Seven Ideas You Can Never Discuss on Television - by Jim Goad
1.
ALL MEN ARE NOT CREATED EQUAL.
Equality is a concept which
nearly everyone believes but no one has bothered to prove. The
unassailable notion of blank-slate cognitive and physical equality,
despite all contrary evidence, is the fat stump rooted deep in the
soil from which all the other modern taboo branches sprout. The
sweetest fairy tale ever told is the one where God made everyone
equal. It’s such a wholesomely peaceful notion, people will rip
your head off your neck if you don’t submit completely to it. But
if no two blades of grass are alike, how can any two humans be alike?
If anyone thinks all men are created equal, they’ve obviously never
been in a locker room or attended an interracial calculus class. All
things being equal, there is no such thing as equality.
2.
AT BEST, HUMANS SHARE AN EQUAL POTENTIAL TO BE ASSHOLES.
The
main problem with “humanism” is that it fails to account for
human nature. I look at the world and see a rainbow of people who all
suck in different ways. I’ve met noble souls of all colors and
screaming assholes of every hue. All tribes, nations, and individuals
across this great planet share an equal ability to annoy and
disappoint. Every culture, subculture, and counterculture is blindly
self-justifying, and, when it achieves sufficient strength, it
becomes rapaciously predatory. The best possible world religion, the
only one with an outside chance of ensuring global harmony, would
consist of a basic agreement that we can all be assholes.
3.
IF YOU INSIST ALL HUMANS ARE EQUAL, THEN COUNT THEIR CORPSES
EQUALLY.
We need to hear a little less about the fewer
than 4,000 black American lynching victims and a little more about
the 600,000 or so white peasants who died ostensibly to free them
from slavery. A little less about black American slavery and a little
more about colonial white indentured servitude and convict labor. A
little less about the six million (give or take a few) Jews who
perished in WWII and a little more about the 50-65 million other
people killed in that war. A little less about white colonialism and
a little more about the Mongols, the Moors, and Hannibal. For the
sake of balance, let’s see some TV movies about communism’s
100-million-plus pile of cadavers. Let’s see some documentaries
about slavery’s historical ubiquity and its persistence in Africa
today. Let’s entirely ditch the concept that some dead bodies are
more equal than others.
4.
THE ENTIRE “JEW” THING HAS BECOME RIDICULOUS.
“Anti-Semitism”
is a term used to describe some inexplicable mystery virus that,
against all odds, has infected the hearts of nearly every ethnic
group that has ever encountered Jews everywhere on Earth throughout
history. Although many modern Jews aren’t technically Semites, you
can be labeled anti-Semitic merely for stating this fact. I suppose
it’s also anti-Semitic to point out that ancient Hebrews were
pioneers in the art of genocide.
Experts on “racism,” who tend to be disproportionately Jewish,
blabber freely about “white privilege” and white
over-representation in the corridors of power and finance, but to
suggest that something such as “Jewish privilege” exists in even
more absurdly disproportionate numbers is to risk permanent
banishment from the discussion table. People routinely get fired by
powerful Jews for suggesting that Jews have too much power, whereas
you get a promotion for suggesting that WASPs are over-privileged.
And do we dare mention the innate cosmic racism underlying the whole
“God’s chosen people” thing?
5.
ISLAM IS STUPID TO THE CORE.
For
a moment, blot from your mind all the prehistoric fatwas, inbreeding,
beheading, clit-slicing, stoning, and fag-bashing. Forget that
Muhammad was a pedophile. Dismiss the idea that Islam is far more
guilty of every fascistically intolerant cultural iniquity for which
the “Christian right” usually gets hammered. Don’t think about
the fact that the Arab slave trade in Africa predated and dwarfed
Europe’s slave trade. I hope you never learn that Muslims captured
and enslaved at least a million white Europeans, because it might
subvert your internal narrative. Don’t think for a minute about the
fact that the literal translation of the word Islam—”submission”—runs
counter to every Western notion of freedom and individuality. Don’t
even think about all the contradictions in
a book deemed so holy, you can get killed for sneezing near it. No,
flush all that from your consciousness and ponder for a moment that a
quarter or more of the Earth’s population actually believes in a
supreme being who’s so insecure and dependent upon your approval,
he throws baby tantrums if you don’t submit. There is no
conceivable intellectual defense of a religion founded on such a
stupid premise. Quit making false distinctions between “extreme”
and “moderate” Islam—it’s all retarded.
6.
WOMEN AREN’T TOTALLY INNOCENT AND HELPLESS.
Although
there isn’t a person alive who hasn’t met a despicable woman, it
remains heretical to imply that women may possibly be human beings,
and as such, they may be capable of acting with willful malice toward
others. Despite the fact that nearly every sociological study of
family violence ever conducted has concluded that women hit men at
least as frequently as the inverse, “domestic violence” is still
viewed as an exclusively male-on-female phenomenon. But who needs
muscles when you have WMDs such as societal prejudice and the law
squarely on your side? In her book When
She Was Bad, author
Patricia Pearson argued that until puberty, boys and girls both
express aggression physically. Around age 12 women turn to more
sophisticated tactics for intentionally inflicting harm: gossip,
shaming, and false accusations. It’s like on Seinfeld where
Elaine explains that instead of giving one another wedgies, girls
tease each other until they develop eating disorders. False
rape charges,
as well as phony claims of domestic abuse and sexual harassment, have
become commonplace. The double standard is so lopsided, female
spousal abusers are even permitted to become Secretary
of State without
it ever becoming an issue in their vetting process.
7.
THINGS MAY NEVER GET BETTER.
Egalitarianism is merely another
shortsighted and unworkable utopian scheme—not the first, but it
may be the last. Advertisers aren’t banking on the idea that the
world may fall apart soon, so you don’t get much doomsday
prophesying on television. Despite overpopulation, peak oil,
collapsing financial systems, environmental catastrophes, and deeply
frayed cultural moorings, most people still operate under the
dimwitted assumption that untold billions of collectivized humans is
a sustainable project and that humanity will one day come galloping
in on a white pony to rescue itself from itself. Both the “left”
and the “right” pretend they have the answer, but they are mere
flippers on the same thalidomide baby, and the truth is that neither
side has a clue. But you won’t hear that on television, because it
might lead you to turn off the boob tube and start living while you
still have time.
(Source: takimag.com)