Wednesday, January 24, 2007
them vs. us
Interesting and thought-provoking analysis of Dinesh D'Souza and the attacks on him by the conservative right. Andrea (Victory Soap) is particularly good at hitting proverbial nails on their proverbial flat little heads and she's done it here. She starts off with a tossed-off comment about conservative bloggers being perhaps better characterized as "economically and socially libertarian non-pacifist bloggers" which is so true. Not jumping right up on the liberal and save-the-world-through-peace-and-love bandwagon doesn't prove you're is a right-winger, after all.
Anyway, her discussion is about "why 'conservative bloggers' are so angry at D'Souza" for denigrating the crass, superficial, materialistic values notably visible in Hollywood. These values are, in fact, part of our culture but it's a big big world out here and my own feeling is that we should let the crass people do what they want as long as they leave the rest of us alone, and "cleaning ourselves up will benefit us spiritually and morally, but we'll still have the enemy to contend with". We might be better off trying to be better people, and I'm sure many of us are working on that, but we can become nuns and saints all we want and it won't make any difference. The extremists aren't interested in a world with multiple values or the concept of "live and let live". They want the infidels gone, wiped out, off the face of the earth. We need to understand that and be ourselves.
Anyway, her discussion is about "why 'conservative bloggers' are so angry at D'Souza" for denigrating the crass, superficial, materialistic values notably visible in Hollywood. These values are, in fact, part of our culture but it's a big big world out here and my own feeling is that we should let the crass people do what they want as long as they leave the rest of us alone, and "cleaning ourselves up will benefit us spiritually and morally, but we'll still have the enemy to contend with". We might be better off trying to be better people, and I'm sure many of us are working on that, but we can become nuns and saints all we want and it won't make any difference. The extremists aren't interested in a world with multiple values or the concept of "live and let live". They want the infidels gone, wiped out, off the face of the earth. We need to understand that and be ourselves.
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