Notable Quote - John Haywood - Granite Grok

Notable Quote – John Haywood

This commentary on Miley Cyrus’s “performance” on the VMA show caught my eye, with Andrew Brietbart’s words of “politics is downstream of culture” floating in my head (emphasis mine):

…Also, Ms. Loring, I would advise you not to underestimate the importance of the pedophile edge to Miley’s routine.  Sexualizing young people is an important mission of the Left.  They want little girls to jump right from teddy bears to Planned Parenthood.  That helps dissolve the bonds of family, which is a fading bastion of independence and self-reliance against collective power.  It’s important for the “Ozzie and Harriet” crowd to feel utterly marginalized, as unwelcome in 2013 as the pilgrims of Plymouth Rock.  We are supposed to accept that the world has forever moved on from those days.  Parents can’t control their kids – indeed, their influence is expressly unwelcome when it comes to sexual training, where the concept of “parental consent” has become as antique as the pocketwatch or bustle.  Liberal culture defines wanton sexuality and the rejection of family authority as “empowerment.”  It softens people up for hardcore government dependency when they’re forced to stop twerking and face the consequences.

Societies die from thousands of cultural cuts. Children are powerfully influenced by popular culture. They yearn for guidance and inspiration from the adult world. They receive the lesson transmitted by crap like the MTV Video Music Awards. Kids a bit younger than Miley Cyrus remember what she used to be, and they see what she is now. They see the road stretching between those points, and they follow it. Unfortunately, they don’t understand that if you want to live a hedonistic anything-goes lifestyle, starting before you’re legally allowed to purchase alcohol, and avoid being destroyed by the consequences, it really helps to be a millionaire.

– John Hayward, author

And if this is true (and ignoring the call to Conservatives to get involved in the culture), what are our politics to be in the near future?

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