You sound like you need a little lovin' yourself, my friend. And it's B-o-r-z-o-u. You can look me up. I'm in the Chicago phone directory. Who are you?
Babies out of wedlock, some would call them "bastards", is OK, particularly if it fits into your career. Or, if you're just have free love sex with every Tom, Dick and Harry and you get knocked up, then call in the Terminator and kill the little SOB because it's its fault not the practitioner.
Americans' sexual promiscuity and sexual excesses, have nothing to do with the left nor with Bill Clinton. They are part and parcel of the contraceptive revolution which started immediately after WWII and spurred an anthropological shift in our attitudes toward sex, away from reproduction and toward pleasure. This phenomenon was detailed as early as 1948. Read Gay Talese's "Thy Neighbor's Wife." Or go to North Suburban Chicago and check out the upper crust GOP swingers swapping wives and getting spanked at S&M bordellos. Back in the late 1980s, I had a friend who was a dominatrix at a bondage dungeon in midtown Manhattan. She charged $250 an hour. Her clients were upstanding, suit-wearing pillars of our community stopping off on their way home to Connecticut. To each his or her own, I say.
The world that they are comfortable in is a world of sleaze.
From your comments it sounds like you see yourself as living in a world of sleaze. Revel in it, baby, cause no one's clean in everyone's eyes. For better or worse, it's the world our elders created. And I consider some elements within the religious right part of that sleaze. And I'm not comfortable with it. Though I accept it as the reality today. Which is why I'll take the opportunistic, shallow Yuppie narcissism of a Clinton over the overbearing, sanctimonious piety of your Ayatollahs in a hearbeat.
In my personal and public life, I practice restraint, honor, respect for my fellow persons and the freedoms bestowed upon them by God, whatever you may call It. I don't really give a damn if the president wants to have a dalliance with an intern. Given the atrocities and crimes committed by presidents past, I can't really muster up any outrage that he lied about it. As long is it doesn't cost me more in taxes or force me to watch my friends die in war or in illegal abortion clinics. I don't care if someone wants to devote their life to studying and living in accord with the Bible, the Koran, the Torah, Das Kapital, or even the 12 Steps of AA. To each his or her own. So long as they don't try to impose their teachings upon me or the people around me.
By definition a pluralistic society will have some elements that some other element will consider sleaze. If you don't like it, may I suggest you consider moving to a nation founded upon pure religious principles such as the Islamic Republic of Iran or North Korea.
God bless you my friend, and God bless America! |
