An unknown liberal's manifesto for the world in 2002, written in the early sixties

Conservative Commentary ^ | 22 August 2002 | Peter Cuthbertson

[Tomalak]

I want a world where entertainment is its own justification, and whatever low and dirty pleasure anyone can gain makes the means to getting it absolutely fine.

I want a world where the gentle, kind manners of a dying generation are not just absent, but despised - where those with a clipped accent, innocent humour and a natural courtesy for others are met with a universal sneer and anger that in their naivety they cannot comprehend.

I want a world where the weak and old are seen deserve their every misfortune, where sympathy is only ever demonstrated in public.

I want a world where promiscuous homosexuals and clients of prostitutes can look around public parks for sex at the stroke of midnight without fear of arrest, but children cannot be left alone there at the stroke of noon for fear of paedophiles.

I want a world where an individual's duty to others begins and ends with paying tax, and any conscience is seen as a mark of weakness.

I want a world where sex is a religion forced upon everyone, with no way to shield ones children, whose innocence is seen as harmful, and whose sexualisation is encouraged by everyone with power.

I want a world where terrorists can govern one quarter of the United Kingdom while its people are too stupid to care, and too cowardly, empty-headed and self-obsessed to want fight for anything.

I want a world where authority is neutral between the crook and the decent citizen, who gains the protection of no one, but will be denounced and jailed when he tries to defend himself and his property.

I want a world where the cardinal virtue is tolerance of all behaviour, and where those who sin against this are demonised and expelled from polite society.

I want a world where people are seen as compassionate for making credit card donations to people in Africa while refusing to play their deafening music even slightly quieter for the sake of their neighbours.

I want a world where shooting clay pigeons, hunting foxes and smoking tobacco are strictly taboo, but where snorting cocaine and smoking marijuana are noble statements of self-expression.

I want a world where the defenceless can expect no help from others if they are attacked by criminals, their every moment outside the house spent seeing everyone as a potential enemy.

I want a world where impregnating 14 year olds is a part of growing up, but clipping the thug next door around the ear will get a man sent to prison.

I want a world where people are ignorant of every great idea and every act of honour, where every brave soldier in history is seen as a fool for believing in anything more important than himself worth fighting for.

I want a world where a parent who worries about his children watching films featuring mass murder, and listening to music advocating gang-rape, is seen as a hopeless prude.

I want a world where people with almost nothing have their property and dignity destroyed; where freezing pensioners who take pride in their gardens see them filled with litter and condoms and are spat on by youths on every bus.

I want a world where a father looking after his own children is as rare a sight for most people as an elephant.

I want a world where graffiti and vandalism leave no sight unblemished, no view unruined.

I want a world where selfish hoodlums gain all their grubby pleasures from poisonous narcotics, robbing and mugging to pay for them, and where the response to this of those at the top is to legalise the substances in question.

I want a world where learning is despised, and culture is defined out of existence through a constant process of watering-down the meaning of art and music 'till nothing remains of the real thing.

Above all, I want this world to be insidious and self-reinforcing. I want most people to like it. And I want anyone who thinks there was ever anything better - that things can ever again be better - to face such ridicule and contempt that they will be too fearful to do anything but remain silent and die quickly.

[archy]

Wasn't this the lyrics to the song on the B side of John Denver's tune that started out *Almost heaven...West Virginia? Or something of the sort....

-archy-/-

[FreedomFarmer]

It appears their wants were fulfilled.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Hillary Clinton write this ?

[bankwalker]

This was certainly NOT written in the early sixties. Just read through it with a critical eye and you will find numerous clues.

[Tomalak]

I think everyone realises it is a modern satire of what liberals have achieved. No one is suggesting it is real.

[T. P. Pole]

This was certainly NOT written in the early sixties. Just read through it with a critical eye and you will find numerous clues.

Agreed. The cocaine mentioned would be acid or LSD.

[FreeTally]

I'm not sure what the authors point of writing this as if these things were actual, specific goals of "liberals" in the 1960's. Some of these things couldn't have even been imagined. Its just a silly piece trying to blame all of today's problems on '60's liberals.

[betty boop]

I want a world where the cardinal virtue is tolerance of all behaviour, and where those who sin against this are demonised and expelled from polite society.

How oxymoronic. "Tolerance of all behaviour" would render "polite society" impossible. Whatta wacko.

[betty boop]

I want a world where people are ignorant of every great idea and every act of honour, where every brave soldier in history is seen as a fool for believing in anything more important than himself worth fighting for.

This screed sounds like the second coming of Lytton Strachey and his merry band of Bloomsburys. Or is this supposed to be farce?

[TADSLOS]

No liberal from the sixties wrote this. They were all too stoned out of their minds and recovering from draft card ignition burns to write anything this extensive.

[pray4liberty]

This is either satire or written by someone who is absolutely insane.