T.S. Eliot inadvertently encapsulated liberals
“Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don’t mean to do harm– but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.” (The Cocktail Party, p.111)
Is this not PERFECT?!?! The most accurate part is “the harm does not interest them.” Liberals are constantly bragging about their good intentions with no regard for the results. The book Silent Spring is literally responsible for millions of deaths because of its condemnation of DDT, a valuable, effective agent for preventing malaria, but when used in excess it makes bird eggs a wittle thinner. Rachel Carson didn’t want to harm millions of Africans by preventing them from using small amounts of DDT to repel mosquitos; the harm didn’t interest her. She and present day liberals are more interested in ‘thinking well of themselves.’ They’d rather look and feel like they make a difference, despite the evidence contrary.