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June 29, 2005
The Superior Wisdom of the Intellectual Elite
Posted by Dave Blount at June 29, 2005 7:02 AM
I'm not interested in 9/11 . . . it's too small, history overwhelms it. The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in 2001, some fanatics killed some Americans, and now some Americans are killing some Iraqis. And in my childhood, some Nazis killed Jews. And now, some Jewish people and some Palestinians are killing each other. Political questions, if you go back thousands of years, are ephemeral, not important. History is the same thing over and over again.
If a plumber said something this shallow, foolish and insanely simplistic, any reasonable person would assume he was mentally retarded. But these aren't the gibberings of a mental defective. They are nuggets of wisdom, cast down from on high by the quintessential New York intellectual, the very embodiment of smirking aren't-I-cute cultural elitism. They are the words of Woody Allen to the German magazine Der Spiegel, as quoted in the New York Post.
I'm glad Allen set me straight. I had thought 9/11 was kind of a big deal. Now I know the 3,000 lives lost can be dismissed with a shrug. No wonder liberals don't think the War on Terror is worth fighting.
Another mistake I made: I thought there was a moral difference between terrorists deliberately killing civilians to sow chaos, and soldiers killing terrorists to defend democracy. I also thought there was a difference between Nazi gassing Jews, and Jews attempting to defend their country.
How unsophisticated of me. As if there really were a distinction between good and evil, right and wrong. There is only chic and unchic. The rest is for the peasants to worry about.
Seen in light of Allen's words of wisdom, the whole philosophy of the liberal elite — the people with almost total control of the mainstream media, as well as academia — begins to make sense. Once you get your head around the idea that they think it's gauche to distinguish between good and evil, the rest of their views have a depraved kind of logic.
I wish I could say these people were idiots. Then I would be able to think better of them.
Thanks to V the K of Caption This! for the tip.
