We Versus I

According to the learned venerable cuddly Rabbi Sachs -Piss be upon him -I'm an Equal Opportunities abuser of the Great and the good -but if you feel I have left anybody out please let me know gentle readers.

Anyway just to prove that it is not just Christianity and Izlam that wears the badge of anti individualism and selflessness with militant pride and virtue signalling smugness and sanctimony it is clear that Judaism can perfectly acquit itself and compete on equal terms with the other two in that department.

So here we had the Rabbi telling us in a bbc radio 4 production last week that the West used to be a We society and has now become an I society. He brought in a crazed leftist professor - American of course where academia has been dragged thru the mud via the tenured leftists for decades - who informed us that sometime in the latter part of the 19th century the US went from a I society with vast inequality and dis of wealth to a We society with all the great socialist legislation, the Wilson era onwards when the state encroached in Constitution busting state creep and modern welfare America was born.

This was sweet music to the Rabbis ears and he expanded on this theme to nauseating effect. We have become an I society too! Rampant individualism characterizes the age. In the words of that great pulpiteer Yaron Brook -Really? I wish. What we have here is the classic liberal conflation of whim driven subjectivism sometimes even to hedonism with individulism. Once that false association has been made and established in people's minds -once that smear in other words has been made the ground is now set to denounce individualism and embrace the collectivism of We which the Rabbi proceeds to do  with the characteristic zeal of all altruist mystics.

He cites some novel where the word We has been eliminated from the language. Funny but I seem to recall a Russian novelist called Zamyratin wrote a book in the 1930's called We where the word I had been eliminated -or maybe it was in Ayn Rand's Anthem which I have heard influenced Orwell's 1984.

The churches have lost their power granted, so it is understandable they want to reclaim lost ground but this sort of spiritual revanchism is desperate stuff and cannot bear the slightest scrutiny. But he does try! The case is cited with the help of lefty university students -or perhaps the more appropriate moniker Uni students he gathered together (who if their iqs were added up would rival that of your average lab rat) and they did not disappoint. One was opining about the I generation who actually have the brassneck temerity to dine alone in public! From a social gathering it has become a display of unacceptable individualism with the single diner on a laptop brazenly taking a selfie and sending
 it to someone with a picture of the food about to be consumed. The end of civilization! A disgusting Orwellian display of 'Ownlife'. Get thee to a collectivist farm for reprogramming!

Judaism Sachs, I mean sucks. If this is what the establishment mouthpiece of that ancient monotheistic religion amounts to it is in a sorry state. Could there ever be a more dismal display of intellectual rot masquerading as deep thought and reflection? Radio 4  listeners and Sachs deserve one another. And the series is in 4 parts!