There’s Bob Dylan saying in his upcoming autobiography that he never wanted to be the voice of the baby boomer generation.
“The world was absurd … I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of,” Dylan says.
“I was fantasizing about a nine-to-five existence, a house on a tree-lined block with a white picket fence, pink roses in the backyard.”
“The big bugs in the press kept promoting me as the mouthpiece, spokesman, or even conscience of a generation. I felt like a piece of meat that someone had thrown to the dogs,” he said.
So this big rebel, Bob Zimmerman, from Hibbing, Minnesota, who became Christian, really wanted the so-called 1950’s American family life, ridiculed by those who hung on his every word…
“In my real life, I got to do the things that I love the best … Little League games, birthday parties, taking my kids to school, camping trips, boating, rafting, canoeing, fishing … I was living on record royalties.”
But, it doesn’t matter.
Then, there’s the amazing Dem ticket, featuring a scumbag pretty boy plaintiff’s lawyer, and a pathetic poseur, who is now exposed as an inveterate liar, whose apparent sole accomplishment in life was to be in Vietnam for four months. It’s come to this—the tallest candidate is deemed the most electable, and he enhances his ticket with the guy with the best hair.
But, it doesn’t matter.
Then, there’s the failure of every single Leftist program since Karl Marx himself. Does anyone remember that in 1964 Barry Goldwater said that the Great Society would not work? He was right, of course.
But, it doesn’t matter.
Then, there’s the skewering of the movie Ladder 49 (2004) by the usual suspects as lacking in character development, or simply portraying boring characters. Maybe it’s because all the leads are heterosexual males, who have real jobs. I’m sure the reception would have been far warmer if they had included a Lesbian firefighter who has to prove herself to the boys.
But, it doesn’t matter.
And don’t even get me started on the Left’s abdication of any resolve, other than to disrupt Republican campaign activities, express psychotic Bush hatred, or to prevent Jewish figures from speaking at universities.
Let me explain it all for you. It’s a combination of atheism and guilt.
Dating back to the 1890’s, the intellectual movement darted out into free-thinking atheism, and has been mired in it ever since. A necessary consequence of atheism is the rejection of objective good and evil, since there can be no other source for morality than God. This does not mean that all so-called believers will be good, and this certainly does not mean that all religions are equal. Far from it.
Once objective good and evil is rejected, then it is comforting to hold that evil does not really exist. Instead, good men might do evil deeds, but there is a reason, and if we can only discern this reason, then we can perfect all of mankind. Of course, this is doomed to failure, but rather than admit failure, a more and more elaborate series of rationalizations are forever proffered.
Thus, Saddam Hussein is given unlimited second chances to clean up his act.
In fact, the only exception to this is when the Left itself or atheism is threatened. Alabama Judge Roy Moore had to be run out of town on a rail immediately, for having the temerity to install a Ten Commandments display, and anyone on the Right is instantly ridiculed and harassed for making any criticism of any figure on the Left, with dozens of egregious examples in the current presidential campaign.
This also explains why the only war they ever liked was World War II, the major result of which was to make the world safe for Communism for 45 long years, and why they despised every effort to contain the Communist menace, and, of course, why they love Fidel Castro. Unfortunately, the end result of all of this, is that they must hate America, and hate their own lives.
The guilt is ever present. Many on the Left know deep down that the causes they espouse are errant nonsense and utter failures, but they can’t change. Their very social order would disintegrate. So, the guilt stays inside. They are guilty of intellectual dishonesty and utter cowardice to admit they were wrong, since there is too much at stake, in their world of chilling conformity.
And, what happens when millions are running loose, full of sick guilt, hating their very selves? Why, you have America, 2004.