{"id":1089,"date":"2023-12-15T13:13:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-15T13:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/15\/the-pollyanna\/"},"modified":"2023-12-15T13:13:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-15T13:13:16","slug":"the-pollyanna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/15\/the-pollyanna\/","title":{"rendered":"The Psychology of the Pollyanna and the Political Ponerology of Leftism"},"content":{"rendered":"

We all know pollyannas. They are more often women than men and the charm of these lovable ladies is in no small measure due to their openness to the positive in people and things and their seeming incapacity to discern the negative and evil. A most extreme example<\/a> has come to my attention, one<\/span><\/p>\n

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. . . Natali Yohanan, \u201ca 38-year-old mother of two, who never locked the doors of her house in Nir Oz, a kibbutz near Israel\u2019s border with the Gaza Strip. There wasn\u2019t even a key.\u201d And then: \u201cOn Oct. 7, a Gazan woman walked through Yohanan\u2019s unlocked front door and made herself at home for hours, eating, singing, and watching Netflix. Sometimes, the woman served drinks to armed terrorists who stopped by for a break from the massacre they were conducting outside.\u201d Ms. Yohanan speaks of the impact of 10\/7 on her in the 10-minute video below.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Watch the video and then ask yourself the question that I ask myself: how could an adult Israeli<\/em> be so na\u00efve, so trusting, so lacking in insight into human nature? The woman is not stupid; how then explain this blind spot? At one point Yohanan, a teacher, says that all children are good. Plainly<\/em> false! Has this teacher never been on a schoolyard? Children can be vicious in a way that no animal can be vicious.  That is why they need to be socialized and, yes, indoctrinated<\/em>, but in correct and ameliorative doctrines. (That 'indoctrination' is a dirty word is another piece of stupidity that you are well-advised in dropping.)<\/span><\/p>\n

Yohanan is an Israeli<\/em>. Surely she knows something about how her state came to be and why it came to be. Her kibbutz is right next<\/em> to the Gaza Strip. Did she know nothing of Hamas and their genocidal intentions? They make plain their antisemitism and their anti-Zionism in their charter.  Does she know nothing about Islam? (See this excellent article<\/a> by Raymond Ibrahim.) <\/span><\/p>\n

As I say elsewhere, homo homini lupus<\/em> does not capture the depth of human depravity, and is an insult to the wolves to boot. Man is not a wolf to man; man is a demon<\/em> to man. <\/span><\/p>\n

I am touching upon one of the roots, perhaps the deepest, of the delusional Left, namely the insane notion that everyone, deep down inside, is basically good. Not only is this conceit a characteristically leftist bit of delusionality, it also serves to distinguish conservative from leftist. No conservative accepts that crazy conceit.<\/span><\/p>\n

And let's not forget that those who accept the crazy conceit that people are basically good refute their own false theory by being the most murderous of all. In the 20th century alone communist governments have murdered some 85-100 million people according to The Black Book of Communism<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We all know pollyannas. They are more often women than men and the charm of these lovable ladies is in no small measure due to their openness to the positive in people and things and their seeming incapacity to discern the negative and evil. A most extreme example has come to my attention, one . … Continue reading “The Psychology of the Pollyanna and the Political Ponerology of Leftism”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,119,295,29,30,221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-good-and-evil","category-islamism","category-pathocracy-and-totalitarianism","category-political-ponerology","category-political-psychology","category-psychology-and-personality-typology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}