, and I'll first be damned,
If I'll let you drag me down so that we may be equal.
Yep, that's a good one. One of my former clients sends it around in an email 2-3 times a year…
Only 2-3 times a year? I read it every time a liberal opens it's mouth!
It's possible we're programmed at an early age. Some mothers 'guilt' their children into desirable behavior, others instill a sense of personal responsibility regarding behavior. Consider the effect of reinforcement on brain development. Guilt, being a powerful emotion, could make the reaction of the amygdala so powerful that the logical cortex is overruled. Interesting possibility, anyway, and should revisit the Skinner half-brain studies. Information is ammunition, if we can figure out how they were programmed, maybe we can deprogram them. Of course, we know they're not thinking along those lines — they've clearly stated that those who don't bend will be eliminated.
"What do you want Ellsworth ?"
"Power, Petey. I want to rule. Like my spiritual predecessors. But I’m luckier than they were. I inherited the fruit of their efforts and I shall be the one who’ll see the great dream made real. I see it all around me today. I recognize it. I don’t like it. I didn’t expect to like it. Enjoyment is not my destiny. I shall find such satisfaction as my capacity permits. I shall rule."
"Whom…?"
"You. The world. It’s only a matter of discovering the lever. If you learn how to rule one single man’s soul, you can get the rest of mankind. It’s the soul, Peter, the soul. Not whips or swords or fire or guns. That’s why the Caesars, the Attillas, the Napoleons were fools and did not last. We will. The soul, Peter, is that which can’t be ruled. It must be broken. Drive a wedge in, get your fingers on it – and the man is yours. You won’t need a whip – he’ll bring it to you and ask to be whipped. Set him in reverse – and his own mechanism will do your work for you. Use him against himself. Want to know how it’s done? See if I ever lied to you. See if you haven’t heard all this for years, but didn’t want to hear, and the fault is yours, not mine.
There are many ways. Here’s one. Make man feel small. Make him feel guilty. Kill his aspiration and his integrity. That’s difficult. The worst among you gropes for an idol in his own twisted way. Kill integrity by internal corruption. Use it against himself. Direct it towards a goal destructive of all integrity. Preach selflessness. Tell man that altruism is the ideal. Not a single one has ever reached it and not a single one ever will. His every living instinct screams against it. But don’t you see what you accomplish ? Man realizes that he’s incapable of what he’s accepted as the noblest virtue – and it gives him a sense of guilt, of sin, of his own basic unworthiness. Since the supreme ideal is beyond his grasp, he gives up eventually all ideals, all aspiration, all sense of his personal value. He feels himself obliged to preach what he can’t practice. But one can’t be good halfway or honest approximately. To preserve one’s integrity is a hard battle. Why preserve that which one knows to be corrupt already? His soul gives up its self respect. You’ve got him. He’ll obey. He’ll be glad to obey – because he can’t trust himself, he feels uncertain, he feels unclean. That’s one way…"
The Fountainhead
Excerpted:
PLAYBOY: The heroine of Atlas Shrugged was, in your words, "completely incapable of experiencing a feeling of fundamental guilt." Is any system of morality possible without guilt?
RAND: The important word in the statement you quoted is "fundamental." Fundamental guilt does not mean the ability to judge one's own actions and regret a wrong action, if one commits it. Fundamental guilt means that man is evil and guilty by nature.
PLAYBOY: You mean original sin?
RAND: Exactly. It is the concept of original sin that my heroine, or I, or any Objectivist, is incapable of accepting or of ever experiencing emotionally. It is the concept of original sin that negates morality. If man is guilty by nature, he has no choice about it. If he has no choice, the issue does not belong in the field of morality. Morality pertains only to the sphere of man's free will — only to those actions which are open to his choice. To consider man guilty by nature is a contradiction in terms. My heroine would be capable of experiencing guilt about a specific action. Only, being a woman of high moral stature and self-esteem, she would see to it that she never earned any guilt by her actions. She would act in a totally moral manner and, therefore, would not accept an unearned guilt.
This is where Rand And I part ways. She cannot believe in God, therefore she cannot believe in redemption from the Original Sin. Freew ill exists in many ways even without redemption. She rather misses this one, in my paradigm
Howdy Red
My first encounter with the concept of "original sin" was when I was around 5. It scared the hell out of me that I could be sent to Hell for something I had not even done – something that occurred before I was born, even. A few years later I better understood the story behind "original sin" and it still didn't sit well with me. If we were created in God's image, that meant to me that we were conscious beings able to think and create. Isn't knowledge a prerequisite, or at least an effect of that? I do believe in God, it is religion that has always befuddled me some. Many other people seem to "get it" just fine, so maybe I am wrong somewhere, but I won't concern myself with it. If we have to disagree, then I am happy it is on such a minor point.
I like your new avi. If you happen to know that pretty lady please tell her I said hi…
Adam and Eve sorta screwed up the picture. Begin created in the image of God, we now get to spend waaay too much time trying to reconcile to that state
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Yes, we can all think and create, but laws, like gravity don't change because there is, or is not God. The more I understand the difference between laws and things I can manage with free will, the more I understand that I don't know!
I knew this would get into theology, but I think Rand suffered due to her Godlessness and it is rather sad.
Nah, we won't get into theology. I either know too much or too little about it. I don't place much importance on it where it comes to how I judge people I know or am reasonably acquainted with. I have a pretty good idea on how you think for the things we share. I bet we'd make fine neighbors and friends. Like the rest here we just want to live in a society "with liberty and justice for all". Sadly both are constantly under assault. How's the neighborhood doing?
I figure people can worry about their own details–I have enough questions of my own.
Just please don't plant Virginia Creeper along our shared fence line. Please.
Deal!