Strange how we’re more often driven by negative emotions than constructive sentiments. As Nietzsche recognized, resentment is among the most potent political motivators and politicians have become adept at stoking all its versions. In Law and Liberty, Theodore Dalrymple scrutinizes our current historiographical narrative that the past consists of nothing but injustices.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
