Bernie wrote-
Quote:It may be, as george and spendi and other catholic oddballs believe, that each of us enters this life with a dirty record.
I can't speak for George but that is a very serious misrepresentation of my position.
It is the easiest thing in the world to build a case on your own fantasies, projections and assertions.
We enter this life as an animal. I have no views on whether that is a "dirty record" simply because "dirty" is a pejorative expression and I cannot image how it could be applied to the new-born.
But one thing is for sure and that is that there is a need to do something about it. How Darwinians meet that challenge has yet to be explained.
The feral infant needs to be moulded in such a way that its animal nature is reduced and, in those who have charge of that process, it is necessary to reduce it to as near zero as a man can stand. Hence celibacy and monastic life. One can easily see with the Polk County school board that humility and self sacrifice are not high priorities in their affairs and they are thus unfit people to be determining the education of the youth and a joke when that determination runs into the science field.
To refer to this animal nature as "sinful" is merely an efficiency technique without which it might be impossible to tackle the task at all if "here-now" fears, surgery or pharmaceuticals are eschewed.
It is self evident, blazoned, that media seeks to restore this animal nature to the adults with spending power in order to facilitate the life-style to which its denizens have become accustomed and which may be fairly considered to be the opposite of a monastic existence. Obviously the legal profession thrives on animalistic behaviour as do those forces charged with managing and controlling it.
As the ones with spending power are the ones who set the tone it is equally self evident that monkeyfication of the whole population is not far over the horizon. Which seems to me to be destructive and, if one reaches a little, subversive.
Thus, and an intelligent 10 year-old could work this out, media, and its allies, who it can reward with 15 minutes fame, is in favour of Darwinian science and the social consequences attendant upon its promulgation in the absence of any contervailing forces.
So now you know who you toady to Bernie. By allowing that fine coalition to remain a diffused concept in your mind, and not a focussed one as the Church is, you easily escape from the discipline required to treat with it equally. It is comforting, feeble even, what any animal would do, to think there is left and right in media. Or moderate. There is MEDIA. Good cop-bad cop. Both ways round.
MEDIA- you worship at its altars Bernie and they have no class. They are tawdry underneath that veneer of light tricks. One can't point to any exceptions who break their vows because they take no vows. They suck their way up the ladder.
