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An anti-hero for the anti-culture
More angles on Alfred Kinsey provided by John Leo. This would seem to get to the heart of the matter:
He was an exhibitionist, a voyeur, and a masochist. (This is handled in the movie by Kinsey’s wife’s discovering he has sliced his foreskin. But Kinsey did more grotesque things to his genitals than you want to read about here.) One biographer, James H. Jones, argues that Kinsey was gay from the beginning and riven with guilt about it, but he married and thought of himself as bisexual. The obvious question here is this: What are the odds that a researcher with this set of orientations and attitudes would be drawn to the conclusion that all sexual behavior is equal and that orgasms (and nothing else) count, certainly not how you achieve them or with whom? I would say the odds are very, very good.Good work, Mr. Leo. See also what Leo has to say about the influence of Kinsey’s work on views of adult-child sex. And to think that this is the man being treated as a culture hero in a new movie. But it’s not simply leftist propaganda that he’s a culture hero, is it? He is a culture hero—to the cultural elites of blue America. Posted by Lawrence Auster at November 15, 2004 01:51 AM | Send Comments
If, God forbid, I were left with only a choice between living under the rule of Blue-State elites who worship Kinsey and jihadis who worship Allah, I’d take my chances with the Jihadis. Kinsey is one of the pillars of junk science. He was a zoologist, not a sociologist, and his methodology was utterly dishonest - not to mention illegal. Judith Reisman has done a full expose on this particularly noxious degenerate. How apropos that Hollywood would come out with this hagiography. Sort of an antidote to “The Passion of the Christ” for the left coast vampires, I suppose. It will be a box-office blockbuster in Kanuckistan, Madison Wisconsin, and Berkeley no doubt. Posted by: Carl on November 15, 2004 3:05 AMCarl writes, “If, God forbid, I were left with only a choice between living under the rule of Blue-State elites who worship Kinsey and jihadis who worship Allah, I’d take my chances with the Jihadis.” I think I would too. Posted by: Paul Cella on November 15, 2004 4:21 AMMr. Cella, I would have to make an principled exception and take my chances with the jihadis as well. Posted by: Andrew on November 15, 2004 4:27 AMBut aren’t we _already_ living under the blue-state elites who worship Kinsey? Posted by: Lawrence Auster on November 15, 2004 7:42 AMNow that you mention it Mr. Auster… Posted by: Andrew on November 15, 2004 8:00 AMFor a much better in-depth article than the John Leo piece, go here: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=41407 This is really excellent. Posted by: Bob Griffin on November 15, 2004 10:09 AMBob Griffin Thank you for the link. The Marquis de Sade would have enjoyed living in the time of the Kinsey revolution and its aftermath. They would not have made strange bedfellows. Kinsey was an evil and sick man. I don’t know how he got away with it or how his degenerate distructive legacy can be glorified by anyone. Posted by: Andrew on November 15, 2004 10:33 AMI’ve always been a bit fearful that, in this struggle against Islam, some conservatives Christians may come to sympathize with the Islamists out of some common thread concern on sexual morality issues: if it takes the jihadis to close down that porn shop, well then let’s throw our lot with the jihadis! I would rather throw my lot with the secularists. A government that disrespects traditional Christian religion is still preferable than a society that would make it illegal. If someone wants to make the case that a society given to sexual libertinism makes for a difficult environment for raising a family, I would readily agree. But should everything else be thrown overboard as well? Freedom of religious belief, of speech? The freedom to read whatever book you want to read? Freedom to attend the symphony or opera, to pursue artistic and scientific freedom? Freedom to attend a sporting event or to participate in sports? The freedom to relax on a beach where (Allah forbid!) men and women are together just in swim suits? I agree with Scott. Our own decadent fellow Westerners, or their children, can potentially be reformed and form with us a common civilization. The same cannot be said of the overwhelming majority of Moslems. Posted by: Lawrence Auster on November 15, 2004 10:52 AMAnother element Scott is that while one civilization grows weaker under the relentless profaning of Christianity, the other predatory civilization seeks to achieve its “rightful” destiny. Muslims seek openly to install Islamic law in America while the rest of us are distracted by the carnival atmosphere of American cultural erosion. It is roughly like the fable of the ant and the grasshopper and we are the grasshopper. Scott in PA wrote: “A government that disrespects traditional Christian religion is still preferable than a society that would make it illegal.” When I have heard many a leftist coworker talk about Reagan and Soviet Supreme Leaders (there were several at the time) as equally bad, I would offer them airfare and $300 in exchange for their spending 6 month in Siberian city of their choice. I would have never thought that the phenomenon of such monumental confusion will occur among concervative folks. People, please engage your heads. Take an extended trip in one of the more pure jihadist cultures (Saudi Arabia, Yemen). Scott in PA: “A government that disrespects traditional Christian religion is still preferable than a society that would make it illegal.” This is true for the time being. The Blue-State elites haven’t removed the mask entirely yet. The trouble lies in what I believe is their ultimate objective: The complete eradication of Christianity (plus traditional Judaism - and ultimately any religion but liberalism) from the face of the earth. Utopia can’t be established without this pre-condition. The camplaign to abolish Christianity is already under way in the soft-totalitarian states of Western Europe. In another couple of weeks, we’ll all be treated to the latest campaign in the left’s war on Christmas here in the states as well. The jihadis and the Blue-State elites share a goal in common, it would appear. |