Naming It For What It Is

Going back and quoting Ayn Rand in the first paragraph: 

"Envy" is not the emotion I have in mind, but it is the clearest manifestation of an emotion that has remained nameless.

Well. it’s time to name it.

MegaEnvy is perhaps a more appropriate name for hatred of the good for being the good.  

Super envy, if you will. However, in order to simplify things, I’ll use "envy" to include all levels of this discordant behavior.

In any case, it’s immeasurably important to know and understand that — 

Envy is far more ubiquitous, pervasive, and fundamentally destructive to human enterprise than most people can dream or envision; much less recognize or accept.

It is insidious and often catastrophic in that it willfully destroys families, groups, institutions, states, and nations.

Ask yourself these questions as you pirouette across the stage of life:

Sear these questions into your memory and start marveling at the huge number of people (individuals and institutions) who make it a Life Mission to disgorge their envy. 

Letting fly rude and obnoxious behavior that impugns your very existence.

This is not hyperbole. This is not paranoia. It is the rational, thoughtful, and oftentimes painful reality.

SO WHAT?

What does all this have to do with anything? What does it have to do with MY life, you ask?

Every day you encounter relatives, friends, neighbors, acquaintances, associates, strangers, and institutions as you move along your time-space continuum. 

You may hear widely diverse clichés or observe situations with hidden envy-agendas and never think of the consequences and implications. To wit: 

• "We need to tax the rich more." 
  
  Always more, never less. Tax them to the max; how dare they have wealth!

"I know it takes money to create jobs — but, but, but, can’t they sacrifice a little of their booty to make me feel good? 

Besides, I just HATE rich people."

• "Drinks for the house." 
  
  You just scored a hole-in-one — everyone expects you to assuage their envy by buying them drinks. In fact, they owe you drinks (and dinner besides) in celebration of your good fortune and perhaps even skill. But, it seldom happens.
  
  
• "You just won the lottery, received an inheritance, or got a promotion!" 
  
  You swiftly respond with a "yeah-but" by saying, "yeah, but I have to pay taxes on it". Your response is nothing more than an attempt to mitigate the envy of others. Or, to squelch your sense of unearned guilt.

Accepting guilt — which you’ve never earned — is another example of a net subtraction from human existence. 

Why would you ever want to do it?

• "We need to Increase the minimum wage." 
  
  Never mind it’s mindless from an economic point of view. Want proof? What happens if you nationally increase the minimum wage to $250/hr; about the amount newborn trial attorneys try to get.

What’s that? Your job moved to India yesterday?

• "It’s a girl (or boy)!" 
  
  Believe it or not, many people will resent the fact you have increased the gene pool. How dare you be delirious with joy. How terrible it is that you’re so happy.
  
  
• "Save the Spotted Owl" or "It’s positively evil to drive a Hummer." 
  
  Former Washington Governor Dixie Lee Ray with Lou Guzzo totally destroyed these environmentalist screeches in their book Environmental Overkill.

Note there has never been even a hint of an apology from the environmentalists to all the thousands who lost their jobs over this mindless and fraudulent rant. Nothing but pure junk science born of envy backed this discredited and irrational alarmist screed.

• "Global Warming."
  
  I won’t even go there. It’s a cesspool of junk science conceived in envy. Or, at best, serious science placed out of context to justify the junk science.

The level of envy in many — certainly not all — environmentalists can make one retch an entire banquet. The Earth First type gangs so reek of envy they can cause mass hurling by entire populations.

They're hard-core terrorists in every sense of the word.

Hopefully, rational people advocating and using serious science will be able to keep their heads above the muck as they work diligently and thoughtfully to protect our environment.

They are the real environmental heroes.

• "You mean you’re actually prepared for an earthquake or terrorist attack?" 
  
  You’ll be a target of all sorts of "friends" when — after a catastrophic event — they discover you really were well prepared. 
  
  Forget about your surviving; they think they have a right to keep you from having the resources that enable you and your family to survive and live.
  
  They powerfully resent the fact you had a fit of clear thinking.
  

For The Anti-war Crowd

Special comment is reserved for:

• "Anti-War ranting" and its related mindlessness.

Ayn Rand said it best:

"No one has the right to initiate force and coercion against another human being."

And, YOU — by inference, reason, law, and common sense — have the right of self-defense if someone initiates force against you.

This includes preemptive strikes against terrorism anywhere in the world.

Especially terrorism born of Islamo-fascism.

So, what do we do when we watch
several hundred innocent people 

 ( who know they are going
 to die within seconds)

fall from the sky on
 September 11, 2001?

(None of these scenes are from any "movie". They are horribly real.)

