Improving the Citizens

Ve Vill Make You Free

There has been a bit of aog'nghast in certain quarters in the United States recently.  It turns out that a previously highly regarded chap called Brendan Eich was recently appointed CEO of Mozilla--an internet browsing software company--but was subsequently forced out because he was a pariah.  His crime?  Years ago he was guilty of donating some money to a political campaign in California to restrict the institution of marriage to adult males covenanting with adult females. 

That meant he could not serve as the CEO of an internet browsing company.  He was guilty of thought-crimes.  Eich was forced out for his political and ethical opinions.  The supine Board of Mozilla surrendered faster than Baltic Ukraine, and with less fuss and bother.  All this, in the "Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave"--a sentiment which must now be understood in the wider context of a herd of lemming-like creatures rushing for the cliff.  To be fair, some public homosexuals have expressed shock, horror, and outrage--and good on them.  Andrew Sullivan, for example, who campaigns for the recognition of homosexual marriage wrote: “The hounding and firing of @BrendanEich disgusts me – as it should anyone interested in a tolerant & diverse society.”  Bill Maher, who has publicly ridiculed even the suggestion that homosexuality may be immoral, spoke disconsolately of a "gay mafia":

I think there is a gay mafia. I think if you cross them, you do get whacked. I really do. TheBlaze

Satirist H. L. Mencken commented on this kind of thing from a broader perspective:

We are, in fact, a nation of evangelists; every third American devotes himself to improving and lifting up his fellow-citizens, usually by force; the messianic delusion is our national disease. ["Criticism of Criticism of Criticism", Prejudices: First Series.]

Well, Mr Eich, consider yourself evangelised.  Your homosexual fellow citizens would have your opinions improved and lifted up, compulsorily.   It's what it means to live in the wonderful secular paradise, hymned as the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.  For the free, think Eich.  For the brave, refer to Mozilla's Board of Paper Tigers.  For the delusional messiahs, think homosexual "marriage" evangelists.