“A Christmas Story”

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It’s the Midwest, sometime in the 1940s, and Ralphie wants a Red Ryder air rifle for Christmas… You’ve probably seen this classic film rendition of Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story.

So of course they remake it, with PC and Diversity slopping over the rim, and show it on TV the other night, and it bombs (http://www.abcgifs.com/a-christmas-story-live-the-worst-musical-ever-on-tv/).

But liberals never learn from experience, and anyway they kind of like failure: so now they’re going to remake Moby Dick. An unreliable source has given us the inside dope. And I do mean dope.

In this updated Diversity version of the Herman Melville classic, the good ship Pequod sails around gathering urgent data on Climbit Change. Led by Captain Gayhab, the crew consists of women of color, disabled persons in wheelchairs, a few transgender types, and at least one representative of every nation and culture on the earth. Of necessity, the ship is rather large.

Instead of hunting the White Whale, Captain Gayhab and his Diverse crew are hunted by the White Privilege Whale who’s trying to stop the global effort to reverse Climbit Change so that everybody in the world dies and Donald Trump makes a big profit–which, with everybody else dead, he’ll be hard-put to spend.

Oh–and it’s a musical.

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You know I say, “Kill the culture, and it will kill you back.” Well, it’s no longer just a figure of speech.

Have you heard of “the Hot Water Challenge”? I only heard of it this morning, on the radio. It consists of pouring boiling water on yourself, or sticking your hand in it, or trying to drink it (http://www.msn.com/en-us/health/healthtrending/kids-are-trying-something-called-the-hot-water-challenge-at-least-1-has-died/ar-AApM9uk?OCID=ansmsnnews11). A little girl who took a dare to drink boiling water has died, and others have been seriously injured. The children involved are young–aged 8, 10, 11, etc.

The children say they were inspired by youtube videos. Believe it. As I write this, there are still quite a few “Hot Water Challenge” videos on youtube. No, I’m not going to link to any. I did watch one: some jidrool, seemingly in his early 20s, poured a bucket of boiling water over himself… with totally predictable results. Another video bore the title, “I just cooked my hand.”

Uh, like, maybe these videos should be taken off the site? Or would that be some kind of social injustice?

Who can explain this? Granted, kids haven’t lived long enough to learn much, and when left to their own devices, can do so extremely stupid things. Especially when other kids dare them to do it. We laugh at poor Flick, in Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story, who takes a dare to touch his tongue to a frozen metal post–and his tongue freezes to it, and the fire department has to come to rescue him. But kids will do even dumber things than that.

The lesson taught by public school is that your age-group peers are the most important people in your life, and you’ll do just about anything to impress them, fit in with them, or win their approval. That lesson is powerfully reinforced by our popular culture, and made deadly by a child’s natural ignorance or disregard of consequences.

The only way to counter this is to make the child’s family, and God as Lord over all, more important to him than the other kids. So that if he does try something stupid, at least it won’t be disastrously or even fatally stupid.

But overcoming this aspect of our culture won’t be easy. And you can’t just keep them in a 24/7 supervised bubble all throughout their childhood: because if you do, when they finally grow old enough to break out of it, they will be entirely defenseless.