Quote of the Day

The nagging moral anxiety produced by affirmative action in its beneficiaries is that they “feel that life has treated them better than they deserve.” Working their way round it produces victim-entitlement psychologies like Michelle’s.

The “profound humility” that Jesus Brooks calls for to achieve an incandescent soul is a nauseating moral narcissism - as he defines it: “an intense self-awareness from a position of other-centeredness.”.

Why not tell graduates to go out, get a job, support themselves and their children, eat well, live comfortably, save for their retirement and leave an inheritance those they wish to benefit?   
Civic virtue demonstrated by participating in the economy, taking care of oneself, not bothering the neighbours,* is a genuinely humble thing, no incandescent soul stuff. But it is far more crucial to the continuation, growth and improvement of society - and humanity.

Claire Geber


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*This is more or less what my life is about and I have always had the nagging feeling that I am a more or less a boring non-entity and a bit of a failure because I am not doing something Big, Great, Loud, Important, Historic or Meaningful.

She made me feel a lot better.

Thanks, Claire.

/gun