Phoney Soldier PR Stunt shuts up no one.
I already responded to this in another thread:
My response to 'Joey Vicente':
We're living in a polluted environment where the uber-rich falsify and
manipulate every story in the media, for the purpose of social engineering;
and more specifically, to dumb us down and prevent us from organizing
intelligent opposition to their misguided society terraforming.
My definition of 'hero' is not irrelevant, but it is being eroded and erased,
by a cowardly cabal of hidden unelected rich bankster families, as part of
a program to discourage heroism or indeed commitment to any cause
not sponsored or profitable to market manipulators.
If someone who carries out a mundane, essentially risk-free task like
writing a letter is a hero, then everyone is a 'hero' and the word 'hero'
is lexically empty.
But in the real world of ideas, 'hero', however controversial,
is not lexically empty at all, but a lively and powerful concept that inspires
people to change the world and make it a better place.
Hailing manufactured media celebrities as "heroes" results in trivializing
the word 'hero', and cheats real heroes of the honour and respect they deserve.
Originally a knighthood was awarded for bravery in battle,
but now it is simply bought by wealthy fruitcakes like Elton John and Mick Jagger.
Originally 'rape' meant forced sexual intercourse, but now it can mean
anything from sleeping with a drunken slut to brushing against someone
in a crowded subway.
Originally the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to people for acts of
outstanding peacemaking or humanitary advancement in many fields;
now it is openly handed to warmongers and shallow politicians,
who routinely assign thousands of people to poverty,
torture and death as collateral damage.
My political position can't be compared to 'bigots of the civil rights era',
because I am well educated and fully informed of modern political ideology,
and also aware of a vast storehouse of history and its political and
ethical analysis.
My beliefs about 'heroism' and sexual behaviour are not formed from
ignorance, or youthful inexperience, or a narrow, inherited cultural set
of unexamined customs. Over 40 years of open-minded and careful
weighing of data, opinion, and the consideration of the findings of
other investigators have brought me to hold many key values as
near-universal or at least near-essential for a viable, sustainable
long-term community that maximizes peace and opportunity for all.
Standing up for human values and ethical principles that are not only fair,
but designed to produce transparency and cooperative self-government,
is not an exercise in bigotry. Rather the opposite would be an exercise
in resignation, skepticism, and hopelessness. The world needs work,
but the world is worth maintaining and repairing, and we can always
do better and improve our collective lot.
I don't doubt that "Caitlyn" Jenner is 'finding her comfort zone',
and getting very rich doing it, but she's no "hero" in any sane and
sensible definition of that word.
Would you say that a lab technician who runs the 119,292nd iteration
of the blood test that leads to a cancer cure is a hero? Even if he's a
wife-beater who stumbled to work drunk and actually turned on the
equipment accidentally?
How about a pedophile who pulls a child out of a fire he himself started,
only to sodomize the child in the woods?
Maybe you think that a victim of mild bullying in a hockey game is a hero,
when they report it to the coach. Perhaps they are, in some very limited
sense we use for children.
Are all whistle-blowers heroes?, even if they endanger the lives of
spy operatives, or do it for revenge over a personal petty grievance?
Perhaps you think so, but if you do I'd say your own misuse of language
has impoverished not only your ability to communicate, but your ability to think.
You capitalize on the 'hero' concept when you pose as a
'war veteran/soldier'. Maybe you are, or maybe you're just an internet warrior,
or maybe you're just a PR firm hired to spin the Jenner story.
Thats not my concern, except to point out the possibility.
The point is, you're playing the 'veteran card' even while
destroying the meaning of 'hero'. Don't you find that ironic?
Yes I am free to voice my opinion, and in my view its an obligation
in a democracy where informed fact and opinion can affect the quality
of our lives.
There's a big difference between unfortunate medical conditions,
and 'right' to behave stupidly. And those calls are best handled
by experts like doctors in a private setting in most cases.
