Ray, not that you need reading matter but here's something you might like to read.
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I thought he put his finger on it with this bit:
>>Of course, the phrase "moral values" is just one more example of the Idiotspeak used by journalists, pollsters, advertisers and political hacks to debase the language and reduce reality to a few malleable chunks of, well, Crawford cowflop. In the degraded, aggressively ignorant context of the last election, there were apparently no moral concerns whatsoever attached to such issues as war, economic justice, capital punishment, national security, corporate crime, stewardship of the planet, upholding the Constitution or caring for the sick, elderly and poor.
No, in the idiom of Idiotspeak, "moral values" refers to one thing only: sex -- abortion, homosexuality, nudity. And as we all know, sex sells. It moves some $10 billion in porn and paraphernalia in the godly United States each year; and it pumps untold billions into the secretive coffers of "religious" foundations and right-wing "nonprofits" devoted to manufacturing remunerative outrage in defense of "the family." But the fact that a shrinking sliver of the electorate still gets all wiggly at the thought of body parts and bedroom hydraulics hardly accounts for the cognitive dissonance in America today.<< |
