Saturday, February 18, 2012

Ho-Lee Shit!

Rick Santorum, speaking to his fellow cretins in 2008: Paranoid?
This is not a political war at all. This is not a cultural war. This is a spiritual war. And the Father of Lies has his sights on what you would think the Father of Lies would have his sights on: a good, decent, powerful, influential country - the United States of America. If you were Satan, who would you attack in this day and age. There is no one else to go after other than the United States and that has been the case now for almost two hundred years, once America's preeminence was sown by our great Founding Fathers.

He didn't have much success in the early days. Our foundation was very strong, in fact, is very strong. But over time, that great, acidic quality of time corrodes even the strongest foundations. And Satan has done so by attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity, and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.

He was successful. He attacks all of us and he attacks all of our institutions. The place where he was, in my mind, the most successful and first successful was in academia. He understood pride of smart people. He attacked them at their weakest, that they were, in fact, smarter than everybody else and could come up with something new and different. Pursue new truths, deny the existence of truth, play with it because they're smart. And so academia, a long time ago, fell.

And you say "what could be the impact of academia falling?" Well, I would have the argument that the other structures that I'm going to talk about here had root of their destruction because of academia. Because what academia does is educate the elites in our society, educates the leaders in our society, particularly at the college level. And they were the first to fall.

And so what we saw this domino effect, once the colleges fell and those who were being education in our institutions, the next was the church. Now you’d say, ‘wait, the Catholic Church’? No. We all know that this country was founded on a Judeo-Christian ethic but the Judeo-Christian ethic was a Protestant Judeo-Christian ethic, sure the Catholics had some influence, but this was a Protestant country and the Protestant ethic, mainstream, mainline Protestantism, and of course we look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country and it is in shambles, it is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it. So they attacked mainline Protestantism, they attacked the Church, and what better way to go after smart people who also believe they’re pious to use both vanity and pride to also go after the Church.

After that, you start destroying the Church and you start destroying academia, the culture is where their next success was and I need not even go into the state of the popular culture today. Whether its sensuality of vanity of the famous in America, they are peacocks on display and they have taken their poor behavior and made it fashionable. The corruption of culture, the corruption of manners, the corruption of decency is now on display whether it’s the NBA or whether it’s a rock concert or whether it’s on a movie set.

The fourth, and this was harder, now I know you’re going to challenge me on this one, but politics and government was the next to fall. You say, ‘you would think they would be the first to fall, as fallible as we are in politics,’ but people in political life get elected by ordinary folks from lots of places all over the country where the foundations of this country are still strong. So while we may certainly have had examples, the body politic held up fairly well up until the last couple of decades, but it is falling too.
It's a goddamn shame that the APA has conspired w/ their equals in charlatanry in the religion business not to admit that religious delusion is mental illness, unless it's cross-cultural or cross-religion, but that's the way the power structure has it established. (Seriously: The Virgin of Guadalupe appearing to a Jewish person is classified as nuts, a Catholic having the same hallucination is not.)

4 comments:

Hamish Mack said...

Well, obviously MB, there is a blackity black person in the Whut House so it MUST be the end times. The Rickster will blowback against it, tho.

Big Bad Bald Bastard said...

Damn, he's living in a fantasy world- he sounds like a 14 year old describing his D&D campaign, the only difference is that the 14 year old has the common courtesy not to force his fantasy on the rest of us.

M. Bouffant said...

Fantasy Editor:

Some of us never grow beyond the things of our youth, & not in a good way.

Black Satan In Da Whizzle Hizzle!!

Joe Q. Public said...

Everybody worries about Ahmadinejad and his not very powerful nuke without a delivery system, and yet these same people will elect 16th century religious zealot Rick Santorum and hand him the keys to the kingdom of death.
Thousands of multi-megaton warheads and stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons in the hands of someone that makes GW look like a reasonable man. At least with him you knew that the life he gave to Jesus was just for show and there was never a doubt that he was full of shit.
This crazy fucker has lied to himself for so long he actually believes the froth he spews.