Posted on 10/17/2009 3:22:30 AM PDT by Scanian
Today's enlightened liberals are not so much into deconstructing rival iconic figures as they use to be. It may be because they are too busy fashioning alternative narratives, and sometimes even deliberately forgetting the lugubrious past history of some of their own cultural icons. Of course, there are grave errors inherent to this obscurantist approach, chief among which are the squandering of vitally important lessons for posterity, and a scoffing at wisdom that may otherwise be retained as a legacy they can proudly call their own.
The indignant bickering from the Hollywood glitterati at the belated arrest of acclaimed Film Director/Child Rapist Roman Polanski provided a good sampling of this collective penchant in elite liberal circles for reinventing the past. Moreover, the whole episode practically sealed what many have come to accept as a rather charitable assessment of the established liberal orthodoxy, so well epitomized by those in the entertainment industry; that is, it's not that liberals lack morals per se; it's just that whatever morals they observe are precariously mounted on rather brittle foundations.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Keith said that about Hollywood libs??
“The Moral Universe of Liberals”
Why was I expecting a blank page to follow?
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