Posted by: ultraguy | August 27, 2009

Apocalypse Humor

What cannot be accomplished with a dour look, a scolding finger and multiple references to Leviticus may be more ably accomplished with side-splittingly funny, bullseye-accurate, hyper-literate social commentary with a sharply acidic finish. Mark Steyn at his absolute best:

In terms of sexual identity, we’re freer than almost any society in human history, at least in terms of official validation of our choice to “redefine” ourselves in defiance of biological and physiological reality. And yet… At some point we will come to see that the developed world’s massive expansion of personal sexual liberty has provided a useful cover for the shrivelling of almost every other kind. Free speech, property rights, economic liberty and the right to self-defence are under continuous assault by Big Government. But who cares when Big Government lets you shag anything that moves?… It’s an oddly reductive notion of individual liberty. The noisier grow the novelties of our ever more banal individualism, the more the overall societal aesthetic seems drearily homogenized — like closing time in a karaoke bar with the last sad drunks bellowing off the prompter “I did it My Way!”


Responses

  1. I Did It My Way is certainly an apt title for the theme song of Hell, all there singing it. Yet we are called to do it the way of Jesus. And any other way only leads to failure and disillusionment.


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