Posted on 08/15/2006 8:59:06 PM PDT by Reagan Man
Saved. Thanks.
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They are deeply invested in the idea that morality is a crock, a con job, a way decent ordinary people are manipulated by unscrupulous tyrants from the dark ages. See, soldiers who actually believe in honor are to them just fools. Sacrificing oneself for one's country is obscene - no country is worth it and the things one actually does are wrong rather than right. All harsh constraint, all discipline, all necessity - they are just ways of trying to get the unwashed many to do some poohbah's dirty work.
See, as soon as one has bought that piece of easy going cynicism, life is so much easier all the way around. One is morally superior to every striving saint or hero simply because one has seen through the sham and does not try. One is wise when self indulgant. One never has to do anything or even to accept anything as true or existing, that one does not want - because one can always allege that it is a mere allegation to manipulate you. Sass is the only remaining virtue - to decide for oneself, based on what feels good right this instant, and to tell off everyone trying to tell you anything. Stopped up ears deliver an effortless liberty, inward imagination delivers achievement. Every failing is somebody else's fault, some "man" trying to con people, and all we have to do is be on to it and not go along.
What would be involved in giving that up? First, there would be urgent tasks that are matters of duty. Frivilous pursuits would be morally disreputable. There would be better and worse people in the world, objectively. Things could be legitimately asked of citizens by authorities. War would be a natural part of the human condition instead of an obscene aberrration and fit of madness, to be merely run from and screamed against. Dangers would have to be faced rather than avoided. Those one has been bad mouthing for most of one's life would be wronged parties, and guilt would be justified rather than a hangup to get over.
Fundamentally, they are fleeing the responsibilities of it all, because fleeing responsibilities and calling on others to flee from their responsibilities, termed "liberation" by those peddling it, is what they have been about for - oh about 300 years.
inspirational and prophetic analysis and worth passing on.
I skimmed it quick, but it deserves a word-for-word read. Excellent post, Reagan Man. BTTT and bookmark for later.
You go, Rabbi!
Precisely! It doesn't matter one whit if we 'accept' them, or give in to their demands in the Middle East. They'll still come for us, because that's what they believe they SHOULD do.
I'm reminded of those elitist Hellenistic loving Jews who were willing to give away their birthright along with that of their "unwashed" coreligionists who refused to do so. Fortunately the Macabees took care of it in battle known today as Hanukah
This is an outstanding article which I have bookmarked. The last paragraph especially caught my eye because it mirrors narcissism, a growing epidemic among those so-aptly described in other parts of this fantastic piece.
*sigh*...wonder what the definite number for 'too many' is...I am fearful, and very disheartened... almost half our country's population is already there.
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If Israel didn't exist, the problem would go away and they wouldn't have to deal with it. If Bush weren't President, liberals believe none of this terrorism would be taking place. I'm sure they believe that if a dem is elected in 2008, that terrorism will cease to exist.
What is sad is that liberals treat conservatives worse than they would an actual terrorist. Maybe we should call the terrorist Republicans and then the left would deal with them.
Great sentence, one of my biggest pet peeves about the DUmmmie types.
This Rabbi decribes democrats and RINOS, Greens, and a host of other groups.. PERFECTLY...
Liberals NEVER EVER place any blame on the terrorists themselves. They ALWAYS blame the US and Israel for driving the peaceful muslims into terrorizing:
The US, Britain, Israel, India, Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Lebanon, Russia, Australia, Canada, Italy, Singapore, the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria, Kenya, Thailand, Spain, Macedonia, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Morocco, France, Germany, Uzbekistan, Gaza, Tunisia, Kosovo, Bosnia, Somalia, Algeria, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Denmark, Sudan, Jordan, Holland, Greece...etc
Excellent article. He sums up the current state of liberalism, very well.
I've said that very same thing...and you know that you and I are not the only ones to think this...so, why on earth would they cave immediately to the protests of,"What no baby formula allowed on flights?!?"...and say, "Well, OK, baby formula and meds we'll allow." {{{shaking my head in disbelief}}}
How to you placate or compromise with people like that?
It's impossible...to the rest of us it is totally unimaginable that 'people' can think this way. Just incomprehensible.
I agree. He doesn't make a strong case on that point, but the point he makes ought not be ignored. After my first reading the anti-semite angle is the weakest part of this piece, but the rest is very cogent.
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