“Be Sober, be watchful.
Your adversary the Devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking
someone to devour. Resist him, firm in
your faith.” (1 Peter 8-9)
Yesterday in my discussion of an essay by Ezekiel Emmanuel supporting
the idea that we should not try to keep people alive beyond 75 years old, I
said:
The more often such
opinions come from such sources, the less unthinkable such opinions become in
the wider world until they eventually become commonplace. We have seen this strategy employed to
perfection in recent years in regard to the redefinition of marriage.
The Successful Game Plan
The Gay Rights movement, in fact, which eventually
brought forth the current Gay Marriage campaign, has been a picture-perfect
example of how to bring about a massive change in public perceptions and
sentiment. The strategy was explicitly
laid out almost three decades ago in 1987, in an article by Marshall Kirk and
Erastes Pill (later expanded into a book) called “The Overhauling Of Straight
America” (entire article here).
Kirk and Pill call for a graduated media campaign to change public opinion,
starting with making homosexuality seem commonplace by talking about it
constantly; then by portraying homosexuals as victims, at which point they can
enlist supporters outside their own circles by appealing to a sense of justice,
and only then seeking to destroy the credibility of any critics by using their
media reach to portray opponents as
ignorant haters, bigots, etc. Anyone who
has been paying attention for the last three decades has seen this strategy
play out precisely as scripted (we are now in the final “destroy the
opposition” phase).
This idea
didn’t start with Kirk and Pill, of course, nor with the Gay Rights
movement. Some might recognize the ideas
of master “community organizer” Saul Alinsky, who in turn was simply putting a
groovy spin on long-standing communist agitprop doctrine - that’s why the
communists were so interested in Hollywood in the thirties and the
forties. Kirk and Pill also saw the
potential of the entertainment industry, but they had a resource that was not
available to Stalin-era agitators: television.
Therefore:
Where we talk is
important. The visual media, film and television, are plainly the most powerful
image-makers in Western civilization. The average American household watches
over seven hours of TV daily. Those hours open up a gateway into the private
world of straights, through which a Trojan horse might be passed. As far as
desensitization is concerned, the medium is the message--of normalcy.
“Desensitization” was necessary before the public would
accept the rest of the gay rights program, and television did in fact prove to
be the perfect medium (feel free explore the links here if you don’t believe that this strategy was employed to
the fullest).
If
it worked for Gay Marriage, why not abortion?
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| Mindy Kaling |
This brings us to the curious case of Mindy Kaling,
as recounted by Brent Bozell [article here].
Mindy, Bozell tells us, “not only stars in her own sitcom on Fox called “The
Mindy Project,” she’s in charge of it.”
Her character on the show is an OB/GYN.
Professional feminist and pro-abortion activist Amanda Marcotte sees Kaling’s show as a ready-made vehicle for the same sort of desensitization that
the Gay Rights people carried out so successfully:
Abortion is actually a
perfect topic for a half-hour comedy because it touches on so many themes that
comedy writers love to mine for the laughs . . . How easy it is, if you let go
of the fear of getting letters from anti-choice nuts, to make some really funny
jokes about abortion.
The
problem for Marcotte is that most people, even those who are generally in favor
of legal abortion, don’t see the humorous potential in the intentional
slaughter of innocent life in the womb.
Kaling herself, who doesn’t appear to be pro-life but does seem to know
her craft, at first politely rejected the idea of using her show “to make some
really funny jokes about abortion”, telling an interviewer: “It would be
demeaning to the topic to talk about it in a half-hour sitcom”. Unfortunately for Mindy, nobody is allowed to
sit on the sidelines for this battle, and the abortion industry and its
cheerleaders turned up the heat. Soon
she was apologizing for her failure to humorously promote abortion on her
program, and has now reached the point where she says she “has faith” that she
will find a “hilarious take on abortion that’s saying something new.” Don’t worry, folks, “The Mindy Project” will
be rolling out its abortion laugh-riot any day now.
This is
not the first recent attempt by the abortionists to follow the gay marriage
media playbook: there was the Abortion
Comedy “Obvious Child”, and creepy “comedienne” Sarah Silverman has been trying
to mine the laugh-potential of abortion for some time. “Obvious Child”, however, was much more popular
with pro-abortion movie critics than it was with the public, so maybe Anthony
Esolen is right [see here]
that the average person’s innate common sense won’t allow too many of them to
be taken in too deeply by the Culture of Death for too long. Maybe . . . but I’m not sure that he isn’t
underestimating the power of people in our fallen state to convince themselves
of just about anything, especially if it means the orgy can continue. Be that as it may, brace yourself: I suspect
we’ll be seeing more and more of the “lighter side” of abortion from the
entertainment media in the future. Be sober and be watchful . . .
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