The "Progressive" morality matrix

A few weeks back, Gordon and the Lovely Mrs. Gekko (my no drama mama), watched a series on VH1 called Lords of the Revolution. It was about some of the major societal icons of the 1970's; Timothy Leary, Andy Warhol, Muhammad Ali, The Black Panthers, and Cheech & Chong.

If you ever want to watch a series on the most self indulgent, self absorbed, sociopathic, narcissistic, assholes in history, you need to watch the series.

The series makes heroes and idols out of a group of people who had all the empathy of a can of root beer. Only one of which (Ali) I believed to be true to a belief and a cause.

I really never had a clue about the life of Andy Warhol but apparently, he filmed members of his cast ( a collection of drug abusers and general derelicts ) interacting in a place he called The Factory. During one of these "filmings", one of the male cast members beat the crap out of a female cast member eliciting all kinds of accolades from the "artistic" types. (watch these outtakes)

In addition, one of the "cast" members committed suicide by jumping off of a balcony. Warhol's response? "I wish I would have been able to film that."

I don't think I was ever more disgusted with a group of people as I was with those who not only watched these displays but actually believed them to be "artistic". All I could think about was loving the opportunity to kick all of there collective asses; call it artistic irony.

This is all a long winded back drop to the response on Polanski's arrest. See, apparently in the mind of a "progressive" there's a matrix in the liberal circle of what you do/create v. forgiveness of sin.

If you are a great artist or cause leader, you get a free pass to rape a child (Polanski, Jackson), kill a cop (Mumia Abu Jamal), murder a girlfriend (Phil Specter) or sexually harass (BJ Clinton) mass murder (Che Gueverra).

It makes you wonder if Susan Sarandon and/or Sean Penn would show up at a Charles Manson parole hearing if he would have had a few top 40 hits.

So let's be creative with the morality matrix. If one gets on the NY Times best seller list, do they get to fondle your neighbor's son?

If you protect abortion rights, do you get to drown a young woman and not report it?

If you win an Emmy, do you get a free domestic violence pass?

Take a Grammy, no time for heroin distribution?.

Play along at home and come up with your own Morality Matrix.