This is beautiful.
Tnis is so absolutely and totally accurate. It is especially excellent that he draws the comparison with environmentalism. It is an illness that in years and decades past usually affected only the young, but since the 60s has increasingly permeated all walks of life. This idea that you are doing something somehow noble and helpful merely by declaring yourself to be on a particular side of a particular issue. It’s about making them feel better about themselves. And each other. Liberals love their checklists that determine whether you are a good person or not. If you say enough of the right things, you can get away with anything. See also Kennedy comma Ted.
Here is the transcript:
WALLACE: Do you think that this is significant and helpful and can make progress? Or do you think it’s really about helping the people who tweet the hashtag feel better about themselves?
WILL: Exactly that. It’s an exercise in self esteem. I do not know how adults stand there, facing a camera, and say ‘Bring back our girls.’ Are these barbarians in the wilds of Nigeria supposed to check their Twitter accounts and say, ‘Uh-oh, Michelle Obama is very cross with us, we better change our behavior’?
HUME: It’s trending. It’s trending on Twitter.
WILL: Power is the ability to achieve intended effects, and this is not intended to have any effect on the real world. It’s a little bit like environmentalism has become, the incandescent light bulb becomes the enemy. It has no effect whatever on the planet, but it makes people feel good about themselves.
(H/T Truth Revolt)