Lew: The coincidental deaths of JFK, Huxley, and Lewis led me to wonder how the media might have had to ration its time for deification had Teddy Kennedy and Michael Jackson died on the same day.
To their credit, some members of the media gave attention to the Chappaquiddick wrongdoing. I suspect that most self-styled “liberals” treated this matter more as a tragedy for Teddy than for Mary Jo, a response that so well characterizes their attitudes toward human beings. To such minds – including the Kennedys – “people” is just an abstraction useful for fostering collectivist ideologies; the suffering or deaths of individuals – like Mary Jo – is just the price such wicked power-seekers are willing to incur, even though they are not the ones who end up paying it. Madeleine Albright’s assertion that the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children were acceptable to her political ambitions was no different from Teddy Kennedy’s primary concern over the effect of Mary Jo’s death upon his political future.
As the sycophants and round-heeled, make-believe “feminists” continue to wail over Teddy’s death, they might ponder whether, like his brothers, karma finally caught up with him. The politicians and the media flacks – who are busily recounting the damages (oops, “societal benefits”) inflicted upon the world by this family, even as they urge enactment of the Obama health-care plan as a “memorial” to Teddy – would do well to consider the perspectives provided by Aldous Huxley. He reminded us that “facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” The self-destructive consequences of evading reality may also lead us to consider that “maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
