Miscellaneous observations
Bruce B. writes:
A couple of notes regarding recent posts:
1. Reader N.‘s post about television was great. Not just about the brainwashing aspect but about the “sewer of pop culture” aspect. I got rid of cable when I had kids and have never looked back. When I see a “Christian Conservative” household with cable I really tend to doubt the sincerity of their “Christian” or “Conservative” beliefs (apparently the holy spirit guides them to understand the bible but doesn’t guide them not to pay for dog vomit to be pumped into their houses). I did notice that one of the satellite companies now has a family package that excludes the bad stuff but we haven’t given in to the temptation.
2. You were right on the money about Ann Coulter. And your reply to Rick Darby was perfect. I’ll bet pre-1960’s, that outfit would have been out of place outside of the red-light district. [LA asks: Which outfit are you referring to?]
3. You mentioned Majority Rights.com and I checked out their website. Overall, it is a mixed package (you warned us). I found a Sailer-Citizenism critique that was excellent. But my main criticism of that site is that it is crudely and dogmatically racialist (maybe crude and dogmatic racialism could serve as a working definition for “racist”). This is why I would not recommend that site to gencon friends although I have, unashamedly, recommended VFR to friends. I’m sure many to your left would argue that your brand of discourse is just “polished and articulate” racism but I see fundamental differences not just degrees of difference. Majority Rights is also off-puttingly vulgar at times. I understand why you don’t allow unregulated commenting. Similarly, I found that AmRen had some good pieces but these were drowned out by some of the knuckleheads that were allowed to post. The pointing out of minority crimes that is so much a part of these sites is probably a useful function, but for regular readers, they add little to one’s deeper understanding of the civilizational crisis.
4. You wrote: “First [Bush is] told what’s what by Rice; then his instincts (which include his unconditional love for this liberal and brain-dead but cute woman) tell him to approve of what she has said; and then he validates the decision by prayer. So those are the forces now governing the most powerful country on earth: Rice’s ignorant and unreflective brain; Bush’s unreflective instincts; and Bush’s liberal evangelical-type prayer, the main function of which is to make the believer feel good about himself.”
This thought horrified me when I read it. I hope you aren’t right but I’m afraid you are.
Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 26, 2006 04:59 PM | Send