Posted on 04/17/2018 2:46:39 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Canadian classical pianist Glenn Gould had a piano partially converted to a harpsichord, piano hammers removed, replaced with posts & quills. The harsh sound was described as "2 Skeletons Copulating on a Corrugated Tin Roof". An apt word cartoon to symbolize the motivation of end-stage Western civilization.
Doing It with anything, everything, all the time, is not sex, which makes babies, creates the new world, unites couples and weaves the seamless fabric of the next society after this one winds down its inglorious suicide.
Catholic sex tracker Mary Eberstadt considers it a new religion. She doesn't call it, its proper name, but it could call itself, the Worldwide Church of Perpetuo-omni-pseudo-copulationism. It is currently undergoing a paroxism of attempted self-purification as it tries to sort out its orthodoxy --#meToo will lose because it interferes with erebophilia, sex with teenagers--while continuing to hold heresy trials against those who resist its mandate that you never disapprove of what anyone is doing with their crotch.
Tragedy & Hope author Carroll Quigley noted that a sure marker of an end stage civilization is allowance of sexual perversions. This one is making them mandatory.
Hollywood Bishop Robert Barron sets the new boundaries of the world afflicted in the groin with the Ba'al Peor philistine contagion, when he declared off limits any discussion of pseudo sex, as impolite. No mention allowed of what's going on under, and over, the sheets in Rome today.
The new religion could be described as an end stage tribalism, except that it can't personally reproduce itself, a sine qua non, a without which not of any tribe which has any hope of survival.
Aldous Huxley correctly predicted that its only sex can be between machines, in the brave new world.
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. Malcolm muggeridge
Can we expect an English translation anytime soon?
Yeah, this is not artfully worded. Just stuff thrown together with arbitrary neologisms.
Back in the 60s a Friends wife stuck thumb tacks into the hammer faces of all 88 piano hammers. Sounded all the world like a harpsichord
I only came on this thread to post my usual anti-Goldberg blather. Even the title doesn’t make sense!
I think the gist is that: all sex is okay but actual straight sex between a man and a woman. Especially when it for the purpose of making a baby. That is truly off limits in the modern West.
Did you leave out a link? Your headline refers to Jonah Goldberg. Is your post an excerpt from a JH piece or your commentary on one? Goldberg has a new book coming out (”The Suicide of the West”) and the triumph of sexual deviance as a late stage marker of cultural collapse would be a natural part of such an analysis.
Gisms! Ha, Huh. You said, “gisms”.
I’ve been saying for a while the left and maybe all politics is being driven by radical sex perverts. Half want to normalize their behavior, the other half want to conceal it.
Back in the seventh grade, our music teacher/choir director, Mr. C, tried the same thing.
The only problem was that some student removed all 88 tacks before Mr. C could do his demonstration. Evidently, this student thought someone had tampered with the piano and wanted to do a good deed — or at least score some brownie points with Mr. C, who was a good man but not one you wanted to cross.
So we missed hearing the live sound of a simulated harpsichord.
However, by the age of 12, I was already a fledgling classical music buff, so I already knew what a harpsichord sounded like. I still enjoy the sound of a harpsichord, although it’s not something I would want to listen to every day.
Only the perverse in on the menu.
How could this happen, and so quickly? The root of this?
Contraception: the first sex-deconstructing, mass-supported sterile perversion.
Now it's ALL contra-sexing.
Without putting myself through the hell that is reading the article, or another Goldberg piece, I’d say you nailed it.
Thanks for that quote by the extraordinary Mr. Muggeridge.
While I think burdening sex with the ills of empire is over the top, the writing aimed at something above sixth grade level is appreciated.
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