Humorous Aside


          Let's be clear about one thing.  Our culture is not divided.  It is deeply united.  It is just united into Balkanized little subcultures.  
           We have the Culture of belief which breaks into Left and Right.  The Right has faith in a framework of Truth.  The Left finds that arrogant and unenlightened.  The Religious Left founds itself on interior feelings of "goodness" based on sometimes a poorly formed conscious.  The RL has followed their own light to a myriad of social stands that would attempt to, as Barak Obama said, build the Kingdom of "heaven on earth".
The Religious Right founds itself on the Word of God and Faith in absolute truth.  The RL is founded on a individual hearts interpretting the shifting nuances of daily life.
    There is also the subcultures of non-belief which have almost made a "god" of Nature.  The humanity-loathing-radical environmentalists are one such group.  Militant Atheists and angry agnostics that focus on destroying the "fairy tale of belief" are another.  
        What is kind of funny is the cries for unity that ring out during election cycles.  Candidates claim that they are the ones who can restore unity to a divided nation.  Fat chance!  The only thing that could possibly unite such a Balkanized group of hundreds of millions....is a common enemy that wakes up everyone to a sober vision of reality.....the way 9/11 did until....perhaps 9/15.

                              The  Unconditional  Love Hoax

          One of the most prevalent frauds of our time is the way radical egalitarianism has become part of the Christian churches of the Western hemisphere.  Now, I have nothing against "equality".  We are all created brothers and sisters, equal under God.  It just that radical egalitarianism in our day is not really based on a positive virtue.  It is more a reaction to perceived "evil". 
     Nietsche offered a vision of "slave morality" where the weak, lil guy was somehow always good and the powerful are suspect if not downright evil.  Following this upside view we got Marx and Mao and hundreds of millions of deaths in the last century.  Now, the West is going EGALITARIAN.  And people still don't seem to realize that Equality cannot be forced on a population without destroying human freedom and dignity.  But enough of politics....what really grinds my gears is the "religious"  aspect of this movement.
      That is where I go to church on Sunday and hear the preacher downplay the miracles of Jesus as probably not miraculous...or...perhaps the veracity of Scripture is questioned.  Inclusive language is often imposed on the old texts or the patriarchy is attacked.  These are just a few examples of how people are trying to LEVEL the lil people with God.  One of the most annoying of ploys is the whole "unconditional love" hoax.  It bad enough I gotta listen to a sappy chorus of "Jesus our brother" songs, but do we really need to throw out all of God's guidance for the safety net "Hey, if you fail it doesn't matter because I will let it slide." 

                                   

 

                           

                                  THE  ELECTORATE

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                              Here is the riddle of riddles:
                          
                              what big, dull-witted beast
 
                              is supposed to be blind on the edges

                              but, atleast, wise in the middle?

                              
                              

                      
                                  THE  POSTMODERN

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                               As a child, you squirmed alot
                               with impatient desire

                               empowered by a new box
                               of multi-colored crayons
                               and enough blank pages
                               to narrate any tale you could inspire
                               
                               but chose instead
                               to scribble violent
                               swirls of red
                               and black
                               death.
 
                               Now, we hang your gory
                                     lil drawings
                               from every corner of culture
                               like an embarrassing
                               refrigerator story


                     
                          THE  HARLOT'S  CUP

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                              Our great society
                              no longer rots quietly
                              in psuedo-family  lots

                              but like some dying drunk
                              in a dirty, business suit  
                              it pleads (on the absolute brink)
                              for "Justice!"
                              though really 
                              for a drink

                              It is so confused

                              This great society
                              will not go quietly to hell
                              where the child dies for his mother,
                              the Press interviews itself,
                              and Pollsters poll each other

                              All the while
                              smiling,
                              angry too,
                              holding up 
                              the foaming cup

                              We are so confused.                                                   

                            




                              
                                                                          

 

                         

                                                            


                                                          Who's        Zoomin'     Who?

