Saturday, April 4, 2009

The Worst Generation

How is it that the obstinate Materialism espoused by the Western elite is paired with a moralizing attitude which contradicts it so flagrantly, for why should the fate of the widow and the orphan--not to say the pederast and person of color--excite folk who ought to be convinced that human emotion is a meta-effect of a chemical reaction? They are supine heirs of Christian moralism--its attitudes, not its content. Fasinated by themselves they are naturally uninterested in the history of who they are or knowledge of what they are. Hypocritically addicted to the sweet sensation of acceptance and justification, which drowns the critical sense and the capasity to act independently, they behave like Cambodian peasants, swallowing simplistic ideas to be led around in crowds by cynical demagogues, commiting foolish acts and eventually horrid ones. The best set themselves up as scolding censors of exactly the type they scold and censor.

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