What do we do when we hear the horrific and gurgled screams of Nick Berg, Eugene Armstrong, and all the others as their heads are slashed off by Islamo-fascists? (Too gruesome to depict or even link to the videos.) 

What do we do when terrorist insurgents and al Qaeda goons blow up our citizens, soldiers, Iraqis, and several hundred wonderful (and totally innocent) children in a Russian school?

Beslan School Children.

(Are you now getting a better understanding of how envy relates to Islamo-Fascist terrorists?) 

The first thing we do is bulldoze the anti-war crowd into The Putrid Pit — they’re among the most rancid, nasty, and destructive enviers one may encounter.

They would be filled with gleeful  and guiltless joy if we were to just stand still; meek, pathetic, and pitiful — ready to be killed in the next attack. 

Even if the attack killed them and their children as well.

There they are; staring in stupefied delight as the last proton registers on their bloodshot retinas — their faces twisted into darkly vacuous smirks — forever.

Michael Moore will be at the head of this line.

Once we’ve shoved aside this evil pile of envy-ridden human flotsam, we go to serious war!

We kill the envious bastards that initiated the force.

We "bring to justice" all those who traffic, support, and engage in terrorism. Nothing less will do.

How long must we be at this war, you may ask? 

We have no choice if we want to continue living in a relatively free and peaceful world. We must fight global terrorism everywhere, at all times, for as long as it takes. Civilization really is at stake.

Thomas P.M. Barnett has written an impressive strategy for fighting this war. Better yet, go to his web site www.thomaspmbarnett.com and buy his book The Pentagon’s New Map.

Knights in Shining Armor

Other than the very few authors who have written books on the subject, few pundits, commentators, or bloggers fully understand envy; people "who really get it".

There are not as many as one might wish or hope for.

Rush Limbaugh sometimes gets fairly close when he talks about "class envy". 

There are others who periodically give it a drive-by shot, but most just dance around envy by using words like "hatred of Bush", "hatred of Clinton", etc.

However, a few do "get it". They deeply understand envy and its profound effects on human action.

One of the most outstanding is Dr. Jack Wheeler at ToThePointNews. 

He especially comprehends how envy relates to politics and the War on Terror. You will be well served to read his work. He has magnificent insight into envy — and many other subjects as well.

Another is a very deep thinker, Dr. Max More at www.extropy.org. 

He thinks and speaks about EXTROPY.

• Extropy: the extent of a system's intelligence, information, and capacity for improvement.
   

• Extropy: the evolution of progress.

Defense and Counterattack

Without a long dissertation, here's a quick 4-step 

counterattack against those besotted with envy.

Please, above only as the last resort!

1.   Name their envy. Identify their psychological issue exactly. Describe how envy is their ad hominem behavioral problem and personal character defect.

2.   Confront them with the fact you have absolutely NO FEAR of their damnable envy. Back-stagger them by denouncing, exposing, and denigrating their envy at every turn.

(Review my earlier comments about Michael Moore and Paul Krugman.)

3.   Dazzle them with prattle on how much they have you confused with someone who actually cares what they think or feel. 

Constantly remind them they are utterly irrelevant to your existence. 

Remember, the eagle does not chase flies.
Especially those defective flies reeking
with bilious green envy.
.

4.   Take no prisoners. Don't give a millimeter. Never stop throwing their putrid envy right back in their face. Don't ever quit. 

Let them stew in their own rancid envy juice. Ignore their screaming about being the target of ad hominem attacks. After all, you aren’t homing in on homing pigeons here.

Again, envy is envy no matter the homo sapien disgorging it.

As much of a surprise and rude shock it may be to enviers, they are NOT the Center of the Universe.

You are!  [How's that for granting your every wish.]

It's your life, and you — a sovereign individual — own it.

My Hidden — Now Open — Agenda

Since other books have well defined and described envy, this effort will perhaps excite you towards the pursuit of greater understanding by investigating the larger in-depth writings.

And, as you may have noted by now, this work is strong on defining the problem but weak on the answers.

This leads me to fervently hope this essay will motivate every reader to think (and write) deeply about ways and means to mitigate, restrict, and eventually neutralize envy and its effects.

(Which will help all of us to better cope with envy during the "Transition".)

Many (most!) readers will have far more talent, ability, and knowledge than "yur fa’thful s’vnt" to think and write about possible strategies, tactics, solutions, and answers.

I relish the idea that people like Dr. Charles Krauthammer may be listening.

So, if a few of you possess the "right stuff’ to set about this task, please do!

The agenda is to fervently hope it will motivate readers to think and write intelligently about
ways and means to mitigate, restrict, and eventually neutralize envy and its effects.

If enough interest evolves, it will be done.

Together, let's "Nuke Envy".