*The faint of heart are the reason why things have gotten to this sorry pass. Faint of hearts - it's time to take sides, one or the other. By not taking sides against evil, one is choosing to support evil.
For both lists.
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
Some of today's "lefties" treat everything like De Sade treated sex.
Wow! That was great. She really did her homework. God bless her.
(I learned a new word today, "coprophillia")
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I have to juxtapose this with something a science writer keeps telling me - that America is no longer producing smart people, that is now happening in places like India. I wonder, as they produce engineers and doctors, are those countries allowing pedophiles and other kooks in their universities?
Consider their attitude to those who do not wish to follow. Do they simply shrug their shoulders and say "every one to their own"? No, they do not. What they do however, is to heap vituperation, ridicule, and abuse on those who try to protect their own way.
This extends to the attack on the rights of children. To be brought up "the way they should go" is commonsense. If should be done with the best interests of a child. If the child wishes to go the way of the Left, when they reach adulthood, they will have plenty of opporunities.The Left wishes corruption, BEFORE the child has to know it's own mind.
The hate of the Left for those who wish a different path, is because seeing those other people, holds up a mirror to their own sick, obscene souls.
bttt
The po-mo's have it wrong: De Sade wasn't actually advancing anything in particular as much as he was providing a disquisition on how systematic rejection of (especially) Christan mores led to a hedonistic sort of paradise on this earth - this is especially pronounced in Justine. The difficulty is that the hedonistic paradise he described was banal, brutal, and unutterably boring.
It is actually a fairly good measure of the intellectual progress of the postmodern left - it was a doctrine based on and restricted to rejection. There are flaws with present-day society just as there were flaws in de Sade's, and the assumption that categorical rejection of every more that built present society will lead to some sort of mirror-image utopia is one that even its adherents must know is illogical, and hence they reject logic; is immoral, and hence they reject morality, is incoherent, and hence they reject coherence. It is also impossible, which is a much more difficult thing to reject. The only recourse to demanding the impossible is to pretend that you've attained it, and that is precisely where postmodernism leads, to a grand fantasy world with increasingly few connections to the real one.
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In the words of little jeremiah:
Not for the faint of heart*; hard hitting article. I highly recommend it to anyone who already sees the problem, and even more to those who don't see the problem.
"America’s Left is comprised of two sorts of people: those willing to engage in evil and those who are willing to aid and abet it."
I disagree with this. The Left is indeed comprised of two sorts of people. The first one listed above is correct; the Left's leaders are willing to engage in all sorts of evil to advance their agenda, and are cunning and extraordinarily deceptive. The second sort is an entirely clueless group. The deceptiveness of the first group and the cluelessness of the second group is illustrated by the Left's success in calling good evil, and evil good. The simple fact is that most of the Left is just clueless, due to lack of intelligence, intellectual laziness, or government schooling (aka, public school.)
I think the left is going to win. They have played to game a long time and know how to make evil sound good. Our culture is too weak to fight aganist what they call homophobia. They know how to state their case and demean those who would speak aganist them as mean, homophobic, denying them a civil right (which does not exsist) etc. I have little hope.
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The Sex Positive Agenda (which stretches back decades) seeks to objectives: (1) no moral judgments over sexual pairings regardless of sex, age, relation, number, marital status, or species of partner(s) and (2) everyone sexually active at every age (abstinence is "unhealthy" because it is a suppression of desires).
I vote we declare these leftists and "psychologists" mentally insane.
They are psychotic. Every one of them.
de Sade gets fair credit for adding to the madness following the
French Revolution in this book:
"The Twilight of Atheism: The Rise and Fall of Disbelief in the Modern World"
by Alister McGrath
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385500610/sr=8-4/qid=1141613599/ref=pd_bbs_4/103-1494402-0811809?%5Fencoding=UTF8
Some people like to play with poop in bed, others will pay a dominatrix $500/hour to physically humiliate them, but everyone in that club and everyone in the scene was very very serious about consent and safety. De Sade might be known as the man who popularized the notion of sadomasochism, but very few people in the bondage scene would condone or seek to repeat his actions. No one that I ever met at the club would kidnap someone or do that sort of stuff with minors; everything was very safe, or at least in the more extreme cases, very consensual.
On a more personal note, I will say that a number of people at the club spent thousands of dollars on fetish gear when they would have been better served to spend a couple hours a day at the gym. *euch* I haven't seen that much white since the Halloween Blizzard of 1991.
Great article LJ!