Thursday, December 09, 2010

Decline of Civilization

Luke Ford writes:

On his radio show today, Dennis Prager talked about a song named “F*** You” nominated for Grammy Record of the Year.

“In the video, everyone in it was a black American. I just wonder if any other community would not find this a little disgraceful? I’m sure many black Americans do. If everybody there wore a cross, at least impersonating Christians, I think the Christian community would say something. This doesn’t represent us.

“There is an inner-city culture that the general society tolerates, does not condemn as anti-civilizational because of fear of being called racist, and that is racist because they would say it if anyone else did this, let alone nominate it for a Grammy award.”

“Barbarians always exist. The difference between a great civilization and a failing civilization is not the presence or absence of barbarians. Barbarians will always exists, but what matters is that the civilization condemns the barbarian. When the civilization honors the barbarian, we have gone from condemnation to toleration to adoration.

“I would not have talked about this song if it was just out there. That it was nominated for a Grammy… That the elite find this profanity-laced crap worthy of an award shows that the barbarians govern in the world of the elite, in the arts and education… The rot is at the head, not the tail.”