Communist inspired social anarchy has been brewing for decades. The attack on statuary was symbolic. They've now moved on to the 'live fire exercise.'
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| From One Frenzy to the Next |
| 2017-11-14 |
| h/t Instapundit [AmGreatness] America is in another of its Salem moments. Frenzy is almost a living, breathing monster. It moves from host to host, fueled by rumor, gossip, and self-righteous furor. The Greeks knew well of the transitory nature of these mass panics. They claimed such fits were inspired by the Maniae, the three daughters of Night who were the goddesses of insanity, madness, and crazed frenzy. We’ve seen all three of them in action throughout the past year. ...For about six months, cable news shows, the internet, and the major newspapers ginned up the charge of "Russian collusion"‐as a means of explaining the otherwise inexplicable and unacceptable defeat of Hillary Clinton by someone without either political or military experience. ...The hysteria then moved on to the once dormant NFL "take a knee" protests, which were reignited by Trump’s public castigation of the players. Soon the players’ incoherent messaging was passed off by the media as some sort of grassroots Rosa Parks civil rights movement. But as viewers turned their channels and stadia emptied, the hysterical outbursts began to cool. ...About the same time came the statue hysteria. America woke up one day and decided that century-old statues of Confederate generals or archetypical southern soldiers were proof of pernicious racism. So they had to be removed‐by the dead of night and by the mob if necessary. Once these iconic impediments were gone, then social justice would be achieved, as if mute stones, not beating human hearts, explain deteriorating racial relations. IMCO, the competition for principal victim group status is quite fierce - and, lately, "African-Americans" been losing to bearded men with vagina envy ...The next collective furor arose over Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein. Sometime in October 2017, the progressive film titan was abruptly condemned as sick, evil, and unhinged‐after 30 years of common knowledge that he routinely sought to use his power of hiring and firing to leverage or force sexual gratification. Once Weinstein’s progressive armor was pierced and he was exposed as a groper, assaulter, and likely rapist, then dozens, perhaps hundreds of similar stories of powerful media and film men surfaced. Some were not only pronounced guilty of past consensual though asymmetrical sexual relationships but of abusive sexual acts and cruelty. Apparently, the mostly progressive male entertainment and media hierarchy had long equated the 1960s-era liberal legacy of "sexual freedom" with a blank check for their own sexual coercion and phallic exhibitionism. We all had assumed a continuity of Hollywood culture of updated Harry Cohns, but Hollywood’s preemptive moral finger-pointing at others apparently allowed their hypocrisies to stay in-house. As the collective furor grew, the net widened. More stories, but from 10, 20, 30, and 40 years past, surfaced‐calibrated to the current celebrity or perceived visibility of the perpetrator. The charges initially also ranged from horrific (and quite believable) allegations of rape and gross groping and assault to what used to be called male-power rudeness and bullying‐and eventually including even the occasional crudity and stupidity that can accompany seduction. ...The Russians always liked to interfere and gum up American elections. It is, after all, the credo of Vladimir Putin to be mostly against what America is mostly for. But as the Obama Administration warned in a dig at Donald Trump (shortly before the election, when it was sure that Hillary Clinton was to be its picked successor), such Russian attempts at election sabotage usually were irrelevant and largely impotent. Instead, what fed the furor was not collusion facts per se, but the idea of yet another post-election weapon to take Trump out before he could dismantle the Obama bureaucratic and executive-order legacy. Certainly, it is bothersome that the racist and founder of the Ku Klux Klan, the brilliant but diabolical slave-trading Nathan Bedford Forrest, is still worshiped in bronze and stone. But the stone smashers lacked the education and ethics to differentiate individual Confederates like a Forrest from a Longstreet, and so smashed boldly on. The distance from Lincoln to Lee narrows to almost nothing. Every mute statue becomes a sinner and fair game for the more authentic revolutionary to outdo the latest violent act. Dozens, perhaps hundreds of women have had their entertainment careers ruined by choosing to fight off the crude assaults of the Weinsteins and their ilk, who sometimes gravitate to the top of entertainment and media, masking their depravity by claiming progressive exemptions and penances. But at this point in the frenzy, most Americans cannot keep up with whether a puffed up and arrogant Dustin Hoffman three decades ago was an uncouth potty mouth in his celebrity trailer as he sought to seduce vulnerable women. Most of the public had long assumed such creepy Hollywood behavior anyway. What then causes often legitimate writs abruptly to explode into collective fits that end up either ensnaring the innocent or taking legitimate concerns beyond human reason? ...History is full of such frenzies‐the stasis on Corcyra, the Spanish Inquisition, the Committee of Public Safety, or the strange career of Joe McCarthy. They all can start over some legitimate grievance and all can quickly turn manic. And as we play each fit out, expect the madness to come full circle as it always does, when the spell wears off and 51 percent of people finally revolt at the very thought of tearing down Washington’s statue, or lumping together a criminal rapist with a loudmouthed sexist of 20 years past, or envisioning a multimillionaire spoiled, has-been quarterback as the next Jackie Robinson‐or treating a fake-news smear document as if it were the New Testament. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #3 Call me when they've breached the Bill Clinton Line. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2017-11-14 08:06 |
| #2 -Women and minorities have gone full primitive pagan and have convinced themselves that if they throw enough white males into the volcano then they will all have wonderful lives with all the material things they've told themselves they deserve Communist inspired social anarchy has been brewing for decades. The attack on statuary was symbolic. They've now moved on to the 'live fire exercise.' |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-11-14 06:53 |
| #1 Couple observations. -People who want to kill statues in the middle of the night really want to kill actual people in the middle of the night. -Women and minorities have gone full primitive pagan and have convinced themselves that if they throw enough white males into the volcano then they will all have wonderful lives with all the material things they've told themselves they deserve |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2017-11-14 06:08 |