Warner Todd Huston
The left turning Western civilization into Alice's Wonderland
By Warner Todd Huston
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see."
— Alice of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Clearly the left are Aliceites. They are aficionados of Alice viewing the world through the looking glass. They want a world of nonsense, a world devoid of meaning so that everything can be molded and morphed at will into anything that appeals to temporary desires. It is called situational ethics, which are, of course, no ethics at all.
Today we have two examples of this, one in America and one in England. We'll focus on England first.
The UK Telegraph is reporting about the new it, the new thing assuming a status of "personhood," a genderless human. That's right the Telegraph is purporting that a British citizen is "officially" a genderless human, neither male nor female.
Norrie May-Welby, we are told, was born a man but had a sex change operation in 1990. For a time this "person" lived as a woman. But now she-he-it has decided that, "The concepts of man or woman don't fit me. The simplest solution is not to have any sex identification."
And so, the Aliceites in British government decided to comply and make May-Welby an "official" person of "no specific gender."
Just as the Brits claimed to have the first man to have a baby back in 2008, now the Brits claim to have the first genderless person. But true to their Aliceite tendencies, neither is true and both "would be what it isn't."
You see, the "first man to have a baby" was never a man — born a woman, period — and the first "genderless person" was born a man and is still despite the cosmetic veneer carved into his flesh.
My second story is in Washington D.C. where President Obama and his minions in Congress are trying to pass a bill that no one has voted for using the so-called process of "deeming" and the "Slaughter rule."
Democrats can't get enough votes for their socialist takeover of America's healthcare system so, instead of applying the centuries old process of campaigning for a law, writing a law, and then seeing that law voted up or down by our duly elected representatives, the Democrats are peering through the looking glass to find the Aliceite way to pass a bill into law without anyone voting at all.
Just like the left in the west is making murderous Islam a protected class, just as it imagines it can create an economy by stifling business, just as these illogical nits imagine that they can destroy all history and make the world new merely by saying so, they've created a world where "nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't."
As the Wall Street Journal says, "We have entered a political wonderland, where the rules are whatever Democrats say they are." But the WSJ is only focused on U.S. politics. A wider view would find that we are all Aliceites now.
© Warner Todd Huston
March 17, 2010
"If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be, it would. You see."
— Alice of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Clearly the left are Aliceites. They are aficionados of Alice viewing the world through the looking glass. They want a world of nonsense, a world devoid of meaning so that everything can be molded and morphed at will into anything that appeals to temporary desires. It is called situational ethics, which are, of course, no ethics at all.
Today we have two examples of this, one in America and one in England. We'll focus on England first.
The UK Telegraph is reporting about the new it, the new thing assuming a status of "personhood," a genderless human. That's right the Telegraph is purporting that a British citizen is "officially" a genderless human, neither male nor female.
Norrie May-Welby, we are told, was born a man but had a sex change operation in 1990. For a time this "person" lived as a woman. But now she-he-it has decided that, "The concepts of man or woman don't fit me. The simplest solution is not to have any sex identification."
And so, the Aliceites in British government decided to comply and make May-Welby an "official" person of "no specific gender."
Just as the Brits claimed to have the first man to have a baby back in 2008, now the Brits claim to have the first genderless person. But true to their Aliceite tendencies, neither is true and both "would be what it isn't."
You see, the "first man to have a baby" was never a man — born a woman, period — and the first "genderless person" was born a man and is still despite the cosmetic veneer carved into his flesh.
My second story is in Washington D.C. where President Obama and his minions in Congress are trying to pass a bill that no one has voted for using the so-called process of "deeming" and the "Slaughter rule."
Democrats can't get enough votes for their socialist takeover of America's healthcare system so, instead of applying the centuries old process of campaigning for a law, writing a law, and then seeing that law voted up or down by our duly elected representatives, the Democrats are peering through the looking glass to find the Aliceite way to pass a bill into law without anyone voting at all.
Just like the left in the west is making murderous Islam a protected class, just as it imagines it can create an economy by stifling business, just as these illogical nits imagine that they can destroy all history and make the world new merely by saying so, they've created a world where "nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't."
As the Wall Street Journal says, "We have entered a political wonderland, where the rules are whatever Democrats say they are." But the WSJ is only focused on U.S. politics. A wider view would find that we are all Aliceites now.
© Warner Todd Huston
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