tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182119.post2946276710527719180..comments2024-03-28T10:36:31.949+00:00Comments on House of Dumb: Yeah, About That 'Nigel Farage Affair' Thing....DJhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00446322024174274621noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6182119.post-23282213036559486562014-03-13T23:11:07.932+00:002014-03-13T23:11:07.932+00:00Well, privilege is law intended to apply only sele...Well, privilege is law intended to apply only selectively. This Carry on Nigel lark is simply a rebranding of Lenin’s “Who, whom” for the new Millennium: the justice of the culture wars’ victors.<br />Adult-child sexual relations can - if consensual and in some circumstances - be a source of comfort and innocent pleasure for those who rule the culture such as selected gay rights activists and certain brilliant film directors but is always and irrefutably wrong when indulged in Catholic rectories. Likewise, a fondness for country and western is the soundtrack for sewing a big red cross on your Klan robes whereas plastering your student house wall with the image of the man who wrote to his sister about his love for violence and who visited Castro’s jails to personally execute wounded prisoners is just the mark of a rufty-tufty outdoorsy kind of Progressive who doesn’t wear plaid. It’s Muscular Christianity for the church of Gramsci – a dead white male who like Marx, Rousseau and John Stuart Mill seems to get a hall pass to the whole campus when Hobbes and Augustine and Cranmer get left at the college gates. I guess that’s why we all need to chill out over the war on drugs thing, too, and instead spend precious ‘health’ resources criminalizing drugs that have been legal throughout Christendom for centuries and that take decades to kill you (if at all): why break the swarms of butterflies slumped our proud nation’s crack houses and pot farms on the wheel when you can go after the stuff that CS Lewis and JRR Tolkien enjoyed? <br />Isn’t it easier (and a lot safer) for the orthorities to duke it out with the corner shop dealers of the substances beloved of the creators of Aslan and Frodo than getting into a rumble with the heirs of Hassan ibn al-Sabbah and the gaily tattooed gentlemen south of the Rio Grande? <br />Nick Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18077258420518417311noreply@blogger.com