tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post5356256233457690800..comments2024-03-28T13:47:08.047-04:00Comments on Daniel Greenfield / Sultan Knish Articles at DanielGreenfield.org : The United States of GuiltDaniel Greenfieldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13575285186581875356noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-57132878926538628622013-07-03T20:38:52.708-04:002013-07-03T20:38:52.708-04:00Bartering with any virtuos American is my virtue. ...Bartering with any virtuos American is my virtue. Guilt may yet destroy us, great article to ponder.Larshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13244208740850193859noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-30387129560679517072013-07-03T05:28:10.425-04:002013-07-03T05:28:10.425-04:00except those high-achievers totting back organic f...<i><br />except those high-achievers totting back organic fair trade groceries in reusable Amnesty International bags ...<br /></i><br /><br />after cashing their trust-fund checks, of course.fsynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-61449719477746661392013-07-02T09:23:05.090-04:002013-07-02T09:23:05.090-04:00Wow! Never thought of it that way.
You are correct...Wow! Never thought of it that way.<br />You are correct.<br />Guess my problem has been that I have been uncritical and never felt much guilt.<br />Great writing!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-55781097222923230132013-07-02T08:38:18.025-04:002013-07-02T08:38:18.025-04:00I guess that makes me a sociopath, because I don&#...I guess that makes me a sociopath, because I don't feel any of this guilt at all. It is the sign of weak minds that they are so easily duped into being a Progressive. As scandal after scandal surfaces with this administration and the rank in file Progs continue circling the wagons, it is starting to appear as if these people have Stockholm Syndrome. They are protecting their own oppressors.AGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-62421797760177030662013-07-02T08:22:46.431-04:002013-07-02T08:22:46.431-04:00Guilt and pathological altruism... the arrogant el...Guilt and pathological altruism... the arrogant elitist cynics of the State know how to easily manipulate the useful idiots who unquestioningly buy into it. <br /><br />The following recent paper may be of interest in this regard...<br /><a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/06/04/1302547110.full.pdf/" rel="nofollow">Concepts and Implications of Altruism Bias and Pathological Altruism</a>, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.Conservative Language Institute of Americanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-4817048052476160712013-07-02T07:10:28.410-04:002013-07-02T07:10:28.410-04:00It's an America where veterans are considered ...It's an America where veterans are considered terrorists by the country they fought to defend, and you can't speak your mind without being labeled as a bigot if you disagree with the progressive stance that keeps racism alive with programs that never work and never will. Treason and bleeding us dry is the new program they follow.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09518677967627217789noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-38610128540582160252013-07-02T02:55:36.178-04:002013-07-02T02:55:36.178-04:00You missed an important component of the problem--...You missed an important component of the problem--the supernatural part.<br /><br />Guilt is something natural, that arises from conscience, when a man does something he knows he ought not to do, something that is against natural law and God's law.<br /><br />Because modern Americans, especially those on the Left, are so thoroughly depraved morally, they are continuously afflicted with guilt. <br /><br />The Left does not impose its own guilt. It merely proposes to sublimate the natural guilt felt by the depraved into outlets where expiation comes cheap and easy. As cheap and easy as casting a vote, or sticking on a bumper sticker, or wearing a t-shirt. They are offering their own alternative to the sacrificial Lamb, because they hate the sacrificial Lamb.<br /><br />Those of us who try to live a life of virtue cannot possibly be affected by such nonsense.Naresh Krishnamoortinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-44017306932678378912013-07-01T23:08:42.740-04:002013-07-01T23:08:42.740-04:00Great article. Wrong headed guilt is overwhelming ...Great article. Wrong headed guilt is overwhelming the nation.Chana @ Lemon Lime Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11656854855385193867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-90407138396259953732013-07-01T21:50:26.832-04:002013-07-01T21:50:26.832-04:00It is true that there are Americans who can be and...It is true that there are Americans who can be and are manipulated with unearned guilt. And it is true that the progressives and their allies hate America not for her faults, but for her virtues. In fact, that is the depth of their depravity, that they hate the good BECAUSE it is good, and they are put to shame before it. <br /><br />But that is not the whole story, nor is it the final word. There are still places in which the Spirit of America still dwells because it lives in the lives and work of the people who nurture good and sustain virtue. I see it in the daily lives of ranchers and truckers, teachers and engineers. And today I heard America's voice in the midst of the raging fires, where men and women put their lives on the line with fierce pride in their own power to bend it to their will. <br /><br />That is the Spirit of America. And I will never stop recounting her virtues for the edification of my children and grandchildren out of fear of some weak and sorry progressive notion of guilt. And there are many like me, who refuse to live our lives in thrall to unearned guilt. <br /><br />So be strong, Daniel, and may we all be strengthened. For all is not yet lost, and will not be so long as there are those of us who will give our utmost to take pride in our work and lives, and in the values of this great country that we love and would gladly give our lives to save. Elisheva Hannah Levinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16061377724926154037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-6062575257937676122013-07-01T17:51:21.692-04:002013-07-01T17:51:21.692-04:00On a related note, on this 150th anniversary of th...On a related note, on this 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, I think we can see that the North lost the war. <br /><br />Blacks are again enslaved just as before by Democrats. Everywhere blacks go, anywhere blacks go in this great country of ours, Democrats have ensured they will be judged by the color of their skin rather than the content of their character.tamsinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-45944270415629170552013-07-01T16:42:54.205-04:002013-07-01T16:42:54.205-04:00Good stuff, but it isn't just a feeling of sel...Good stuff, but it isn't just a feeling of self-guilt as such that dictates our way of life (though it does play a big part in modern Western thinking) but a desire to find the guilty among our own peoples while excusing the obvious and naked guilt of other 'cultures.'<br /><br />Those barbaric people who want to end our way of life are marked by a complete lack of guilt either for past atrocities or current horrors, so it is fair to assume that they will feel no guilt after having toiled to bring the whole house of cards tumbling down (but then they come from a squalid background so more squalor is probably no reason to feel guilty).<br /><br />These non-guilt-thinkers however cannot believe we are so virulent in finding our own people guilty of anything, from thinking or talking freely to the way we want to protect our own kind. We do so much of their job for the hordes already I suppose no one, not even the rabble, should be surprised.<br /><br />While we go on feeling guilty about not being guilty enough, thankfully we have leaders and experts who can still jab a very accusing finger at our own people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11368628.post-30242354878868257992013-07-01T12:13:30.646-04:002013-07-01T12:13:30.646-04:00Thank you for writing this. The beauty of this es...Thank you for writing this. The beauty of this essay is that many of us can recognize, stitched together and made whole, the fragmentary thoughts that have been rattling around in our heads and hearts.mushroomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07651027035577798096noreply@blogger.com