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Why the long face, Senator?
"Mea culpa. Pass the ketchup, please."
It seems to me that aside from cowardly relativism, utopianism, and multiculturalism, the elites and the ignoramuses who are quick to blame America (and thereby themselves) for the murderous deeds perpetrated by the scum of the earth are craven neurotics who want to delude themselves in thinking they can retain some personal control over the actions of homicidal maniacs. By transferring hatred toward themselves (and towards fellow Americans) the apologists assume ownership of the hateful actions of others. This is known as delusions of grandeur.
“But the Mumbai incident also illustrates the other side of Westernism that is a twin to rising affluence and expanding freedom — a certain sort of Western fondness for political-correctness, victimhood, and grievance that grows among the leisured class out of relativism, utopianism, and multiculturalism. The result is the emergence of elites that are as quick to blame their own government or culture for homicidal violence as they are the perpetrators of it. After all, the former is cheap and easy, the latter involves real courage and danger to one's person.”Senator Yes—No—Maybe So
— ©2008 Victor Davis Hanson
Why the long face, Senator?
"Mea culpa. Pass the ketchup, please."
It seems to me that aside from cowardly relativism, utopianism, and multiculturalism, the elites and the ignoramuses who are quick to blame America (and thereby themselves) for the murderous deeds perpetrated by the scum of the earth are craven neurotics who want to delude themselves in thinking they can retain some personal control over the actions of homicidal maniacs. By transferring hatred toward themselves (and towards fellow Americans) the apologists assume ownership of the hateful actions of others. This is known as delusions of grandeur.
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