QotD: the existential dillemma of the modern tory

Carloshasanaxe neatly lays bare the existential dillemma of the modern tory: unhappy but unwilling to change:

A lot of people with addictive behaviors will admit they have a problem. They’ll talk your ear off of about it, and then ask you for a twenty. It’s a step, but it’s not a big step.

Since the modern world is not going to change to accommodate refugee50s — nor should it, since it would mean a radical diminishment of millions of peoples’ lives, and for what? just so he can feel like a real man? — he has to change himself to accommodate to the world. But his resentment forms so much of his self-identity, he has based his entire worldview around it.

It’s not a real change. He doesn’t have the empathy for it; he probably thinks empathy is a dirty word, since that’s become a partisan shibboleth.

Can he learn? Can he change? Can he grow? I would truly like to think so. But as it is, he’s pretty low. And so he’ll probably die unhappy, but blame everyone else first in the process.