...but with a whimper.
1. T.S. Eliot concludes 'The Hollowmen" this way:
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Exactly how I see it, too.
2. Just reading a tribute to the recently passed journalist, Jimmy Breslin, I found this particularly grating passage:
"A total urbanite, Jimmy had never learned how to drive—he was raised by a single mother who earned a meager salary as a social worker, and drank to excess. The Breslins couldn’t afford a car."
Jimmy Breslin, RIP
WHAT????
"The Breslins couldn’t afford a car."
But...." he was raised by a single mother who .... drank to excess."
I guess that 'drink' was free, huh????
3. This is the sort of absurdity that guides so many and, so many of our social pretenses.
"couldn't afford a car" ...or would rather have a buzz on much of the time????
It was a choice! A decision by the decision maker in the family.
Just as abortions are the choice between sexual restraint, or the ending of a separate and unique life so as to enjoy that moment of passion.
Can't we admit the truth.....or is it too painful and self-deprecatory?
4. Seems that our 'Liberal' society demands that we never judge the decisions others make...even if said choices hurt the individual and/or society.
In his best-seller, "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010," Charles Murray states:
"One change in societal attitude has been the “ecumenical niceness”…don’t fight, share toys, take turns….and never, ever be judgmental. As a result, the upper cultural class, which has stabilized by returning to more traditional ways, survives, yet these individuals will not criticize the behaviors which are destroying the lower cultural class."
Two ways to view this divide....by morality or via economics.
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1. T.S. Eliot concludes 'The Hollowmen" this way:
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.
Exactly how I see it, too.
2. Just reading a tribute to the recently passed journalist, Jimmy Breslin, I found this particularly grating passage:
"A total urbanite, Jimmy had never learned how to drive—he was raised by a single mother who earned a meager salary as a social worker, and drank to excess. The Breslins couldn’t afford a car."
Jimmy Breslin, RIP
WHAT????
"The Breslins couldn’t afford a car."
But...." he was raised by a single mother who .... drank to excess."
I guess that 'drink' was free, huh????
3. This is the sort of absurdity that guides so many and, so many of our social pretenses.
"couldn't afford a car" ...or would rather have a buzz on much of the time????
It was a choice! A decision by the decision maker in the family.
Just as abortions are the choice between sexual restraint, or the ending of a separate and unique life so as to enjoy that moment of passion.
Can't we admit the truth.....or is it too painful and self-deprecatory?
4. Seems that our 'Liberal' society demands that we never judge the decisions others make...even if said choices hurt the individual and/or society.
In his best-seller, "Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010," Charles Murray states:
"One change in societal attitude has been the “ecumenical niceness”…don’t fight, share toys, take turns….and never, ever be judgmental. As a result, the upper cultural class, which has stabilized by returning to more traditional ways, survives, yet these individuals will not criticize the behaviors which are destroying the lower cultural class."
Two ways to view this divide....by morality or via economics.
Next...
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