Not All Lies Are Created Equal

“The miraculous lie is, generally speaking, useful to many who exert all their efforts to adorn and promulgate it: those who know the truth are either sensible enough to keep silence, cunning enough to pretend to believe it, or weak enough to lose reputation and to be considered liars by opposing it.”
–Sir Richard Burton

Sound familiar?
I submit the Christian fable of the Cross worked for the West for so well for so long precisely because it is a fantasy. Conversely, the modern secular fable born of and displacing it–all men are born equal in the eyes of God gave birth to all men are equally endowed (and thus interchangable in the great, malleable mass of humanity)–fails because it makes a falsifiable assertion about physical reality.

You cannot disprove a fantasy. Whether or not Jesus was God is quite immaterial. It is not a worldly question. Thus it leaves room for man to investigate and understand the living world. And so many a good Christian did–and many a good atheist from Christendom as well, for he too is blessed by the idea of man created in the image of God. He paid his tithe in hypocrisy and went on his way. A good religion leaves room for such hypocrisy. The Islamic world’s stubborn backwardness may be due largely to the stultifying effects of a religion leaving no breathing room for the hypocrite. But the assertion that each individual is imbued with the personal dignity and rights that come from being created in the image of God–the Jewish idea Christians put on the Cross for all humanity–has been beneficial to say the least. I might even call it progress, if I trusted it’s going to end well. And if I believed in progress.

The new prevailing lie–Christianity’s patricidal, ingrate bastard–makes of the first the fiction that each individual is equally endowed with the host of human talents. It thus asserts material reality in the present and is falsifiable (and has been, repeatedly). It has none of the advantages of fantasy. It may be ridiculous to believe in the Cross and Resurrection, but it is harmless in and of itself. It is the practical edicts anchored to that myth that count. And those edicts have been very good to us. So far.

On the other hand, to take as literal truth the Egalitarian Lie is to misunderstand human nature and material reality. Christians have created a fantasy about the afterlife. Progressives have created a fantasy about life on earth. Which is the greater lie? Which, in demanding silence or acquiescence on the part of society and the individual as Christianity once did and progressive egalitarianism does now, strains and distorts society more?

As if it matters…

So what difference does it make? 
Oh what difference does it make? 
It makes none… 
Oh I’m too tired
 I’m so sick and tired 
And I’m feeling very sick and ill today…
–The Smiths

 At some point you became politically aware. You watched with interest the ongoing debates, your own sophistication growing with your familiarity. In quiet moments, usually alone reading, you experienced the small thrill of discovery or disillusion. It was exciting. You even came to feel a certain power in knowledge, and thus in yourself.
 But all the while you retained an expectation, a sort of residual childhood innocence, an expectation confident in the superiority of American liberty and nursed by the familiar story arc of Hollywood, that despite the travesties and calamities along the way the truth will out in the end, despite the protestations of the bigoted and the vested interests. Because it always does. Schmuck.
This thought came to mind as I came upon this:

Dr. Douglas Allen, Burnaby Mountain professor of economics at Simon Fraser University, tells OneNewsNow that he, Dr. Catherine Pakaluk of Ave Marie University, and Dr. Joseph Price of Brigham Young University took a look at a large study conducted by Stanford sociologist Dr. Michael Rosenfeld that found no difference between children who are reared by heterosexual parents and those raised by homosexual couples. The three found a mistake in the research that completely alters the outcome. “It turns out the children from these homes don’t do as well. They’re about 35 percent more likely to fail a grade,” Allen reports about youngsters raised by homosexuals.

Does anyone think any amount of data or debunking is going to stop the juggernaut? Does anyone think the Gay Lobby even cares what’s true? They will prevail, and we will adjust.

Steve Sailer reviews Django Unchained, describing it as the story of

an omnipotent [black] mass shooter wreaking carnage upon dozens of [white] victims

noting the unsurprising hypocrisy of a liberal media that forgets all about Newtown and guns in its reflexive praise of Fanon-esque black racial violence. The film as described is even closer to the tale of John Allen Muhammad, DC Sniper.It’s amazing how little the mainstream press notices once their “insensitivity” feelers are folded away.
I recall Roger Ebert fretting Tony Todd of 1995’s Candyman 2, Farewell to the Flesh (who stalks a blonde heroine) looked too much like OJ Simpson, then on trial for murdering his blonde wife. Ebert had that earnest liberal’s proverbial (but always vague) “problem” with it. But we’re way beyond that sort of thing now; Ebert’s heirs would never notice such a thing in the first place! Parallels outside the Narrative are for bigots!

We Who Must Be Held Accountable

Surprise, surprise, Detroit is rated by some travel agency for well-heeled gays as the nation’s most lethal city for the cruiser on the go. Who to blame? Need I ask?

[gay activist Dave] Garcia points to Michigan’s state legislature and governor who, he says, “have created an anti-gay environment across the entire state.” “It is still legal to fire people in Michigan for being gay, we can not marry, can not adopt, and the governor signed away domestic partner benefits for LGBT public employees,” Garcia said. “Conservatives in Lansing have placed Michigan at a huge economic disadvantage as we continue to lose top LGBT talent to our neighbors by creating a hostile environment state-wide for LGBT people and they must be held accountable for it.”

