Emergent
9th December 2016
Sarah Hoyt is always worth reading.
One of the things that never ceases to amaze me about the left is what I’d call “Sh*t sentimentality” and a crazy desire for the past. Growing up, they made me read jobs about how bad some jobs were: cleaning lady, assembly line, miner, server. BUT now they’re wailing that those jobs will vanish.
There are two keys to this: first, they are truly contemptuous of their fellow men. The modern leftist is not a worker, nor a man of the people, he is an intellectual, someone who did very well in the indoctrination factories we call schools. This encourages him to think anyone who doesn’t think like him is stupid, but more importantly, it encourages him to think anyone who doesn’t do well and mind-and-pen tasks is stupid. I know. I would have succumbed to that temptation if I hadn’t grown up in a village, where there weren’t enough people to insulate me from contact with people in manual professions who, sure, thought I was nuts reading as much as I did, but who could think faster and better than I in non-intellectual/abstract subjects.
And the second is that the left, thinking they’re smarter, think they have an obligation to “look after” the less intellectually fortunate. Which is why they are all bent out of shape about these sh*t jobs disappearing. I mean, yeah, they suck, but how can the left/bureaucrats come up with new jobs to replace the lost ones? How will they look after the unemployed? And how can we not care that technology is killing jobs???? How can we not want to beef up the welfare state to look after these poor people too stupid to do anything else? We’re monsters, I tell you, monsters.