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Normalizing Deviance
Townhall.com ^ | June 21, 2011 | Cal Thomas

Posted on 06/21/2011 5:22:15 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 06/21/2011 5:22:17 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

ping for later


2 posted on 06/21/2011 5:28:55 AM PDT by Logic n' Reason (The stain must be ERADICATED....NOW!!)
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To: Kaslin

ping for later


3 posted on 06/21/2011 5:28:57 AM PDT by Logic n' Reason (The stain must be ERADICATED....NOW!!)
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To: Kaslin

Cal Thomas makes salient points. Lying is but the tip of the iceburg of our national discontent. We have come to accept all manner of deviancy in our elected officials and cultural icons. Ministers, moguls and mavens all have infected the culture from the top down.
If there is an area in which the elites have permeated society with their influuence it is in the area of dysfunctional ethics.
We live in moral chaos, suffering the disruption of cultural stability just as Rome on the eve of being overrun by the Goths. Substitute the US for Rome and Islam for the Goths and you have a pretty good assessment of our current condition. We are about to be raped and plundered.


4 posted on 06/21/2011 5:34:00 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This IS my blog site.)
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We have come to accept all manner of deviancy in our elected officials and cultural icons.

WE haven't. Only those with an elitist mindset have. Even those who don't consider themselves to be "elite" can have an elitIST mindset, wherein they believe that the "special people" can live by different rules.

5 posted on 06/21/2011 5:36:06 AM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter knows whom he's working for)
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To: Louis Foxwell

———We live in moral chaos-——

The condition is chaos only to one with ethics and morals.

To be progressive is to have neither, to live unshackled by the hard learned rules for being civilized.

Everyone who calls themselves Democrat is an American enemy, far worse and more deadly than an Al Qeada fanatic.


6 posted on 06/21/2011 5:38:52 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. N.C. D.E. +12 ....( History is a process, not an event ))
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This is very true. The Dem line, which has emerged in opinion articles all over the press, is that “all men do this.” Or if they don’t actually do it, they want to, and old Tony was just being brave enough to go out and do it.

What? Text pictures of their privates to women they don’t even know? Spend hours playing with their weenies while talking dirty to these or other unknown women and girls?

I doubt it.

Deviancy has not only been defined down but actually seems to have become a cultural goal.


7 posted on 06/21/2011 5:39:05 AM PDT by livius
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...as actress Janeane Garofalo told Bill Maher recently, "everyone lies about sex").

She would have to lie about sex. What a toad. I've been watching Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, and she's on it. In the season ending episode she's being held hostage, and her captor is threatening to shoot her. Please God, have him shoot her and put her out of my misery. Why do they keep putting her on tv shows? They had her on one season of 24. Ruined that season for me.
8 posted on 06/21/2011 5:42:22 AM PDT by klgator
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Our society is like an ecosystem in stress, how much garbage can we absorb before it overwhelms the system. Those journalists who put forth deviance as normal are like people backing up a truck full of toxic chemicals to dump in the river. Whatever beliefs a person may have, the simple fact is that some behaviors are destructive to society.


9 posted on 06/21/2011 5:47:50 AM PDT by dog breath
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“We live in moral chaos, suffering the disruption of cultural stability”

Right. You want to know where it starts?

Here's one for you: We have a student assistant for the summer. He's supposed to begin at 8:00 a.m. No problem, right? He has no classes in the summer. BUT... he CANNOT arrive by eight....it is always 8:30 before he gets in. So, the hours are adjusted to 8:30 a.m.... Now it's a lead pipe cinch he will NOT arrive until 9:00 a.m.

Just say'n

10 posted on 06/21/2011 5:55:23 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Educate men without religion and you make of them but clever devils. " Arthur Wellesley)
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We have come to accept all manner of deviancy in our elected officials and cultural icons.

Way too broad a statement. Leftists regard themselves as part of a movement. Anything can be justified if it can be portrayed as furthering the movement toward its goals. The vast majority of Americans don't believe that. Voters in Weiner's district would prefer that he not have acted in that manner, but they were making a cost-benefit judgment. This demonstrates the extent to which decent people have been enslaved by the political system.

11 posted on 06/21/2011 6:06:01 AM PDT by Tallguy (You can safely ignore anything that precedes the word "But"...)
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To: Louis Foxwell
We live in moral chaos, suffering the disruption of cultural stability just as Rome on the eve of being overrun by the Goths. Substitute the US for Rome and Islam for the Goths and you have a pretty good assessment of our current condition. We are about to be raped and plundered.

Very well said Louis.

FMCDH(BITS)

12 posted on 06/21/2011 7:15:08 AM PDT by nothingnew (I fear for my Republic due to marxist influence in our government. Open eyes/see)
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I purchased "The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship" written by Phillip and Paul Collins a few years back. They write of all the usual suspects behind the normalizing deviance technique from an unusual perspective.

I had motives for not wanting the world to have meaning. For myself, as no doubt for most of my contemporaraies, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation.

The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain system of morality.

We objected to the morality, because it interfered with our sexual freedom. We objected to the political and economic system, because it was unjust.

The supporters of these systems claim that in some way they embodied the meaning-- a Christian meaning, they insisted-- of the world.

There was one admirably simple method of confusing these people and at the same time justify ourselves in our political and erotic revolt. We could deny that the world had any meaning whatsoever. (Huxley, Ends and Means p. 27, 1937)

13 posted on 06/21/2011 7:37:32 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman
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Very interesting points in both this article as well as your post. I wonder, though, if a lot of this is a bit overblown. Here's my rationale for this: A lot of these scandals can really be traced to a heightened level of public scrutiny combined with advanced technology that brings a lot of things into the light of day that had previously remained out of the public eye.

I mean, one important lesson from the Weiner saga is that a combination of an iPhone and a Twitter account just gives a person a lot of ways to demonstrate to the world just how big an imbecile he is.

14 posted on 06/21/2011 7:54:40 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: MurrietaMadman

Interesting.


15 posted on 06/21/2011 9:01:36 AM PDT by livius
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To: klgator
They had her on one season of 24. Ruined that season for me.

I kept hoping and hoping to see her caught in the crossfire, and was disappointed every episode.

16 posted on 06/21/2011 10:55:22 AM PDT by nina0113
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We’ve got one of those but he’s a full-grown ‘adult’ who can’t make it in on time to save his life. Half an hour late, almost every day.


17 posted on 06/21/2011 11:02:30 AM PDT by nina0113
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To: Alberta's Child

I do not believe that lewdness found out more easily accounts for the denigration of morality. It is certainly true that communications are easier.
On the other hand the com pros are less inclined to publicize miscreant behavior especially among their heroes. The sheer volume of immorality and its ease of penetration into the culture is worsening. There is no question that we are headed down a road to destruction.


18 posted on 06/21/2011 12:23:33 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This IS my blog site.)
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To: Tallguy

Not broad at all as your explanation clarifies. The liberal movement fosters loosened morality, spendthrift economics and radical democracy. How is my comment too road?


19 posted on 06/21/2011 12:44:24 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (This IS my blog site.)
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Sorry Louis. I interpreted you to mean “most Americans”. If you meant “most liberals” then I have no quibble with your post.


20 posted on 06/21/2011 12:54:04 PM PDT by Tallguy (You can safely ignore anything that precedes the word "But"...)
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