I agree with that assessment and with all the gloomy assessments contained in your post. I simply say that if the unwashed are incapable of critical analysis they are still vulnerable to wit and satire and it is a shame that we simply do not pick up weapons that might serve to save the country.
As gloomy as the outlook is, I say we soldier on. I want a multi-faceted war on the leftists to be waged. In one realm we should be using wit and satire in another realm we should be employing Article V.
“I simply say that if the unwashed are incapable of critical analysis they are still vulnerable to wit and satire and it is a shame that we simply do not pick up weapons that might serve to save the country.”
Save the country for what, pray tell. Just to have the populace succumb to the next evil regime that has a better and more palatable “message” for the mind-numbed and intellectually defenseless? I would rather not have my grandchildren giving their lives for that purpose. The kind of ignorance that is prevalent in this country today is self perpetuating and endless without either decades of re-education or a virtual phoenix from the ashes of cataclysm.
I still have one of my fourth grade history books. It challenges the reading skills of a lot of high school seniors to whom I’ve shown it as an example of earlier textbooks. There is no other word for what has happened to our system of education except “deterioration”. It’s the reason we are no longer a free people.
However, we have the greatest selection of mind slop ever known to man to deter any real knowledge from taking root in the minds of the masses. Yes, by all means, let’s let them die laughing.
You’re both right.
WFB was great and did so much in part because he was so funny.
Coincidentally, his mantle seems to be passing to Greenfield.
You’re both right.
WFB was great and did so much in part because he was so funny.
Coincidentally, his mantle seems to be passing to Greenfield.