Click pic to hear "Won't Get Fooled Again"
Posted on 08/10/2011 6:53:50 AM PDT by expatguy
"We'll be fighting in the streets with our children at our feet, And the morals that they worship will be gone. And the men who spurred us on sit in judgment of all wrong. They decide and then the shotgun sings the song. I'll tip my hat to the new constitution."
Ask anyone the reason for the devastating riots and you will get a plethora of reasons ranging from economic uncertainty to racial strife. In a supposed rare glimpse of sobriety a couple of inebriated ladettes share their learned thoughts with the BBC and mumble that they are just showing the rich that "we can do what we want".
Well, score one for the ladettes. You see this is not about economics or race, but rather relativism. Reaping what it has sown, England is now discovering that simple aphorism that cultural relativism inevitably drags moral relativism in it's wake.
Growing up in an environment that eschews moral absolutism and embraces cultural relativism and the "diversity of opinions", these drunken ladettes find themselves cursed now with the inability to distinguish right from wrong, where the truth now becomes subjective depending merely on one's point of view. This isn't the first time we have seen this, we saw it in the aftermath of Katrina when countless celebrities and liberal politicians defended the actions of the looters and we see it today with a growing tide of politicians such as David Cameron and Barack Obama who believe that a nation's fiscal ineptitude can be rectified simply by fleecing the rich.
It was another politician, John Adams who in 1787 - "The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence. If "Thou shalt not covet" and "Thou shalt not steal" were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society before it can be civilized or made free."
In the name of tolerance, diversity and political correctness we have drifted away from God and embraced moral relativism. In our arrogance, we as a society have by "secular edict" decreed that sin no longer exists and moral precepts are unfounded. In complete defiance of the laws of nature and of God we have chosen to live our lives as we see fit and by "choice" - not by what is right and what is wrong.
"I'll tip my hat to the new constitution. Take a bow for the new revolution. Smile and grin at the change all around. Pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday. Then I'll get on my knees and pray We don't get fooled again. Don't get fooled again, no no."
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in the sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
“The Second Coming”, Wm Yeats
1920
I just had an “argument” with a co-worker about breaking laws. She lives in that “gray area of morals and law”, where I live in black and white (hence my FR name).
Finally I said to her “ you live in the gray world of law and morals, I live in black and white. We will NEVER agree so lets just end it”.
She agreed. Funny, the only thing we agreed upon is to end the “argument”, lol.
Call out the instigators
Because there’s something in the air
We’ve got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution’s here, and you know it’s right
And you know that it’s right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now
Lock up the streets and houses
Because there’s something in the air
We’ve got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution’s here, and you know it’s right
And you know that it’s right
We have got to get it together
We have got to get it together now
Hand out the arms and ammo
We’re going to blast our way through here
We’ve got to get together sooner or later
Because the revolution’s here, and you know it’s right
And you know that it’s right
Hard to believe two of those guys are dead.
LOL
You might ask her a simple question - what is gray? It is a mix of black and white - it can always be broken down into its constituent colors. The white doesn’t make black less black, nor the other way ‘round. Blending them makes them less distinguishable, but no less black and white. Blending morals or truths has the same effect.
I don’t have to ask her what gray is. She feels laws and morals can be consistently changed, depending on the situation.
She lives in a world of “the path to hell is paved with good intentions”.
Oh, and she is also into that vampire crap that seems to be so popular now.
One day she came into work, walked right up to me and said “look”....and shoved the devils pentagon necklace into my face.
She just recently talking, in front of me, about spells and other crap she is into now.
The only reason why she does this in front of me is because she knows my immediate back away repulsion to such things.
Does her “gray area” end at the edge of her own property?
Her own life? The lives of her children?
How about just their personal liberty and dignity?
She’s in her mid 50’s, no children and her gray area is her, no matter where she is.
She LOVES barry and thinks he’s just terrific. She continues to talk about how she would love to work for his administration.
Her life is a mess, including that of her family. Her sister and bil built on to the house she and her sister grew up in (she never left home, except to go to college, travel around Europe on moms dime (her dad died when she was 15 and was the strict one....a black/white type of guy).
Her sister has 2 girls, 21 and 19 I believe. The 21 year old is a train wreck and the 19 year old shows some progress, but regresses against my co-worker, and she is supposed the “good one”.
No matter how many times her sister and her family screw her over she makes excuses for them and just goes on pretending nothing ever happened.
Microsoft Office is instructive here. (Believe it or not.)
If you decide to fill an object with a color, you have a choice (among others) of black, white or shades of gray.
IOW, some moral issues really are black and white. Others, as your friend says, are really shades of gray. But where she misses the boat is to assume that because it is gray the shade isn’t relevant.
Office allows one to fill the object with 10%, 25%, etc. as a shade of gray. While both are shades of gray, there is a BIG difference between 10% and 90%, or even between 25% and 75%.
Relativists assume, without bothering to prove or even argue it, that because our society is a shade of gray, it is morally equivalent to any other society that is also a shade of gray. This is a classic example of the perfect being the deadly enemy of the good. Since our society isn’t perfect, it can’t be better than any other. Yet even 40% gray is much better than 60% gray.
Shades of gray matter, is all I’m saying.
I hope this comment isn’t too weird.
No, it’s not weird. But our “gray zones” have expanded to a point where anything wrong can be explained away.
Remember, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.....aka, gray zones.
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