Descent Into Absurdity
Still staying on the subject of yesterday’s The Spot On Quote Of The Day and today’s Righteous Rant, the NAACP resolution that declares the members of the TEA Party movement to be raaaaacists, a more general point…
Looking at history, one finds that every trend or movement or genre seems to, at some point, reach a level of incoherence — a state of absurdity where all of the elements that made it appealing are lost in an impenetrable fog-bound miasma:
-Jazz began down this path with the advent of Be-Bop and, by the 1960′s, was lost in an orgy of misanthropic self-indulgence, fit only, in the best case scenario, to be used as soundtrack music.
-Classical Music traveled down this same road in the 20th Century and reached a point where the music created sounded like the ravings and ramblings of a madman in a mental asylum.
-Paintings began to look like the end products of various monkeys throwing different colored feces at canvases.
-Rock And Roll appears to be in it’s Miles Davis stage here at the start of the second decade of the 21st Century.
There are many more examples that can be cited in every sector of The Culture [see: the Christian Coalition, the Shakers, Feminism, et. al.].
I put to you that the Black Civil Rights Movement has reached this stage in it’s evolution. The important battles have been won and it seems to be existing (1) for the sake of existing, (2) to enrich it’s leader’s prestige and personal fortunes, and (3) to be one of the instruments of revenge by a group of people who harbor a deep-seated hatred of all non-blacks, especially those groups [like the Jews and Republicans] who provided crucial help in the Movement’s early days, so crucial that the Movement would not have succeeded without them.
Groups like the NAACP are absurd, self-indulgent, mad, and destructive. They have outlived their usefulness and any positive contributions they may have made are but historical relics.
Your last two paragraphs are spot-on. The NAACP no longer has a reason to exist, so it simply creates new and bogus reasons.
Isn’t bogus one of those great words that just sounds like it should? Thanks, Stogie.