Posted on 01/26/2002 10:02:29 PM PST by CommiesOut
No more big macs or chicken mcnuggets for me. Only fruit and yogurt parfaits from now on.
The use of the charge of Holocaust denial in arguments about everything under the sun reflects a culture that cannot handle rational debate. In one sense, it is a return to the unthinking sanctimoniousness of the Middle Ages. We have opinions - on abortion, state intervention, animal rights - because we believe they are right, full stop. We are not prepared to have them challenged or to defend them through rational argument (perhaps because we are not sure about them ourselves).Whoa! That's an intriguing statement.Except now, unlike the Middle Ages, there is no God to call upon as the arbiter of moral absolutes. As the ultimate symbol of evil, the Holocaust gets dragged in as a post-religious substitute.
We are in a dangerous age where rational disagrements are countered with irrational emotional, personal attacks. Which is exactly the tactic Clinton and his followers use - attack the messenger, not the message.
I'm going to become a vegetarian - not cause I love animals I just hate vegetables!!
The sixties and early seventies, the time which we baby boomers were coming into adulthood, saw the encouragement and legitimization of bahavior outside of accepted societal restraints. This behavioral change which became labeled as progressive, but which was in reality, simply the breaking down of the structures and restraints which are necessary for the long term functioning of a society.
A Dr. Spock raised generation whose hallmarks are permissiveness and disrespect, no longer works for the society as a whole, but for the concept of what feels good for me and how can I selfishly bring attention to myself. Those who found that attention could not be acheived within accepted practices of excellence became the counter-culture heros, helped along by the media glamorizing this behavior and raising the lowest common denominator to hero status.
The use of pejorative terms to squash debate is just the natural outcome of this culture. A culture that shouts me, me, me with learned unaccountability and disrespect.
Boy, do I know people who fit this description. Bookmark.
The Killing Fields & Murder of a Gentle Land- what really happened in Cambodia a quarter-century ago
Another wonderful find CommiesOut.
Sadly, the author is also a Nazoonie (nazi moonie): '...In one sense, it is a return to the unthinking sanctimoniousness of the Middle Ages...." Another Modernism Nazi. Sigh. Where will it all end? When we're all commies, I guess. Or perhaps when we're all Nazis. All Nazis is no Nazis......
Verrrreeee interesting question. You must be a Nazi....
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