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Bruce Charlton's Miscellany: The Great Misinterpretation. That crucial, wrong existential choice by the British circa 1800, at the advent of the industrial revolution

Leftists are resentful of what they have not rather than grateful for what they do have; and this because they cannot be grateful because gratitude requires an object; a person to whom gratitude is owed; and Leftists (being necessarily and implicitly secular) do not acknowledge anybody to be grateful to. In theory, Leftists are supposed to be grateful to abstractions such as The State, The Proletariat, The Party, The People or whatever. In practice, this is meaningless nonsense. So Leftists are not grateful but resentful.
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Bruce Charlton's Miscellany: The Great Misinterpretation. That crucial, wrong existential choice by the British circa 1800, at the advent of the industrial revolution

the British people were confronted with a choice: the choice between either feeling grateful for what they had, or resentful for what they didn't. The mass majority chose resentment, and gave their souls to the politics of resentment - that is to Leftism. The same happened, sooner or later (it was later in the USA) everywhere in the developed world. And resentment is close kin to hatred.
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