Hypocrisy
If you’re looking for a scathing condemnation of hypocrisy, keep looking. What the world needs now is more hypocrisy. It used to be that when you were a bad man, you paid lip-service to the virtues of the good man. Perhaps you even pretended to have them. This made you a hypocrite. Now, all the best bad men wear their badness on their sleeves and scream it from the rooftops. These aren’t hypocrites but men of integrity, with an honest, consistent dedication to sin. By word and example, they destroy even the idea of the good man. Give me a hypocrite any day.
November 14th, 2007 at 4:23 pm
That’s also what’s missing from modern parenthood. Moms and Dads have always gotten up to shenanigans of one kind or another in their youth, but they still told still told their kids not to do those same things and punished or chastised them when they did. Nowadays Moms and Dads say “oh well i did that too and I turned out ok” or “I did that too so who am I to preach?” Preach away I say.