Fooled by the simpleminded -- the equality trump card

Bernard Shaw didn't agree with the converted Chesterton on many things ,but he did on the dumb simplicity adopted by  progressives of their day ( Chesterton notes - "not discussed enough" even 100 years ago - wow )   .
Orwell didn't agree with Christians on much either but he agreed the equality card is no trump . He insists its dangerous and incomplete - it comes back to haunt us so easily. In our own day Dalrymple is on target,  even if the church isn't .
Idealism is not only dangerous,  but  like all failed and simple ideology, it costs the earth . It throws out what's good in favor of what doesn't work. The popularity of a simple idea with polys and the public is completely understandable,  so please put your mind into gear and read the above highly engaged authors. Resist the quick fix 

All Bernard Shaw's  women'  have to prove themselves ,To get the respect ticket and use it as a trump card is wrong  As Chesterton points out,  these two thinkers  agreed , against the common logic of women's movement promoters of their day,  that for women to be actually treated equally,  no one should use the respect card for the group . Noone is good but God alone. These are hard but CLEAR  lessons for our day when the insatiable demand for respect is threatening the definition of marriage and parenthood for children .  

• We can all fall for our own logic of "disadvantage " . To take with one hand our diversity and uniqueness and ask for more because we insist on seeing it as " disadvantage" Having  no option to discipline the arguments , our sentimental public  servants do nothing but handout cheques to the " disadvantaged " Unsustainable . 

• Maybe this incomplete view of nature and natural processes is  at the heart of the stalemate in many family court decisions as well ?

This well researched review of domestic violence shows how shallow  many of the discussions have been for a long time .http://www.weightiermatter.com/divorce/the-heretic-of-mainstream-feminism-linda-mills-and-the-courage-of-a-scientistsaint/6303

Be warned - the progressives,  by taking the position they have,  are in denial about the really important role of aggression and anger in resolving conflict. To not normalise angers and aggression is to deny solutions to millions of modern families and couples for whom sitting on their emotions means depression , suicide and silent stalemates . Women Converts to Islam site "english maternalism" as  the sentimental rubbish thats killing the West's real dealings with reality - and they are right .  Wrath is not wrong as the unthinking unscientific  reactionaries would have it

The only idealism we can tolerate is that which works:  Be angry but makeup in bed  Ephesians 4:26