cross-dressing makes one a better intelligence agent<\/a>.\u00a0 No one really believes \u00a0that white people are the cause of all evil in the world or that the Hellenic-Judeo-Christian tradition is the most oppressive and hateful civilizational ethos in history.\u00a0 No one really believes that the border isn\u2019t effectively open.\u00a0 No one really believes that President Biden committed a heinous act of barbarity during his State of the Union address by referring to an illegal alien as an \u201cillegal\u201d alien.\u00a0 No one really believes Israel is an \u201capartheid state\u201d or that its treatment of Palestinians is akin to Hitler\u2019s Holocaust.\u00a0 No one really believes that the doofus with the Viking hat was trying to take over the government.\u00a0 No one really believes that the world is going to end if we don\u2019t ban SUVs by next Wednesday.\u00a0 No one really believes that electric vehicles are the solution to all man\u2019s problems.\u00a0 No one really believes that Larry Fink is gonna save the world by bullying the directors and executives of oil companies.<\/p>\nIn short, no one really believes any of the nonsense they espouse today.\u00a0 They\u2019re only pretending to believe it.\u00a0 Some pretend because they think it makes them seem smart.\u00a0 Some pretend because they think it makes them seem cool.\u00a0 Some pretend because they think it will bring them wealth and power.\u00a0 And most pretend because they\u2019re afraid not to.\u00a0 In any case, American politics today is all just hysterical performative bullsh*t.\u00a0 It is, to paraphrase Shakespeare, much doodoo about nothing.<\/p>\n
On the one hand, these are what one might call \u201cFirst World problems,\u201d which is to say that we can afford to fight about them because the basic necessities of life and the foundations of civilization are already addressed.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, it seems unlikely that a civilization that spends its time and energy tearing itself apart over imaginary problems that no one believes will remain a coherent civilization for long.<\/p>\n
Moreover, our chief civilizational rivals \u2013 China, Russia, Islamism \u2013 are not, generally, dithering and fussing about alternative interpretations of reality.\u00a0 They all have their own problems, to be sure, but they just seem so much less idiotic somehow.<\/p>\n
For the record, \u201cA Boy Named Sue\u201d ends with reconciliation:<\/p>\n
\nWell, I got all choked up and I threw down my gun<\/em> \nI called him my pa, and he called me his son<\/em> \nAnd I come away with a different point of view<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\nWould that our politics allowed for the same.\u00a0 Unfortunately, different points of view are cause for hatred and division in our tolerant and liberal society at present.<\/p>\n
Stay angry, my friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, my dad was an electrical engineering professor \u2013 with all the personality quirks that go with being an electrical engineering professor, including his \u201cquirky\u201d sense of humor. When I was thinking about him recently, I recalled a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"no","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,96,97],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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