{"id":1358,"date":"2015-04-13T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-13T11:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/04\/isis-as-postmodern-nazis.html"},"modified":"2015-04-13T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-13T11:53:00","slug":"isis-as-postmodern-nazis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2015\/04\/isis-as-postmodern-nazis.html","title":{"rendered":"ISIS as postmodern Nazis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

It looks like, once again, ISIS has destroyed a priceless set piece from the past that can never be duplicated<\/a>. \u00a0A growing trend. \u00a0 As my boys watched this, they made an interesting observation. \u00a0They said ISIS is the Nazi party of the postmodern era. \u00a0Here\u2019s what they meant.<\/p>\n

They said if the Nazis were ISIS, when they captured Paris the first thing the Nazis would have done would have been destroy the Eiffel Tower and burn down the Louvre. \u00a0But they didn\u2019t. \u00a0For all their legendary evil, they were evil within a world in which there were still universal assumptions. \u00a0When Hitler visited Napoleon\u2019s tomb, he didn\u2019t whip it out and piss all over it. \u00a0He showed it respect. \u00a0Even admiration.<\/p>\n

The Nazis understood the worth of art and culture and the past. \u00a0Sure, they looted a crap ton of it. \u00a0But they also kept a crap ton. \u00a0Building on it and celebrating that which was valuable that now belonged to them. \u00a0That\u2019s because there was a time when you didn\u2019t have to like something to see its worth. \u00a0You didn\u2019t have to like cubism to understand the worth of a Picasso. \u00a0You didn\u2019t have to love classical music to appreciate Beethoven or Mozart. \u00a0You didn\u2019t have to like Bogart to accept him as one awesomely cool actor. \u00a0There were simply things in the world that assumed. \u00a0You assumed a common mindset, even if all other things were up for grabs. \u00a0Things bigger than us that we couldn\u2019t deny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The Patron Saint of postmodern thinking<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Fast forward to the postmodern world of the Internet. \u00a0The world my boys are growing up with. \u00a0 Nothing is real and truth can get hung about it. \u00a0Much of the Internet is filled with people flipping the bird to anything and everything. \u00a0Who says this is good and that isn\u2019t? \u00a0Maybe The Godfather sucks, but Phantom Menace rocks. \u00a0Harry Potter? \u00a0 As good as holy writ. \u00a0 Shakespeare? \u00a0 Loser. <\/p>\n

And it goes on. \u00a0The US? \u00a0Evil. \u00a0Stupid. Parties? \u00a0For losers. \u00a0Maybe \u00a0the Enlightenment sucked. \u00a0Plato? \u00a0Aristotle? \u00a0Socrates? \u00a0Morons. \u00a0I owe nothing to anyone except my carefully hand crafted demographic of like thinking awesome hipsters. <\/p>\n

And if disregard for accepted ideas and contributors is the name, then inconsistency is the game. \u00a0On Mark\u2019s CAEI, Mark is a crusader against abortion, debauchery, blasphemous humor and the movement to crush religious freedom for better sex lives. \u00a0And yet Mark loves, admires and respects Jon Stewart, who according to CNN and other media outlets, in one of our culture\u2019s most admired defenders of abortion, debauchery, blasphemous humor and the movement to crush religious freedom for better sex lives. After all, as postmoderns we owe nothing to anything but our own awesomeness. \u00a0Loving what all should love. \u00a0Hating what all should hate. \u00a0Binding and loosing accordingly. \u00a0And always \u2013 always \u2013 being awesomely right. <\/p>\n

In the day, lines were drawn. \u00a0Those who advocated evil were simply those who advocated evil. \u00a0It didn\u2019t matter that Hitler loved animals. \u00a0Great. \u00a0But his evils and being wrong far outweighed the good. And even if the US wasn\u2019t perfect, the focus was on Hitler as the evil despite his love for animals. \u00a0Because Americans, and many others, believed that what America brought to the table was better than what the Nazis brought. \u00a0And loyalty to those ideals meat that we stood together as Americans against a greater evil. \u00a0Consistency. \u00a0Shared values. <\/p>\n

Even though the Nazis did what ISIS and many postmodern don\u2019t, and that\u2019s accept certain common ideals and assumptions. Which is also a problem I have with Pope Francis, who seems to be loved by those same bloggers who have no problem saying that more people get killed by lightening than terrorist attacks. \u00a0What they mean, of course, is that as long as the terrorists kill some other dumb American, it\u2019s a sacrifice I can handle. \u00a0I owe nothing to America, Americans, or anything unless I personally say it\u2019s awesome. \u00a0It\u2019s me and my hand crafted demographic. <\/p>\n

So when Pope Francis dismisses this or that tradition just because it\u2019s not Dogma, what do we care? \u00a0People are offended? \u00a0Screw them. \u00a0People don\u2019t like it? \u00a0Who cares? \u00a0It\u2019s not important right? \u00a0I mean, even postmoderns agree the Nazis were evil or that ISIS is bad. \u00a0The irony, however, is that increasingly ISIS is merely adding one thing to the layers of evil witnessed decades ago. \u00a0A new layer that our postmodern world not only engages in, but increasingly celebrates as long as it doesn\u2019t impact me. <\/p>\n

I have to say, it was a true observation.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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