Posted by
Doctor Demex on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 9:02:26 PM
[ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 20, 2006]
When foreigners seem hostile to the United States for any reason that
threatens liberals, the liberals say we need to understand other
cultures, particularly "why they hate us." Frankly, given the
state of the cultures that DO hate us, I'm glad they do because the
things they stand for (totalitarianism, cannibalism, slavery, poverty
for all but the ruling classes, to name just a few examples) are pretty
much not the things the United States stands for. I'm not at all
averse to understanding other cultures. It is in our best
interests to understand other cultures, particularly when they threaten
to destroy ours.
Trying to understand other cultures from the standpoint that no culture
is better than any other misses the very POINT of culture.
A culture can exist if and only if it IS better than others.
Before you scoff at that assertion because it seems impossible for all
cultures to be better than all others, allow me to add that a culture
must be better than all others IN A WAY THAT MAKES ITS MEMBERS WANT TO
KEEP THAT CULTURE.
Having just stated that the validity of a culture depends entirely on
its members' opinions, I acknowledge that some people might think that
this is weak reasoning. As liberal leaders know (and count on)
everyone is entitled to his own opinion and there is no law that
requires an opinion to be supported. Therefore, liberal
politicians know, as deep down as their shallow hearts let them go,
that opinions are generally not worth the split-second of thought that
forms them.
If you do not think your culture is better than your enemy's, then you
have no incentive to put your life on the line to defend it. In
fact, you would have to think you'd be better off fighting for the
other side. This is why it is so troubling to see supposedly
intelligent "liberals" take the positions they do.
The common denominators of liberal thought, their unifying themes, are
"feelings" and anti-capitalism. Liberals will abandon all logic
to avoid hurting anyone's feelings, unless the person potentially
injured has money he earned, which means he has no heart and therefore
no feelings to hurt.