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July 10, 2008
A Definition of Moonbattery
While trying to make sense of Britain's self-induced tailspin, The Brussels Journal shines some light on the motivation of moonbats:
Why is it we constantly see White British liberals attacking not only the British and their culture, but everyone and everything, in the name of anti-racism? Most suggest that they are driven by self-loathing, and this, no doubt, counts for much. They hate British culture, and they are suspicious of the British people — and these more than anything. But, the truth of the matter is that they hate culture, and they are suspicious of humanity itself. They hate high ideals: religion; nation; the flag; virtue; virtus; character; fortitude; justice; honor; freedom of expression; freedom of thought; freedom of conscience. And they are suspicious of anyone who would cultivate himself through them.
In short, moonbattery is the grotesquely pathological condition of hating everything that deserves respect. How else to explain modern liberalism?
On a tip from Rob Banks.
Posted by Van Helsing at July 10, 2008 9:12 AM
Comments
It's difficult and shameful to read, but that small piece of text succinctly sums up those in charge of this proud nation.
Ordinary folk are still proud and are sickened by what the politically correct do-gooders are doing to this country. What I can't understand is how people still swallow the lies every election and vote the same traitors back in.
My fellow Brits, embrace our culture, respect our nations flag and don't be ashamed to be patriotic. (You guy's in the US can teach us a thing or two on these ideals)
Now, something to upset you all in the land of the free as the UK moonbats are turning their attention to things you hold dear. Apparently, we're now teaching British school kids that Elvis was a Gypsy - http://tinyurl.com/67bqvy
Something has got to give over here.
Posted by: essemess at July 10, 2008 10:40 AM
Nicely put, but wrong I think. Roger Scruton has this partiuclar aspect of progressivism much better explained I think. He has coined a term to describe it- "oikophobia"- from the Greek "oikos" meaning "home". What we see is a rejection of the home, the same rejection an adolescent demonstrates when he hates the little one horse town he lives in and wants to get out into the world. It's a conceit in one's own perceived "sophistication"- that foreign things are sophisticated whereas the values of the home are mundane and dreary. Because liberals live their lives in a retarded adolescence, mental Peter Pans who never actually develop a sophisticated understanding of the world, they retain this simplistic view of what sophistication is, associating it with "otherness". The person who is happy with their home and home values is seen as unadventurous, dull, unsophisticated. They're eternal students who never stop their Gap Year, basically, forever eulogising backpacking across the Himalayas compared to the lesser mortals who "just" got a job, raised a family and was happy with their local culture- a life choice which is, to a liberal, "conservative" and thus beyond the pale. Imagine a gang of angst ridden teenagers given the running of your local town council. They'd destroy the town's traditional fabric because it's y'know, like soooooooooo boring. Same thing.
Posted by: Ian from the EUSSR at July 10, 2008 2:14 PM
Nice points guys. Anyway you slice it, liberals just aren't right!
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at July 10, 2008 5:42 PM
"Oikophobia." I like it. It's certainly part of the pathology, and maybe the preeminent part in many cases. I suggest another part: that is, the deep unadmitted sense of sharing the values in question, accompanied by the deep unadmitted knowledge that they don't live up to these values, and that others do, and that they look very bad by comparison--even (especially?) in their own eyes. Is there a word for "self-o-phobia?"
Posted by: Jules Bernard at July 10, 2008 9:51 PM
Brittan isn't America. Last week we got the Second Amendment right to have assault rifles. This week we got "probable cause" stripped from the Fourth Amendment. Now we can spy on all Americans and shoot at the ones talking trash against us.
Posted by: Who's yer Army Dad? at July 10, 2008 11:46 PM
WHO'S YER:
"Brittan isn't America."
Who said it was?
"Last week we got the Second Amendment right to have assault rifles."
Assault rifles are classed as MACHINEGUNS and are therefore regulated (STILL) by the Federal firearms Act of 1934, passed NINE YEARS before their invention. You still need a Class 3 license to own a machinegun.
"This week we got "probable cause" stripped from the Fourth Amendment. Now we can spy on all Americans and shoot at the ones talking trash against us."
That is bullSPIT and you know it. If you REALLY believed that, you would not be posting your LIES, instead you would have thrown your computer into the ocean and hid out in a mountain cabin.
Posted by: KHarn at July 11, 2008 10:37 AM
@Ian from the EUSSR
Yes, I've read Scruton's speech to the Vlaams Belang. (Actually, I sought out his work after you'd mentioned him some time ago - I thank you for that!) But I don't see that this piece contradicts Scruton. Rather, it amplifies his description. Two different aspects of the same beast.
Posted by: Rob Banks at July 12, 2008 2:26 AM
