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10-03-2015, 08:26 AM
I think this man has nailed it or gotten very close...
"As for the massacre in Oregon, the political actors naturally will fight this out, squabbling as they've done before. They pose, so choreographed, like powdered and bewigged sophists playing at word games at Versailles.
President Barack Obama talked about this phenomenon even as he engaged in it, saying that more federal gun control is needed.
A madman kills nine people in Oregon and the world seems to stop and gun control is demanded. But in Chicago, the killings are marginalized, as barbarians mow people down, with thousands shot in a town with strict gun laws, and the politicians do little if anything.
There is no national conversation from Chicago. The national political stars stay away. Even the president isn't engaged much. There is silence."
And then he gets to the point.....
"Because for all the talk of gun control and rights and politics, the one thing I don't hear enough about is that our culture is ill.
Oddly, the political left, which demands more federal gun control in the hope of protecting life, adamantly supports abortion. Over the past four decades or so, some 53 million abortions have taken place in the U.S. Whatever your position on abortion, whether you believe that which is taken is life or just tissue, there is a collective psychic cost to it all.
Our most popular sport, football, is about ritualized, gladiatorial violence. Our most popular movies are called "action movies," but truly they should be called "kill movies" for all the corpses they produce, piles of them.
Our humor is rhetorically violent. Our popular music just as violent. We're addicted to social media, where anonymity breeds a freedom to ridicule others, to peel their skin with venomous fingers from unknown keyboards. And we give our children phones at young ages so they may play, too."
Shooting in Oregon another sign our culture is ill - Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-oregon-shooting-kass-met-1004-20151002-column.html)
"As for the massacre in Oregon, the political actors naturally will fight this out, squabbling as they've done before. They pose, so choreographed, like powdered and bewigged sophists playing at word games at Versailles.
President Barack Obama talked about this phenomenon even as he engaged in it, saying that more federal gun control is needed.
A madman kills nine people in Oregon and the world seems to stop and gun control is demanded. But in Chicago, the killings are marginalized, as barbarians mow people down, with thousands shot in a town with strict gun laws, and the politicians do little if anything.
There is no national conversation from Chicago. The national political stars stay away. Even the president isn't engaged much. There is silence."
And then he gets to the point.....
"Because for all the talk of gun control and rights and politics, the one thing I don't hear enough about is that our culture is ill.
Oddly, the political left, which demands more federal gun control in the hope of protecting life, adamantly supports abortion. Over the past four decades or so, some 53 million abortions have taken place in the U.S. Whatever your position on abortion, whether you believe that which is taken is life or just tissue, there is a collective psychic cost to it all.
Our most popular sport, football, is about ritualized, gladiatorial violence. Our most popular movies are called "action movies," but truly they should be called "kill movies" for all the corpses they produce, piles of them.
Our humor is rhetorically violent. Our popular music just as violent. We're addicted to social media, where anonymity breeds a freedom to ridicule others, to peel their skin with venomous fingers from unknown keyboards. And we give our children phones at young ages so they may play, too."
Shooting in Oregon another sign our culture is ill - Chicago Tribune (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/kass/ct-oregon-shooting-kass-met-1004-20151002-column.html)