THE EQUATION THAT EXPLAINS EVIL!
IN PURSUIT OF THE TRUTH - HTTP://WWW.CINOPSBEGONE.BLOGSPOT.COM - THURS. SEP. 19/19
DENNIS PRAGER, SEP. 10, 2019 IN TOWNHALL
"Our age loves scientific equations. Here's one you weren't taught at college but which affects you as much as the law of gravity. GI - W = E
Good Intentions (GI) minus Wisdom (W) leads to Evil (E)
You weren't taught this rule at college because the modern university believes only science has rules. "Rules of life" is another term for wisdom, and there is no wisdom - or even pursuit of wisdom - at our universities. "Ingratitude makes happiness impossible." + "Human nature is not basically good." + "Corrupt people think everyone else is as corrupt as they are." + "Feelings are far less important than actions." + "Most men need a woman to mature. Most women need a man to mature."
The list is long. And the more life rules people know and live by the better they'll be. - the better the world would be. There is a reason Jordan Peterson's book "12 Rules for Life" has sold millions of copies, mostly to young people. It is the same reason PragerU has a billion views each year, mostly from young people under 35. Many young people are sensing that they have been cheated by the adults that have taught them, for example, to pursue self-esteem rather than self-control - a "rule" guaranteed to lead to moral and professional failure.
But one rule almost no one was taught, that explains the most organized evil and the left in particular, from the Bolsheviks to Mao to Castro to Chavez by your every day leftist in New York or Iowa: Good intentions without wisdom leads to evil.
Communism, the greatest mass murder ideology in history, was for almost all its rank-and-file supporters rooted in their desire to do good. (This was rarely true for its leaders, whose greatest desire was power.) The many millions of people all over the world who supported communism did not think they were supporting unprecedented levels of mass murder and torture or an equally unprecedented deprivation of the most fundamental human rights of a substantial percentage of humanity.
They thought they were moral, building a beautiful future for humanity -- eliminating inequality, enabling people to work as hard or as little as they wanted, providing their fellow citizens ...that they were good because their motives were good. That's why leftists have such moral contempt for those who differ with them. Because those on the left are so good, only bad human beings could possibly oppose them. That is the position of virtually every editor and columnist at the New York Times. ...
Tens of millions of well-intentioned westerners supported Stalin. The Westerners who supplied Stalin the secrets to the atomic bomb were not motivated by evil. They were simply fools. But few evil people did as much to hurt the world as they did. They are fools partly because they believe good intentions are all that matter....
Democrats who push the country-bankrupting Green New Deal provide a contemporary example. They not only deny the economy and society - crushing consequences of the Green New Deal, they deny any price will be (that may be paid.)... If the Green New Deal is enacted, the American economy will tank - and with it, much of the rest of the world. Tyrannies like China and Iran will be emboldened, as will dictatorships like Russia. On every issue in which the left differs from conservatives (and often from liberals), they are fools.
They routinely label the beacons of freedom on Earth as racist, misogynistic, homophobic, imperialistic, genocidal; cheapen the label "Nazi"; promote all-black dorms and graduation; promote preteen boys' performing drag shows; tell young women career is more important to happiness than marriage; believe a country can remain a distinct nation with open boarders; condemn parents who try to reassure their 3-year-old son that he is a boy; and ruin the university, the arts, late-night comedy, pro-football and religion.... But they mean well."
George H. Kubeck
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