June 29, 2009
These Are the Rules observes Andrew Breitbart in The Rise and fall of Perez Hilton:The calculus of political correctness is like roshambo, the "rock-paper-scissors" game. Different identity groups hold specific levels of power over others when their battles play out in the media. To wit: Black beats white. Gay beats white. Black beats gay.
Don't ask why. It just is.But who then makes The Rules?, asks the Belmont Club in Carnival of grotesques:
If Poets were the unacknowledged legislators of Shelley's world, then who are unacknowledged legislators of ours? If Shelley's commentary remains valid then the true authors of Breitbart's Laws are the Carnival of Grotesques collectively referred to as popular culture. They make the rules to which we subconsciously conform. Its members are household names. And the measure of its quality can be deduced from the fact that Lavandeira occupies an honored position in this assembly. And that's why Andrew Breitbart can write seriously about this creature, and the reason why anyone, in spite of himself should read it. Perez Hilton is about us. He is a measure of the circumference to which our outlook has shrunk.
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