Miserablist History

February 22, 2012
Dear Christopher:

This year, I purchased and read as stunning analysis of why we have witnessed a sad decline in patriotism in Europe – and here. The book is The New Vichy Syndrome: Why European Intellectuals Surrender to Barbarism by Theodore Dalrymple, a retired British psychiatrist, who lives in the U.K.

His diagnosis is “miserablist” history. This is the result of the mindset that finds everything wrong about our country and no longer celebrates the good it has achieved, which is stunning. The “miserablist” moreover turns this constant bashing of history into social engineering rackets, fake jobs to fix the oh-so awful results of an oh-so awful country which can do no right and now must make reparations through all kinds of government give-away programs that provide big paychecks to the “miserablist” parasite.

You know the “miserablist” buzz words: racism, homophobia, warmongers, practitioners of genocide and slavery, sexism, environmental terrorists, ad nauseam. The folks who peddle such poison find ways to cash in on the programs that are to fix all of this terrible, awful, evil. Sadly, this kind of junk now permeates our educational systems at all levels, and it is not surprising that more and more people do not know the real, objective history of our great country. Dalrymple is sick of the self-serving whining.

America has been great because it has been good, to paraphrase a French visitor to America in the 1800’s, Alexis De Tocqueville. It is total dishonest, destructive, distortion to peddle, push this “miserablist” historical propaganda. It is time we took back our country from the parasites who push it.