Better Late Than Never
Note from the Labs: Server trouble prevented this from being posted last night. Thankfully, sometime around the third cup of coffee this morning, a healthy sense of outrage returned.
One of the dangers, or difficulties of being possessed by sadomasochistic compulsion – writing in general and writing about the vast reservoirs of political/cultural stupidity specifically – is that it is easy, if not inevitable that you hit the wall. That point, where trying to summon an appropriate level of outrage in response to some despicably vile incident, results in a horribly jaded “ehhh….”
For instance, the New York Post is reporting that while on a visit to the concentration camps in Auschwitz, a group of Jewish students were verbally and physically assaulted by a number of French imbeciles (Editor’s Note: Despite the apparent redundancy of the phrase “French imbeciles,” That Guy recognizes that France did indeed prove useful in our fight for Independence, and does not feel right characterizing the entire population of France as mentally or socially retarded, regardless of their seemingly intentional efforts to prove otherwise).
Right now, the only response that comes to mind is…what? You’re shocked that there is such a virulent strain of terminal stupidity running through the Gallic countryside? Get out and read a paper, the gusto with which some Frenchmen have started exercising their anti-Semitism led to Ariel Sharon to call for Jews in France to leave.
And after a WWII British cemetery was defaced, I’m not exactly shocked that the sanctity of Auschwitz was violated. Apparently they’re so unhappy with the whole “saved from the Nazis” episode, some of them have decided to act like the Fuhrer won.
One of the dangers, or difficulties of being possessed by sadomasochistic compulsion – writing in general and writing about the vast reservoirs of political/cultural stupidity specifically – is that it is easy, if not inevitable that you hit the wall. That point, where trying to summon an appropriate level of outrage in response to some despicably vile incident, results in a horribly jaded “ehhh….”
For instance, the New York Post is reporting that while on a visit to the concentration camps in Auschwitz, a group of Jewish students were verbally and physically assaulted by a number of French imbeciles (Editor’s Note: Despite the apparent redundancy of the phrase “French imbeciles,” That Guy recognizes that France did indeed prove useful in our fight for Independence, and does not feel right characterizing the entire population of France as mentally or socially retarded, regardless of their seemingly intentional efforts to prove otherwise).
Right now, the only response that comes to mind is…what? You’re shocked that there is such a virulent strain of terminal stupidity running through the Gallic countryside? Get out and read a paper, the gusto with which some Frenchmen have started exercising their anti-Semitism led to Ariel Sharon to call for Jews in France to leave.
And after a WWII British cemetery was defaced, I’m not exactly shocked that the sanctity of Auschwitz was violated. Apparently they’re so unhappy with the whole “saved from the Nazis” episode, some of them have decided to act like the Fuhrer won.
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