The Danger of Taking It All Too Seriously
One of the biggest problems the left has is an over-abundance of pride. It forms the backbone of almost all of their issues.
You can't tell them anything because they're so confident in both their ignorance and your villainy that any information that remotely defies their expectations and preconceptions goes in one ear and right out the other.
Because of this, they live in a sort of un-reality where they're beset by enemies on all sides, everything about their lives is falling short of where it should be because everyone else is blinded by an evil system, and their only recourse is to angrily rage against anything and everything that upsets them.
It's no way to live, but unless there's a crystallizing moment, or greater influence in their life to free them from the feedback loop they're stuck in, these people will continue to live in a fantasy world where their pride keeps them prisoner. Unwilling to admit they're wrong, unwilling to embrace facts, and wholly convinced of their moral superiority even as they say and do things that are reprehensible.
If they would just take a moment to sit back, think for a moment, and learn that life isn't that severe, they'd begin lightening up. They'd become happier people, and what's more, they'd start laughing at themselves.
And laughing at yourself is one of the healthiest things you can do.
Earlier on Friday, I wrote that South Park's satire of Trump and the MAGA movement is actually a good thing, particularly for conservatives. It's a good reminder that we shouldn't take ourselves too seriously. That we absolutely should laugh at ourselves and note our own ridiculousness sometimes.
I think the last thing we want to happen to us is for us to cease being the happy warriors Andrew Breitbart talked about all those years ago. We fight fiercely, but with honest-to-God smiles on our faces. We're anxious for the fray, but we have fun doing it. We're capable of putting it down and grabbing a beer and talking about more important things than politics.
We don't stew over a comment, or bawl over someone speaking a truth we can't handle because we find it so offensive it makes us shake. We're not so proud that our emotions are easily manipulated by people who know how to use our pride to their advantage.
Earlier this week, I noted that the Democrats had fed the best of radicalism for so long that it's finally devouring them. They relied on severity, fear, and loathing for so long that the people they were constantly pushing them on became the radicals that believed them and are now pushing them out. These are humorless, angry, and wildly tedious people.
And America is largely leaving them behind. A majority of people believe they're becoming too radicalized to deal with. It's one of the reasons Trump won in 2024.
It's my honest belief that conservatives should avoid falling into that trap. I don't think we should become so serious and hateful of the opposite side that we forget to self-reflect and crack jokes about ourselves.
That was the trap the left fell into, and not only are they miserable, they're losers.
If we're to maintain ourselves, and indeed America, humor is our best friend, even when it's pointed at us. I think we could really learn from the mistakes the left made in terms of refusing to control their prideful self-image that couldn't be joked about in any fashion.
And I do hope that we never largely begin making each other afraid to laugh. I think the moment we start policing each other's sense of humor here on the right is the moment we start to crumble, not just as an ideology, but as a nation.
I think that level of severity is too stressful to live with anyway.
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