Posted by
Mark McConnell on Tuesday, September 04, 2007 5:32:18 PM
In the real world, the murderer was considered insane, who does not recognize that it's wrong to murder. The pederast who thinks that he's helping the children he abuses was considered seriously deluded, a moral cripple. In reality, when we encountered someone who practices what is wrong without insight into his guilt, we called that person a dangerous sociopath. In real life, what is more scary than someone who doesn't know the difference between right and wrong? But reality is being left behind.
In real life, people had moral standards to which they did not
perfectly adhere. For example, we used to have people who promised life-long
fidelity to one partner (of the opposite sex); and shamefully, many of
these people failed. It was not judged wrong that they acknowledged moral standards to which they later failed to
adhere in practice. What used to be wrong was, to attack moral
standards because they did not accord with one's desires. To lower the idea of right and wrong in order to justify actions was labeled moral degeneracy. That's in the past. Now, reality has been abandoned for politics.
Here, in politics, it's a virtue to lack a conscience. People with a conscience fail, producing an experience of "guilt"; and in politics - as opposed to reality - to have a guilty conscience is the moral failure called "hypocrisy". To avoid "hypocrisy" - the only moral failure left in politics - one must have no moral standards to which you would fail to attain.
Now that all of life is politics, we all are sociopaths, and things are so much better. Ideas of guilt and responsibility, that belonged to reality, are being replaced with glorious victimhood which makes heroes of us all. In politics, people with a conscience, who uphold a moral standard even if they do not consistently live according to it, are the scary ones: these are the "hypocrites". The courageous are those who throw away these notions and boldly laud what is, in reality, debased. But soon, if only we can leave reality behind completely, politics will be the way everything is done. In politics, the goal is to purge hypocrisy. And then, the world will live as one. Imagine.