The Huddle Periscope


Cross-posted as a comment to a post by Clark Stooksbury at The American Conservative*
*SVT, on April 15th, 2012 at 5:56 pm Said:
The favorable comments from the likes of Lahti and Tony J are condemnation enough of this post.
A friend, fellow essayist and fellow NA (nihilist anarchist) emailed me recently with thoughts never out of season:

It’s amazing but it seems that THE defining trait of “conservatives” is their overwhelming need to believe and feel that they are persecuted. It seems they need this to make sense of the world and feel okay, it helps them explain to themselves why they are not doing better than they are, or as well as they DESERVE and why the world isn’t the meritocratic place that accords them the proper fruits of their labor and proper degree of recognition and esteem that would otherwise flow from their inherent goodness: it’s because there are so many that have it in for them.

… the people and “analyses” and agendas [they] so [love] and [take] to heart are offered up far more to manipulate [them] and so much less than sincere efforts to Change the World. There is nothing quite so edifying or memorable in this world as the realization that You’ve Been Had; that so many others are opportunistic manipulators who don’t give a rat’s ass (now where the hell does that expression come from?) about you or what you care about but are playing you for their own purposes.

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