Create Your Own Reality

It appears the new Prime Minister of Great Britain has figured out how to rid the world of Islamic terrorism: just deny that it even exists. Following the latest Muslim bomb plot to kill Brits, the PM has ordered no one in his administration to use the terms "war on terror" or "Islamic terrorist." No one is, in any way, to point out that Islamic terrorism is related to Islamic terrorism.

This is truly brilliant. How can there be a problem that no one acknowledges or discusses? Let's ignore 14 centuries of mass murder, invasion, enslavement, robbery, rape and oppression by the Muslim religion, and poof! It all goes away, as if by magic. If we don't mention it, it doesn't exist.

Terrorism, that nasty business where select individuals attempt to kill many strangers with bombs or planes or other means, becomes simply a random act of nature, like hurricanes or floods or earthquakes or lightning strikes. It's no one's fault, really. These things just happen.

I never cease to be amazed by the perfect malleability of the left-wing mind. It is like a gyroscope; you can upset it only momentarily with fact-based reality. It soon returns to its designated course, automatically and instantly. There can be no evil in any culture, especially non-western ones, and so any problems such cultures engender are explainable by a standard list of leftist bugaboos, e.g. capitalism, Christianity, global warming, the absence of speech codes, free condoms, multiculturalism, and socialized medicine.

Reality is just not a problem for leftist-mentalists. Even overwhelming evidence of Muslim malfeasance in a horrific act like 9/11 can be erased by simple denial and the creation of a fantastic conspiracy theory. And so we have the truthers movement, which seeks to prove that 9/11 was created by George Bush and Dick Cheney as an excuse to rule the world. You really can't disprove their theory, because their inventive little minds will simply manufacture new "facts" and dismiss others to support their preconceived beliefs. Nor can you expect the leftist-mentalists to be disuaded by simple embarrassment over the sheer asininity of their claims. Nothing embarrasses them. How else would you explain those spikey hair styles and nipple rings?

The new Prime Minister's attitude reminds me of that wonderful old musical, "The Music Man." A salesman comes to a small Iowa town in the first decade of the 20th century to sell band instruments to the town's children. The Music Man, as he is called, is really a scam artist. He just wants to sell the instruments and then split with the cash, leaving the kiddies and their parents with loads of trumpets, trombones, etc, that they cannot play. However, the scammer gets trapped and must find a way to teach the children to play. So he invents the mental method, by which the children only have to imagine that they can play, and voila! They will be able to play! There is such a thin line between imagination and reality, you know. Sure enough, by the end of the musical the kiddies are marching down mainstreet blasting out "76 Trombones" and the story ends with a smile.

I fear that the political left took this play to heart and now we have foreign policy by the mental method. Muslims can become good citizens, patriotic and loyal to their adopted countries, tolerant and open minded to people of other religions and creeds! We merely have to imagine that it is so, and voila! Multicultural magic! 76 trombones led the big parade, with 110 cornets close behind..., whoops, sorry, I got carried away.