{"id":36003,"date":"2010-07-29T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:45:18","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T00:45:18","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T00:45:18","slug":"tracing_our_decent_in_depravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2010\/07\/29\/tracing_our_decent_in_depravity\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracing Our Decent in Depravity"},"content":{"rendered":"
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RUSH: I was asking myself the other night, — I\u2019m serious about this — you can have a political figure or a celebrity involved in one of the most embarrassing, illegal or borderline legal things, take your pick, truly despicable things, and yet they become famous, they become the focus of even more attention, they become wealthy, with genuine reprobate behavior. I was asking myself, ‘At what point in our culture did it change?\u2019 It used to be that there was a stigma, an embarrassment to being a reprobate, or to have broken the law or to have just engaged in utter moral depravity. When did it change that this became a resume enhancement? I can\u2019t put my finger on it. All I know is that ever since I started this show in the late eighties, early nineties, I have watched this happen, and I have watched this deviancy in our culture get defined downward. We\u2019ve just given up. As Moynihan said, ‘We\u2019ve defined deviancy down.\u2019 We can\u2019t fix that so it\u2019s now normal. Bad behavior, we can\u2019t stop it so we\u2019re just going to say it\u2019s normal now. <\/p>\n

I have been waiting for the day when society finally says, ‘Enough! We\u2019re going to stop rewarding this kind of behavior.\u2019 There\u2019s not only been no stop to it, it\u2019s getting worse and worse and worse, and it\u2019s epitomized by Mr. Hillyer\u2019s summary here. Half the people he writes about should be in jail, or impeached, or convicted of treason. He\u2019s also right when he says there\u2019s a whole lot of people on our side of the aisle that are not revved up enough about it. In fact, a little personal illustration of this. When I moved to New York in 1988 to start this program, this program nationally started August 1st of 1988, you will remember, those of you in New York and some of you around the country, you will remember that there was a phenomenon on television at the time, the Morton Downey show. <\/p>\n

Now, I replaced Morton Downey Jr. in Sacramento. He got fired for telling a joke using the word ‘Chinaman\u2019 about a city councilman, he wouldn\u2019t apologize, so they blew him out of there. They brought me out, they said, ‘Look, we want controversy. We\u2019ll back you up, but not if you make it up. If you\u2019re going to say things just to incite riots, just to make people mad, if you\u2019re going to say things just to rile \u2019em up but you don\u2019t really believe it, we\u2019re not going to back you up. But if you\u2019re honest about it, and you stay sane, we\u2019ll back you up,\u2019 and they were true, they were honest about that. <\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: So I get to New York in 1988, and shortly after the summer ends, sometime in September, I\u2019m invited to a cocktail party on the Upper East Side at the townhouse home of the noted Lou Lehrman, who was not there. He had just given the use of his home. It was a bunch of the conservative print media that I was being introduced to, and I can remember a number of them came up when they were introduced to me and had it explained why I was in town and what I was there to do they said, ‘Oh! Are you going to be the Morton Downey Jr. of the radio?\u2019 and they seemed to be excited about that prospect. <\/p>\n

Now, here these world class models of decorum in print getting all excited about in-your-face, insult broadcasting. You know, putting cigarettes out on people\u2019s hands and spitting in their face. I said, ‘No, no, no. I\u2019m not going to do that. There\u2019s no way I\u2019ll succeed. I want to be just as classy on my radio show as you are in print,\u2019 and I said, ‘That stuff is not going to have a lifespan, that stuff is not going to survive — and even if it does, I don\u2019t want to be part of it. I have no desire to be part of insult broadcasting or insult radio. I don\u2019t want to be that far gone into showbiz,\u2019 and it was at that point I started thinking that the deviancy that was occurring in media would eventually bottom out and there would be a rebound — and it hasn\u2019t bottomed out.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re still pluming the depths. We\u2019re below the gutter. Most media is in the sewer. I don\u2019t care what media you\u2019re talking about, books, movies, television shows, newspapers. There are examples, rare examples of the opposite. There are exceptions and so forth, and I\u2019ve always thought of myself as one. But it\u2019s not just in broadcasting. It\u2019s just the overall cultural decline, the depravity — and with that decline and that depravity comes increased fame and notoriety. Not for anything but the erratic, depraved behavior become famous for — and that has given rise to what? My Face, My Butt, My Mouth, My Book, Facebook this, Facebook that. Nobody wants any mystery about themselves anymore. <\/p>\n

