Chicken or Egg?
11th July 2010
Over the past few years I’ve been able to observe first hand the devolution of a person into a liberal. My findings are not surprising but I thought I would share them with you.
Of course it doesn’t take a genius to conclude that if one is allowed to blame upbringing for conservatism and portray that negatively, one should not simultaneously be allowed to exalt liberal indoctrination at college campuses as though it were the product of free thought. If the family environment creates a conservative, and the college environment creates a liberal, shouldn’t we view any “creation” process in equal terms? Of course not, because a small house in the hills of Appalachia is a den of ignorance to be derided whereas the shimmering ivory Berkeley campus is a palace of worship deserving of all praise. In the eyes of a liberal, anyway. Once made, a liberal must fall over themselves to help these poor unforunate ignoramuses who live in places other than metro areas think and be just like them. Interesting contradiction, don’t you think?
Since I have known her, she becomes more liberal by the day. And I find that each liberal virtue she extolls seems to originate in her mind only after the virtue is in someway relevant to her. I won’t go into the details – use your imagination.
Another less positive way to put it would be like this: the more she fails at life, the more liberal she becomes. It would appear that her liberal beliefs emerge only to justify a course in life she’s already chosen to take. Her beliefs did not arise independently. They exist only as an excuse to justify actions in the past. Or as a justification for why she isn’t doing what the rest of us are doing, such as respectably contributing to our civilization. As opposed to whining about it.