Sultan Knish blog
by Daniel Greenfield
March 4, 2013

Suppose that you are a Soviet agent in the 1950s. Your cover is that of an insurance salesman. Of your two "jobs", the Soviet agent part is more important, but you need to be a good insurance salesman to maintain your cover.

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http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/2013/03/...beral-mind.html

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They have forgotten how to think about things, but they are very good at thinking about how to convince others of those things. They no longer explore ideas, they only missionize. They are great marketers, but failed intellectuals. Their only skill set is a social media strategy backed by the right font choices. They can convince people to do something, but they can't ask whether the thing should be done.

The American liberal of the age is dead from the neck up. A member of the elite, he rules, but has no talent for it. Like the Bolsheviks, he is adept at blaming others for everything and at manufacturing simple slogans. And like them he thinks only in terms of crude power, of control and leverage, without understanding why his intellectual predecessors abandoned such revolutionary tactics in favor of institutional influence.

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Something that I wonder about from time to time -- do these people (the ones Greenfield is writing about) ever have any pangs of conscience? As they lie in bed before falling asleep, or perhaps as they rinse the shampoo from their hair in the shower, do they ever have thoughts that creep into their minds that give them pause to question exactly what it is that they are doing, and why?

I've never been a bank robber but I always imagined that once they are done with the heist, back in their lair with the odds looking favorably to them that they "got away with this one," does conscience ever enter the picture? Even if it they have become very adept at brushing it aside with what ever distorted justification they choose to validate their choices, is there a little voice that whispers to them about the fact that they have committed a crime? Do cold-blooded murderers (let's use a contract hit man for example) ever hear that little voice chastising them for their act of taking a human life with no moral or legal justification?

While I've never committed murder or robbed a bank, I certainly have done wrong in my lifetime, and my conscience has always been there, nagging, prodding, and bothering. Does it have a term limit for some personality types? Does it cease to exist after a certain amount of time of being ignored, cursed, or deadened with an opiate of choice? Does the ideology and its goals become more powerful of a force that it basically silences conscience for all intents and purposes?

Think about the top 3 villains (in your mind's definition) that are actively destroying this country on a daily basis, do you think that any of them have, at least an occasional, pang of conscience about what they have done yesterday or about to do today? As I said above, it is something that I wonder about from time to time.

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I've never been a bank robber but I always imagined that once they are done with the heist, back in their lair with the odds looking favorably to them that they "got away with this one," does conscience ever enter the picture? Even if it they have become very adept at brushing it aside with what ever distorted justification they choose to validate their choices, is there a little voice that whispers to them about the fact that they have committed a crime? Do cold-blooded murderers (let's use a contract hit man for example) ever hear that little voice chastising them for their act of taking a human life with no moral or legal justification?

While I've never committed murder or robbed a bank, I certainly have done wrong in my lifetime, and my conscience has always been there, nagging, prodding, and bothering. Does it have a term limit for some personality types? Does it cease to exist after a certain amount of time of being ignored, cursed, or deadened with an opiate of choice? Does the ideology and its goals become more powerful of a force that it basically silences conscience for all intents and purposes?

Think about the top 3 villains (in your mind's definition) that are actively destroying this country on a daily basis, do you think that any of them have, at least an occasional, pang of conscience about what they have done yesterday or about to do today? As I said above, it is something that I wonder about from time to time.

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