Self-Knowledge is So Troublesome
The Guardian’s Zoe Williams once again imparts her infinite wisdom:
I would like to see shops treated a bit more like shoplifters – prosecuted for dishonesty even when it seems petty – and shoplifters treated a bit more like shops.
Yes, I know. Its profundity resists mere human comprehension. The gnomic nugget above is from a piece, the headline of which insists “the world is run by sociopaths,” and in which our moral guru airs her belief that “the successful entrepreneur or innovator will be sociopathic.” This, you’ll remember, is the same Zoe Williams who believes that rich people helping Romanian orphans and funding the distribution of retroviral drugs in Africa is a Very Bad Thing™ because giving money away “creates inequality.” Dear sweet Zoe, who values “moral clarity,” therefore likes to imagine how upscale charity galas, which raise millions for such causes, might be made more amusing and congenial if those doing the giving suffered some hilarious physical injury.
When not wishing injury on people richer than herself, our high-minded Guardianista spends her afternoons conjuring scenarios reminiscent of the Soviet Union circa the 1920s, in which parents who can no longer afford to send their children to private schools are “whittled out” and ritually humilated on entering the state system. You see, preferring private education (even if you can no longer afford it) is sinful and must be punished. By people like Zoe, whose own education was at Godolphin and Latymer, where the list of extracurricular activities includes visits to Rome and Morocco and an eight-day tour of Barbados, and whose own children, named Thurston and Harper, are no doubt thriving at the local comprehensive.
Oh, and lest we forget, this is the same Zoe Williams whose most famous written line is, or certainly should be,
We’re lucky she’s there to show us the way.
Yikes! That’s some weapons grade stupidity. She herself is meaningless but that a group publishes are “thoughts” and that they are not uncommon is a serious indictment of the root of the euro-socialist mentality.
because giving money away “creates inequality.”
That’s still one of my favourites.
People like her make me think Pinochet had it right.
It is quite funny to see the term “sociopath” been thrown around so freely by someone who delights in echoing the playbook of the 1920s Soviet Union and who gloats at the misfortune of parents who can’t quite afford the education they’d hoped to provide for their children. And this gloating is presented to readers as the measure of socialist virtue.
As I’ve said before, education is one of those areas in which the underlying urges become all too apparent.
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It’s important to note that Zoe’s attitude on this subject is by no means uncommon among her colleagues at the Guardian. See also the shamelessly dissembling Arabella Weir, or Polly Toynbee, or George Monbiot, or Kevin McKenna, and note the avalanche of bile and spite aimed at the paper’s own Janet Murray, an education journalist who dared to spare her daughter from state schooling.
Business is increasingly presented as a quixotic, ungovernable process…
If business really were “quixotic” then it would be undertaken by hopeless romantics, not sociopaths, and would be doomed to failure.
http://order-order.com/2014/11/17/watch-left-unity-debates-backing-isis-jihadis-a-stabilising-force-with-progressive-potential/
Why is all of this starting to remind me of little boys having a farting contest?
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/17/stop-calling-me-ebola-nurse-kaci-hickox
She picked a good day to write…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/a-doctors-mistaken-ebola-test-we-were-celebrating–then-everything-fell-apart/2014/11/16/946a84da-6dd5-11e4-a2c2-478179fd0489_story.html
‘We could call it Ofcheese. I will happily take charge of that, when the time comes.’
Of course you will.
@ ac1
RE Kaci Hicox article in Guardian.
This from a few days ago.
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/10/breaking-ebola-nurses-ties-to-cdc-scrubbed-from-website-is-far-left-progressive-obama-supporter/
Thurston, really? And I thought I was a Gilligan’s Island fan!
This, you’ll remember, is the same Zoe Williams who believes that rich people helping Romanian orphans
I remember a similarly insufferable, self-righteous prig as an undergraduate. Privately educated (of course) he had all the right-on views of the early 90s and ambitions to be ordained as an Anglican minister (thankfully even they found him insufferable and declined his application). He was similarly aghast that individual rich Westerners would want to adopt these waifs. He felt they’d be much better off in an institution run by ‘a committee’.
He was somewhat put out when asked if he’d prefer to have been cared for by ‘a committee’ than the caring family he’d grown up in (his parents were really nice people) who had gone to the expense of putting him through a rather good school.
Once you realize that with these types, it’s all about knowing one’s place, then you understand everything. For Ms. Williams, we all have our designated roles. Hers is to be the Grand Poohbah-ette over the rest of us schlubs. Woe to those who wish to rise above their designated station!
Thurston, really? And I thought I was a Gilligan’s Island fan!
Bingo. Yes, that one was indeed just too easy . . .
Wait until she gets her electric bill. The shrieking will go supersonic.
Can I call her a dumb bitch, or is playful wit only called for on this blog?
and shoplifters treated a bit more like shops.
Does this mean that shoplifters will have to start paying council rates?
Is the purpose of Teh Graun to show what happens when monkeys sit at typewriters?
“The world is run by sociopaths”
I can’t speak for the world, but The Guardian is the paper of the Establishment in Britain.