May 09, 2014
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Thing is, I”m the same way. I can”t handle the truth either. When Steve Sailer linked to a good argument that said mass incarceration is good for society and we”re actually better off with this ridiculous war on drugs, I couldn”t handle it. Shit, I can barely even think about it. Last night, we put on West of Memphis and I had to cover my eyes during the intro. I couldn”t see the murdered boys, but when I heard “mutilated their genitalia,” I started to cry and stopped the movie. It took a full episode of Real Housewives of New York just to get that thought out of my head.
Trayvon Martin was assassinated by a racist Charles Bronson. That’s a cool action movie. To get into the part where most young blacks are killed by young blacks is depressing and that doesn”t sell papers. If it bleeds, it leads but if it bleeds too much, the paper disintegrates in your hand and you can”t read it. Neil deGrasse Tyson loves to whine about the racist odds he overcame to become a scientist. The real narrative should be the unified family that raised him and the horrible future most children of single mothers are faced with. The narrative he’s chosen is like a cool, black version of Bad News Bears. The truth is more tedious than being audited. We”d rather hear about a Mozilla executive who lost his job for opposing gay marriage. That can be debated in a bar. Hearing about gays being legally executed in Iran can go suck a bag of dicks. I don”t mind talking about fat kids being bullied, but if you change the subject to albinos being ripped apart in Tanzania because they”re believed to have magic blood, I”m outta here.
The New York Times is really just a long form version of the NY Times bestseller list. If they were truly quantitative about it, we”d have Harlequin romances and dragon novels hogging the top ten. That doesn”t sit right with the bourgeoisie so they doctor the rules to keep the sport interesting. Before you throw bricks through their window, however, try it yourself. If you published nothing but what really goes on, you”d go under before the end of the week. We can”t handle the truth.
This innate fear of reality is much more prevalent with the left than the right. “They think we”re evil. We just think they”re wrong,” is how Dennis Prager puts it (though I”m told the quote comes from Charles Krauthammer). The liberals see Benghazi as a huge loss for their team and instead of discussing the details, they bring up horrible things “our” team has done, like George W. Bush pretending that Iraq possessed WMDs. Hopelessly liberal comedians such as Rob Delaney go even further and accuse the right of being happy about Benghazi because it’s a win for our side. For the record, liberals, Benghazi is relevant because we”ve been screaming about how dangerous it is to have an administration that’s in cahoots with the media, and the embassy cover-up is a perfect example of this. Yeah? Well, George Brett cheated too! He used pine tar, so “Who gives a fuck about that?! Move the fuck on already, man!”
Look, I know it’s sports. I”m only a bit less guilty than the rest of the drunk fans at the partisan tailgate party. Don”t beat yourself up for not being able to look at photographs of genitally mutilated children. It’s all just a game, so continue to Tweet and rant and fight the keyboard battles. Just don”t pretend you”re actually informed. The only ones who really know what’s going on are executed soon after. The Schoeberts understood the truth. So did the victims of Boko Haram. The rest of us are just watching cartoons.
