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Short review of Melanie Phillips talk


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short-review-of-melanie-phillips-talk.html#.VRiBccmmVrgElder Of Ziyon:

Thursday, March 19, 2015

 

Tonight I went to hear Melanie Phillips speak in Manhattan.

 

 

I spoke to her briefly beforehand. I was hoping to interview her but she said she doesn't like being interviewed. Oh, well.

 

 

Her speech topic was "Contemporary Liberal Discourse and Jihadism: Why the Disconnect?" But in fact she was describing more how they are related than how they aren't.

 

 

Essentially, Phillips presented a unified theory of the Left. Her thesis is that the Left is based on dogma that is more closeminded than religions are, as they create their own ideologies - "isms" - whose foundations are not allowed to be questioned. This applies to progressivism, environmentalism, feminism and many other ideologies, which are, in her view, all really a fig leaf for narcissism - the desire to feel important at the expense of those who disagree with you. In fact, Phillips claims, these ideologies are meant to replace Western religious morality that emphasizes doing good for others with a selfish set of ideologies that emphasize self-centeredness - and self-righteousness.

 

(Snip)

 

 

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