Thursday, December 20, 2012
Speaking of a culture of violence
I can't help but think about our over-the-top rhetoric that is used to censor traditional speech and religious expression, such as this article of mind-numbing lunacy demonstrates. Christmas songs as forms of intimidation and bullying? Really? It's been said that if everything is something, then that becomes nothing. So if everyone is a Super, then nobody is a Super (remember that from The Incredibles? ). Or if everything is racism, then racism ceases to mean anything. But could it be that we have built a country where everyone thinks everything is evil, where everything is attacks and assaults and bullying? Could this be affecting folks, young folks, who grow up hearing adults speak as though anything and everything that crosses them is the most vile evil and horrible inhumanity? Instead of it all becoming nothing, perhaps it's becoming how young people see the world? I don't know. Maybe there's nothing to it. But as I sit back and watch our country splintered into endless divisions of the good and the evil, I just can't help but imagine that would have to impact me if I grew up in it. Just a thought.
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Allow me to quote John Derbyshire in something he said in one of his recent "radio derb" spots:
ReplyDeleteI just pause here to note the phenomenon I call "hate creep," in which milder and milder opinions or policies come to be thought of as "hateful." Twenty years ago, "racism" meant burning a cross on someone's front lawn; nowadays it means mentioning that Obama plays golf. Twenty years ago, an extreme immigration policy would have been rounding up illegals and sending them to labor camps in the Aleutian islands; now it's extreme to want a border fence — a thing that a majority of Senate Democrats actually voted for in 2006!
There's probably a lot of explanations for it (and few of them mutually exclusive, so they probably all play a part). Mine for today? Utopia.
It's simple. People assume that, "oh if we just do/fix [___], everything will be all right". So they do. They fix or accomplish whatever. Only Utopia doesn't happen. So something else has to be done. Wash, rinse, repeat indefinitely.
There will always be just... "one more thing to do", then it will all be perfect.
Oh, and when it comes to newton...
ReplyDeleteWell Jonah Goldberg had a good piece here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/336172/rush-impose-reason-horror-jonah-goldberg
But I don't think anything more needs to be said than:
http://news.investors.com/photopopup.aspx?id=637268
There are so many things to think about with that. I've also thought about what role I am trying to play in something that is so far from really affecting me. Certainly not like it affects those poor families.
ReplyDeleteWhat you show a post up there. Love your own boys and take care of them all the more.
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