          Aretha Franklin first asked that sultry, mocking question back in the 1980's but it seems to fit today's Presidential race.  In her song about a personal relationship, the "prey" is actually the predator: the player is played.  "Take another look and tell me baby.  Who's zoomin' who?"   Now, that's a question one should bring to the current political process where there is much manipulation and a kind of social looting going on in the name of helping "victims".
         Victims of what?  The Democrats tell us the country needs to be saved from a lot of evil players: heartless Republicans, predatory capitalism, social inequities of a trillion kinds.  For example, when asked if she was a liberal in the mold of JFK, Senator Clinton replied that she considered herself a progressive in the mold of FDR.  And she's not kidding.  FDR brought us, in his famous 4 Fears speech of 1941, the idea of big government saving us from all "fear and want".  Hillary has apparently looked across this great nation of over 300 million souls and found no little "fear and want".  That is how she can justify a 110 billion dollar annual expenditure.  (Some economist estimate the Clinton Healthcare Plan could soak the the US Economy for up to 1/7th the GDP)  Ofcourse, this all begs the question....When the elimination of "fear and want" becomes the goal of government, is 110 billion dollars anywhere near enough?  I like how Rudy Gulliani answered that question after Senator Clinton said "I have a million ideas but America can't afford them all."  He said to her "America can't afford you".  But, what really separates Hillary and the Democrats from FDR is their methods.  
         Roosevelt lived at a time when nearly everyone recognized absolute truths in a Judeo-Christian framework while today's Democrats are mostly hard-core relativists in, what Senator Clinton calls, a postmodern world.
The irony is that relativism turns the lights out, so to speak, on free public debate.  More and more, the Left is manipulating the huge advantage they have in playing with truth concepts.  While Republicans are still trying to play by the old rules of principled stands based on absolute truth concepts from the Judeo-Christian ethic.  For example, John Edwards played the relativist game the other day by claiming 35 million Americans were going hungry.  He said "this election is about those people".  This has become a trend in Leftist methods.  It seems they take a study, in this case a USDA study that mentions that 35 million Americans need to "reduce variety in their diets" at various times throughout the year,  and they make an outlandish claim.   Edwards may also know that some honest person has to look coldhearted in exploding the lie.  It becomes a win-win manipulation of the ignorant populace in the name of "standing up for the little guy".  This has become a pattern of the Left and the Mainstream media is enabling it in spades.
         At a time in our nation's history when reasoned, public debate is more necessary than ever, the standard debate forum is being dumb down and truncated.  We need serious questions and long answers...but were getting You Tube and "boxers or briefs" questions with breathless answer periods.  The MSM is biased toward the Left and now this is a further advantage they can bestow.  When they are not asking the Republicans biased questions like "when did you stop beating your wife?" .....we are getting more and more trivial forums and less response time.  This advantages those on the Left whose emotional "picture arguments" collapse under slightly prolonged intellectual scrutiny.  This leaves the Republicans only 3 paths.  They can continue to play on an uneven playing field...and hope to find another great communicator like Ronald Reagan (who was pretty adept at "picture arguments" himself)...or they can lie too.  However, they cannot continue to follow the failed policy of George W. Bush and simply ignore the lies and vitriol of the Left.
     People are wired for Truth but the Right seems to no longer be able to count on the average person seeing through the darkness of social relativism.  It is like a "blackout" the Left promotes then manipulates.  The public hears statements like this from Hillary....... "We can talk all we want about freedom and opportunity, about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but what does that mean to a mother or father who can't take a sick child to the doctor?"  The public is being played the fool.  Someone needs to point out that such questions are designed to be "picture arguments" used to manipulate in the midst of a social blackout she fully enjoys.  The Left is doing a lot of looting in the name of "helping the little guy"....and someone needs to ask the American public.  "Take another look baby.  Who's zoomin' who?"