Monday, April 30, 2012
Having raised the spectre of liberal fascism, the guy who coined the phrase a few years ago, Jonah Goldberg, has a new book coming out tomorrow called Tyranny of Cliches, which sounds like it will be adding much needed flesh to the brittle bones of my timorous arguments - depth to my meagre perceptions - I haven't even read 'Liberal Fascism' but apparently it takes a rough bat to the hollow pretentions of liberal ideology - the catechisms of the progressives - the empty jargon they pass off as argumentation, like when they talk about the 'fairness' of taxing the rich, a vacuous conception meant only to rouse suspicion and envy and ignorant sympathy in service of the idealism of charlatans, the anointed ones [I'm looking at you, Clooney] who fancy themselves important because they believe certain things but, seeing as how the belief is an illusion swaddling needy egos, the only way to keep it whole is by tricking everyone else into believing it too. Now, granted, this self serving delusion does come in handy if ones trade is peddling whited sepulchres of fantasy - actors and academics - but you wouldn't want to try and build a real society on such shifting sands. Well, you would if you were a socialist...
