Geee Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 : On November 22, 1963, two other notable men died, and got relegated to the foot of page 37 — the British authors C. S. Lewis and Aldous Huxley. Lewis endures because of the Narnia books (and films), but there’s a lot more in the back of his wardrobe. In his book The Abolition of Man, he writes of “men without chests” — the chest being “the indispensable liaison” between the head and the gut, between “cerebral man” and “visceral man.” In the chest beat what Lewis calls “the trained emotions.” Without them there is no honor or virtue, but only “intellect” and/or “appetite.” Speaking of appetite, have you played the “Knockout” game yet? Groups of black youths roam the streets looking for a solitary pedestrian, preferably white (hence the alternate name “polar-bearing”) but Asian or Hispanic will do. The trick is to knock him to the ground with a single punch. There’s a virtually limitless supply of targets: In New York, a 78-year-old woman was selected, and went down nice and easy, as near-octogenarian biddies tend to when sucker-punched. But, when you’re really rockin’, you can not only floor the unsuspecting sucker but kill him: That’s what happened to 46-year-old Ralph Santiago of Hoboken, N.J., whose head was slammed into an iron fence, whereupon he slumped to the sidewalk with his neck broken. And anyway the one-punch rule is flexible: In upstate New York, a 13-year-old boy socked 51-year-old Michael Daniels but with insufficient juice to down him. So his buddy threw a bonus punch, and the guy died from cerebral bleeding. Widely available video exists of almost all Knockout incidents, since the really cool thing is to have your buddies film it and upload it to YouTube. And it’s so simple to do in an age when every moronic savage has his own “smart phone.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickydog Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 "Harry Reid...a furtive little rodent...." "Obama and Reid...mere tricksters and deceivers...." Well done, Mark Steyn! He even mentions one of your favorite books, @Valin. I really must read The Abolition of Man. I see I do have it in my book shelf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valin Posted November 23, 2013 Share Posted November 23, 2013 "Harry Reid...a furtive little rodent...." "Obama and Reid...mere tricksters and deceivers...." Well, Mark Steyn! He even mentions one of your favorite books, @Valin. I really must read The Abolition of Man. I see I do have it in my book shelf. Do yourself a favor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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