I have a habit of spending long stretches of time in Wikipedia, clicking on person after person, place after place, etc., reading and learning about this and that. Anyways, I was just reading about this guy (it somehow started on a page on Boston's "Big Dig") and found this to be perfect about the mindset of the anarchist/communist/liberal (and yes, I could go on and on about the typical mindset of the opposite as well).
Many have this mindset of intellectual superiority (hmmm, do we know anyone like this here?), knowing exactly how to help those below them, how to dictate to them how to live, how to pity them as victims (Masters of the Liberal Plantation) but they are really, deep down repulsed by them and have no interest in spending a moment with them in a personal situation. How true (and yes, maybe many of the complete opposite mindset feel the same way but this, to me, so epitomizes the progressive, left mindset and attitude ... like some I know "I am going to do everything I can to help minorities but I will definitely cross the road to walk on the other side if a black man is approaching me).
To quote from the Wiki page, "As he gets to know the other prisoners, he has nothing but disdain and disgust for them as people, though he sees them as victims of an unjust system. "They are not of my world", he writes. "I would aid them", he says, being "duty bound to the victims of social injustice. But I cannot be friends with them ... they touch no chord in my heart."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Memoirs_of_an_Anarchist
Many have this mindset of intellectual superiority (hmmm, do we know anyone like this here?), knowing exactly how to help those below them, how to dictate to them how to live, how to pity them as victims (Masters of the Liberal Plantation) but they are really, deep down repulsed by them and have no interest in spending a moment with them in a personal situation. How true (and yes, maybe many of the complete opposite mindset feel the same way but this, to me, so epitomizes the progressive, left mindset and attitude ... like some I know "I am going to do everything I can to help minorities but I will definitely cross the road to walk on the other side if a black man is approaching me).
To quote from the Wiki page, "As he gets to know the other prisoners, he has nothing but disdain and disgust for them as people, though he sees them as victims of an unjust system. "They are not of my world", he writes. "I would aid them", he says, being "duty bound to the victims of social injustice. But I cannot be friends with them ... they touch no chord in my heart."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prison_Memoirs_of_an_Anarchist
