Friday, April 18, 2008

Godwin's Law: I call bulls***

Godwin's Law is the informal combox protocol stating that the first person to call another a Nazi automatically loses the argument.

Faced with a culture
where a Yale "art student" can claim to have inseminated herself and then taken herbal abortifacients so she might smear the menstrual blood and any "products of conception" all over a cube, upon which she intended to project video of herself "miscarrying" into a cup . . . I call bulls*** on Godwin's Law.

If you can't call that evidence of a Nazilike disregard for humanity and the sanctity of human life, then you are left with no words at all to describe the horror afoot in this "culture." In fact, "Nazi" only begins to cover the degree of evil to which Yale's malevolent maven of murder art and her ilk have handed themselves over.

And whether what Aliza Shvarts, Class of '08, has committed is "merely" astoundingly sick "performance art" or, instead, some monstrous neo-Seinfeldian display of "murder about nothing," what we now face is a historical replay of the point at which Weimar debauchery and decadence intersected with the Nazi death cult. All that is required now is some appeal to the greater good beyond the freedom to rut with impunity.

Then again, for all the Aliza Shvartses of the world, I suppose rutting with impunity would be reason aplenty.

AND THERE ARE other Aliza Shvartses out there, though not all have her proclivity for blood-soaked "artistry." Take this comment left for the "Devil and Woman at Yale" post. I won't post it there, but I will put it here for all the world to behold -- and with the expletive partially deleted:

Who gives a s***? At 2 days old it's a bundle of cells and nothing more.

Get over your insane notions of the sanctity of life and you'll be much happier and far less bitchy.

(Anonymous) 4:06 PM

ALIZA SHVARTS' stated purpose of highlighting ambiguity and constructing an "artwork" entirely out of uncertainty is nothing more than a postmodern, mumbo-jumbo recasting of Pontius Pilate's "What is truth?" Likewise, mindless, callous and death-dealing comments such as the one above is just another contemporary echo of a sad and ancient tale.

Ancient Israelite idol-worshippers offered up their children to Moloch. Aztec priests cut the hearts out of virgins to appease their blood-thirsty gods. The Turks killed a million Armenians. Josef Stalin starved between 6 million and 7 million Ukrainians. Pol Pot slaughtered millions of Cambodians in the 1970s.

And we all know what Adolf Hitler did.

Obviously, none of these genocides were marked by "insane notions of the sanctity of life."

I wonder whether Stalin, Hitler and Pol Pot were "much happier and far less bitchy."

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I think you ate the bait. This chick wanted attention, and you gave it to her, polluting your blog with awful things in the process.

We ought not be baited by these attention seekers.

The Mighty Favog said...

Yeah, she wanted attention. Not giving it to her is one option.

Then again, this spoiled little brat has given herself over to evil incarnate, and she and her fellow travelers have been polluting our culture for decades.

And real or not, Aliza Shvarts' "art" crosses a line and, at the same time, is so blatant in its misanthopy that it "rends the veil," so to speak -- exposing the true "artist" at work here.

When the evil we face is so clear, we have no option but to oppose it with everything at our disposal. Pretending that what just went down didn't is not going to make it -- or Aliza Shvarts -- go away.

Sometimes, sunlight truly is the best disinfectant. And a lot of Ms. Shvarts' defenders, who put so much into their image as "tolerant progressives," just can't help but drop the facade and show their true hateful, intolerant colors to the world when some of us do something as simple as behold abject evil for what it is and call it by its rightful name.

The Christian's job -- as Flannery O'Connor pointed out -- isn't to be "nice." Nice has gotten us into the fix we're in.

Our job is to proclaim the truth. And if the world can't deal with that, that's ultimately not our problem.