A former FBI profiler and MSNBC commentator Clint Van Zandt shows us many of the prominent red flags in the career of the Ft. Hood mass murderer. In hindsight it seems bizarre he was enabled to operate as he did, for example, on one or more occasions telling a soldier he was ministering to, "Islam can safe your soul."
Um, here's my explanation. It's more than political correctness, though that plays a large part. It's the desire to avoid being seen as "judgmental." But even that's not adequate, though Theodore Dalrymple has written a very good book on the topic.
Westerners are "Eloi," or sheeple, as Michael Savage rightly calls many. Lawrence Auster (LA) describes the Eloi:
Here is a link to two liberal Huffington Post writers quoting conservatives who are seeing the light. I feel like Ben Franklin reading a book attacking deism but being persuaded by quotations provided of the deists designed to be attacked.
Um, here's my explanation. It's more than political correctness, though that plays a large part. It's the desire to avoid being seen as "judgmental." But even that's not adequate, though Theodore Dalrymple has written a very good book on the topic.
Westerners are "Eloi," or sheeple, as Michael Savage rightly calls many. Lawrence Auster (LA) describes the Eloi:
As white America has progressively lost its belief in God, in objective truth and morality, in law, in nationhood and in race, whites have acquired an increasingly bland, complacent, pacific aspect. This seems to be true not only in the United States but in the white West as a whole. One is especially struck by this enervated quality in contemporary whites when observing them at their leisure, on Sundays, or on their innumerable vacations, or when they are shopping. In the all-white or predominantly white pockets of society, the environment is orderly and peaceful and aesthetically attractive, but something vital is missing....Whites seem have lost the energy, confidence and leadership qualities that once created a civilization.Der Untergang des Abendlandes by Oswald Spengler comes immediately to mind.
Here is a link to two liberal Huffington Post writers quoting conservatives who are seeing the light. I feel like Ben Franklin reading a book attacking deism but being persuaded by quotations provided of the deists designed to be attacked.
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