John C. Wright's Journal

A reader asked me my opinion as to why the Alt-Right treated allies and friends (I assume the reader had yours truly in mind) with such slander and contempt.

Interesting question. I think there is a reason and rather clear one. I hope I can be candid without giving cause for offense. I call it as I see it, and am ever open to correction.

A caveat: the question and the answer deal with generalities. In no way do all comments refer to all members of the Alt-Right, or even most. We are dealing with a common thread that runs through their most vocal advocates, that is, their loudest, not necessarily their clearest.

My answer is that I do not expect Alt-Right to talk differently than SJWs. Their avowed method is to adopt enemy tactics, strategy, and methods. So a lot of them (by no means all) have turned, like the pigs at the end of ANIMAL FARM, into the very thing they claim to be revolting against.

They hence fall into the same trap of turning what should be a political movement into a cult. Read the remainder of this entry »

In the context of a discussion about the Global Warming Hoax, a reader asked me what might cause so many well respected men, scientists and businessmen and politicians, to perpetuate such a fraud, with such inhuman indifference the real human suffering sure to eventuate the loss of freedom over our wealth, industry, productivity, energy use, and lives.

The ghosts of the millions dead thanks to Rachel Carson’s fraud, and the old ladies frozen and slain in midwinter who would have been saved had their been no war against petrol, are sure to haunt and torment the Greens in Hell. But here on Earth, their consciences seem utterly dull and inert.

Why? What prompts otherwise good and decent men to do and to permit such evil?

I frankly do not think it a matter is difficult. The answer will be speculation, to be sure, but some speculations are more easily confirmed than others. Perfect certainly is beyond our reach, but we can affirm what a preponderance of evidence upholds.

All I need do is look into my own heart, and I can see the motives there which impel me to my sins, and I understand that, if I had different weaknesses and shortcomings, I would do as they do.