Thomas McDonald quotes Kareem Abdul-Jabber<\/a> who tried to step in and inject a little sanity into our growing self-righteous rage based insanity. \u00a0He, and others who made the point, were ignored.<\/p>\nRemember that growing up, the Inquisition, witch hunts and McCarthy were roundly condemned by our educational, cultural and media institutions. \u00a0And it was those institutions that kept the knowledge alive as warnings and lessons so that such horrors would never be repeated. Today, however, it\u2019s precisely those institutions that are behind the phenomenon. \u00a0So who will ring the warning bell?<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yes, I\u2019m afraid it\u2019s all the rage. \u00a0McCarthy is the patron saint and witch hunts all the rage as our decaying culture continues its apathetic and lazy denial of the inevitable. \u00a0I don\u2019t think persecution and decline are connected, since such things have happened in the dawn of, or at the peak of, various cultures […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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