Dennis Prager finds grave fault with Leftists. They consider themselves virtuous because they seek to change the world. Their failure to battle with their corrupt selves reveals their callowness, their corruption, their inability and unwillingness to know, confront and manage their own significant flaws.
But Dennis correctly points out that people are not basically good, so to be good and become good one must fight oneself, fight one’s own nature.
This is the brand of egoism that I support. You do not improve the world by seeking change out there in the world. You must solve moral problems one person at a time, and each agent must fight that battle with himself, no one can do it for him, and he cannot fight to improve the nature of another person.
As people maverize, they will be fighting with and gaining victory over their own natures. That is the coming real moral revolution. If and as enough individuals change, really change, one person at a time, that is the only way to change the world.
Collective, global reforms are mostly doomed to failure.
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