In fact, there was a piece — I forget what paper it was; it might have been the New York Times — about the absence of mystery. Nobody wants any mystery about themselves. I think this paper used the example that it\u2019s not possible for there to be a Greta Garbo anywhere. Greta Garbo was a recluse. It was the biggest deal in the world to see Greta Garbo walking the dog or go to the grocery store. It hardly ever happened. Now you couldn\u2019t survive as an entertainer, an actor. You couldn\u2019t survive living a normal life. You have to be on display and you have to be making a mess of your life in order for the paparazzi to be interested in you. You have to be throwing up bird seed every night. You have to be going in for drug rehab overdoses in the hospitals. <\/p>\n

I mean, I\u2019m on the way to the hospital in Hawaii, and before I get there the media vans are waiting outside the hospital emergency room. Before we get there! (interruption) Well, obviously. Reporters pay off EMT people. It\u2019s just the way it is. How do you think they get these pictures of Michael Jackson on the gurney? Somebody has to let \u2019em in there. My point is that this is what Quin Hillyer\u2019s writing about here today. No matter where the depravity is — be it in our media culture, entertainment culture, now the political culture — there\u2019s utter depravity, and it\u2019s rewarded! It wins. Lying, cheating, stealing, anti-Americanism wins — and face it, this is what\u2019s got everybody so discombobulated, because none of it makes sense. None of the things that we were raised with, none of the manners we were told to exhibit and live by seem to be rewarded. If you live the life that you were raised to live — Golden Rule, be polite — you are a boring. <\/p>\n

The MTV Awards. If somebody doesn\u2019t drop the F-bomb every ten minutes the critics say, ‘What a boring show.\u2019 You go back and look at some of the old Academy Awards presentations (you know, before Marlon Brando brought the Indian babe up to not accept the award and they went politically nuts.) The Cary Grant, Grace Kelly era was bigger than life, the epitome of class. There\u2019s no class anywhere anymore, and we certainly don\u2019t have class at the highest levels of our politics. All we have is a bunch of people seeking attention in a whole bunch of ways, but they all add up to one thing: ‘I can\u2019t be who I am and get noticed. I have to be outrageous here or do this. I can\u2019t even be honest. I gotta come up with an opinion that nobody else has that could be totally wrong but I want to be perceived as the smartest guy in the room \u2019cause I want to get noticed because my middle name is ‘Notice Me! ‘Notice Me! ‘Notice Me!” It\u2019s an affliction that everybody has, and I\u2019ve kept waiting for this to bottom out, and it doesn\u2019t. <\/p>\n

We keep sinking lower.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: I think I do. I think I do know why it\u2019s happened. I think I do know what caused it. In fact, I have very little doubt about this. In fact, I\u2019ve even said it in so many words on this program when discussing abortion over the years. But I really think the reason for this sinking, spiraling-down deviancy and depravity that gets rewarded — and people seeking fame on that basis rather than achievement. Back in the old days there wouldn\u2019t be a Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian. I don\u2019t have anything against them, fine and dandy. What have they done? They haven\u2019t done anything. They\u2019re circus acts, and life is filled with more and more circus acts. But I think all of this can be traced back to God being shunned, to God being removed from people\u2019s lives, to there being no God or false gods or what have you. <\/p>\n

You\u2019ve heard of Nietzsche. In 1882, ‘God is Dead,\u2019 he wrote the book. The ruling class has been teaching this. TIME Magazine did a cover: ‘Is God Dead?\u2019 The book was called ‘The Gay Science,\u2019 and in it he postulated God was dead. Once you take God out — once you take conscience out, once you get rid of morality, once you get rid of reasons larger than your own existence, once you get rid of judgmentalism — then there\u2019s nothing left. There no guardrails. There\u2019s nothing to keep you on the road. Who cares? Now, the ‘death\u2019 of God. These people had always promulgated it. The death of God is a way of saying that humans are no longer able to believe in any cosmic order. There\u2019s no such thing as anything larger than ourselves. There\u2019s no concept of intelligence design. No God. <\/p>\n

‘No, this is all an accident!\u2019 I think you have to be brain-dead to believe this also an accident. You have to be brain-dead to believe this all a coincidence. I don\u2019t know how anybody, particularly educated people who study the human body, can think that this is an accident. I don\u2019t know intellectually how anybody can come to that conclusion, but millions of people have. But if you succeed in convincing people there is no God or that God has died, that will lead not only to (this is what Nietzsche said) the rejection of a belief of cosmic or physical order, but also to a rejection of absolute values themselves because where do they come from? <\/p>\n

