First of all, I'm sorry. Sorry for that last one. It was ridiculous. Did you even bother to read it? Long. Loooooonnnnng. Just about unintelligible. What's with this flow-of-consciousness crap? Rambling on and on. Could I possibly think that's interesting to anyone but myself? What a narcissist. So, sorry.
Long.
But it took about an hour to write. So it didn't seem long.
But long.
Anyways.
I'm restricting my Fox News watching to Gutfeld. ! It's not that he's all that funny, but it's light, and there are various contributors, mostly from the right but they have their own take, sometimes. So it's an echo chamber, but not a megaphone. The other shows are too polarizing, in too serious a way. I'm already polarized. I'm seeking balance, and civility. Which brings me, skillfully, to my point.
Civility. Gutfeld mentioned an NPR situation, wherein civility was said to be racist. Well, NPR. So, of course. Everything and everybody. Even them, against themselves, and the coloreds (did you know that Larry Elder, black talk-radio guy, was a White Supremacist?). Coloreds, that's right, right? I'm sure I just read it. Colored. Yes, here it is, from NPR dot org, "When Civility Is Used As A Cudgel Against People Of Color".
"***!" What. What? "***!!!" What are you talking about. "***! ***!" And you think there's a difference? "****! ******!!!" You're an idiot. "******************!!!!" [expletive deleted] and your mother too. She must be a complete moral imbecile to have produced something like you. Moron. "***!" Well that's too bad. But it doesn't excuse how bad your judgment is. Anyway, you're done. And you're an idiot.
Apparently the Label Politzei imagine there's a difference between being a person who is colored, and a person who has color. The only linguistic distinction I can find is that you're a person who is either colored, or a color. Being nothing but a color is about as dehumanizing as you can get. An optical concept, perhaps not even on the visible spectrum. Is this what Ellision meant by The Invisible Man?
(Hint: adjectives are not nouns. The Elephant Man is not a man who is an elephant.)
Anyways. All I wanted to say, before I was so rudely interrupted, is that the morons in that NPR article failed to distinguish between (among) civilization, civilizing, and civility. You know, because they all start with civili, and there ain't no pulling out, once you're that far in.
Here's why they're morons, the committee, the commissariat that contributed to the production of that article and philosophy. Also, their professors are morons. And as I already said, the mothers. I doubt that anything that could rightly be called a father was involved. Maybe two daddies? No healthy masculinity. Just toxic femininity.
Ah well. We can only aspire to our ideals.
They are morons because they confused civility for servility. Servility was, metaphorically, most certainly a "cudgel". Except the word is not cudgel. In riffling through their online thesaurus (as their creative-writing teachers urged), searching for an alternative to "club", they chanced upon this picture-painting word.
They might have learned the correct word, had they ever attended an American History course, if such a course was ever actually available to them. The correct word is knout. Lincoln used it, in referencing one aspect of the Democrat Party's major social contribution to mid-nineteenth century American civilization. Slavery, their Peculiar Institution, for which the Democrats most certainly should pay reparations. Any American black who has allied herself with the Democrat Party is complicit, and owes reparations.
Likewise, and again after Lincoln, lash might have been used. You know, from the Second Inaugural Address? If they ever heard of it.
Yet, if God wills that [the war] continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said, “the judgments of the Lord are true, and righteous, altogether."
It is a pleasure for those words to pass my lips. Justice. That's my point. We always need grace, but there's been too much mercy in our decadent society — getting away with it, the opposite of justice. Let's try to earn our blessings for a while. Be worthy of them.
That way, when we lose them, as we are losing them, we will be right when we complain that we tried. Yes, finally, at the end, we tried. There is merit in not being stupid right to the very end. We waited until too late, but we did not despair. That's a theme you could write an epic about. No epics about those who never even try, even if too late.
J
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