The Difference Between Them and Us

The American Thinker ^ | April 21, 2009 | Christopher Chantrill

[Scanian]

As I walked through the tea party-goers in Seattle's Westlake Park last on Wednesday, April 15, I couldn't help noticing the difference between the people there assembled and the people you see on TV.

We are talking about the kind of people you see on the news, on the prime-time shows, and in commercials.

The people who had peaceably assembled to discuss a petition of the government for a redress of grievances were ordinary citizens, living their lives as mothers and fathers in families and businesses and churches. People like us want limited government and we want liberty because we want to live our lives independent of the government and its force.

But the people you see on TV are different. They live, as Charles Taylor would say in his Secular Age, in the Age of Authenticity. They are "expressive individualists." Here is what he means.

I mean the understanding of life which emerges with the Romantic expressivism of the late-eighteenth century, that each one of us has his/her own way of realizing our humanity, and that it is important to find and live out one's own, as opposed to surrendering to conformity with a model imposed on us from outside, by society, or the previous generation, or religious or political authority.

In more sophisticated terms, Taylor echoes the injunction of Joseph Campbell to "follow your bliss " or, more crudely, "do your own thing."

[JudgemAll]

They have no homes and are runaway kids without them, yet they bully-beg us to provide us one via the government like hypocrites trying to save face for their idiocy and incompetence. Worse, they bring their pimps and illegals and foreigners as muscle before they blow their brains out.

As my buddy said, keep the good old fashion shotgun pointed at this rif raf, it’s the only way to get a sort of home integrity back in order.