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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be "cured" against one's will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.” ― C.S. Lewis,
This is SO well said. The White liberal Savior Complex is what has driven 100% of progressivism's bad ideas for decades. From housing projects to the welfare state to "listen to the experts" the left has been killing people with their " " kindness " " for going on 60 years.
It all comes down to We just know better, proles. And because they view the world through their protoMarxian lens of race, economic and socioclasses as well as oppressor/oppressed they view themselves as the top of the pyramid...which from upon that perch they dole out largesse to the lesser people out there.
A breathtaking combination of hubris, ego, self-absorption, and pride with equal helpings of insecurity, lack of confidence and built upon a foundation of intellectual mediocrity. Today's White Savior liberal is a legend.
