"We live in a decadent age of totalitarian narcissism."

Mark Steyn writes,

Mark Steyn Club member David Elstrom left a comment here that deserves to be more widely distributed:

Mark,

I notice that the left media and even Fox News talk about the "discussion" on statues, or opine on the "conversation" concerning public monuments.

This Newspeak is apparently supposed to con the plebes into thinking something civil or democratic is happening. All I've seen is politicians or other apparatchiks rushing to remove statues (fearing the wrath of the mob) or actual mobs tearing things down.

If this is discussion, or conversation, then rape must be a "social event," and sticking up the local convenience store a "financial transaction."

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