Where do absolute values come from? Where is the notion of absolute right and wrong? Where does it originate? You go to any religion in the world you want. There aren\u2019t too many areas of gray. For example they are not the Ten ‘Suggestions,\u2019 and a lot of people we know do not want to live under any kind of judgmentalism at all from other human beings, certainly not from a force that they can\u2019t understand. The whole concept of a universal morality, that\u2019s scary. That\u2019s scary. That means there\u2019s a price to pay, and we don\u2019t want to pay the price. We don\u2019t want to have to pay the price for being who we are, and this is what\u2019s happened. <\/p>\n

Ever since the whole notion that there is no God has taken hold or that God is dead or that God\u2019s just a creation of a bunch of freak wackos that the true intelligent people know that there\u2019s no such thing as intelligent design. Allan Bloom. You remember him? I\u2019ll never forget this guy. Allan Bloom wrote a book called ‘The Closing of the American Mind\u2019 on campus at the university, and he traced it back to this. I remember watching him on Firing Line. The thing I remember is Alan Bloom was a chain smoker on Firing Line, and nobody made him put the cigarette out. A chain smoker! University of Chicago I think he came from. <\/p>\n

If it\u2019s not that, if it\u2019s not the absence of God that explains the triumph of depravity then it has to be that liberalism breeds insanity. It\u2019s one of the two. I happen to think it\u2019s the absence of God, because when you boil it all down, if you don\u2019t stand for something, you will believe anything — and doesn\u2019t that describe the buffaloed, fooled idiots on the left? They will believe anything! They will believe the most unrealistic, wild things like a Chevrolet Suburban can destroy the climate. They will believe it and they will live their lives that way. They\u2019ll become zealot evangelists about it because nothing else has meaning to them. They stand for nothing so they fall for anything. You know, people have asked me, ‘How are you so sure that global warming is all made up?\u2019 <\/p>\n

I say, ‘Because I believe in God.\u2019 I\u2019ve been through this riff with you thousands of times. It\u2019s \u2019cause I believe in God. I do not believe I have more power than God. I don\u2019t believe God even notices me, much less creates all of this that insignificant microbes like us can destroy. I just can\u2019t get my arms around that intellectually. Yet people who stand for nothing who want significance and want to matter and want to think they\u2019re all important will buy into the notion. The most insignificant people in the world, the most inconsequential people in the world… I\u2019m talking about the average, run-of-the-mill American liberal. The most inconsequential people in the world, look what they believe! <\/p>\n

They are so hungry for relevance that they actually believe that they and us are destroying a planet! It\u2019s insane to believe this, and they are so caught up in it that they demand that everybody live an equally inconsequential, irrelevant life like they do — and their anger and their rage at all of us is really nothing more than fear. Because people like you and me show them daily that they\u2019re irrelevant and inconsequential and wrong. We\u2019re happy. We\u2019re pursuing happiness. We try to live by a standard. It\u2019s all a big threat. So the objective is to get rid of anything that equals black or white. Get rid of any truth, because truth is giant, giant threat. Can\u2019t live with threats. Threats make us nervous. <\/p>\n

Moral values? ‘Ah, that could be explained away. Yeah, you can explain moral values. That\u2019s just the opiate of the masses. That\u2019s just a bunch of irrelevant people trying to tell themselves they\u2019re good people. Morality? Morality, that\u2019s for the great unwashed. We intellectuals, we members of the ruling class, we understand (haughty laughing) what a joke morality is,\u2019 and yet the people that are heralded as the Wizards of Smart — the unifiers, the people who are gonna save the country and save us — are in the process of destroying it. Some people do think that it\u2019s being done purposefully, and it\u2019s a hard thing to tell \u2019em it\u2019s not \u2019cause the evidence is incontrovertible. The worst thing that you can be in society today is judgmental. That\u2019s why people like us are so hated, folks. The worst thing you can be is judgmental and right. That\u2019s why TIME Magazine writes ‘the obnoxious Rush Limbaugh\u2019 was right about the Gulf oil spill. <\/p>\n

Obnoxious? Why obnoxious? <\/p>\n

Why not be heralded? <\/p>\n

No, can\u2019t do that. That doesn\u2019t fit the template. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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