I'm against censorship even though I'm fully aware that
decadent " entertainment " corrupts the soul. I can't avoid brief
encounters with radio and TV degenerates. I turn on the radio early
in the morning just to catch the latest news. When I get Imus and his
friends, I get the impression of hung over amphetamine addicts in a
sleazy NYC bar who are still babbling idiotically at 5:00 AM. Imus
is the clearly the leader of the pack -who looks like he can claim
Viking ancestry, with an inherited propensity to burn places like
the public library that might inculcate a prejudice against Talk Radio.
The topics arise as if inspired by the fumes of an underground
sewer. This morning a staff member momentarily disappears: " She must
be picking her nose somewhere. " And then there are tabloid stories
to ponder: A man was arrested in a motel while copulating with a farm
animal. Did you know that most men between the ages of 18 and 40 worry
about the size of their penis ?
What is the secret of the Imus guy ? Are we as Judge Bork
puts it " slouching toward Gomorrah " ? Do we loath the very idea of
a natural elite ? We dread being reminded of our own intellectual and
moral inferiority ?
I miss Walter Cronkite. He was not ashamed of being literate.
Why is our culture mass producing JUNK-HEADS ? Where is the former glory
of Western Civilization, the glory that was Greece and Rome ?
Slouching toward Gomorrah, indeed !
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