Envy

Envy is the thing that will kill America, if America does die.

Envy is the reason I have watched youthful snowflakes turn socialist when previously more rational and open-minded.

It’s important to understand that envy is an emotion. Like all emotions, it’s based on certain beliefs and assumptions.

The false beliefs underlying envy include:

“Your happiness, success and achievement happened to you. It won’t be the same for me. Success won’t happen to me”.

The faulty premise? That achievement and success simply “happen”.

or: “You got what you achieved through privilege or luck. That’s not right. I hate you for it”.

or: “What happened to you won’t happen to me”.

All the politically correct and virtue-signaling talk about “white privilege” is really envy. When people believe someone else achieved something that will forever be impossible for them, there has to be a scapegoat. In today’s era, the widely accepted scapegoat is race.

“Only white people achieve success. I am non-white, so I can’t. I need someone to tear down some of those white people so I can get MY share of happiness and success”. As if a sense of achievement or happiness could even be attained by tearing down others. It’s madness disguised as compassion.

You might ask about people who have plenty of wealth or achievement who nevertheless demand socialism, wealth redistribution and all the rest. What do they have to be envious about? The answer is: They feel guilty. And because they feel guilty for their achievements or success, they project envy onto others. “I did well and I’m white. But all the poor black people didn’t do well, and can never do well”. In a way, these guilt-ridden leftists do the envying of other people FOR them. “That non-white person isn’t smart enough to be envious. I will show him the way, and save him”. Even if the other people don’t feel envy, and don’t want it done for them.

It’s very sad and sick. In an individual, envy will become psychologically crippling. It will hamper the individual’s ability to strive, plan long-range, and ultimately achieve. Envy breaks your spirit, once it totally overtakes you. It’s heartbreaking to see it happen to 15, 20 and 25-year-olds who will never achieve because they believe the capitalist system we don’t even fully have has failed them — and only socialism or Communism will save them.

In a society, it’s the same. If enough people become envious that they feel hopeless about ever achieving anything, they will turn on freedom. “What good is freedom or liberty for me? It doesn’t lead anywhere”. So long as they really feel and believe this, they won’t fight for freedom. And they will follow those who seek to bring about freedom’s demise.

That’s EXACTLY what’s happening in America today.

I am watching it happen, especially with younger people who succumb to envy. You can’t embrace freedom when you’re riddled with hostility over the injustice of others’ success and achievement. Perversely, you start to feel like another’s success is a direct violation of your own individuality and purpose. “If this other person didn’t have so much, I wouldn’t have to feel so low about myself”.

It’s as if another is harming you personally by your success. And the result? A lashing out against freedom. Or against a race of people associated (inaccurately) with having a monopoly on achievement, such as white people. Hitler’s national socialists lashed out at the Jews, and of course they didn’t want free enterprise or real capitalism. They did not want economic or any other kind of freedom. They wanted to lash out against others, mainly Jews. Today’s leftist socialists are no different. They ascribe success to race, and put themselves in charge of making the distribution right and fair. All their proposals are about destroying white people and anything they associate only with white people, such as success, achievement and capitalism.

A population free of envy would not be subject to any of these tragic errors.

I suggest you identify and speak out against envy wherever you can. Challenge the envious assumptions of young people, or anyone else who’s against capitalism and freedom, such as the First and Second Amendments. Ask them, “Why are you so unsure of yourself?” When they reply by asking what you mean, tell them, “You obviously don’t have much confidence in yourself to handle freedom”. Or, if they’re guilt-ridden leftists who already have achieved something, tell them, “You obviously don’t have much confidence in the people you champion to handle freedom”.

Yes, they will get angry. But at least they will be challenged in a way their professors, politicians, movie/tv stars, sports heroes and other cultural elites will never challenge them. These leftists are unsure people. That’s why they are so mean and hostile. That’s why they call for speech codes and public lists of people who support President Trump, or who dare to disagree with them. These are not the demands and proposals of people who are secure in what they know and believe. They are lost, and they know it. Their rage and hostility represent a struggle NOT to know it. In their anxiety they display hatred of dissenters, angry self-righteousness and obsessive control. They have revealed their vulnerability. It’s up to the sane, rational and freedom-loving people who remain to break them down. Calling people out for their envy is one way to do that.

Leftists shame non-leftists for all kinds of things that are NOT shameful: things such as love of liberty, love of life, love of free enterprise, love of independence and self-reliance. It’s time for lovers of freedom and rationality to shame leftists where they DESERVE to be shamed — for their envy, among other things.

By fighting envy, you can give freedom a fighting chance. If envy overtakes our society, freedom is finished. It’s really as simple as that.

 

 

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