But once in a while... on Sadly, No! today I find a reference to a new column by someone called Doug Giles. He's a manly looking man, cleft of chin and frowning of visage... and dumb as a post. He's worked up about the "liberal thought police, removing from all public sectors of society any semblance of biblical values, all influence of religious institutions and all sacred symbolism." They've discovered Nietzsche, and we all know what that means:
Yes, for these “thinkers” everything is endlessly open to question and to change. Everything is permitted. Nothing is to be banned and literally nothing is bizarre. They envision for modern America a moral climate similar to ancient Rome – just before it fell!
Here, we have a dilemma. It's like the old joke - a guy calls his brother and asks how his cat is - the brother says, the cat is dead - the first one says, you should have cushioned the blow - you should have said, the cat is on the roof - the next day - the cat fell off the roof - the next day, alas, poor puss is dead... By the way, the first brother then asks the second, how's mom? She's on the roof, says number 2.
Who wants to be the one to break the bad new to poor Mr. Giles? Alas, the Roman empire was on the roof long before it fell... Oh, wait: here's the next paragraph:
Feeding feverishly off postmodernism’s compost heap of historical amnesia, secularists reject an objective standard of truth. Thus, in their would-be world, authorities are leveled, the record is rewritten, the autonomous self becomes the sole judge of reality, cultures are equalized, style reigns over substance, power is deified, and the “victims” get to run the circus and are conveniently licensed to lie.
Oh god, satire is impossible sometimes. The Roman Empire converted to Christianity before it fell - oh, I weep to think what learning this will do to poor impressionable Dougie...
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