Horatius
NWO Kitty Wrangler
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Most of us who participate in these forums regard the twoofers with undisguised contempt. How could such fools pose a serious threat? (How could beer-swilling brawlers have hideously disfigured the culture that produced Goethe and Beethoven?) They are so staggeringly ignorant, so mouth-breathing, drooling-moron obtuse, so granite-skulled impervious to reason: they are, in a word, barbarians. Except, they lack a barbarian's curiosity about more advanced cultures. I'm reminded of the words of Hilaire Belloc: "We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond; and on these faces there is no smile."
Nominated! A well-written call to arms against the barbarians in our midst! I've felt the same way for quite some time.