...The wise approach, however, has an additional problem for President Obama beyond his deeply self-absorbed personality: As a Progressive, Obama believes that government should be able to do almost anything…and should do everything it can. Obama is part of a presidential Progressive lineage going back through FDR, Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson who believed that technocrats should be in charge of most aspects of American life, that private citizens are too stupid to manage their own lives so we need Progressives to do so for us. One might say that Progressivism is an inherently narcissistic philosophy...Emphasis mine.
I think that final sentence is a very important and insightful observation. It makes perfect sense once you've been introduced to the idea.
And...if I might add, it lends credence to Michael Savage's dictum that "Liberalism is a mental disorder"!
The Gunslinger
"One might say that Progressivism is an inherently narcissistic philosophy...
ReplyDeleteEmphasis mine.
I think that final sentence is a very important and insightful observation."
Absolutely. At the root of Leftism is not only the self inflated notion of yourself as being someone capable and worthy of directing other people's lives, but even more so, is the desire for, and adoration of, power.
The willingness and desire to not only deny others the right to make their own choices, but to actually force them to abide by your choices, is nothing but naked power worship, which always means self worship.
When you read those whose ideas formed the basis of leftism, Descartes, Rousseau (more incidentally with Descartes, and explicitly with Rousseau), you can see that absense of self behind the ideas they expressed, such as this from Rousseau:
"I am not made like any of those I have seen; I venture to believe that I am not made like any of those who are in existence. If I am not better, at least I am different."
Apparently Rousseau is a 17-year-old angst-ridden Emo teenager.
ReplyDeleteAnd people take this shit seriously?
I don't read Rousseau.
(I have read a little Descartes because "Cogito ergo sum" offered me proof of my own existence in MY angst-ridden teenage years)