After a long battle the Boy Scouts of America finally succumbed yesterday to a terminal case of O’Sullivan’s Law.
O’Sullivan’s Law states that any organization or enterprise that is not expressly right wing will become left wing over time. The law is named after British journalist John O’Sullivan.
One of the reasons for this is leftist intolerance versus right-wing tolerance. Right wingers are willing to hire openly leftist employees in the interest of fairness. Leftist tend to be utterly intolerant, not allow non-Liberals near them, and feel justified in harassing right wingers at every opportunity. The result is that over time conservative enterprises are slowly infiltrated by leftists while leftist enterprises remain the same or move even further left.
Leftism is in and of itself a form of decay, an entropy of the spirit and intellect. It’s what happens not just to nations but to television shows, churches and universities as the energy given off by the big bang of their inception slowly ebbs away. Rather than expend vitality towards originality and creation they become obsessed with introspection, popularity and lethargy.
An enterprise can stave off O’Sullivan’s Law if their creators keep it in mind and remain vigilant. Any organization that grows lackadaisical about its original values will eventually fall prey to this malady.
For example, the Annenberg Foundation was started by a Republican but it didn’t take long before O’Sullivan’s Law had them handing terrorists money for educating kids. The ACLU, the Ford Foundation and the Episcopal Church all fell to O’Sullivan’s Law.
And now, at long last, the BSA.
R.I.P.
Boy Scouts of America
I agree... we’re in a very dark time now.
Glad I’m nearing the final quarter-turn of life.
You’re absolutely right. Moral people on the right believe in fairness and tolerance. We want to be nice to people who disagree with us. However, it has been proven time and time again that immoral people on the left do not extend the same courtesies to us. They will use every dirty trick in the book to force their will on us. Every compromise just pushes the ball further left. Oh, they might play nice at first, but just wait until they gain the upper hand. Then their total lack of tolerance and fairness is exposed as they try to squash anyone who disagrees.