|
Getting Over It
Lewis
Goldberg
11/172003
Whiners
are ever present in society - they are a part of the modern American
fabric, since we no longer shame the spineless into hiding. Whether a
person was respected or rejected was once a result of direct and honest
consequences to one's behavior, through a natural system involving
finger-pointing, nick-naming, shunning, and discrimination. Funny thing is,
it worked that way. What we do today doesn't, and instead we reward
'victims,' miscreants, and other bottom-feeders while we ignore principled
and upstanding men.
Here,
then, is a list of the latest emotion-driven stories - get over it!
- Crying Moms
of Iraq-bound Soldiers - Footage of swollen-eyed, sobbing mothers of
young men who have gone off to fight have no place in public display.
Even as little as 30 years ago, as the same group of boys sailed off to
the wild unknown of Southeast Asia, women had the self-respect and
decency to suck up the self-pity and present a strong face to the world.
Dry your eyes and get over yourselves. Prayer would work much better
than tears.
- Liberals
Whining about Bush/Ashcroft Tyranny - President Bush and his Attorney
General John Ashcroft gather criticism from both sides of the aisle, but
the liberal variety is wearing a bit thin. Don't cry about the loss of
your 'civil rights' - when you and those of your ilk relinquished to
government the power to grant rights, you also gave them the ability to
take those rights away. This is in stark contrast to the "certain
unalienable rights" endowed by the Creator, and acknowledged in the
Declaration of Independence. Libs, get over it - and hold your hands out
to receive the shackles you've crafted for yourselves.
[As
a side note, nearly every president since Abraham Lincoln has worked to
undermine those rights, and in that effort, the Bush Administration is a
lightweight. We old-right conservatives, on the other hand, may continue
griping, since we gripe about everything.]
- Journalists'
and Politicians' Shock and Outrage over the Confederate Battle Flag -
The War Between the States was a war, not a football game. Wars have
opposing sides with winners, losers, and heaps of dead relatives.
Sometimes those wars are won by bad guys and lost by good guys. It
should be no surprise to anyone that there are still staunch supporters
of the side that lost our war - else the cause would truly not have been
worth fighting for. Your illegitimate victory was paid for with the
blood of our kin too, so get over it, and let us fly our flag.
It
should also be noted that if you don't let us fly our flag in peace,
it'll most certainly be flown in war again!
- Democrats
Boo-Hooing about the 'Jobless' Recovery - For the most part, if someone
wants to work, they can find work. Extended unemployment insurance
benefits have guaranteed that that the unemployed can sit on their duffs
longer and be choosier about the jobs they'll take. If the Dems were
serious about eliminating unemployment, they'd be sponsoring legislation
to end the practice of paying people not to work, which - in the final
estimation - is what unemployment insurance is.
- Fawning Over
Jessica Lynch as a Hero - Pvt. Lynch is no hero, she simply survived an
ordeal in a situation to which she should never have been exposed. A
Toddler who falls in a well is as much a hero as Lynch, and society as a
whole is just as guilty of not protecting their lady-folk as the
negligent parent in the preceding analogy. Who was the degenerate that
ever let N.O.W have a microphone to speak, anyway?
Now
that we've got Lynch out of the fray, let's bring all the women home and
let the men get down to the dirty business of war, as it should be.
- Speculation
Whether Hillary will Run - Who cares? I mean, really. When she declares,
then we'll talk.
- Garment-rending
over the 87 Billion Needed for the War - Moveon.org wants Congress to
"hold on to our $87B," presumably to use it for domestic
spending. The right and wrong of the war aside, we're getting better use
of the money giving our troops good experience and stress testing our
weapons systems. If we kept the money here, it'd just get thrown down
the toilet on some failure of a social program.
The
Source of all this Drivel
It
is said that a survey of journalism students on any major campus would
reveal that the majority of them are in school to 'make the world a better
place.' While journalism has never been truly an honorable profession, we
can at least say there was a time when journalists were at least honest
about what they were doing, that is, scooping the competition, garnering
fame and fortune unto themselves.
Nowadays,
that fame and fortune is acquired by tapping into the fragile emotions of a
non-thinking, TV-numbed public too bombarded by messages, many of which
even contradict each other, to logically interact with all those messages.
In this environment, anything that's said in a stern enough tone over a
broadcast channel must be true - because, well, there it is. And if
it's 180° from the last thing we heard, well, anything past 20 minutes is
a distant memory. This is how, for instance, a former KKK member - Robert
Byrd - can sit in the Senate as a leading Democrat and no one notices,
while other Democrats fail their arms wildly, screaming 'racism' at the
other side of the aisle.
In
the midst of all this cognitive dissonance is the tireless minority,
who just want the facts, Ma'am. But, then again, let's be honest
with ourselves - what would the news sound like if it was simply
'reported?' Ever listen to a weather radio - the broadcast channel that the
NOAA maintains on 150-something MHz [I forget exactly where in the
frequency spectrum - I think it varies by location]? That's what the
news would sound like if it were simply reported, and not interpreted for
us. That doesn't sell soap, and it'll never be that way.
Your comments and questions are encouraged. [editor@patriotist.com]
Patriotist
LG_the_011303.html
|
