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Cargando... The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Lifepor Kenneth Minogue
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The author explains the many ways in which political correctness erodes the vitality of European societies and makes large sections of society dependent on the state. He considers that governments have moved on from maintaining the rules of the game, to trying to determine the outcome. Minogue doesn't say as much, but to continue the sports metaphor, one could imagine a government sponsored EQUIN (equality and inclusion) soccer team, with the unusual characteristics of a racial quota, half women (if they can be front line police they have the right), possibly one gay and one lesbian player, compulsory rotation of the B team (all must have prizes and self esteem) and obviously the removal of the managers right to sack any players. The predictable destination of this team would be the bottom of the league but the government could still force the public to go to the stadium and applaud or better still apply the same rules to the INDIV (individualist) teams in the interest of greater equality. Overall a good discussion of the big government decision to manage private lives and morality for the "Better World Project". sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
One of the grim comedies of the twentieth century was that miserable victims of communist regimes would climb walls, swim rivers, dodge bullets, and find other desperate ways to achieve liberty in the West at the same time that progressive intellectuals would sentimentally proclaim that these very regimes were the wave of the future. A similar tragicomedy is playing out in our century: as the victims of despotism and backwardness from Third World nations pour into Western states, academics and intellectuals present Western life as a nightmare of inequality and oppression. In The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life, Kenneth Minogue explores the intelligentsia's love affair with social perfection and reveals how that idealistic dream is destroying exactly what has made the inventive Western world irresistible to the peoples of foreign lands. The Servile Mind looks at how Western morality has evolved into mere "politico-moral" posturing about admired ethical causes--from solving world poverty and creating peace to curing climate change. Today, merely making the correct noises and parading one's essential decency by having the correct opinions has become a substitute for individual moral responsibility. Instead, Minogue argues, we ask that our governments carry the burden of solving our social--and especially moral--problems for us. The irony is that the more we allow the state to determine our moral order, the more we need to be told how to behave and what to think. Such is the servile mind. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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„In der Abenddämmerung der Sozialdemokratie hat dagegen Rousseau noch einmal gesiegt. Sie haben nicht die Produktionsmittel, sondern die Therapie verstaatlicht. Dass der Mensch von Natur aus gut sei, diese merkwürdige Idee hat in der Sozialarbeit ihr letztes Reservat. Pastorale Motive gehen dabei eine seltsame Mischung ein mit angejahrten Milieu- und Sozialisationstheorien und mit einer entkernten Version der Psychoanalyse. Solche Vormünder nehmen in ihrer grenzenlosen Gutmütigkeit den Verirrten jede Verantwortung für ihr Handeln ab.“ („Aussichten auf den Bürgerkrieg“, 1994, S. 37)
...besser erklärt als in diesem Buch.
"Gesellschaft ist nicht länger eine Vereinigung selbsttätiger Individuen, sondern vielmehr eine Vereinigung hilfsbedürftiger Menschen, deren Notlagen und Leiden durch die Macht des Staates kuriert werden müssen."
Diese Hilfsbedürftigkeit wird nicht nur dem Opfer zuteil, sondern auch den Tätern. Moralischer Anstand wird nicht mehr gefordert, alles wird therapiert, niemand hat schuld. Die Parteien haben die Macht und schieben Geld von einer Tasche in die andere.
Ein hellsichtiges, erschreckendes Buch. ( )