By Bruce Walker

The putrid comments by
Letterman about Sarah Palin and her daughter, and the dethronement of Carrie
Prejean for the vice of honesty bring home just how savagely civil life has
been murdered by the Left.  We no longer have a civil public life. 
It has been crushed between pinchers of enraged nihilism and fantasy
causes.  “Feminists” or the Ladies Auxiliary of Marxist Enmity (LAME)
should be threatening boycotts of the CBS or demanding the de-politicization of
beauty contests, but that presumes LAME cares about women:  its disciples
care only about venting their private fury towards an empty life.

What has happened to Sarah and
Carrie has happened to our whole social fabric.  Decent people relating in
normal lives have traditionally been able to share values:  truth,
learning, amusement, family, country and faith.    These have
been disappearing from our social lives; each strangled and then hauled off for
a clandestine burial.

Consider what has happened to
truth in modern life.   Barack Obama invents stories about his
relatives visiting Auschwitz – words that are whole cloth – and no one much
cares.   The descent that began when Clinton lied about Monica and almost
everything else, has continued unabated.  The very act of lying, once
considered evil, is now considered proof of shrewdness.  How well someone
can “spin” truth is considered rather like how a tennis player or a baseball
pitcher can spin a ball.

If truth does not matter, then
the accumulation of truth which we call learning cannot matter either. 
Public education and academia is simply re-education.  Children and
college students are taught “facts” which round out political indoctrination.
There was a time when education meant exposing growing minds to a universe of
facts which supported conflicting opinions and grasping the thinking behind
those opinions.  The myth of the intolerant medieval university or old
public school systems of America is evidence of just how little our modern
totalitarians actually know:  debate, controversy, cognition, and schools
of thought were the norm, not the exception.  The very term “schools of
thought,” no longer exists.  In our murdered civil life, there is “the
school of thought,” surrounded by barbed wire.

Amusement too has died. 
In its place are spite, angst, degradation, imbecility, and madness dressed up
as entertainment.  Channel surfing, even when the surf is as long as the
Pacific Coast, shows just how empty the once bright stage of entertainment has
become.  We loved Lucy, but not the untalented and unfunny women who came
fifty years after her.  Singers like Perry Como have been replaced by
puerile, forgettable nebbishes.  Once films like It’s a Wonderful Life joined
us into a common, happy heart, but now the vacuum we call “Hollywood” cannot
produce anything better than bad remakes of old movies.

Families once were
families.  Fathers, mothers, grandparents, sisters, brothers, cousins,
children – the glorious linkage of life which reproduction and its inventor,
God, gave us.   In many ways, family was the center of life. 
“Marry in haste, repent at leisure” was true wisdom.  Holidays revolved
around families.  People grew up in families.  Houses were homes, and
homes were where the heart was.  Now we haggle over the meaning of words
like “marriage” and talk about the lives of unborn babies in terms of
“choice.”   Family in our world, like in the totalitarian nightmares
of Stalin and Hitler, has been crushed into a vague, weak feeling and nothing
more.

Once the overwhelming majority
of Americans understood that the greatest blessing of their lives was simply
being born in the land of liberty.  Now vast numbers of our fellow
countrymen actually view the chosen home of tens of millions of refugees as
simply an ordinary nation or, depending upon how marinated they are in modern
culture, view America as the primary source of misery and injustice in the
world.

Faith, too, has been purged
from our society.  Faith in anything is
considered suspicious unless it is faith in the bland materialism of the ant
colony or some form of paganism with brutal, animal values.  Transcendent
moral ideals repel so many of us that the community of faith is almost an
underground resistance in some dreary Orwellian regime.  Expressing faith
(ask Sarah and Carrie) is an invitation to the ugliest sort of mob lynch
parties.  The Shabbat candles must be kindled in the closest and the sign
of the fish drawn in the dust with a stick.

Strip honesty, knowledge,
amusement, family, country and belief from communal life and nothing, much, is
left.  That is where we are today.  That is why the blathering
television set and the chattering classrooms seem so utterly empty.  That
is why so many young people, born after the end of civil life, accept any dream
world so completely.  Civil life has died.  More specifically, it has
been murdered by those who find no meaning in life and no purpose for
existence.  They wish us to live as they do: desperately alone.

             © 2009 Bruce Walker — All Rights Reserved

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Bruce Walker is the author of
two books:  Sinisterism: Secular Religion of the Lie, and his
recently published book, The Swastika against the Cross: The Nazi War on
Christianity.

http://outskirtspress.com/swastika_against_the_cross 

 http://outskirtspress.com/Sinisterism