You’ve Been Wronged. That Doesn’t Make You Right.
Pamela Paul:
We are living in a golden age of aggrievement. No
matter who you are or what your politics, whatever your ethnic origin, economic
circumstance, family history or mental health status, chances are you have
ample reason to be ticked off.
If you’re on the left, you have been oppressed,
denied, marginalized, silenced, erased, pained, underrepresented,
underresourced, traumatized, harmed and hurt. If you’re on the right, you’ve
been ignored, overlooked, demeaned, underestimated, shouted down, maligned,
caricatured and despised; in Trumpspeak: wronged and betrayed.
The refusal to view political struggles as anything
beyond ‘good’ and ‘evil’ has led progressives down a dark path
The Uglification of Everything
Artistic culture has taken a repulsive turn. It speaks
of a society that hates itself, and hates life.