She's a lesbian, but she completely understands the threat to religious liberty in post-America:
She recently spoke out in support of Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson, supporting his right to express homophobic views.‘In a democratic country, people have the right to be homophobic as well as they have the right to support homosexuality – as I one hundred percent do.'If people are basing their views against gays on the Bible, again, they have a right of religious freedom there.' she told Laura Ingraham’s radio show last week.
She understand the danger to our society resulting from the isolation of the military ethos:
‘The entire elite class now, in finance, in politics and so on, none of them have military service - hardly anyone, there are a few. But there is no prestige attached to it anymore. That is a recipe for disaster,’ she said. ‘These people don't think in military ways, so there's this illusion out there that people are basically nice, people are basically kind, if we're just nice and benevolent to everyone they'll be nice too. They literally don't have any sense of evil or criminality.’
Read the entire linked piece. It offers many more gems, such as her view that elite upper class women have sentenced themselves to 30 years of pilates, her affinity for the guys who call in to sports talk radio shows (saying sports talk shows are the last bastion of comfortable masculinity in our culture), and her assertion that Lady Gaga has done much to obliterate genuine eroticism from our artistic life.
What a refreshing alternative to the parade of dreary outlooks and groupspeak that constitutes most of our societal discourse at this juncture in post-America.
I prefer to maintain the illusion that people are basically kind and do unto others what I would have done unto me. And I also prefer to stay away from our nation's military bases and police stations which I have visited twice now in the past 2 days. The security is paranoiac even to get a police report these days. Give me a doobie with a hilltop view and leave me the frick alone!
ReplyDeleteI guess what I am getting at is that it is an affront to have humans with all power over you treat you as a suspect, requesting your driver's license and social security number and then sitting behind a computer screen that you cannot see scrutinizing who you are and verifying what you are supposedly about. There are no smiles, no affirmation of your humanity, just power perusing you. Get me out of there fast!
ReplyDeleteWe had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. … Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me. And I welcome their hatred!“
ReplyDeleteWho's the quote attributable to?
ReplyDeleteThe doobie and hilltop scenario has great appeal, but will such a serene existence outlast the fall of our civilization?
ReplyDeleteMy sense is that the quote comes from some FHer, given the straw men he or she sets up as enemies of peace.
ReplyDeleteSorry to hear the folks at your local police precinct are so impersonal.
ReplyDeleteThat's not my experience with our local department.
Why would you want to maintain an illusion about anything?
ReplyDeleteFreedom lover FDR said that. if the military has less presence and less prestige, well that is the way who say hell no we won't go want them to be. My experience at the air base was just as intimidating. Aholes, all! I don't care, I won't stay in a world like it, and a whole lot of folks still here who remember Nam and all the other 'incursions" agree. The fewer military types we have around the better, imho.
ReplyDeleteYou are s perfect manifestation of what Paglia is referring to: a populace that no longer makes a connection between the blessings of liberty and the price that must constantly be paid to maintain them.
ReplyDeleteYou are s perfect manifestation of what Paglia is referring to: a populace that no longer makes a connection between the blessings of liberty and the price that must constantly be paid to maintain them.
ReplyDeleteWe'll pay the price if it is necessary. That is what you hot dogs don't fathom.
ReplyDeleteThe last war worth fighting was WWII and ole Franklin D rose to the occasion too. We do want to eventually get to the ole 'What if they threw a war and nobody came' juncture though. Then those who come can slug it out, only prob with that is that with the weaponry we have now (and which you consistently insist is still not enough) innocent people get killed or maimed. I know, boo hoo, gotta do what you gotta do, right?
ReplyDeleteThere's never a moment when the price is not necessary. And let's have none of this smokescreen that the term "the price "only means the use of force. If we elect and appoint principled leaders who interact on the world stage with a consistent vision of what America is about and state clearly to rivals and foes what America will not tolerate, we generally don't have to reach the point where, by "the price," we are talking about sending in bombs and soldiers.
ReplyDeleteAnd don't tell me the military has no respect because whenever they are mobilized your ilk goes gaga like it's some kind of holiday parade.
ReplyDeleteMost people are so disconnected with what makes their way of life possible that they rarely if ever think about the military.
ReplyDeleteThey do do a lot of valuable research on our nickel though. And Paglia is a fine writer for sure.
ReplyDeleteWe are not a particularly militaristic society, doubt whether a dude like Putin with all his KGB glitter would garner much popular support and so far we have avoided Generalissimo types in the executive office. I am proud that we are not a particularly militaristic society with a great military. Want a militaristic society, well, look elsewhere. But I believe we can hunker down if we have to. Hopefully we wont have to.
ReplyDeleteWe're a decadent society on the verge of losing everything that has elevated our way of life above the squalor and oppression that has characterized pretty much every society in history prior to ours.
ReplyDeleteDon't blame me, I don't even watch TV, but I hear the Chinese are crazy bout House of Cards.
ReplyDeleteAnd you align yourself with the mullahs with your complaint you know. This is a free and open society and wouldn't we prefer to keep it that way, even if we don't like what some people do with their freedom?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I spose we need more leaders like Andrew Jackson. Dunno if he could ever be called decadent but he sure was a fine killer.
ReplyDeleteWhen the 1828 election rolled around, a lot of people were terrified when they heard Andrew "Old Hickory" Jackson was running. If you're wondering how a guy we're calling a bad ass got such a lame nickname, it's because he used to carry a hickory cane around and beat people senseless with it, and if you're wondering why he did that, it's because he was a fucking lunatic.
ReplyDeleteRead more: http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_the-5-most-badass-presidents-all-time.html#ixzz2twyiOw9X
Number 4 on Cracked's list is JFK, you can read more about the other 3 on your own.
ReplyDeleteNowadays, John F. Kennedy is remembered mostly for getting shot in the head which, while admittedly badass, barely makes the top ten of badass things he's ever done. Plagued with a bad back his entire life, Kennedy was disqualified from service in the army. Instead of using this as an excuse to pursue the decidedly more sane strategy of staying the fuck away from explody things, Kennedy had his dad pull a few strings so he could sneak his way into the navy, where he eventually became a lieutenant. Just to get some perspective, Bill Clinton dodged the draft, Grover Cleveland paid someone else to go in his place when he was drafted, but Kennedy beat the system by forcing his way into the navy. Once there he handled himself like a gravel eating shit-miner, instead of the rich Boston pretty boy he actually was.
Today, he's got his own damned aircraft carrier named after him.
Read more: http://www.cracked.com/article_15895_the-5-most-badass-presidents-all-time_p2.html#ixzz2tx0NlGzV
"Masculinity is just becoming something that is imitated from the movies. There's nothing left. There's no room for anything manly right now."
ReplyDeleteWhat if Camille and her woman's male child gets a (God-given?) woody and decides he just wants to (has to?) put it somewhere moist and seemingly welcome, will a big hairy butt be kosher?