day mo. 17,230: envasion

“At the core of liberalism is the spoiled child — miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.” — P.J. O'Rourke, Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer

The more the spoiled child gets what they want they less satisfied they are with what they have. Discontent cannot be cured by the danegeld. It keeps coming back for more. Envy cannot assuaged by olive branches. It resents the peacemaker's privilege position.

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; 

but who is able to stand before envy?

Envy is more cruel than wrath and more outraged than rage. It is not merely zealous for itself, it is anxious for the destruction of others. It does not want to have as much as it wants to take away. It is less about self-promotion and more about the demolition of others.

"He would rather have the poor poorer provided the rich were less rich. That is the Liberal policy. Yes it came out. He didn’t intend it to but it did." — Margaret Thatcher

Envy does not want everyone to be rich, it wants no one else to have anything. It is not a matter of equity that drives its concerns, but a matter of disparity. It would prefer everyone to go without than any to go on. It rejoices when others weep and weeps when others rejoice.

Romans 12:15

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

Envy is an inversion of the law of Christ. It cannot stand seeing someone else prosper and it delights in seeing others deprived.

1 Clement 38:2

Let not the strong man despise the weak, and let the weak pay regard to the strong. Let him that is rich minister to him that is poor. Let him that is poor praise God that he hath given unto him one by whom his want may be supplied. 

In a God-fearing economy, the weak praise God for the productivity of the strong and the strong do not despise the inability of the weak. The weak are taken care of and the strong are honored. In a perverse society, the weak use their weakness to abuse the strong and the strong surrender their strength to the whims of the weak. It is an enversion. 

"When you elevate victimhood as virtue, you will create a culture in which people are tripping over themselves to be oppressed." — Allie Beth Stuckey

When being oppressed becomes the new medal of honor, you will find the honorable opting out and the dishonorable receiving awards. That is a world where envy has invaded. That is an envasion.