Now, I don't want you to take that as a criticism of my fellow Americans, God bless 'em. The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages. - H. L. Mencken Forgive me, I'm in a Mencken mood tonight. But you have to understand that this fatuous, incompetent poltroon is currently soiling his political diapers in the White House courtesy of a lowing mob of ovine journalists who disgrace an already disgraceful profession, a majority of ossified academics who have managed to cheapen their own profession by deifying ignorance, throwing a coat of whitewash on an intellectual whorehouse and calling it a shrine, and misusing their putative authority in the name of a socialist utopia that is as outdated and useless as a buggy whip socket, and lastly a general movement in popular culture to make a blood sacrifice to the clay-footed idols of celebrity, useful largely for an ability to simulate emotion, maintain the illusion of youth through the artifices of theatrical makeup, the illusion of intelligence through the artifices of screenplays, and the illusion of relevance by the gaudy lifestyle paid for by the envious and gullible.
That's the good news. The bad is that the treacly miasma of self-righteousness that passes for critical thought these days is not waning, but waxing; that education of the youth that will march awkwardly and ill-led into the future is given them at a premium rate by a class of pompous idiots who are, if it is imaginable, even stupider than they and protected by the sacrifices of better men and women than themselves from the absolutely just consequences of their folly, cheered on by cultural icons who not only reject God but pretend to reject Mammon as well while embracing him.
There is no hope. You're best off drowning yourself in the bottomless cesspit that is this modern age. Welcome to FR.
Beautiful, Bill, just beautiful. Hope you don’t mind that I cut and pasted your rant and passed it along to a dozen or so of my more conservative friends. (With acknowledgements, of course).
I’d use it as my next tagline if you could condense it to one pithy sentence, and if it wouldn’t be such a blatant rip-off...
OMGoodness! [stands up and cheers]
Adding that to my homepage.