Leftist moral relativism reaches its apex, or maybe it’s nadir, in France
Bookworm on Jun 05 2011 at 8:34 pm | Filed under: Uncategorized
The stupidity is overwhelming and all-encompassing. Two quotations keep springing my my mind. Tacitus, of course (“They make a desert and call it peace”) and the Rev. Sydney Smith (1771-1845):
In the midst of this sublime and terrible storm [at Sidmouth, England], Dame Partington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of her house with mop and pattens, trundling her mop, squeezing out the sea-water, and vigorously pushing away the Atlantic Ocean. The Atlantic was roused; Mrs. Partington’s spirit was up. But I need not tell you that the contest was unequal; the Atlantic Ocean beat Mrs. Partington.
Sometimes it seems that the moral morons are the Atlantic, while we are poor, pathetic Mrs. Partingtons, armed with nothing more than a few mops. We need a Moses for some serious power over the bad Leftist waters.
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Perhaps we should apologize to the French for having defaced the pristine Normandy landscape in 1944.
Heh, bad waters.
This is what happens when government socialism subsidizes “art”. We have the same problem with the National Endowment for the Arts…garbage!
Bookworm: Two quotations keep springing my my mind. Tacitus, of course (“They make a desert and call it peace”)
Not sure why that quote from Tacitus would come to mind. Can you explain?
Zach, I think another metaphor for what Bookworm said is “they made it a dessert and called it peas”.
Moses was of course mortal. He led his people out of slavery and into the promised land. Took him 40 years. We need him now. That’s why I support Mitt Romney, er, Huckabee, er, Pawlenty, er…
I don’t think he’d accept the job.
Anybody here remember Julian Schnabel, the art world’s enfant terrible in the 1980s?
Didn’t think so.
Or Jeff Koons, another white-hot star artist who immortalized the European porn star Cicciolina—his wife for awhile—by painting her portrait with semen on her face?
Didn’t think so.
The point is that what you see in the art world now, and for the past 30 years, are the hacks who play the gallery game. The real artists are out working for Pixar, or Madison Ave., or Sega, or off the grid.
This French poseur is still playing the tired game of epater la bourgeoisie. A few years from now, when his nancy boy butt is under assault by Muslims, you can be sure he’ll be screaming for somebody dressed in a turtle helmet to come save him.
Danny L 3: This is what happens when government socialism subsidizes “art”. We have the same problem with the National Endowment for the Arts…garbage!
Hear, hear. Let private foundations via donations subsidize this crap.
I wonder how many people in France are offended by this as well? I’d really like to know.
There’s something very sad and tragic, seeing turtles with helmets representing soldiers who died defending freedom. Crawling, crawling… to where? Nowhere. The tragic meaninglessness of it all. The ennui and the existential despair underlying a display such as this. How can someone like this fellow view the sacrifices of WWII in this manner?
Soldiers are nothing more than turtles with helmets, crawling. I shake my head.
Mike, I was watching a news segment tonight on the different American GIs who visit Normandy every year to commemorate D-Day.
What struck me was how dear the people of Normandy seemed to hold the anniversary, and how much they turned out to fete the Yanks and remember that distant day.
I told my wife that there are two Frances—the effete France of Paris, where nothing is sacred, and La France Profonde, deep France, where the old virtues still hold sway and the Americans are yet held in high regard.
That’s the same as here. YOu have your Marin and urban city LibProgs. Then you have people out in the heartlands.
For the 3 Frenchmen of the Apocalypse, did you know that white people were once brown?
http://evoandproud.blogspot.com/2008/04/when-european-skin-became-white.html
Institutional racism!
Ymar, interesting link.
Did the change happen during the last ice age? This would be before 10,000 years ago. Or did it happen later, after hunting and gathering gave way to agriculture? This would be 7,400 to 5,900 years ago on the North European plain, where European skin is whitest [...] This explanation falls apart, however, if European skin whitened earlier, such as during the last ice age. The cause may then have been sexual selection [...] Preference for lighter-skinned women is attested in a wide range of traditional, premodern societies
I think it was approximately 3524 BC when the first Swedish platinum blonde girl was born. This convulsed the entire North European Plain into open warfare. The men just *had* to have her. Helen of Troimo, I think she was called – “The hair that launched a thousand longships”. Next thing you know, we’ve got ABBA.