To: F
Re: What the Hollywood Leftist Likes
Though I can’t claim to be 1/100th the writer Mr. Simon is I think I understand his point. So please allow me to answer your query. To be acknowledged by the Great Unwashed as worthy and wise is more valuable to the likes of Barbara Streisand or Robert Redford than any villa on the C√¥te d’Azur. Any tangible evidence that their lives have more meaning than mere material success is better than sex with Jessica Alba. They know their lives are miserable and rotten, but if they can achieve the Good, then all the crap will be balanced out of the equation.
With Doing Good as their prime directive the question goes a-begging – what is Good? Well, Peace is Good, answers the inner child. Ah, therefore I shall be a Peacemaker, concludes the guilt-burdened Hollywood star. Then all shall know me as worthy and wise. The problem of course is that the only side in this conflict that is biddable by this formulation is the side of civilization and reason. The opposition believes something entirely different. To them the only peace is that between Man and God, or more specifically, Allah. And that peace can only be achieved through abject surrender of Man to Allah. Anyone who isn’t at peace with Allah is an infidel who must be destroyed, and the highest Good is death in battle with them. Like it or not jihadist Islam, unfortunately the most dynamic and compelling form of that religion operating today, is at war with us — us being the cultural descendants of Pericles, Aristotle, Buddha, Marcus Aurelius, Confucius, Loazi, Memonides – in short everybody not to Osama bin Ladin’s liking. So choose your side, Hollywood, you can’t demote one side without promoting the other. Sadly, it seems you already have chosen.
