Be Reasonable

 

Marxists and Progressives correctly criticize that America is not perfect, and they are right about that, but factually speaking, it is a pretty good place, and just about as well as can be expected for a people on earth at this time.

 

Fanatics and moral purists and uncompromising idealists expect perfection from Americans, or they dismiss them as completely corrupt, mistaken, and vicious, to be destroyed and their country taken from them.

 

Moral purists are fanatics: they are self-deceiving liars, devils, and haters, that under the twin guises of loving moral perfection and being motivated by compassion, demand moral perfection of others, and their nation, or those ‘failures” are morally bankrupt, to be cast aside or vanquished.

 

Such unreasonable and anti-commons sense expectations are used by totalitarian idealists to cover for their real aim—total control over others. They are not moralists, but are immoralists or demonic.

 

Goodness is moderate and approximate personal perfection, not pure personal perfection, for only God is such, not flawed humans. To set a standard impossibly high is an attack on people, not a loving respect for them as they are, as striving individuals, as finite creatures trying to better themselves.

 

Unreasonable expectations and impossibly high standards are emotionally satisfying for the moral purist, but her mercilessness and unwillingness to assign praise to those that are self-improving, though imperfectly, reveals a very, cruel, nasty person.

 

A responsible, effective, sensible ethicist recognizes that people are flawed but they can improve if they do not lose hope, that they are motivated to keep going, by the small successes that accumulate into a good will and loving heart over time.

 

This is why the kind and wise Jordan Peterson wants young people to clean their room first. By starting small, and working up and out from there, the young can improve themselves, and that is something to celebrate, though the purists look down upon such petty gains as worthy of sneering contempt.

 

The purest engage in a self-fulfilling prophecy that is self-contradictory and hypocritical. By setting standards impossibly high for the masses, the self-appointed mistresses and masters of humanity note that people cannot be perfect, so they are rotten and hopeless, and that means societal and personal reform from the bottom up cannot work.

 

The idealists and totalitarians now, based on their purist, uncompromising morality, have concluded that their standard is unachievable by personal effort by the masses on their own behalf, so meeting the highest possible moral standard can only be met by the noble, perfect philosopher kings and queens, the ruling elite running or hoping to run a radicalized society; with such preconditions, the only way to improve society and people is from the top down, and the ruling elite uses propaganda, terror and torture to terrify the masses into conforming to the ruler’s moral expectations.

 

At the end of it, the severe altruistic code of the ruling elite gives us a society filled with evil, suffering, tyranny, want, poverty, and unhappiness. The utopian hell brought about by the ruling idealists is something like what goes on in North Korea.