Paradox Point

On the Conservative Left     I am moderately confident that peace and sanity can be restored to this country; and where this country was never peaceful or sane, then peace and sanity can be successfully imposed. But at a price.   The price is that the Left must explicitly present itself as the small-c conservative faction. If they’re the radical right, who are all wrong, then let us be the conservative left, who are all that’s left.   Small-c conservative, not big-C; for “Conservatism” is no more conservative than Pravda was pravda. (=‘truth’) The very name that big-C Conservatism chose for itself is a Big Lie, and I say that we should call them out. Emphasize how they consistently favor destruction. Guns? Check. War? Check. Killer cops? Check. Capitol punishment? Check. Violent bigotry? Check. Sedition? Check. Lies and madness? Check. Ecological devastation? Check. Climate chaos? Check.   To be small-c conservative one must wish to conserve....

On Ham-Handed Seussian Cancellation     I’ve looked over these discontinued Seuss books:   And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street McElligot’s Pool On Beyond Zebra If I Ran The Zoo   I don’t have copies of these discontinued books: Scrambled Eggs Super The Cat’s Quizzer - so of course, by the Forbidden Fruit Effect, I want to see them, though I can’t.   Of the ones I have, I think that Random House’s action was ham-handed and insincere. Most of these can be completely repaired with at most some minor edits. Here are the alleged offenses:   And To Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street   There’s a fat jolly Rajah riding an elephant. Is that a problem? Rajahs are part of India’s history. Is this sensitivity or cultural erasure?   There’s “A Chinese man eating with sticks”. Again, harmless. Is being offended by a conical hat and chopsticks sensitivity, or is it Western cultural imperialism? Either way...

          Parkland Survivors   Why does the right wing hate the Parkland shooting survivors? Because they survived. Kurt Vonnegut wrote, in “Slaughterhouse-5”: “...there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre...” So for there to be survivors is not according to plan. If witnesses testify, then the massacre failed. The right wing, taking the side of massacre, blames David Hogg and Emma Gonzales for disturbing the peace of the grave.