- Not the one thing . . . the dismal tide
- Nut cases happen but why give them ideas, celebrity
- Look to what is honored and promoted
“It seems clear to me the sheriff was speaking about rap music with its hateful, violent and misogynistic lyrics, and video games like Grand Theft Auto, where you can have sex with a prostitute then strangle her or pull an innocent person out of a car, beat him, then steal his vehicle.”
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Now, of course, we’d be the last to say, “we told you so” (no we wouldn’t).
Very seriously this is a point we have tried relentlessly to make, some times in very blunt, perhaps in an off-putting way.
There is an aggressive effort underway to eliminate our values, destroy our culture…all in an effort to rebuild the nation as a far different and far more oppressive, dystopian society.
As far as the violence that is wracking our nation, the writer of the piece below seeks to provide an idea of what is driving it.
It is the same one we have railed against: “It seems clear to me the sheriff was speaking about rap music with its hateful, violent and misogynistic lyrics, and video games like Grand Theft Auto, where you can have sex with a prostitute then strangle her or pull an innocent person out of a car, beat him, then steal his vehicle.”
He notes the “hateful, violent and misogynistic lyrics of rap music”.
We have posted on these pages specific examples of such lyrics and identified the purveyors of such garbage as the “artists” who are honored at the White House by its previous occupants; they are lauded by their fellow “entertainers”; they reap an endless stream of awards and accolades . . . and money.
The reason we have posted their lyrics is because to simply say as this writer does, that they are “hateful” or “violent”, or “misogynistic” does not suggest just how ugly they really are. To be seen in print by regular people, busy parents, is most rare, we believe. But to realize that youthful “music lovers”, teens and sub-teens, and young adults are listening to these words (we have seen them lip-syncing to the rap music as we are in proximity to them at traffic lights) and knowing their abhorrent meaning, it is startling for many who see it for the first time. And more than unsettling when one considers the kind of impressions which are made when such ‘famous’ and ‘widely acclaimed’ “artists” are spewing them.
We suggest, read and critique Andrew Klavan’s insightful post at PJ Media, go back and read those lyrics we’ve posted earlier…and imagine the impact on our young people…and then think about how it was likely played out last week in Florida. DLH
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The Left Is Reaping the Whirlwind of the Culture They Made
Former President Bill Clinton, left, and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Al Franken at a rally at the Minneapolis Convention Center in Minneapolis, Minn, Thursday, Oct. 30, 2008. (AP Photo/Craig Lassig)
“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.” Hosea 7:8
It was after a school shooting near Spokane last September that Spokane Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich addressed a clutch of reporters:
When I was in high school, every one of those rigs in the high school parking lot had a gun in the gun rack. Why? We went hunting on the way home. None of those guns ever walked into a school, none of those guns ever shot anybody… Did the gun change or did you as a society change? I’ll give you odds it was you as a society. Because you started glorifying cultures of violence. You glorified the gang culture, you glorified games that actually gave you points for raping and killing people. The gun didn’t change, we changed.
It seems clear to me the sheriff was speaking about rap music with its hateful, violent and misogynistic lyrics, and video games like Grand Theft Auto, where you can have sex with a prostitute then strangle her or pull an innocent person out of a car, beat him, then steal his vehicle.
I am a First Amendment purist and don’t want to see expression censored in any way. And I don’t argue that there’s a straight line between any specific cultural creation and bad acts. But surely, a culture in which those in authority approve of and argue for things like gangsta rap and GTA — and indeed for the use of violence to silence speech that offends them — well, such a culture becomes a machine for transforming madness into murder.
Actress Rachel Weisz Speaks Out Against Idea of Female James Bond
It reminds me of some wisdom from another two sheriffs, the fictional sheriffs from the Coen Brothers movie of Cormac McCarthy’s novel No Country for Old Men discussing the mindless violence that has taken over society.
“Once you stop hearing ‘sir’ and ‘ma’am’ the rest is soon to follow,” says one.
“It’s the tide, the dismal tide,” says the other. “It’s not the one thing.”
The left wants to defend gangstas and “transgressive” art and antifa thugs — but when the shooting starts, they blame the guns.
The left wants to get rid of feminine modesty and masculine protectiveness and social restrictions on sex — but when the abuse and rape and harassment rise to the surface, they start whining about toxic manhood. Perhaps they should have listened to the Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton, who wrote about the difference between reforming society and deforming it — a passage that was neatly paraphrased by John F. Kennedy: “Don’t ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.”
Now the left wants to legitimize disrespect for the flag and for Christianity. They want to ignore the rule of law at the border and silence protests against Islamic ideas that are antithetical to every good thing the west stands for. They should look to Europe where all that’s been accomplished. And now, when European women are molested in the public square, the gormless authorities advise them to behave more modestly lest immigrants get the wrong idea. When Islamic knives come out and Islamic bombs go off, the police rush to harass — who? Those who question the dictates of the Koran.
The left wants us to reel in shock that Donald Trump chased women or praised Russian strong men? Who was it who defended the infidelities and possible rapes of Bill Clinton? Who was it who turned a blind eye to Barack Obama consorting with terrorists and hate-mongers like Farrakhan?
For fifteen years and more, I have been complaining that the right is silenced in our culture — blacklisted and excluded and ignored in entertainment, mainstream news outlets, and the universities. But the flip side of that is this: the degradation of our culture is almost entirely a leftist achievement. Over the last fifty years, it’s the left that has assaulted every moral norm and disdained every religious and cultural restraint.
The left owns the dismal tide. They don’t like the results? They’re looking for someone or something to blame? Maybe they should start by hunting up a mirror.
*V’pac referrenced “the dismal tide”, in one of our cultural commentaries, back in 2012.
