Poor Mr Power is getting quite a kicking in the comments, which now number over 900, thanks largely to links from non-Guardian readers. Sadly, so far as I can see, he’s not responding to his critics. Any of them. Instead, he’s taken to Twitter, where he tells us, rather triumphantly;
"I wrote this about sexist men and BBQs and the comments went wild. 930 so far. Anyone would think I touched a nerve."
If you want to know who such people are, how they imagine the world and what they will ignore… that’s a big clue. You do have to marvel at a mind that when faced with a barrage of refutation and factual corrections can somehow construe this as validation. The fact that so many people are mocking him and pointing out his errors is, amazingly, proof that he is righteous. An achievement he then declares to the world. That’s not an everyday kind of vanity. That’s something else
Post Modernism, its obsessions and its 'luvvies' wedded to their moral high grounds steeped in relativistic values have so destroyed reason and logic that the only 'logical' step remaining is for power to replace persuasion.
Orwell and Huxley foresaw it accurately, just timed it a couple of decades short.
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