Mitt Romney's Subversive Radicalism
Mitt Romney, if you believe what is written by the professional punditry, is a cautious, anodyne banality who defines the very notion of conventionality. And yet, on his visit to Jerusalem let loose one of the most subversive statements one could possibly imagine.
In today's infantilized, wooly-thinking, post-modern world there is nothing so incendiary to prevailing sensibilities than the notion that culture matters and that certain cultures produce positive results and others produce less admirable results. Of course, this is as obvious as the sun in the sky, but such are the depths to which we've sunk into a morass of post-modern delusion, that this statement could light a raging fire in the minds of world's victimologists and relativists. That is because, in the words of Lt. Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, they can't handle the truth.
In their worldview, nobody is better than anybody else, no set of priorities is better than others, no virtues more worthy than others, no system of organizing and advancing a society is better than other systems. Every person and nation would be equally prosperous, healthy, and flourishing if it weren't for oppression and rampant victimization and exploitation of innocents by a pernicious other. Thus the ridiculous accusation of racism coming out of the Palestinian leadership. As John Podhoretz points out, the Palestinians have stolen billions of foreign aid, they wield a crushing hand of cronyism and corruption over the economy, and they teach their children that death is glorious. Thus their people live in poverty and living conditions in Palestinian areas are deplorable. Israel has a culture of life, learning and betterment. The contrast couldn't be more stark and the results, at least economically, are obvious. Such however is the depth of delusion and denial in the world that people refuse to see what is directly in front of their face and that could morph Mitt Romney into the most radical of rhetoricians.
In today's infantilized, wooly-thinking, post-modern world there is nothing so incendiary to prevailing sensibilities than the notion that culture matters and that certain cultures produce positive results and others produce less admirable results. Of course, this is as obvious as the sun in the sky, but such are the depths to which we've sunk into a morass of post-modern delusion, that this statement could light a raging fire in the minds of world's victimologists and relativists. That is because, in the words of Lt. Colonel Nathan R. Jessup, they can't handle the truth.
In their worldview, nobody is better than anybody else, no set of priorities is better than others, no virtues more worthy than others, no system of organizing and advancing a society is better than other systems. Every person and nation would be equally prosperous, healthy, and flourishing if it weren't for oppression and rampant victimization and exploitation of innocents by a pernicious other. Thus the ridiculous accusation of racism coming out of the Palestinian leadership. As John Podhoretz points out, the Palestinians have stolen billions of foreign aid, they wield a crushing hand of cronyism and corruption over the economy, and they teach their children that death is glorious. Thus their people live in poverty and living conditions in Palestinian areas are deplorable. Israel has a culture of life, learning and betterment. The contrast couldn't be more stark and the results, at least economically, are obvious. Such however is the depth of delusion and denial in the world that people refuse to see what is directly in front of their face and that could morph Mitt Romney into the most radical of rhetoricians.
posted by Donny Baseball at 9:57 AM
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