You see, those lawless brothers preying on homosexuals (and scaring away their money) are taking all their cues from Republican politicians and the laws of the state of Michigan (who are guilty of scaring away queer money!).

The ugly truth–black people wrecked Detroit and keep it wrecked–is nothing as compared to the theoretical tragedy of all those lost boy-bucks! Damn it man, the city might be thriving but for these incorrigible white male bigots! Ironic, but it apparently takes cast-iron balls to be a gay activist.
Considering the reality of Detroit’s economic destruction and the untold suffering to come of it, Mr. Garcia’s overreaching should be greeted with the same opprobrium given Holocaust deniers. But it does not. It is typical.
 People wonder why some of us went over the edge at some point and just started talking about race frankly. This is why; convention is not just inaccurate, it is a lie. It’s an affront; every time someone invokes “white privilege” he slanders a people and advances a disaster. The “anti-racists” are right: there’s no middle ground here. There are the enlightened, there are the benighted, and there are the evil. They just don’t know which two of the three they comprise.

And here, confronted with yet more data documenting the failure of Detroit’s blacks and the progressive politics that unleash their malice–and the contradiction of a multicultural movement that purports to speak for both the black criminal and the affluent gay–what does CBS Detroit do? Rather, what is, apparently, the only thing they’re capable of, whether it’s by their own inclination or outside pressure?

They call this regional gay party hack and act as passive conduit for his embarrassing stretch. All advantage accrues to the favored, whatever the reality. The left’s narrative is unopposed. Black Detroit preys on gays? Fuck you, it’s because the Republicans hate queers! You don’t have to make sense when you run things, loser. Anyone who runs is VC. Anyone who stands still is well-disciplined VC.

The Gay Lobby: “…you just don’t lead ’em so much! Ain’t oppression hell?! Ha-ha!”

Comments Elsewhere, Edited, or, The Lamentations of the Womanish and Childlike

Comes now the latest attempt at silencing Matt Drudge’s recurring Blacks Behaving Badly theme. Where Bill Maher deployed the pillory, this blogger attempts a plea in an “open letter”, complete with flattery and concern trolling (thank God I’m surrounded by the apolitical; if anyone ever expresses concern for the “future of the Republican Party” in my presence I think I’ll strangle them). Enjoy with me the sound of The Hill’s plaintive wail:

A visit to the Drudge Report at any given time in recent months bears witness to story after story, time and time again, day after day, week after week, month after month, of a laundry list of stories with racial innuendo and suggestion and implication that I would like to believe are below the standards you would set for yourself and your profession. [apparently the author is doubly confused:  Matt Drudge is a “journalist”, and journalism retains “standards”]

I couldn’t resist:
Drudge’s “race-baiting” operates within the context of a grand, deliberate lie. That lie: black people are no more violent, no less intelligent and no less industrious than the rest of us. On television and in film we are continually presented images of black humanity and competence that do not comport with the reality we all experience daily (who are you trying to kid, Hollywood?). The respectable media, as evidenced here, does its part by ignoring the black malice and lawlessness that is an unrelenting assault (as the author notes above, “day after day, week after week, month after month”–indeed). The endemic, bemusing buffoonery of black culture, infecting even black “intellectuals” and leaders, is met with a silent, condescending smile. 

Policy and law are made in the distorting light of this disinformation. Vast sums are spent trying to square the circle of black inadequacy (see the achievement gap). Discriminatory hiring degrades the quality of our organizations and professions. People are hurt, or worse, if they are foolish or uninformed enough to believe the lie.

 You want me to avert my eyes? Stop telling me black dysfunction is my fault and I’ll stop exposing it as a lie. Stop robbing me and my kin. Stop slandering my race (I’ll apologize for slavery once every black person in America thanks me for modern medicine, democracy, electric light, plumbing, sliced bread, etc). Drudge is allowed his intentions, biases and even bigotry. I don’t care. A speaker’s motives haven’t the power to make a bad argument look good (indeed, they’re usually impugned to make a good argument look bad, as above).

But it does take nerve to condemn Drudge’s focus in the midst of all the racist glorying following the election (how many more times do we have to read about “old, white” etc?). And what are the anti-whites celebrating? What is the nature of their triumph? Did blacks and Hispanics become electoral power brokers by achievement? By out-sized contributions to the nation? No; it is only by their numbers, and the dysfunction that makes them the sick child of the American family, that they overcome the “old” and “white”. They succeed by failing. It’s fascinating really. Let’s at least be honest about the nature of our transformation.

Drudge is a necessary corrective to the Grand Lie you worship. This lie, like any, cannot be made any more true by prevailing (even over the entire West); it can only become more and more obviously a lie. It is an article of faith: rigid, unchanging, impervious to reason and empiricism. Against this reality stands out in clear relief. This is only going to get worse. Get used to it. As you keep pointing out, it’s your country now. Own it.

As for me I say: speak the truth, whatever it is. Let the heavens fall and the hacks tremble. And as for your concern trolling: let the Republican Party go to hell.