Comments on: Obama’s Election Leads To Societal Trivialization http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/01/28/obamas-election-leads-to-societal-trivialization/ Beating Them With Their Own Sickle And Hammer Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:01:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: the elector of saxony http://www.stoptheaclu.com/2009/01/28/obamas-election-leads-to-societal-trivialization/comment-page-1/#comment-112829 the elector of saxony Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:32:24 +0000 http://www.stoptheaclu.com/?p=19576#comment-112829 Unfortunately, this is hardly news. Ever since the 1970's we have defined everything downward. Passing grades, deviancy, and now "greatness". The "great men" of the past would stand like titans by comparison to Obama, but look where the bar is now set. I imagine every Obama voter believes that Bono is a "great man", but is he? In the grand scheme of things, he is a rich rock star who says and does some good things, but on the scale of that which he is able to do by virtue of extraodinary wealth and media access, isn't it really just about the same as us ordinary types giving our charitable contributions at church? I mean, it's nice and good and all that, but does it make us "great men"? I doubt it. Obama has not done anything "great", but America now thinks its movie actors and comedians qualified to opine on matters of foreign policy in the pages of magazines and they are meant by our media to be taken SERIOUSLY! We are meant to take them seriously. Movie actors are called "courageous" while they luxuriate in the hottubs of their private jets! Greatness by acclaim is nothing more than stardom. Obama is a great star, in that sense. But is winning the case of the cheated babysitter, and the chilly tenant really the stuff of greatness? Is spending 100 days on the Senate floor, the raw material of the Presidency? In generations past, the answer would have been a resounding "no!" To the MTV generation, the answer was "who cares? he's cool!" In a world where Al Gore is a nobel prize winner, and Jimmy Carter is considered an "ambassador of peace", how can we discern anymore? The same underlying falsehoods make freedom fighters of terrorists, and terrorists of those who truly fight for freedom. Too bad we shall soon have need of men of true greatness. What a pity we shall find none in the White House, or leading the Congress. Craven cowards and Communist idealogues have always caused more suffering. We are in for it, this time. Do you think they will insist upon calling what's left of New York the "Obama memorial nuclear ruins"? Unfortunately, this is hardly news. Ever since the 1970’s we have defined everything downward. Passing grades, deviancy, and now “greatness”. The “great men” of the past would stand like titans by comparison to Obama, but look where the bar is now set. I imagine every Obama voter believes that Bono is a “great man”, but is he? In the grand scheme of things, he is a rich rock star who says and does some good things, but on the scale of that which he is able to do by virtue of extraodinary wealth and media access, isn’t it really just about the same as us ordinary types giving our charitable contributions at church? I mean, it’s nice and good and all that, but does it make us “great men”? I doubt it. Obama has not done anything “great”, but America now thinks its movie actors and comedians qualified to opine on matters of foreign policy in the pages of magazines and they are meant by our media to be taken SERIOUSLY! We are meant to take them seriously. Movie actors are called “courageous” while they luxuriate in the hottubs of their private jets! Greatness by acclaim is nothing more than stardom. Obama is a great star, in that sense. But is winning the case of the cheated babysitter, and the chilly tenant really the stuff of greatness? Is spending 100 days on the Senate floor, the raw material of the Presidency? In generations past, the answer would have been a resounding “no!” To the MTV generation, the answer was “who cares? he’s cool!”

In a world where Al Gore is a nobel prize winner, and Jimmy Carter is considered an “ambassador of peace”, how can we discern anymore? The same underlying falsehoods make freedom fighters of terrorists, and terrorists of those who truly fight for freedom.

Too bad we shall soon have need of men of true greatness. What a pity we shall find none in the White House, or leading the Congress. Craven cowards and Communist idealogues have always caused more suffering. We are in for it, this time. Do you think they will insist upon calling what’s left of New York the “Obama memorial nuclear ruins”?

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