The radical chic of the French benightedment

By Michael Moriarty
web posted December 6, 2004

Leonard Bernstein comes to mind, of course, but then so does
Tom Wolfe whose fierce intellect, after attending one of Maestro
Bernstein's soirees, his salon of post-modern titans and terrorists,
gave us a close glimpse of a 20th Century socialist's fiercest
daydream: reliving Paris of the 18th Century revolution. It's one
thing to have achieved a distinguished position in your craft. It's
quite another to have strategy sessions with cold-blooded killers.
The sense of Napoleonic euphoria must be quite novel. Dealing
with the egomania of the art world became everyday to the likes
of Leonard Bernstein. However, the monomania of
Revolutionary assassins is quite another thing to rub shoulders
with over cocktails. It undoubtedly brings a frisson to more than
one region of an artist's fantasy life. An atheist's blessing is
poured upon the future plans of socialism's civilian army. With a
kind of diabolically religious fervor, socialism's purists hear first
hand about the terrorist's next campaign. We bourgeois only
hear about it on the morning of September 11, 2001.

What the socialist elite have been able to wallow in as a movie in
their heads, an adventure told in hushed tones over martinis --
"One olive, please" -- or Gibsons -- "Two onions, of course" --
has them hearing the voice of an evil only a James Bond could
possibly stop -- "stirred, not shaken."

Good and evil? God and Man? Ridiculous. The Radical Chic are
so post-modern, the annals of inevitable Marxist history so
awaiting a maestro's contribution to the final victory of the
people, well, all of mankind, or what's left of it after the
Revolution, will be on their knees at the United Nations thanking
these gods of music and philosophy and science and post-Marx
history. The only after-life possible, of course, will be created in
the ultimate demise of history as we know it, and the real record
will begin with that moment on January 21st, 1793 when the
head of Louis XVI was ecstatically lopped off. There were the
barricades of 1789, of course, but no one really took them
seriously until an actual symbol of Christian monarchy, the King
of France, lost more than his crown.

The world was told unequivocally that the people, enlightened, of
course, by the gods of the enlightenment, awakened from all the
Judeo-Christian superstitions, rituals and hypocrisies -- will now
be anything but the royalty, the aristocracy, the middle-class and
anyone who has even the remotest nostalgia for Christmas or
Hanukah.

The present ethnic-cleansing is applauded as an apocalypse for
the purification of mankind, a Walpurgisnacht (Bernstein brought
Wagner's music to Israel, perhaps to prepare them), a cleansing,
pitting one religiously deluded faction against another. The only
ones left standing, of course, after the herd-thinning, scientific
miracle of abortion, will be the real people! The workers of, by
and for the Revolutionary People!

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, of course, drew the elixir from
the vats of this bloody wine and immortalized its momentous
inevitability in DAS CAPITAL and THE COMMUNIST
MANIFESTO. These two testaments of the revolutionary bible
would so bury Judeo-Christian Civilization on the "ash-heap of
history" that at the end of the first thousands years of
Communism's reign, all history, prior to 1793, would be "pre-
historic."

"Can't we be just a little bit pregnant with Karl Marx?" ask the
European Social Democrats, the American Liberals and the
editorial staff of The New York Times.

The American Rainbow Bourgeoisie, her middle-class, would
like to think so; not that they are, in the least, infected by
Marxism. It's just the American Way. Unfortunately, Liberals
have used the separation of church and state in the same way
Feminists have used the term pro-choice. The first eventually
buries any religion at all and the second simply buries bodies.

Pro-choice ladies are now the most radical of the Radical Chic.
With the new French, selective-cyanide, abortion pill, they can
do the dirty work which the old-fashioned Radical Elite left up to
the likes of Robespierre and Osama bin Laden. They are now
full-time Revolutionaries. NOW, the National Organization for
Women, is selling T shirts with the revolutionary declaration: "I
had an abortion!"

The Third Reich never got quite that bold. No, they didn't hand
out bumper-stickers proclaiming, "I just killed a Jew!"
Considering economics as a class distinction, perhaps German
Jews began dying as financial aristocrats in the same way French
aristocrats had to bite the blade of the guillotine. The war against
all class-distinctions had a very French-German kick-off.  And it
all eventually flowered in America. The Fourth Reich, with its
U.N. headquarters in New York, now controls 97% of the
human race. The three percent left voted for George W. Bush.
Napoleon must be rolling in his grave with joy!

So, in the end, what is the French Revolution's reality of the
People? It is an ego a deux, a deadly coupling of the delusionally
Radical Chic and their cut-throat henchmen. The rest of
humanity, billions of them, can either be aborted, retroactively
and otherwise, or they accept being insect-drones, good only for
making honey and flying in and out of the incarcerating beehive
known as Socialism. Should they attempt to leave the hive and
be human beings again, a black widow propaganda machine will
catch them in its web and either shame them back in or label
them as bait for Radical Bats. Should they escape that fate, there
are always the fangs of Communist Cobras awaiting them.

The fruit on the tree of the French Enlightenment is so horrifying,
its roots must undeniably rise from the lowest circle of hell, in a
new American parking level just below the one reserved for
hypocrites. The lowest of the low is the icy cold freezer holding
the Radical Careerists.

Fear not. The Conservation of Energy is an implacable law of
science. The 5,000 year, human investment toward the spiritually
Darwinian evolution of the Judeo-Greco-Roman-Christian-
English-speaking-American civilization will never be erased by a
250 year human devestment called Socialism. Milleniums from
now the French Revolution will be recorded as having spawned
the longest-lived era of homicidal selfishness in the history of
mankind.
 
Michael Moriarty is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award winning
actor who has appeared in the landmark television series Law
and Order, the mini-series Taken, and the recent TV-movie The
4400. In May, Moriarty won a Leo Award (celebrating
excellence in British Columbia film) for best supporting actor for
his role in the TV-movie Mob Princess.

Enter Stage Right -- http://www.enterstageright.com