The entire world has stumbled and fallen down a rabbit hole

Years ago I read a book called Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China, which details the lives of three Chinese women: author, her mother and her grandmother. It has always stayed on my mind because, to start with, I was so amazed how people could turn against each other as they did during the Cultural Revolution. Peasant worship was in full force and while people were supposed to bow to the “wisdom” of peasants, they also destroyed the lives of educated and other citizens. You know, not unlike what Obama refers to as “robust debate.”

In one part of the book–and pardon me here as I am retrieving this as best I can from memory–Mao had declared some animal or insect a pest that must be destroyed, so the people, bowing to his cult of personality, follow through en masse on his request, until the country’s population of this creature is nearly obliterated. Unfortunately, whatever this animal was, it also happened to prey on a lesser creature who acted as pest to farmers, leaving the intellectually superior peasants in a jam because now their crops were being destroyed by vermin who no longer were kept in check by a larger predator. I don’t recall if this in turn was blamed on the intellectuals, but knowing Mao it probably was. China had fallen down a rabbit hole and all the world for them was turned upside down as chaos became the norm.

So it seems a similar effect is going on in all manner of events today. Global warming–oh sorry, climate change, is not debated today. The proponents of this religious ideology simply shout down the rest of the population. (Never mind they demand you radically alter your lifestyle while they charter planes and use up more fuel in a week than you could in a year.) A growing number of scientists are speaking against its validity, but still people are forced by laws to pay for a service to haul away their separated trash, at least some of which ends up in the local dump anyway. And then the U.S. Congress passes an asinine bill–without reading it– that Laura Ingraham refers to as Kneecap our Trade.

Before that we saw someone who mouths the words about how his primary job is to protect the country but then does his level best day in and day out to destroy it.

A soldier is shot at a recruiting station and gets mention when Obama is pretty much forced to, and even then I think the strongest word was…”dissapointed”? But Obama was outraged, I tell you, outraged when an abortion doctor died under similar circumstances. Oh wait–the barbarian in that case was a “Christian fanatic” (I know I saw those words in print) but the soldier killer was a mere jihadist.

If someone’s feelings get hurt because a special and exclusive prayer room is not set aside for members of his religion (just like one is not set aside for anyone else’s); if the smell of pork can be detected from the local factory; if Constitutionally protected words are uttered in criticism of, oh, say, a woman being slaughtered for wearing make-up; if this and many more things occur there is collective and manufactured outrage across the country (or world in some cases) and there is talk about the widespread need for “tolerance education.”

Christians are murdered and harassed in Egypt and elsewhere but nobody on any kind of platform seems to find this disturbing. Saudi Arabia certainly doesn’t provide prayer space–even shared–for any religion not Islam. Pork is routinely removed from Western menus because a lot of Muslims find it “offensive.”

A Dutch politician is harassed and prosecuted, has to maintain a schedule to see his wife, is denied entry to Britain and lives under protection from death threats because he has called on people to recognise the need for foreigners to respect his culture as much as they demand for their own–their own that they import and attempt to impose on native Dutch. Jordan has filed charges against him for a violating a regulation that as neither Jordanian nor Muslim is he subject to–and they are praised for doing it.

A firefighter who studied months for a promotion exam and passes with very good marks is denied his upgrade because he is white, a decision that comes from people who have made a career of screaming bloody murder over hiring, firing and promoting based on skin color.

If you are perturbed at my lack of linearity here, suck it up. That’s postmodernism and besides, the world is upside down. Why should anything be in order anymore? Nevertheless, I’ll bring you back to the present. Or at least to yesterday. We’ve heard much about people in Iran who simply want the right to choose their own leaders being slaughtered in the most horrific of ways. They are now being hunted down and just this morning I saw that the body of one had been located. Neda, perhaps the most famous because her death was the first to be caught on video and widely circulated (read: went viral), left behind parents who were kicked from their house, invoiced for the bullet that killed her and now her father is being made to go on state television to condemn protesters for her death, as opposed to the Basiji bastards who actually did it.

This is all “robust debate.” Didn’t you know this? *Smack* Get with the program! Don’t you know that in ObamaWorld “what is isn’t, and what isn’t, is”? And why are you reading this anyway? Not looking for news on Iran, are you? You have a dead pop star to worship and a place in line to wait for Obama’s next Maoist, asinine order. Don’t talk, please, there’s a moment of silence to observe.