The left distorts or destroys everything it comes across.
Art, history, the un-woke. Even concepts such as truth…… or fun.
I was
thinking of this the other day while listening to songs by the Beach Boys and
yearning for a more innocent time in America. It is well-nigh impossible to
listen to a Beach Boys song and not feel energized and uplifted, feet or hands
keeping time with the joyous, bouncy beat. But this is not how a True Believer
of leftist dogma feels or thinks of the music. Or anything else.
Grievance-mongers of the Politically Correct School of Perpetual Offense
profoundly disagree with the classical view of the arts as being a creative
endeavor to celebrate and elevate the human condition. Indeed, they see “art”
as a way to denigrate and dismantle such traditional notions by “pushing the
envelope,” shocking and repulsing those exposed to it, that they may see things
in a different, if perverted, light.
Progressives
see “Beach Boys” and think: “Beach Boys? Why not girls? Or,
better yet, the genderfluid? Also, we’re steadily losing our beaches
due to the melting glaciers caused by man-induced global warming and climate
change. Very insensitive. Is it really just a coincidence that beach rhymes
with ‘bleach,’ a term for whitening things? And with ‘breech,’
which is part of a gun?!! OMG, this is all a dog-whistle, a call
for arming masculine white supremacists!!! Their music should be banned and all
references to the group permanently expunged from history! Triggering!
Triggering! Where’s the nearest ‘safe space?!’ I’ve been traumatized!”
Even a
cursory glance at the lyrics to Beach Boys songs would send an entitled leftist
snowflake into paroxysms of fear and loathing:
“We
always take my car ‘cuz it’s never been beat
And
we’ve never missed yet with the girls we meet
None
of the guys go steady ‘cuz it wouldn’t be right
To
leave their best girl home on a Saturday night”
“Seriously? Talk about ableist and
sexist! ‘Never been beat?’ Good for you. ‘Best’ girl? What about the not so
good ones, or the differently-gendered such as the genderqueer, the
Two-Spirited or the non-binary?
“Even the group’s song titles are
problematic at best. ‘Barbara Ann?’ Wouldn’t it have been more inclusive to
have called that song ‘Barbara Dan?’ And ‘Good Vibrations?’ Really? This
group was from Southern California? Hello?! Earthquakes are common in
California! Those vibrations are not ‘good,’ insensitive
louts!
“And, what’s with all the songs
about cars? Wasn’t the group aware of the damage car’s emissions inflict on our
Mother Earth? We must ban the internal combustion engine! And music by the
likes of the Beach Boys and Lynyrd Skynyrd! (‘Sweet Home Alabama?’ Could
they be more in-your-face? A hex on the deplorable red necks).
“Surfing,
cruising, dating, fun…freedom. Who gave them those rights?
“Fortunately, their time has
passed. That era is gone.
“It’s all fun, fun, fun until we come and take
your freedoms—and Freebirds—away!"
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