A momentary flash of insight into that great abyss, the "progressive" mind

"I don't think you know it yet, but you have won," Glenn Beck tells viewers this afternoon, understandably gloating a bit at the collectivist navel-gazing left's continuing incomprehension of this "predominantly white" "Restoring America" thing that went off without a hitch — not a scrap of litter left behind for others to pick up — on Saturday (above). "They believe in the Liberation Theology of oppressor and victim. You don't. You don't have self-pity," he added. "The top GOP leaders in Washington need to prove that they are worthy of it. The Third Great Awakening is what it's all about, and you are living history."

"From within her effete elitist bubble Arianna Huffington preaches open-mindedness," we twittered awhile ago in a momentary flash of insight into that great abyss, the "progressive" mind. The words of Yale President Rick Levin's welcome speech to her daughter's class of incoming freshmen —  boilerplate to this tragic-view tea partier's tempered ears — had touched something deep within the dense utopian thicket of Mrs. Huffington's narrative-spinning apparatus, leading her to conflate Glenn Beck and President Obama in a grand unified theory about "the Hunger for Purpose in Times of Transition." Apparently unaware that "diversity" on campus is code for color of skin rather than content of character, she gushed:

Levin pointed out how the students "come from all 50 states and 58 nations" and urged them (and their parents) to go "entirely outside the range of your past experience," and "stretch yourself." "If the friends you make here are exclusively those who come from backgrounds just like your own and went to high schools just like your own," he said, "you will have forfeited half the value of a Yale education. Seek out friends with different histories and different interests; you will find that you learn the most from the people least like you."

As long as you toe the pc party line, of course. Diversity of world views need not apply. From there the HuffPo poobah-ette stumbled unwittingly into an embryonic if inchoate premonition of subsidiarian federalism:

"It's becoming clearer by the day that whatever 'good life' the country is going to have in the future, it's not going to be delivered by consumption — and, in the foreseeable future, it is unlikely to be delivered by Washington. The new "good life" will have to be "reasoned together" by all of us and forged together in our own communities and in our own families. As Obama said in 2006, "solving these problems will require changes in government policy, but it will also require changes in hearts and a change in minds."

That's where the rest of the country — Obama's "backwoods" tribes of bitter losers who "cling to guns or religion … as a way to explain their frustrations" — have been forever. You just weren't listening, Arianna & Company, including the Northeast Corridor fuddy-duddies of the establishment GOP, who still don't seem to get it. That's why it's a revelation for Arianna to have once been blind but now she sees:

"The challenge is to imagine a politics that takes moral and spiritual questions seriously," says Sandel, "but brings them to bear on broad economic and civic concerns, not only on sex and abortion." Justice, he writes, "is not only about the right way to distribute things. It is also about the right way to value things."

Crossposted at Riehl World View and Liberty Pundits.

Comments

[goomp]

Here is to more ignorant intellectuals seeing the light of freedom.

[retriever]

Another great post, Sissy. Sometimes I get so furious with a kid at one of the other Ivies who was initially somewhat dazzled by all that twaddle. 50K a year to have them brainwashed to despise everything we cherish and struggle to defend and advance. Of course, in my case, it's the loss of religious faith by the young that bothers me even more than their asinine liberal politics. After all, I was pretty liberal in my youth, but I saw the light eventually... It really is the same message in each school. And each of the kids indoctrinated is so convinced they are such individuals...).

[sfadfsdf]

It will be awesome when the third great awakening ends like the others, in a period of high-rolling hedonism and cultural florescence. I for one hope to still have the spirit to tie one on when the people lose their appetite for charlatan god-spouters and greedy hypocrites, like they did many times in the past. Great wheel of history and all.

[KingShamus]

Forgive me for being mean to Arianna, but she stinks on ice. Never has original thought dared to show itself in the feeble mindscape of Arianna Huffington. She's a simpleton masquerading as our intellectual superior. Even when she was a 'conservative', it was strictly a marriage of convenience-a subject Ms. Huffington has become quite comfortable with, by the way.

If she's made any progress on the road to sanity, it will quickly be erased. She'll ease herself back into the effete elistist bubble in no time. That's where all her friends and financial backers are after all.

[M4Miles]

The Huffington post comment section is like one hand clapping in the wind. One hand just goes through the air, not striking the other hand and therefore does not make the noise of a hand clap. You see one hand representing one point of view is most times all that is allowed in the Huffington post comment sections.

Don't believe me try posting something of knowledge that contradicts a Huffington story or article in their comment section; odds are the contradicting knowledgeable comment will not be published.

The reason is that the Huffington post believes they know what freedom of speech is all about. To them it is about their point of view, only.

So they will keep on writting their articles with one hand in the wind, never letting an opposing hand in the area.

They fear of a loud hand clapping noise where true free speech is born. A noise that clashes as various points of view sound out the truth.

[M4Miles]

Did you notice that writting is spelled wrong. Now if that were a Huf. article and I pointed it out that writting should be writing in their comment section, so much for freedom of speech.