For the liberal left one biblical notion lives on: that there is virtue in suffering. To be wronged is to be right

  Western progressives progress apace as they continue to indulge their favourite emotion: ostentatious guilt. 

It opens the door for their favourite and perhaps only idea: financial transfers, ('I knw lets throw money at this problem...' they chorus whether it is in the form of aid or infrastructure investment or debt relief. 

Of  course their self-criticism has a veneer of humility. But nothing could be more patrician characteristic of the aristocracy.. 

The thing about guilt is that it assumes one has ultimate control over things. Although the west has secularised, one biblical notion lives on: that there is virtue in suffering. To be wronged is to be right