Pity is for Princeton economists

How, exactly, does this guy still pull down a salary? Anywhere?

Back to Reality After 10 Year Illusion of Wealth

You know what Paul Krugman's problem is? He can't make any distinctions.

Whose wealth?

Paul is convinced that it is all his.

And that is the fuckin' problem, Professor Krugman. You got your wealth. It came with that Nobel Prize, you smug fuck. The rest is not your's. Our our's. Or anyone's except for the people who made it.

It is not good for us to think about wealth in the terms people like Paul Krugman suggest. It suggests to us that we are too weak, too dumb, too lazy, too crazy, too disabled, too what-the-fuck-ever excuse that Paul has for why he knows better how to spend peoples' money that everyone else.

Paul is so full of himself and his dubious conceptions of wealth and the economy that it has not even crossed his mind that maybe, just maybe, Americans and most peoples in the liberal democratic world are far more capable than the Paul Krugmans of the world suggest they are and that thinking otherwise is not good for them.

But you know what the beauty of it all is?

You know who they're still going to be reading a hundred years from now?

I'll give you a clue. It isn't Paul Krugman. And Karl Marx and John Keynes will be a faint memory of a bygone era of failed and foolish policy, the goals of which were better facilitated by people like Benjamin Graham and Warren Buffet and Bill Gates and John Stuart Mill and Lord Acton and Mary Wolstonecraft and Annie Sullivan and people who really cared about them rather than pitying them.

Poor people can settle for Paul Krugman's pity. Or they can go get rich. Or they can go find a life they love and tell Paul Krugman where to put his smug, bullshit analyses of nothin'.

Pity is for people you don't really give a shit about. And Princeton economists.

And Paul Krugman can take his pity and shove it up his big, fat arrogant ass.

Because poor people got better things going for them.

Why do liberal cultures always seem to get more liberal?

I think the failure to resolve these questions, and the liberal commitments of the culture, generally, are exactly why we always move in a more liberal direction.

Obama Won't End the Culture Wars

"Because the cultural left and cultural right hold to irreconcilable orthodoxies on these questions, we find scant cultural consensus. That's life in America. Unless we become a homogenous country, we will continue to struggle to live together, staying true to our deepest beliefs while respecting the liberty of others to stay true to their own.

But we do not live in a libertarian Utopia. We can't have it all. If, for example, courts constitutionalized same-sex marriage, as gay activists seek, that would have a ground-shaking effect on religious liberty, public schooling and other aspects of American life. Without question, it would intensify the culture war, as partisans of the left and right fight for what each considers a sacred principle.

What irritates conservatives is the liberals' groundless conceit that they fight from a values-neutral position, while the right seeks to impose its norms on others. Nonsense. Marriage was a settled issue until liberals began using courts to impose their moral vision on (so far) an unwilling majority. Who fired the first shot there?

Culture war is inevitable, because it's in the nature of democratic, pluralistic society. It only ends when one side wins, by force or force of reason. As all drill sergeants know, you prepare your troops to move in for the kill by first dehumanizing the enemy.

If we keep the humanity of our opponents squarely in front of us - as Obama, to his great credit, seems determined to do - we can keep the culture-war casualty count low. That's about the best we can hope for."

Or we could learn to respect peoples' consciences on most matters.

If not, both sides should get used to a culture, especially of young people, who disrespect the law.

And that is why America persistently becomes more genuinely liberal, without any need for utopias.