Gentility

A cornerstone of the Fabian method is to accuse those who oppose their radical agenda of being IMPOLITE.  Given the Bernard Shaw and the Webbs were ardent advocates of totalitarianism, mass murder, the eradication of political and individual freedom, and were more less open cheerleaders not just for Lenin and Stalin, but also Hitler and Mussolini, the TRUTH of course is that THEY were the brutal ones.

But evil can have a genteel face–as the Rolling Stones put it, the Devil is a “man of wealth and taste”–and the task of the Good person, the genuinely good person, the person who has marshalled all of his or her resources to the task of ACTUALLY improving human life (which first and foremost includes creating more opportunities for people to improve their own lives and that of those around them) is to OPPOSE this evil as needed, where needed, and using whatever methods actually WORK.

From time to time I make contact with a warrior persona in me.  It is not pretty.  This man has scars on his face and body, is hard and cold–cruel even; you don’t want him at a cocktail party because he will either offend the women or get in a fight with the men.  He is absolutely fearless, utterly determined, ruthless, and cunning.  When you want to fight a war, this is who you want to do it.  People like this are invaluable in that context, but they scare the crap out of people the rest of the time.  They are not human in the normal way.  They are not genteel.  It does not even occur to them to care about social niceties.

In some respects, I do not think it inappropriate to say we are fighting a war against the habit of being habitually NICE, of backing down whenever some de facto sociopath pretends to take umbrage at his latest seizure of a liberty, in the name of civility.

Civility is being used against us.  We can see this whenever Leftwing Sadeists claim that opposing them is opposing feeding hungry children or old people.  What we must REMEMBER is that it is THEIR policies which make children hungry, THEIR policies which make saving for old age difficult to impossible.  THEY are the ones who are actually doing all the things that they accuse conservatives of.

Never forget this.  I will put this simply: if you are incapable of saying FUCK YOU, then you are in my view constrained in your possible exercise of Goodness as I conceive it.