"But what’s strange is that so many people don’t find it strange at all — that at a critical moment in the affairs of the republic the ruling party should assemble to listen to a complacent 31-year-old child of privilege peddling the lazy cobwebbed assumptions of myopic narcissism."
This from Mark Steyn's latest on Sandra Fluke - not necessarily one of his best pieces but makes a good point about something that bugs me constantly - the myopic nature of so much that passes for political debate in this country - the way that so much of the discussion seems rooted in the vague neediness of some personal, emotionally contextualized response to issues rather than the dictates of logic and reasonable, coherent, objective insight. Listen to Obama's supporters - it's as if they've completely detached themselves from reality, as if they inhabit a dreamland where they're sustained on a steady diet of shallow cliches, empty rhetoric and airy hypotheticals. A world full of Flukes - held aloft on the flatulent reek of a vain and vapid idealism.
This myopia is on full display with liberal advocacy of gay marriage - we're talking about an issue that at most probably impacts about two percent of the population, and that may be wildly over stating it - and yet liberals go on about it as if no greater crisis threatened the country - and of course that's because this advocacy for them is like wearing a big, bright badge of honor that announces to all and sundry "look at what a wonderful and enlightened person I am - I support gay marriage! Yea for me!". It's pathetic. Now, I oppose gay marriage, mainly because I consider it an affront to common sense and logic to pretend there's not a wide existential gap separating the categorical imperatives of fecundity underlying all heterosexual love from the generative 'neutrality' of the rut that dare not speak its name - but the more practical side of me is inclined to say "sure, go ahead - why on earth a gay person would want to get married is beyond me - but whatever, let's just get it over with cause the country has bigger problems than the love interests of a handful of gays and we should really be TALKING ABOUT STUFF THAT ACTUALLY MATTERS!".
