Actually, I think that the final step after celebration should be, "At last, it means groveling before them in fear."Tolerance once meant you were willing to abide behaviors you found objectionable. Then it came to mean not judging such behaviors at all or, better yet, respecting them. Now, it’s come to mean celebrating them.
Where's Pvt. John Moyse now that we need him?
Clifford D May
It's what I believe has been the West's principal failing in the past fifty years clear across the board in dealing with everything from Multiculturalism to Islam to sexual deviance. Time after time what starts out as a reasonable request for tolerance ends in a demand to kowtow. It's like watching a civilisation giving way to a case of creeping madness or a terminal loss of bottle.
Corbusieresque thought for today:
ReplyDeleteDesign of houses as machines of habitation is treating people as machines of living.