Maybe you’re not as clever as you thought
If you spend billions trying to make a place better, and it gets worse, you have an obligation to think about why. Maybe you’re doing it wrong. Maybe you’re not as powerful and clever as you thought you were. Maybe there’s a problem with your formula.
But none of this ever occurs to people like Tom Nichols and Victoria Nuland and for that matter, Joe Biden. The more discredited they are, the more self-confident they become. They see every failure as evidence that their talents are more desperately needed than ever. What is this? Well, it’s called hubris.
Hmmmmmmmm. What does that remind me of. Something…it’s right there, I’ve almost got it. The more they get wrong the more brazen they get…who is that…oh yes I remember! It’s the woman man person camera tv guy, the one with the galactic brain and miraculous talents.
Hubris is the delusion that causes people to mistake themselves for God. They imagine they have power and wisdom and foresight they don’t actually possess, that no human does. Hubris is a species of mental illness. These people are unwell. They’re crazy and there’s nothing more dangerous than that.
Yep. That sounds like Trump all right. Trump does a lot of imagining he has wisdom and foresight that he doesn’t actually have, right out in the open where we can watch him in the act.
Ah, but it is a time honoured and quite effective strategy to accuse your opponents of being and doing all the bad things you are and do yourself. There are no surprises there, none at all.
I wonder if his brain would melt if one of the GC spokeswomen he occasionally interviews told him that probably the biggest demographic of parents pushing their children to transition aren’t Libruls, but white conservative middle class Christians who prefer to have an ersatz ‘daughter’ with a mutilated, non-functioning body, than a gay son?
So Carlson’s just one administation behind. That’s like forgetting to reset your watch when crossing time zones, or getting the whole “Spring forward, fall back” thing mixed up.