Purple Reign

Back in 1994, the hard rock/punk/alternative band Bad Religion released their album Stranger Than Fiction.

One of the tracks was a pretty immediate hit: “21st Century Digital Boy”.

Creepy video, but not as creepy as the progressive-secular religion of today. Oh, for 1994 again…

After reading Matt Purple’s piece on perhaps the most annoyingly mindless yard sign in history (The ‘In This House’ sign at top), I couldn’t help but think of some lyrics from this prescient song.

‘Cause I’m a 21st Century digital boy

I don’t know how to live,

But I’ve got a lot of toys.

My daddy’s a lazy middle class intellectual,

My mommy’s on valium,

So ineffectual.

Ain’t life a mystery, yeah.

Quite the mystery indeed.

So the progressive answer, of course, is not to turn to the actually transcendent, but rather to fill the void with axiomatic bromides from disaffected Madison, Wisconsin librarians. The sign above reads–as Purple rightly points out–like the Christian Nicene Creed. Black Lives Matter. Women’s Rights Are Human Rights. Blah. Blah Blah. Vomit. This is really bad religion.

Inherent in all of the inane statements is the notion that the inhabitants of this house are the enlightened elect while all of you out there without this yard sign are the damned, the knuckle-draggers, who might just entertain the ideas that race is largely a construct; that women are humans; that legal status is not a part of human nature; that science does not consist of dogmatic claims from Anthony Fauci or Greta Thunberg; that tautologies are dumb; and that kindness to the left means abandoning everything that makes you an individual.

Purple’s other pieces–especially his most recent ones–are as well-written as they are timely.

Justin Trudeau stars as the cabbage patch doll authoritarian.

Forget the ‘Karens’. We are surrounded by ‘Joels’ suffering from low testosterone ‘man-flu’.

All true.

Ramble on, Matt Purple.