In the 1950s and 1960s, every "progressive" Southerner
worshipped New York City.
As usual, I could see back then what was coming, and
as always I regarded these Southern liberals with absolute
puzzlement. I could not imagine how grownups who could
read could possibly be such obvious fools. I saw that
New York was about to come apart, yet Southern turncoats
regarded them with an open-mouthed, drooling adoration.
In the 1960s, when a girl was slowly stabbed to death
in New York while hundreds of New Yorkers stayed in their
apartments and didn't even call the police, this astonished
all the New York worshippers.
What amazed me was why this incident should have surprised
anybody.
New Yorkers were unprejudiced people. Unprejudiced people
don't like to get involved.
As unprejudiced people, New Yorkers only got excited
abut issues liberals allowed them to get excited about.
They have learned not to be concerned about anything liberals
do not get excited about. It may bother you to see a mixed
couple, but you have been trained that you have no right
to an opinion on that.
So you don't get involved. This would strike earlier
Americans as odd, but they were a bunch of bigots anyway.
Another place which was admired by liberals in the 1960s
was the unprejudiced, brown land called Brazil. I knew
that Brazil was a smelly hole where dogs and abandoned
children roamed the streets starving. But in the 1950s,
liberals worshipped the place becuse there was no racial
prejudice there.
Even as a child I could not imagine how any literate
adult could regard BRAZIL with the drooling adoration
every Southern turncoat expressed as loudly as possible.
Brazilians are unprejudiced people. They don't want to
get involved.
Look at the Catholic bishops. For decades, they never
gave a damn about raped little boys. But they were out
there fighting for racial busing and against capital punishment.
They were concerned about what they were told to be concerned
with, and they were otherwise perfect sociopaths. That's
how they got to be bishops.
You can't become a general or a politician or a bishop
of any church today if you are not a sociopath. You can't
have the gut feelings your masters denounce, and to have
no gut feelings except the ones you are allowed requires
a sociopath.
Once you allow someone to tell you which of your feelings
is a prejudice and which is a preference, you make that
someone your master.
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