Let's start with a cultural divide wider than the Grand Canyon-and getting wider all the time. Three things occured over the last 3 days that have flown below the radar but are worth some attention:
- Producer and director Larry David creates a fury with his tasteless scene in his HBO show Curb Your Enthusiasm in which he urinates on a picture of Jesus. This hilarity causes a pair of devout women to break into prayer when they spy the offending liquid on the icon's face, thinking it is the tears of Christ.
- A Democratic fundraising video on an Obama political site depicts an American flag being covered in graffiti to make a case for the President's healthcare debacle.
- A young health club owner incurs the wrath of several members by hanging an American flag inside the facility. His staff is forced to deal with a steady stream of complaints from patrons who calls the gesture political. One woman sniffs that owner Marc Shea might just as well have hung Jesus' cross over the treadmills.
There was a time not too long ago in this country when God and country were considered inviolate. No more. We now live in a nation where scatological humor aimed at the Almighty passes for comedy. Where an American president himself thinks nothing of desecrating the flag for political gain. And where a heartfelt patriotic gesture by a young entrepreneur is interpreted as a threat by self-absorbed Generation Y-ers with no appreciation for 230 years of sacrifice symbolized by that flag.
We live in a country controlled by shallow, narcissistic people like Larry David, Barack Obama and a whole generation that fears Islamic terrorism only because a bio-terror attack might screw up their careers.
And we are doomed.
Just thought you might like to know.
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