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2006-08-24 Home Front: Culture Wars

LILEKS: When High Culture Is a Low Blow for Western Civilization

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Posted by Steve 2006-08-24 10:51|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 they'll perform "The Diary of Anne Frank," but only because now some people think it has a happy ending.

*frustrated sign* If only I could write like that, darn it!

Posted by trailing wife 2006-08-24 11:35|| 2006-08-24 11:35|| Front Page Top

#2 What is Western culture all about these days, anyway? Little but narcissism, lassitude, sneers and muted despair, it seems.

Describes our prema-adolescent liberal "elites" to a tee. I'm tired of them. I'm tired of our news media thinking they are too important to just report news and instead try to influence elections to make themselves feel more important. I'm tired of their constant demand that we all conform to a tired, aging, popular culture that is about as deep as a naked woman cuddling a dead pig. Drip, drip, drip.

I grew up in SOCAL and know that cynical, sneering attitude. I actually grew up thinking that was just the normal way to be. Then I went away to a rural area - where the people were friendly and down to earth and it actually shocked me that they didn't hide behind the mask of cynicism to feign cool. Those people were so much more confident and happy-go-lucky. Ha! I didn't know it was ok to be like that.

I guess that's why liberals disgust me so much. I'm like a non-smoker. Or maybe it's about disliking most in others what you dislike most in yourself. Whatever. I see through it and anyone who actually is willing to identify themself as a "liberal elite" is just an insecure geek who with an under-inflated sense of self-worth and not confident with their own identity. Thus they hang with the bullies of popular culture and act like Mean Girls. In a nutshell it's - If you're stupid - then I'm smarter than you.

But what's wierd is that they refuse to grow up in a world that is getting so dangerous that they really need to get over it and suck it up for their children and grandchildren. But the Cindy Sheehans and other liberal know-it alls are so invested in their own sense of inferiority that to acknowledge they are wrong would be to acknowledge they are just ordinary. And they can't be ordinary, because if they are just ordinary and not special - and then, HORROR! that means that they are just same dorky, insecure, geek that they were as a child. They can't face it. So they cling to their adolescence until they die.

Cynicism is a very negative force. I hope our country can move past it and regain it's sense of can-do optimism. We all need to do it one individual at a time.

Posted by 2b 2006-08-24 12:25|| 2006-08-24 12:25|| Front Page Top

#3 it would be fun to watch them self-destruct if it didn't impact us all.

Posted by Jigum Hupolumble7870 2006-08-24 15:38|| 2006-08-24 15:38|| Front Page Top

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