Some of you may know 16th century poet, John Donne, whose famous body of work, The Holy Sonnets, explored a crippling salvation anxiety and a fear he could not stand up to divine judgment.
Today, it seems the left is battling such demons. Hell-bent on repenting for the neo-original sins committed by Western Civilisation and answering to the new age of moral puritanism.
It is, however, important to draw the dichotomy between the two; Donne’s trepidations were hidden by poetic conceit and focused on his own internal struggles, in contrast, the left marches boorishly forward, projecting their angst onto the world.
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