...born with the gift of laughter and a sense that the world was mad

 The “mean” meme: I’m sure you’re aware of it, since it’s become epidemic.  In Canada it sounds like this:

·         Those neocons who severed brake lines and wrote insulting graffiti on Stephen Harper’s orders ARE SO MEAN.

·         That Stephen Harper, with his hidden neocon agenda IS SO MEAN.

·         Isn’t it MEAN that Stephen Harper, that MEAN neocon, is so completely lacking in empathy for the average Joe/Josephine who’s about to lose his/her home because of the financial meltdown.

·         That MEAN Stephen Harper—he doesn’t care at all about the environment.

·         Why won’t the Tories “repatriate” poor Omar Khadr? They’re so MEAN.

·        It’s so MEAN of those Conservatives to harp on Stephane Dion’s difficulties speaking the English language. It isn’t his first language, you know, and he’s doing the best he can.

·         MEAN Stephen Harper, taking money out of the mouths of starving artists.

In the U.S. it sounds like this:

·         There go those MEAN neocons again, trying to make our Bambi look bad just because of his close association with Rev. Wright/Bill Ayers/ACORN/Rashid Khalidi/that Black Muslim supremacist etc., etc., etc. Boy, are those MEAN neocons ever MEAN (know what I mean?).

The flipside of all this, of course, is that those on the Left are “nice”. Really nice. So “nice” that they would gladly allow in a “little bit” of sharia, if it makes people happy. So “nice” that they are willing to jettison free speech, if it means sparing people from “hurt” feelings.  The price of “nice” is  abject submission (a.k.a dhimmitude)—a price that, go figure, only the blue meanies here and abroad refuse to pay. Therefore, it is a given that Western civ. depends on the “mean”: The “nice” can lead us only to perdition.

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