{"id":4031,"date":"2010-12-22T14:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/12\/haley-barbour-offends-our-button-down-conformist-society.html"},"modified":"2010-12-22T14:01:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-22T14:01:00","slug":"haley-barbour-offends-our-button-down-conformist-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/daffeythoughts\/2010\/12\/haley-barbour-offends-our-button-down-conformist-society.html","title":{"rendered":"Haley Barbour offends our button down conformist society"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Yes, it\u2019s true.\u00a0 All those silly dreams and all of that mindless word drool from the 60s was just that, mindless.\u00a0 It was a lie.\u00a0 A farce.\u00a0 A scam.\u00a0 Fact is, every society has values, narratives, absolute moral standards by which all are judged and to which all must conform.\u00a0 It has its heroes, villains, and narratives. And these are passed on with a zeal that no southern Alabama fundamentalist KJV only preacher could ever match.\u00a0 It becomes the fabric of a nation, the foundational story of a civilization.\u00a0 It is the Truth, the Way, the Dogma.\u00a0 There are no laws, no signs warning you, no real outward admitting of the existence of such an intolerant society.\u00a0 But it\u2019s there. And if you don\u2019t toe the line, if you don\u2019t walk as you are told and talk as you are told, you\u2019ll get it in the throat.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The standards and morals and values and beliefs and narratives and heroes and villains may change.\u00a0 But the demand for absolute conformity and group think never does.\u00a0 Just ask Haley Barbour<\/a>, whose political future is now in question because he failed to sing in harmony with the socially sanctioned melody of our conformist ideals.\u00a0 21st Century America has its gods to be worshiped, its dogmas to be obeyed, its sacred memories to be cherished, and its values to be conformed to.\u00a0 Don\u2019t even think about being some radical whose own life history doesn\u2019t reflect\u00a0the officially sanctioned tale of greatness and evil, or you\u2019ll be tossed in the fire where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.\u00a0 And the ones doing the tossing? Oh, they\u2019re the ones who used to go on about questioning authority, challenging the status quo<\/em>, rebelling against norms and values, and rejecting moral standards and accepted narratives.\u00a0 The difference is, now they have the power. <\/p>\n

How a minority, reaching majority, seizing authority, hates a minority.<\/em> <\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, it\u2019s true.\u00a0 All those silly dreams and all of that mindless word drool from the 60s was just that, mindless.\u00a0 It was a lie.\u00a0 A farce.\u00a0 A scam.\u00a0 Fact is, every society has values, narratives, absolute moral standards by which all are judged and to which all must conform.\u00a0 It has its heroes, villains, […]<\/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-4031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nHaley Barbour offends our button down conformist society<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yes, it's true.  All those silly dreams and all of that mindless word drool from the 60s was just that, mindless.  It was a lie.  A\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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