[AreaMan]

I had to type this by hand as I cannot find a link to the original article so please excuse any tyographical errors.

[CyberCowboy777]

mark for later

[DumpsterDiver]

I had to type this by hand...

Thanks for taking the time to do that. I liked this line from the article:

"Most grave, it is producing a frivolous society, one that does not know an idea which can contend for serious claim from a trivial one."

[little jeremiah]

Thank you for alerting me to this article. I'll have the stomach for it later!!! Seriously, I'll add this book to my list of books to buy when I can afford them!

Bookmarked to read way after dinner...

[Consort]

Necrosexual

[woofie]

Dead cat bounce (bump)

[secretagent]

mark

[Paul C. Jesup]

Do you really need someone to explain the difference between this and two consenting living adults.

[Ohioan]

One of the strongest defenses against outlandish ideas and behavior was ridicule. Ridicule is not now permitted. And a society that is condemned to take all claims seriously will soon be a society whose eyebrows cannot be raised in disbelieving amusement, whose gaze cannot turn down in scorn, whose mouth cannot laugh. It will have lost its best defense of order the sense of the comic. Do I hear the sound of spades against graves?

The article makes many good points. However, one does not need to accept the writer's suggestion that ridiculing unacceptable social conduct is no longer permitted. At my website, there is some in virtually every article. We make no concessions to the pretensions or pseudo-intellectual newspeak of the Twentieth Century Left, and we intend to step up the attack in this new Century.

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

[Quick1]

More generally, Western societies have seen a series of behaviors, once thought evil, perverse, or just plain barmy, solemnly argued for as normal and very quickly accepted as such. Take the case of illegitimacy, once thought an occasion for shame; or that of vegetarianism, once thought, for instance by Orwell, to be the sure sign of a crank; or that of homosexuality.

Let's not forget interracial sexual relations and marriage, there used to be hangings for that. What about slavery going in the opposite direction, from good to evil?

[spodefly]

BTTT.