Welcome to Douglas Wilson's The Plodcast, presented by Canon Press.

Yeah. Yes, God, God, God don't never change.

Welcome to the Plodcast. I'm Douglas Wilson. This is episode 301. So I wanted to talk

about the doctrine of egalitarianism and I wanted to talk about one particular aspect of it, one peculiar aspect of it.

egalitarianism, egalitarianism is a doctrine promulgated by people who believe themselves to be innately

superior.

Let me say it again.

And this is, in other words, there a walking embodiment of a contradiction to their position.

egalitarianism is a doctrine promulgated by people who believe themselves to be innately superior.

One of the features of the Progressive Movement, and this is true throughout the entire 20th century well before that but let's say

through the whole 20th century and into the 21st century is how blithely the progressives are willing to make decisions for other people as though they know better.

William F Buckley wants to find a liberal as someone who reaches into the shower.

You're taking a shower and they reach into the shower to adjust the temperature for you.

They know better than you do what should be done in that circumstance.

They want to move people around like there are just so many inert chess pieces.

But as Thomas Sol points out in his book,

Social Justice fallacies, a fool,

and this was quite a striking quote, and I think believe he's quoting somebody else,

but he says a fool can put on his coat better than a wise man can do it for him.

A fool can put it on his coat better than a wise man can do it for him.

No one, no matter how smart they are, no matter how educated they are, no matter how many Ivy League degrees they have behind

their name, they don't know anywhere close to what you would need to know in order to run a civilization, in order to run people's

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