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Our immunity to hypocrisy and addiction to outrage
RedState.com ^ | 4/30/2014 | Steve Berman

Posted on 04/30/2014 8:54:44 AM PDT by lifeofgrace

Maybe if someone taped Gore laughing a hysterically sinister laugh while stoking a dirty coal-fired oven belching black smoke while telling Colin Powell he can get another rack of ribs for the fire, it might be a high enough dose of hypocrisy for us to feel it.

As a nation, we’re quickly losing any sensitivity to hypocrisy. That’s dangerous. You might say it’s cynicism, but it’s not. It’s a moral numbness that’s overcoming our ability to express outrage where it is proper, and replacing it instead with an ever growing craving for more and more outrageous examples of personal wickedness.

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TOPICS: Issues
KEYWORDS: blogpimp; hypocrisy; naacp

1 posted on 04/30/2014 8:54:44 AM PDT by lifeofgrace
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To: lifeofgrace

Why excerpt your own material?


2 posted on 04/30/2014 9:05:49 AM PDT by humblegunner
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