I’ve been saying this for, how long?
Many of us — and I blame myself here — have been pushing an idea of unilateral disarmament in this arena, hoping they would just learn how awful and venomous they are.
But they don’t. I think they take a rather different lesson from our passive resistance than the one they intended.
We intended that by passively resisting, they would see us as showing moral courage and would learn from us that ceaseless violence and bullying and collectivized political campaigns run against everyday citizens pursuing no public office are wrong.
But they didn’t learn that.
5 years? Ten?
What do I want? I want a world in which angry mobs do not form up and begin screaming at people or pressuring companies to fire people just to fill their empty, pathetic lives with something shabby and mean they can pretend is grand and noble.
But we’re not in that world. We’re not in that world of Social Peace.
And refusing to acknowledge that we are in a state of Social War does not bring Social Peace any closer; it just encourages the Monster Babies to wage even further war, making more demands, demanding more submissions, concessions, and ritualized confessions.
If you want peace, prepare for war.
You may not be interested in Social War, but the Social Warriors are deeply, deeply interested you, and bringing you to heel, and making you confess that you are indeed a creature with fewer rights and privileges than they possess.
No one’s ever going to put them in a position of authority over others — which is why they desperately need you to accept they have authority over you.
I didn’t particularly want Kathy Griffin fired — but it was necessary.
But even now, Ace is content with her firing. I’m sorry, but that’s not “war”. That’s United Nations sanctioned proportional response.
A worthy counteroffensive would see mobs on the sidewalk outside her home, chanting expletives into the night.
Night, after night, after night, until her ears bled.
Make an example of her that sends the entertainment-media complex racing to install razor wire atop the walls surrounding their multi-million dollar mansions, and then, just maybe…