I have tasted Easter egg righteousness and can confirm it tastes rather like the less-righteous Cadbury's version.
But the hyper-focus on anti-elitism obscures the far less righteous xenophobia, racism and anti-immigrant sentiment that were also elements of the leave campaign.
For the Jewish peacenik, on the other hand, the State of Israel is inherently neither more righteous nor less righteous than other nation-states with a history of colonialism and partition, war and occupation.
No doubt, the "hot seats" that Paula and Bob are currently occupying are boiling just about now, and those fueling the fire have forgotten another piece of wise advice of which we could all benefit from in the remembering if we were smarter, a tad less righteous, and a bit more realistic, "If you have nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all".
Forget the protesters and the shrill cries for baseball to ban Rocker or for the Braves to cast him off to a less-righteous bullpen.
Alexander's video, however, is less a righteous message of empowerment than a crass embodiment of the issues it's meant to address, which is to say, it's a messy bro-fest with not a lot of visibility for women.
Many of Reed's later poems are similarly polemical, but often seem fueled less by righteous indignation than by disproportionate crankiness.
People care less about righteous speech than care about action.
That we have been able to watch the evolution of that young man into the Ken Barlow we know today, no less self-righteous but with 50 years of experiences behind him, is frankly one of the wonders of British television".
There are clearly cultural difference between the West and the Muslim world, but the nature of the current furor — delayed, disproportionate and violently political — makes it look to me less like the spontaneous, righteous anger of a cultural clash than an organized, cynical move by Islamists to manipulate ignorant, unstable masses.
We are not a more attractive people than we were-rather the contrary-but we are in many ways less self-righteous.
