…but unsurprisingly, the man who got there before me is Richard Hernandez.
No, I’m not going to excerpt any of it; you’ll have to read it for yourself, and if you read nothing else today, this should be it.
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…but unsurprisingly, the man who got there before me is Richard Hernandez.
No, I’m not going to excerpt any of it; you’ll have to read it for yourself, and if you read nothing else today, this should be it.
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Sadly, Fernandez’ article is behind a paywall. Too bad, because the Crime and Punishment connection is an interesting one. As Fernandez says …
Raskolnikov, who regards himself as a well-educated and superior but powerless person, asks himself: “Why not kill a wretched and ‘useless’ old moneylender to alleviate human misery?”
It’s a problem that underlies everything … when is action appropriate? That theme and the intellectual goo applied to it by Dostoyevski is one of the reasons that guys like Peterson think Crime and Punishment is one the greatest books ever. The simpler notion that some folks just need killing tends to be insufficiently “nuanced” for our intellectual betters whose currency is words. “Save who needs to be saved. Kill who needs to be killed.” seems a more usable calculus for what’s coming. Folks will tend to self-identify as to which is which.
Perhaps I mistook where Fernandez was going by the two paragraphs the paywell showed me, but I’d be interested to know.
Foiled by the paywall, alas.
Ah, yes. PJ Media. Or, as it was once billed, Open Sores -> Pajamas Media. A great place for people to start their own account and have their voice heard. Until the powers that be told everyone not in the business to f off and they shut down everyone but the “professionals.” Wouldn’t give them a dime.
What paywall? I get an obnoxious large dialog box asking me to subscribe, then I close it, and read the article. Most VIP articles show only the first few lines, but I see this one in its entirety.
How are you closing the dialogue box? All I see is a subscriber login button.
Fernandez is a wonderful writer, and I was a regular reader of his essays on The Belmont Club for many years. I especially used to enjoy the thoughtful, knowledgeable and often brilliant comments from other readers. Then trolls started fouling the pages and (Wretchard) Richard had to go behind the current paywall. I subscribed for a year or so, but the longtime regular commenters, all the best of them, went away, and I dropped my subscription to PJMedia.
FWIW, I was able to see the whole thing Kim posted by going to it via https://pjmedia.com/author/richard-fernandez/
Sometimes you can also get the essay with comments at wretchard.com
There are other essays there as well.
Sigh. That approach did not work for me. Perhaps it’s something about using Brave with the ad-blockers turned on. If they can’t show me ads, then damn it they are going to make me subscribe. Fernandez is a good guy but, as you say, there is not enough good content at PJM anymore.