Mark Steyn on The Post-Postmodern 9/11 Contextualization Frenzy

Mark was born in Belgium and that alone explains how he understands a post-postmodern mentality. In the Nati0onal Review, he shows how living in Australia, then Canada, and finally New Hampshire has given him the most "diverse" POV possible. The whole article is rife with the insanity promulgated by NPR, PBS, "artistes" and bien-pensant victims of their own chronic serial brainfarts. Here is a small sample, but read the entire piece entitled "Let's Roll Over":

We retreat to equivocation, cultural self-loathing, and utterly fraudulent misrepresentation of 9/11.

Waiting to be interviewed on the radio the other day, I found myself on hold listening to a public-service message exhorting listeners to go to 911day.org and tell their fellow citizens how they would be observing the tenth anniversary of the, ah, “tragic events.” There followed a sound bite of a lady explaining that she would be paying tribute by going and cleaning up an area of the beach.

Great! Who could object to that? Anything else? Well, another lady pledged that she “will continue to discuss anti-bullying tactics with my grandson.”

Marvelous. Because studies show that many middle-school bullies graduate to hijacking passenger jets and flying them into tall buildings?
Whoa, ease up on the old judgmentalism there, pal. In New Jersey, many of whose residents were among the dead, middle-schoolers will mark the anniversary with a special 9/11 curriculum that will “analyze diversity and prejudice in U.S. history.” And, if the “9/11 Peace Story Quilt” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art teaches us anything, it’s that the “tragic events” only underline the “importance of respect.” And “understanding.” As one of the quilt panels puts it:

You should never feel left out

You are a piece of a puzzle

And without you

The whole picture can’t be seen

.

And if that message of “healing and unity” doesn’t sum up what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, what does? A painting of a plane flying into a building? A sculpture of bodies falling from a skyscraper? Oh, don’t be so drearily literal. “It is still too soon,” says Midori Yashimoto, director of the New Jersey City University Visual Arts Gallery, whose exhibition “Afterwards & Forward” is intended to “promote dialogue, deeper reflection, meditation, and contextualization.” So, instead of planes and skyscrapers, it has Yoko Ono’s “Wish Tree,” on which you can hang little tags with your ideas for world peace.

Mark sets us up for a condemnation of the nanny or is it ninny who masquerades in a transvestite mode as Mayor of NYC. The egregious Bloomberg has made the ultimate fool of himself, though you won't know that by listening to girly-men like Fareed Zakaria and even that doughty isolationist Pat Buchanan, who really don't know what IS missing from the ten-year anniversary:

What’s missing from these commemorations?
Firemen?

Oh, please. There are some pieces of the puzzle we have to leave out. As Mayor Bloomberg’s office has patiently explained, there’s “not enough room” at the official Ground Zero commemoration to accommodate any firemen. “Which is kind of weird,” wrote the Canadian blogger Kathy Shaidle, “since 343 of them managed to fit into the exact same space ten years ago.” On a day when all the fancypants money-no-object federal acronyms comprehensively failed — CIA, FBI, FAA, INS — the only bit of government that worked was the low-level unglamorous municipal government represented by the Fire Department of New York. When they arrived at the World Trade Center the air was thick with falling bodies — ordinary men and women trapped on high floors above where the planes had hit, who chose to spend their last seconds in one last gulp of open air rather than die in an inferno of jet fuel. Far “too soon” for any of that at New Jersey City University, but perhaps you could reenact the moment by filling out a peace tag for Yoko Ono’s “Wish Tree” and then letting it flutter to the ground.

Upon arrival at the foot of the towers, two firemen were hit by falling bodies. “There is no other way to put it,” one of their colleagues explained. “They exploded.”

Any room for that on the Metropolitan Museum’s “Peace Quilt”? Sadly not. We’re all out of squares.

What else is missing from these commemorations?

“Let’s Roll”?

This quote is from a Mr. Beamer who led the charge to the cockpit of Flight 93 to prevent the aircraft from crashing into either the US Capitol Bldg or the White House, and demonstrated that America still has REAL MALE GONADS among the sissified old biddies teaching their grandchildren anti-bullying happy horseshit. Mark answers his own question with the irony that is the only reaction to the vapid silliness that the NPRs of the Anglo-Saxon world are subsidized by cowards and LGBTs to propagate.

What’s that — a quilting technique?

No, what’s missing from these commemorations is more Muslims. The other day I bumped into an old BBC pal who’s flying in for the anniversary to file a dispatch on why you see fewer women on the streets of New York wearing niqabs and burqas than you do on the streets of London. She thought this was a telling indictment of the post-9/11 climate of “Islamophobia.” I pointed out that, due to basic differences in immigration sources, there are far fewer Muslims in New York than in London. It would be like me flying into Stratford-on-Avon and reporting on the lack of Hispanics. But the suits had already approved the trip, so she was in no mood to call it off.

