A Madness Machine And The Making Of An Evil Society

Daniel Greenfield - Sultan Kenish ^ | December 26,2023 | Daniel Greenfield

[iontheball]

Good and evil can sound like abstractions, but they're also behaviors. We strive for goodness by imitating virtue and we turn evil by hating virtue and imitating its opposite. Evil encourages us to despise heroism, loathe decency, and heap contempt onto any sort of principle, value, or conviction.

The message of evil is that goodness is both impotent and corrupting, while only rage fueling power is truly empowering.

That evil message is one that we now see everywhere.

[iontheball]

I stand in awe of Mr. Greenfield who has a way with words that leaves me speechless. Top that ability with an astute mind and you wind up with a written piece of work everyone should read. Here he takes on a profound subject that many are now trying to get their heads around - how a world society goes 'mad.' I'm sure the Islamic butchery in Gaza weighed heavily in inspiring this article. Please take a few minutes, read what Dan has to say, and then think about it. I'm certain you will agree he defines not only society's problem but its solution. How society sheds its psychosis is another story but Dan tells us to never despair as individuals to the point of losing all hope, but remember God's good counsel to love, not to hate, and to cling to the faith that God always wins in the end.

[Babba Gi]

“How then do people turn evil?” They’re born.

[ClearCase_guy]

bfl

[texas booster]

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam and leftism.

"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil," Isaiah 5:20 warns. To become evil, we have to believe that evil is good... and that good is evil.

Good and evil can sound like abstractions, but they're also behaviors. We strive for goodness by imitating virtue and we turn evil by hating virtue and imitating its opposite. Evil encourages us to despise heroism, loathe decency, and heap contempt onto any sort of principle, value, or conviction.

The message of evil is that goodness is both impotent and corrupting, while only rage fueling power is truly empowering.

That evil message is one that we now see everywhere.

A society in which everyone is a victim, and in which victimhood means perpetual rage, is an evil society.

That's becoming our society.

This is indeed an excellent example of Mr. Greenfield's writings. Very well worth your time to read ... and digest.

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Daniel Greenfield's website: The Sultan Knish blog

[GOPJ]

"Empowerment" is the mantra of the age. It appears everywhere from corporate HR brochures to political campaigns. Strip away the dead letters and empowerment is just "power". Identity politics is forever uncovering new victim groups and "empowering" them to seek power by raging at everyone else. Identity politics strips away every principle and virtue leaving only rage and a desire for power.

Greenfield really is amazing. To fight these people we have to understand the essence of evil... and arm ourselves with goodness and hope.

[libertylover]

Evil encourages us to despise heroism, loathe decency, and heap contempt onto any sort of principle, value, or conviction.

In other words, most of the press and other Democrats (See Tagline).

Also, there's a strong urge by many to want to be hip and be a part of the in-crowd. It's currently hip to be homosexual and/or support perverted homosexual sex, to be pro-abortion because it's not hip to have views that align with Christianity, to be pro-Hamas ...

[Pajamajan]

bttt

[HollyB]

Thank you

[HollyB]

Excellent quote

[GOPJ]

Thanks Holly

[GOPJ]

Thanks Holly Daniel Greenfield is the best...