A crude parallel for Americans might be Gore Vidal – both widely ‘respected’, moderately intelligent, very full of themselves… and most of the time complete idiots.

There is no underpinning theme to what they write or say, apart from an unstated by fairly obvious snobbery towards absolutely everyone else. That means you and me. they reached their positions of ‘respect’ simply by their shameless sense of their own worth and the politeness of everyone else to a pair of condescending, overrated bores.

The Left does not miss for IQ points. What it lacks is points in an imagined “Wisdom Quotient”.

I assert to you that the missing ingredient in ALL PostModern Leftists is not intellect but common sense.

If someone succeeded in drafting a “Wisdom Test”, then the Left would consistently rank in the bottom 1/3rd of the resultant bell curve, and likely all in the bottom half.

They are all “Widiots”, unable to learn from EXPERIENCE.

This explains succinctly and clearly their endless and undying support for failed memes such as Keynesianism, Communism, Socialism, Collectivism, Green “Science and Technology”, and so forth.

It doesn’t matter how many times it fails, “It just wasn’t done right” — which is accurate, sort of, though common sense would lead a non-Widiot to grasp that “doing it right” means “not doing it at all”.

It doesn’t matter how many times you try and shove a skyscraper into a barrel, the only way to “do it right” is to not do it at all.

They think that Western engineering and technology means we are evil for stealing it from the natives and oppressing them. Thus he thinks they have a right to be uplifted to be our equals, as the universe should be equal like the Heat Death.

Any inequality is a sign of disproportionate force and oppression.

The thing, the Guardian is in itself a product of Western culture and freedom to speak. The fact that he isn’t impaled six ways to sunday, is what he is complaining about unknowingly.

BTW, I think Jenkins is a bigwig with the National Trust. So that sounds like the notion of him feeling that malls and modern buildings are heathenish has some weight.

The other reasons were that I knew what was going on with missionary work overseas, though I never mentioned it explicitly. I respected them for their courage under fire, for doing something that they think is worth dying for. Such determination, I have yet to find amongst our enemies, the Leftist alliance.

Being a Christian, in some parts of the world, carries a death sentence. It carries little weight – and attracts a lot of opprobrium – in this part of the world. Having done their best to erase God from public life, secular authorities have stealthily loosened our identity as Christians. . .traditional ceremonies, rituals and even pledges have been suppressed because of their “religiosity”. Thus, when we witness the sufferings of our “brothers and sisters in Christ”, we feel only a twinge, where once we would have felt a shock.

Opprobium and loosening identity. Very effective indeed.

The fanatics issued a press blurb condemning the President, stating that the anti-Christian attack was a reprisal for their most recent loss of jihadis.

In other news, the fanatics in the FATA have stepped up their game by assassinating the top Pakistani general in Dir while he was on an inspection tour.

Off hand, it looks like the fanatics are coming to appreciate just how short jihadi life can be — particularly for mid-range leaders.

Unable to avert strikes, the survivors are lashing out in all directions.

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It’s taboo to discus, but the IQ of FATA residents are quite low. The entire zone is riven with poor prenatal nutrition — and cousin-marriage is common. Indeed, after all the generations before, everyone in a given village is certain to be a re-blend of the same DNA. These two factors drive intelligence way down, at least 1.5 standard deviations.

Independent leadership requires an IQ of at least 107. The percentage of the population at or above that threshold is predictive of GDP/ per capita. ( 85% correlation !)

With their skewed local (FATA) IQ pool, the fanatics have actually very few men bright enough to lead. (Rampant stupidity greatly explains Taliban ‘marksmanship.’)

Decent higher level leadership requires an IQ of 120. Such players are so rare in the FATA that, for the most part, they have to be ‘imported.’

And it’s obvious from the battle records that such ‘Internationals’ are the driving force springing out of the FATA.

Strangely, shutting off the supply of this talent has never really been prioritized.

It’s high time that travel bans be enacted across the Western world for military aged males and jihadi prostitutes.

(Tunisian babes have been flying in to Syria to entertain the troops — coming back swollen from the bedsheets.)

Our intellectuals make allowances for backwards people of other cultures because they don’t know better than to believe and that is why they tend to be violent. It is kind of a looking down your nose thing since . . . the superior educated minds know that if we could just do away with religion than the world wold be at peace . . . .

As I have noted before, IMO the underlying motivation for all Progressive arguments, regardless of subject matter, is precisely this “. . . looking down your nose thing . . . of the superior educated minds . . . .”

Again IMO, the key to “winning” an argument with a Progressive is to disabuse them of this myth. You’ll know you’ve bested them when they either irrationally shut down or irrationally start calling you names.