A parallel universe

So saith Dorothy Sayers:

"...for the popular mind has grown so confused that it is no longer able to receive any statement of fact except as an expression of personal feeling."

...in 1941!

How much more confused might the popular mind be these days?

I don't think you need look far to see that the popular mind as expressed through the media, arts, culture, politicians etc, is quite beside itself.

Quite beside the seashore in fact...sorry, just a meandering illustration of how my mind, like most others, is truly beside itself, mostly with frustration at what I perceive as a dangerous ignorance regarding the things of this world.

Almost like we are blinded in fact to the obvious...now where does it say something of that nature I wonder?

Trust carefully!

For honest researchers who put their faith in Wikipedia read this: http://www.mercatornet.com/articles/view/wild_and_wacky_wikipedia

Food for thought!

Thomas C Reeves:

As for moral principles, why not just "hook up" with anybody for as long as you feel like it and have as many babies as you want? What's wrong with that?

It is hardly news that Western culture is rapidly embracing secular materialism, a culture in which age-old truths are banished as bigotry and chaos and narcissism abound. The media and the schools are largely responsible. The message that streams into our homes from cables, satellites, antennas, and cell phones declares the joy of doing what feels good, never growing up, owning as much as possible, and declaring the past irrelevant. In schools at all levels political correctness, increasingly enforced by the federal government, preaches "inclusiveness" and "diversity." These are code words for leftist dogmas that seek to foster a society based on colour and sex, and that would banish supernaturalism, destroy the traditional family, dismiss venerable moral standards, and set up a wholly indulgent welfare state.

Given current philosophical/ideological undercurrents and actual policies, who can argue with the above statement?

Distopia.

Is it any wonder that our civilisation is in the process of imploding?

In pop culture, crude sexism, misogyny, homophobia and plain old bad manners are rife.

It is as if the political correctness constricting the surface culture has incubated fetid hatreds underneath, away from the moderating influence of civilised society.

We now have a generation of men brought up with rap music that celebrates violence to women while their own innocent maleness has been treated as a dirty little crime since boyhood.[Miranda Devine]

Are we encouraging the marriage of same sex couples because the different sexes can no longer get along?

Cheeky!

Mr Cool cops it on the cheek:

One loon to another.

Pea in a thimble trick!

The duplicity and mendacity of the current government of Australia:

In GK Chesterton's Father Brown novels the world renowned criminal Flambeau makes a name for himself by forming a successful London dairy company even though he owns no cows, no carts and no milk. Instead, he served his customers by moving the milk bottles outside people's homes to the homes of his customers.

 All very similar to Wayne Swan's crisis budget. Moving money from his year of surplus to his years of non-surplus years before and after. No cows, no milk, no focus on increased production just a bunch of very tricky, very sneaky accounting tricks. Remember their surplus does not pay off the extra $15 billion they will now borrow this year.

Perfect summation!

If this quote doesn't perfectly summarise the Gillard government, then I don't know what does:

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
                                                                      H L Mencken