Common Thread of the Left ...it's not like life is sacred or something

Paul Abdul: Well What­daya think?

Man in suit: (uncom­fort­able) It’s very nice

Cold Hearted Snake (Video) 1989

Dry­den: How did he die?

James Bond: Your con­tact? Not well.

Dry­den: Made you feel it, did he? Well, you needn’t worry. The sec­ond is…

[Bond shoots Dryden]

James Bond: Yes… con­sid­er­ably.

Casino Royale 2006

Yes­ter­day I wrote about the rather incred­i­ble Salon piece on abor­tion.

One of the best com­ments on the sub­ject of abor­tion came last year from Andrew Klavin on July 11^th 2011:

I still believe it’s pos­si­ble for a per­son of good will to make the argu­ment that a fetus is not fully human for some small period of its devel­op­ment. Thomas Aquinas did — and the man was a saint. But more and more, that point of view is com­ing to seem to me pre-​scientific. In any case, if that’s the argu­ment pro-​choicers want to have, let’s have that argu­ment, and no other — because no other mat­ters. And if we as a free peo­ple decide that unborn chil­dren are chil­dren indeed, there is no moral alter­na­tive: we must not only end abor­tion but put our full efforts into sup­port­ing humane and broadly avail­able meth­ods of wel­com­ing the unwanted.

I thought it put the entire argu­ment into the per­spec­tive needed. If we are killing inno­cent life then abor­tion is wrong, period!. If not then it’s no worse than a hang­nail, the Salon piece took the oppo­site track, say­ing So What if abor­tion ends life.

Almost every writer cri­tiquing the piece gave the author credit for courage, to wit:

I give Ms. Williams props for her unstint­ing hon­esty here. It is, to my way of think­ing, a rather coura­geous thing to speak plainly, these days, and with­out euphemism. It is per­haps dou­bly so when one is will­ing to sim­ply stand up and say, “yes, I believe this is a human being, and I’m totally okay with killing him or her. Peo­ple should be able to decide who lives and who dies, for any vari­ety of reasons.”

As I’ve said I think this is mis­read­ing of the sit­u­a­tion. Con­sider the Music video I quoted at the top of this post:

The song is very good, the danc­ing is pro­fes­sional but what makes the video is the dis­com­fort of the exec­u­tives watch­ing it, get­ting shocked and aroused by it and when ques­tioned for a reac­tion say­ing it’s “nice”

In 1989 this was a hot and provoca­tive video, that had a funny end­ing. In 2013 it’s just funny.

This is the basic truth of what has gone on. Until this point it has been the con­clu­sion of those on the left that to openly say “So What” to the tak­ing of inno­cent life was beyond the pale.

No more, time has taken its toll and the gen­er­a­tion that was taught Judeo-​Christian val­ues as part of the nor­mal course of life has been replaced. Now two par­al­lel cul­ture exists where moral­ity is rel­a­tive, right and wrong are rel­a­tive and the value of life is relative.

The sec­u­lar cul­ture has con­cluded it’s strong enough, preva­lent enough and sup­ported enough by the pop­u­lar media that it can slowly take off the mask that has been nec­es­sary for years.

How many years do you think it will take before “So What” extends to other peo­ple who the left con­cludes are less impor­tant and less wor­thy of life?

How long before it becomes a mat­ter of faith that those who would stand up and object or obstruct such obvi­ous truths that are held by the more enlight­ened must be sup­pressed? Of course you’d have to dis­arm them first.

I’ve been writ­ing about a com­mon thread of the left for a while. I’ve beaten about the bush on it, what IS the com­mon thread to all of these things? Well that’s my lead post for tomorrow…