A brave-seeming spirit crushed by all-encompassing liberalism

The reported surrender or compromise by Terry Jones in response to the unprecedented campaign by the entire force of organized society against him brings the following to mind.

In the 1790s William Wordsworth wrote, about life in modern society:

The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;
Little we see in Nature that is ours;
We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon!

A little paraphrasing applies the poem to life in our liberal, and much more modern, society:

The organized liberal world is too much with us; late and soon,
demonizing and crushing us from every direction, it lays waste our powers;
Little we see in society that is ours;
We have given our minds and hearts and guts away, a sordid boon!

Posted by Lawrence Auster at September 09, 2010 06:57 PM | Send