Left wingers have no meaning in life, which is why they keep chasing Revolution. As Richard Dawkins observed, the retreat of Christianity has opened the way to worse things. And they still imagine they are brave and stunning for repeating left wing orthodoxy:
Sally Rooney’s God complex has just reached a terrifying level
The Irish novelist embodies the staggering vanity of pro-Palestine activism
Move over God, there’s a new supreme being in town. And her holy goal – just like Yours – is to save life on earth.
Her name is Sally Rooney. You might know her as the celebrated Irish novelist. The penner of soppy books about angst-ridden Irish lovers who wring their untoiled hands over capitalism and climate collapse.
But she’s so much more than the sainted storyteller of Trinity grads and white girls in Dalston, who never leave the house without a keffiyeh around their necks and a Rooney novel in their tote bags.
She is also the aspiring saviour of humankind, the venerable liberator of us dumb, messy humans from our wicked ways.
At the weekend, she gave a speech in Amsterdam on the horrendous war in Sudan that has laid waste to so much human life. Only joking. She talked about Gaza. These people speak of nothing else.
She was speaking at The People’s Congress for the Hague Group, a cranky outfit hell-bent on dragging the Jewish State to the International Criminal Court to answer for the “crime” of fighting back against the army of anti-Semites that invaded it on October 7, 2023.
With ocean-going pomposity, she said we brave few who stand up for Palestine are standing up for the planet itself. Humanity’s very “future on this earth” depends on us, she said, with all the humility of Caligula on a bender.
Our “adversaries”, she continued, as if she were Boudica rather than a gold-collared luminary of the literary set, are the same people who are destroying life as we know it.
She rattled off these enemies of “Palestine solidarity”: the United States, Israel (natch), the military industrial complex, corporate finance and Big Tech.
These people who long to crush our valiant efforts to save Gaza are the “same forces” who are driving “catastrophic climate change” and “destroying the very basis of our shared survival”.
“By standing in solidarity with Palestine, we are learning how to fight for life on earth”, she said.
The egotism is off the scale. These are hitherto untapped levels of self-regard.
The Israelophobic smug set really does believe that, in boycotting Israeli oranges, it is helping to save earth itself from a fiery death at the hands of evil rich people.
Then the Marie Antoinette of Palestine solidarity did something extraordinary – she unwittingly confirmed that “Palestine” is now little more than a moral prop in the lives of bored middle-class millennials.
She told her fawning audience that Palestine solidarity is the great cause of our time because: “What else… can give us a reason to go on, to fend off despair, to live with ourselves, and to fight for our future?”
Standing with Palestine is the only thing that can “make our lives endurable”, she said.
This is a staggering admission. Rooney has pulled back the curtain – or keffiyeh, perhaps – on the depthless vanity of Palestine activism.
She inadvertently exposed that today’s hip cult of Israelophobia is as much about liberating moneyed Western Leftists from the hell of historical boredom as it is about assisting the Palestinian people.
It is self-reverence masquerading as solidarity. They wear Arab headgear and forcefield their lives from the unholy wares of the Jewish State, not because it will have any tangible impact in the Middle East, but in order to make a spectacle of their own virtue.
As Rooney says, it helps them “fend off despair”. It gives them a reason “to go on”. They’re so vain they think this war is about them.
Perhaps the most galling thing in Rooney’s self-flattering homily was her depiction of Palestine activism as a plucky stand against the “forces” of capitalism.
Please. Hating Israel is the great dinner-party prejudice of our time. It’s the moral glue of the cultural establishment. You’re no one in these circles if you don’t drape yourself in the keffiyeh and occasionally forswear brunch in order to rub shoulders with radical Islamists yelling “Globalise the Intifada”.
Rooney thought she was making yet another peacock-like display of her own ethical rectitude. In truth, she gave us a glimpse into the delusional narcissism that fuels “Palestine solidarity”.
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๐ป๐๐๐๐๐ on X - "I don’t know if this is funny or tragic. Sally Rooney’s life is only “endurable” because of Palestinianism."
"What planet is Sally Rooney on?
She told her audience — fellow writers, artists, "public figures in the wealthy global north" — not to dwell on what they "stand to lose" by speaking out. "What else," she asked, "can make our lives endurable in times as dark as these? What else can give us a reason to go on, to fend off despair, to live with ourselves… despite the consequences?"
Firstly, it's tragic that she needs Palestine, the fight for Palestine against Zionism, to give her the will to live.
Secondly, again, what planet is she on? This idea that antizionists are being victimised is fanciful. There has never been a better time to be a pro-Palestinian activist in the Arts, and never worse time post WW2 to be Jewish in Arts/publishing.
Supporting Palestine is not the brave, embattled position. It is the orthodoxy. It is the price of admission to the rooms Rooney already occupies."
Addendum:
"I knew about the second half of her speech, but only listened to the whole thing now. The exaggeration & self-regard are laughable. In Vietnam, for example, dissidents & human rights defenders lose their jobs, lose their families, face harassment, get tortured, get imprisoned for years for speaking out about persecution. A family I often speak to, peaceful land rights activists, has 3 people in prison: 8 years, 8 years, 21 years. I have friends & acquaintances imprisoned for articles, social media posts, or peaceful activism. My own family had to flee Vietnam. I can no longer return to my own country. My uncle in Australia was stopped twice at the airport in Vietnam, not allowed to enter. People under other authoritarian regimes, including the Islamic Republic of Iran, would have similar experiences. Sally Rooney supports the most trendy cause right now—among celebrities & academia & the media & young people—ignoring everything else in the world, & she has the audacity to speak of the price she had to pay? Fuck her."
Disgustingly but unsurprisingly, someone mocked her for her and her parents still being alive.
