Watching The Handmaid Tale has made me realize something fundamental about the liberal mind. Conservatives are viewed as a box into which all the evil of the world is projected. The conservative is the jackboot, the goose-stepper, the monster, the one that gives them feels.
and so pathologically narcissistic. In fact I think that is the one thing that all western ideology has in common, that all communism and capitalism has in common. I think that is western civilizations defining thing: narcissism. It's narcissistic to believe in a personal
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transcendental God. It's narcissistic to believe in social justice. It's narcissistic to think that one is equal. It's narcissistic to think that one's own petty rights matter. Consumerism and capitalism is narcissistic. Communism, with it focus on liberation, is narcissistic.
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Real objectivity comes from the transcendental realization that YOU DON'T MATTER. This is what is being articulated when we say "Gnon." Women's rights are narcissistic. Freedom is narcissistic. Abstract moral principles — as opposed to personal loyalties to king or client, are
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narcissistic. The tribe is everything and the man is nothing.
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