Of course, anyone who follows the BBC, which has completely morphed since I used to listen to it broadcasting from Cyprus forty years ago when I lived in Beirut. Back then, it was the only voice of sanity in a region full of whack-jobs. Now the BBC has morphed into a menagerie of moronic mindlessness---suitable for a nation like the UK which cannot stop Muslims from rioting and taking over whole parts of the capitol city of London, which mindless pussy-behavior will probably NOT prevent Old London Towne from being viciously attacked by Islamic goons, thugs and murderous morons much like America is being attacked by SEIU foreign-born union members attacking REAL Americans for standing by their constitutional rights.

Here are some more examples of the arrant stupidity of people in Canada, Australia [the Land of Oz is full of flying monkeys, mostly sitting on court benches as judges], and other "allies" who fear being mean to Muslims:

How are America’s allies remembering the real victims of 9/11? “Muslim Canucks Deal with Stereotypes Ten Years After 9/11,” reports CTV in Canada. And it’s a short step from stereotyping to criminalizing. “How the Fear of Being Criminalized Has Forced Muslims into Silence,” reports the Guardian in Britain. In Australia, a Muslim terrorism suspect was so fearful of being criminalized and stereotyped in the post-9/11 epidemic of paranoia that he pulled a Browning pistol out of his pants and hit Sgt. Adam Wolsey of the Sydney constabulary. Fortunately, Judge Leonie Flannery acquitted him of shooting with intent to harm on the grounds that “‘anti-Muslim sentiment’ made him fear for his safety,” as Sydney’s Daily Telegraph reported on Friday. That’s such a heartwarming story for this 9/11 anniversary they should add an extra panel to the peace quilt, perhaps showing a terror suspect opening fire on a judge as she’s pronouncing him not guilty and then shrugging off the light shoulder wound as a useful exercise in healing and unity.

Judge Flannery might just be another Irish drunk [I'm Irish, so I know the type] whose judgment has been fatally impaired by all sorts of liquid or pharmaceutical swallowings. But let's get back to real heroes [Todd Beamer] and really craven cowardly half-witted imbeciles [Mayor Bloomberg]:

What of the 23rd Psalm? It was recited by Flight 93 passenger Todd Beamer and the telephone operator Lisa Jefferson in the final moments of his life before he cried, “Let’s roll!” and rushed the hijackers.
No, sorry. Aside from firemen, Mayor Bloomberg’s official commemoration hasn’t got any room for clergy, either, what with all the Executive Deputy Assistant Directors of Healing and Outreach who’ll be there. One reason why there’s so little room at Ground Zero is because it’s still a building site. As I write in my new book, 9/11 was something America’s enemies did to us; the ten-year hole is something we did to ourselves — and in its way, the interminable bureaucratic sloth is surely as eloquent as anything Nanny Bloomberg will say in his remarks.

In Shanksville, Pa., the zoning and permitting processes are presumably less arthritic than in Lower Manhattan, but the Flight 93 memorial has still not been completed. There were objections to the proposed “Crescent of Embrace” on the grounds that it looked like an Islamic crescent pointing towards Mecca. The defense of its designers was that, au contraire, it’s just the usual touchy-feely huggy-weepy pansy-wimpy multiculti effete healing diversity mush. It doesn’t really matter which of these interpretations is correct, since neither of them has anything to do with what the passengers of Flight 93 actually did a decade ago. 9/11 was both Pearl Harbor and the Doolittle Raid rolled into one, and the fourth flight was the only good news of the day, when citizen volunteers formed themselves into an ad hoc militia and denied Osama bin Laden what might have been his most spectacular victory. A few brave individuals figured out what was going on and pushed back within half an hour. But we can’t memorialize their sacrifice within a decade. And when the architect gets the memorial brief, he naturally assumes that there’s been a typing error and that “Let’s roll!” should really be “Let’s roll over!”

Sometimes it takes a foreigner to judge a culture best---the guy from Belgium/Australia/'Canada can now sit in N.H. and see us for what we have become---a nation with an armed forces that refuses to admit that a Major Mohammed in Fort Bliss wasn't an Islamic firebrand, but only felt left out because nobody, like Priya's pitiful Indian brother on The Big Bang Theory, would date this pitiful pile of stinking moral toxic sewage. Mark Steyn is the antidote to stinking piles of toxic waste like Fareed Zakaria or Chriastiane Amanpour, who hate America because it is great and strong and they come from cultures full of moral lepers......
Mark ends up with a coda castigating the bureaucratic lassitude and litigious lunacy that makes America into a dying flame, despite the Todd Beamers and millions of REAL AMERICANS in this country worthy of our respect. Mark talks some final smack about the pussy-brained fraudulent public office-holders who shrink from representing America as the most dynamic and influential culture in the last two-hundred years----no matter what Euroweenies have been whining about endlessly in their feminized loo-zer mentality:

And so we commemorate an act of war as a “tragic event,” and we retreat to equivocation, cultural self-loathing, and utterly fraudulent misrepresentation about the events of the day. In the weeks after 9/11, Americans were enjoined to ask, “Why do they hate us?” A better question is: “Why do they despise us?” And the quickest way to figure out the answer is to visit the Peace Quilt and the Wish Tree, the Crescent of Embrace and the Hole of Bureaucratic Inertia.