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Liberalism has much in common with the 1976 movie, “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.”
The movie’s hero, Tod Lubitch, was born with an improperly functioning immune system; contact with unfiltered air could kill him. Hence, he lives inside a protective bubble insulated from the outside world.
Similarly, liberals have a malfunctioning belief system that can’t handle contact with the truth; they live in intellectually isolated, segregated enclaves, i.e. inside a plastic bubble. Most live their entire lives without ever conversing with an evangelical Christian, conservative or tea party supporter.
Liberals become more isolated than conservatives because of schools, government, media, the workplace, pop culture and even religion. They can’t relate to their fellow Americans in fly-over land. They believe to visit New Mexico you need a passport, visa, interpreter, inoculations, water purification pills and currency exchange.
In contrast, conservatives, who also must endure all these liberal institutions, have an in-depth knowledge and understanding of liberalism. The following details how liberals construct their plastic bubble.
Education: Most everyone attends K-12 public schools and colleges which are highly liberal government institutions. A liberal curriculum written by liberal professors is taught by liberal unionist teachers.
Political correctness and liberal mythology permeate everything. They are taught that there are no universal values except that there are no values. It is like Lake Wobegone, without winners and losers and every child is above average.
Media, Pop Culture and Religion: The ultra left wing media solidify liberal lies and myths. Businesses always are portrayed as despoiling villains while crusading journalists and government activists are saviors of the planet. Pop culture and the media are symbiotic. Even most (non evangelic) religions have mutated their beliefs to accommodate liberal statism.
Government and Workplace: An ever bigger share of Americans work for government at all levels; it is now approaching 17% of all workers. Public sector workers now are heavily unionized and see their interests diametrically opposed to the private sector.
Most everything government does promotes the liberal agenda. Political correctness, speech codes and sensitivity training now have hit the workplace resulting in a highly liberal work environment.
The ubiquitous and powerful combination of schools, universities, media, pop culture, government, religion and the workplace, along with physical isolation, create the bubble.
Once inside, escape is nigh impossible, nor do the denizens of the bubble even realize they are in a bubble. It is like they exist in a parallel universe. They do not know what they do not know. No one they meet and nothing they ever read or see forces them to confront their ignorance.
On those rare occasions when liberals are confronted by truth, they don’t know how to react; they don’t realize how isolated they have become. Just like Tod Lubitch, the boy in the plastic bubble, contact with unfiltered truth could kill their liberal beliefs.
Consequently, their first instinct is to deny the truth; after all, nothing in their bubble has prepared them for it. Their next instinct is to call the speaker of truths racist, homophobic, sexist, ignorant and evil.
Tod Lubitch finally left his bubble, but few liberals ever do. After all, life is more comfortable inside the bubble than venturing out into the real world where things are not so simplistic and dogmatic and some thinking is required. Liberals don’t know what they don’t know. They prefer life inside the bubble even though that life is a lie because liberalism is a lie.
About George Noga
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As a writer myself, I’m sorry your wonderful three part series on Liberals didn’t receive more exposure. It deserves to be read, studied and discussed by the vast majority of US Citizens, regardless of party lines.
As I mentioned in my first post, part one, I’m going to do all I can to disseminate all three parts to as many BBS’s, blogs and social networks as I can.
You’re a fine, insightful, intelligent and highly readable author who, frankly, deserves the widest audience possible.
I pray only the best for you, George; that God will bless all that you set your hand and heart to.
Sam Page
wolfeatworld@gmail.com
George, as I forgot to ask your permission to repost your articles, I’ll just link everyone to this site instead. I’ll use blurbs of your work to get them to follow my links.
I trust this is fine with you?
Sam
this article is absolutely retarded. I am liberal (proud liberal!), and whoohoo, recently visited new mexico without thinking about currency exchange and visa (what the heck?!).
when you say liberals live in a bubble, then I say: conservatives live a bigot lifestyle.
you are against abortion: yet you dont want to help adults who lost everything (look at all your veterans living on the street: you pray for your soldiers, when they get out of the army and get lost, you dont give a shit anymore).
you run to church every sunday, yet you cheat on your wife.
you dont get tired to mention the 2nd amendment to keep your guns, you dont care that though that “all people should be equal”
I am happy most school are lead in a liberal way: jesus christ, what else would we learn?
bible lesson, bible lesson, bible lesson, math. ??
I have visited “fly over America” and was SHOCKED. you are talking about bubbles libs live in?? they how do you call the conservative lifestyle?
it is time to open up. this is not 1657, it is 2013. accept other religions, gay people, women who decide to have abortions. it is NONE of YOUR business what kind of life they live, as it is THEIR lives. not YOURS. that is what I call being liberal: live and let live.
Ahhh, Anna, may I suggest a large dose of sunshine and a big gulp of fresh air my friend? Each of us are entitled to our point of view; and the author has expressed his. Perhaps you can share a small portion of that ‘tolerance’ liberals are endlessly speaking of with our author here.
The author was not judging liberals; as I see it, he made a series of observations, and gave his reasons for the conclusions he reached. He enumerated various conduct, conversations and behaviors of the liberal philosophy and its practitioners. He then weighed his finding against the backdrop of his life, experience, common sense and reason.
Mr. Noga has an obviously high bar when assessing a persons character. This is because he holds himself to those same standards. I do not believe he sees himself as superior to anyone, rather, he finds clarity and purpose in exposing the rocky foundations of a morally bankrupt philosophy, which in the end, has no hope for success –– at any level, for anyone.
A kind of Protector –– if you will.
To handle the ‘Truth’ –– is an awesome, and often awkward, responsibility. Once a person has come to see the beauty in it; the hope it brings to those who pursue it, one can fall radically in love with it. And as with most things which we love, we tend to be protective and zealous over. It is quite impossible to fall in love with someone or something and remain merely a spectator, especially if that someone of something is under attack.
Again, George The Protector.
The line you may have overlooked of his, is pregnant with so much meaning and explanation, to miss it, is perhaps to miss the central point of all three parts of his article:
“Liberals don’t know what they don’t know.”
This is not only charitable, it’s as if the author wants to shake us out of our confusion and delusion, and desperately desires us to see, the speeding, out of control truck in the road bearing down on us, while we, standing in the middle of it, must move before it hits us!
Anyway, dear Anna, I trust you shall endeavor to keep an open mind here; considering the possibility that, as Watchman Knee once wrote, (in The Spiritual Man):
“If we don’t think we can be deceived –– we’re deceived already.”
A teachable spirit is, like The Truth, a thing of great beauty my friend
Sam
Psychological projection.
Great Band! But only had that one single top 40 hit in the 80′s. Too bad, I thought they were better than that.
From Australia, right?
(Sigh…)