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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Philosopher who wrote (11760)	4/18/2001 12:01:51 AM
From: average joe	Respond to of 82486

I recall the dying days of the hippies and the peace movement and there was a freedom then that I have never seen repeated. A lot of those peace freaks are the most cynical hard nosed people today. There is way too much feigned indignation today, it's practically turned into a sport. That landover site is offensive but it would probably be shut down if it was anti-semitic or anti-gay. "It was once said, and very rightly, that a man who is well brought-up may read anything. The only people who boggle at what is perfectly natural are those who are the worst swine and the finest experts in filth. In their utterly contemptible pseudo-morality they ignore content and madly attack individual words. Years ago I read a criticism of a novelette, in which the critic was furious because the author had written: 'He blew his nose and wiped it.' He said it went against everything beautiful and exalted which literature should give the nation. This is only a small illustration of what bloody fools are born under the sun. Those who boggle at strong language are cowards, because it is real life which is shocking to them, and weaklings like that are the very people who cause harm to culture and character. They would like to see the nation grow up into a group of over-sensitive little people - masturbators of false culture of the type of St Aloysius, of whom it is said in the book of the monk Eustachius that when he heard a man breaking wind with deafening noise he immediately burst into tears and could only be consoled by prayers." The Good Soldier Svejk Epilogue to Part 1