Wanker of the Day: Ruth Wisse

[phantom power]

For writing an article concern-trolling everybody who is pissed off at our Galtian Overlords for failing upward, stealing most of the last 30 years worth of economic growth, and then lobbying Congress to shred our social safety net, as being morally equivalent to fucking brownshirts.

Piss off, Ruth.

My point is broader: Stoking class envy is a step in a familiar, dangerous and highly incendiary process. Any ideology or movement, right or left, that is organized negatively—against rather than for—enjoys an inherent advantage in politics, mobilizing unappeasable energies that never have to default on their announced goal of cleansing the body politic of its alleged poisons.

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303942404579360632011640384

[Orsino]

1. So say the aristos in every era.

Change is bad, and they are the real victims, etc.