What drives liberals to tell patent lies

Some further reflections on the previous entry. Given that forensic scientist Richard Neave and Mail writer David Derbyshire themselves admit that there was no basis for reconstructing the head of the 35,000 year-old fossil with the racial features (and the male features) that Neave created, given that this claimed reconstruction is an obvious lie, how did Neave, Derbyshire, and the anthropologist and TV presenter Alice Roberts expect to get away with it?

The answer takes us into the psychology of the modern liberal elite. The liberal elite want what they want. And what they want, with all their soul, is to put down the white man and put nonwhites in his place. It doesn’t matter to them that many people will see the fraud for what it is. What drives Neave, Roberts and Derbyshire is the sheer joy and rush of power of being able to assert a patent liberal lie and stick it into the faces of the public. In other words, it’s not that they speak the obvious lie despite the fact that it’s an obvious lie. They speak the obvious lie because it’s an obvious lie.

At bottom, their psychology is that of the tyrannical man, as described by Plato in Book IX of The Republic. The tyrannical man, says Plato, is like a man in a dream state. In a dream, you can realize whatever desires you want, no matter how forbidden or criminal they may be, and you can’t be stopped. And this, increasingly, is the mental condition of the contemporary liberal elite. They stand athwart the fallen and seemingly paralyzed body of Western man, feeling that the old order is gone, feeling that there’s nothing that can stop them from saying and asserting whatever they want, even an obvious lie, such as that a 35,000 year old modern human in Europe had sub-Sarahan African skin color and facial features.

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James P. writes:

The Dalrymple quote on political correctness is apropos here. He wrote:

Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.

Sam Karnick writes:

Good stuff, Larry. Another word for the tyrannical mindset you identify is narcissism.

May 7

Ted G. writes:

There are benefits to the obvious lie. Many people will only hear of it and not the “rest of the story” so to speak. I know people who have based most of their beliefs on false and highly misleading information. Since theses people have already been conditioned in matters of race, history, and culture, the new lie fits in well with what they already believe. I know people who, due to various accounts, including movies and tv, believe that Sub-Saharan Blacks are the original human beings and (I think) somehow accept the end of the white people as a sort of natural event.

LA replies:

And this absurd (to an intelligent person) but powerful propaganda, spread around the world, has an immeasurable effect in telling people, on an almost subconscious level, “The white race is nothing, we just came out of blacks, so if we’re replaced by nonwhites that’s no big deal.”

As I said before, do a search for Richard Neave and first European, and see the vast number of websites simply repeating the claim that this reconstruction “reveals” the face of the first European.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at May 06, 2009 01:08 PM | Send