I read ILP in dismay… we have become the enemy by resorting to
the lowest level of human discourse…insults and violent language…
the right resorts to this lower level of discourse of insults and violent
language because they can’t do anything else… that is all they have…
we on the left, we must hold ourselves to a higher standard then
mere insults and violent language…
let think about the caveman… a caveman can only act as a caveman
because he doesn’t have the tools of language and making choices,
that we moderns have…a caveman has violence and anger and hatred
because a caveman is all about instincts and the lower level of existence…
they cannot rise to be human because they have no choice but to
resort to violence and insults… they have no other choices…
but we on the left reject the caveman because of the caveman reliance
on violence and insults…we can make the choice to become a higher/better
human being… and we do make the choice, all the time…
while the right is stuck and frozen into being cavemen… because they can’t
do anything else…that is all they have, violence and hatred and anger and insults
so, prove to yourself, not to them, they aren’t worth the effort, but prove to
yourself that you are human, all too human and make the choices that
reflect that you are a higher/better human being… that is what being liberal
is all about…
making smart, rational, human choices that lift us above being just mere
animals that only react with violence and insults… because they can’t do
anything else but react with hatred and anger and violence to any situation…
show the world and yourself that you are above the hatred and anger
and violence that so dominates the right… show the world what a liberal
really stands for…
peace and love and hope and justice and charity and honor and
connection and freedom and creativity and humanity and …etc, etc…
a list of liberal/ human values…
Kropotkin