Hats Off To This Author

I was going to write a post exploring why the "tolerant" are so hostile to opposing views; why the mere utterance of opposing views is considered worse than coercing the "tolerant's" own; why many of the basic notions underlying Western civilization for millennia now invite such hostility; and how it is that I easily tolerate and interact with large numbers of modern people who disagree with me, whereas they feel mortally threatened by my mere existence. But then I stumbled on this piece of writing that eloquently and thoroughly explains it. I doubt that the "tolerant" or the ADD contingents will read it, but it is a strong dose of truth.

EDIT:

In the comments beneath his article, the author makes an additional, poignant observation about the process of human degradation:

There is a second step, once all authority is defined as abusive, to define the authority of truth as abusive, so that speaking the truth to someone becomes an act of imposition, and this leads to hatred of truth. Likewise, judging one thing to be more virtuous than another is an inequity, and hence an oppression, so the act of being virtuous or praising virtue becomes a vice.

Amen.