FOR EXAMPLE: (excertped from the Unabomber Manifesto)
1. Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of
being strong, good and successful. They hate
America, they hate Western civilization, they hate
white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that
leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not
correspond with their real motives. They SAY they
hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic,
sexist, ethnocentric and so forth, but where these
same faults appear in socialist countries or in
primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or
at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist;
whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and
often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they
appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that
these faults are not the leftist's real motive for hating
America and the West. He hates America and the
West because they are strong and successful.
2. Words like "self-confidence," "self-reliance,"
"initiative," "enterprise," "optimism," etc., play little
role in the liberal and leftist vocabulary. The leftist is
anti-individualistic, pro-collectivist. He wants society
to solve every one's problems for them, satisfy
everyone's needs for them, take care of them. He is
not the sort of person who has an inner sense of
confidence in his ability to solve his own problems
and satisfy his own needs. The leftist is antagohistic
to the concept of competition because, deep inside,
he feels like a loser.
3. Modern leftish philosophers tend to dismiss
reason, science, objective reality and to insist that
everything is culturally relative. It is true that one can
ask serious questions about the foundations of
scientific knowledge and about how, if at all, the
concept of objective reality can be defined. But it is
obvious that modern leftish philosophers are not
simply cool-headed logicians systematically
analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are
deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth
and reality. They attack these concepts because of
their own psychological needs. For one thing, their
attack is an outlet for hostility, and, to the extent
that it is successful, it satisfies the drive for power.
More importantly, the leftist hates science and
rationality because they classify certain beliefs as
true (i.e., successful, superior) and other beliefs as
false (i.e., failed, inferior). The leftist's feelings of
inferiority run so deep that he cannot tolerate any
classification of some things as successful or superior
and other things as failed or inferior. This also
underlies the rejection by many leftists of the concept
of mental illness and of the utility of IQ tests. Leftists
are antagonistic to genetic explanations of human
abilities or behavior because such explanations tend
to make some persons appear superior or inferior to
others. Leftists prefer to give society the credit or
blame for an individual's ability or lack of it. Thus if a
person is "inferior" it is not his fault, but society's,
because he has not been brought up properly.
4. If our society had no social problems at all, the
leftists would have to INVENT problems in order to
provide themselves with an excuse for making a fuss.
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