Through the Bottom of a Glass Darkly :: SteynOnline
by Mark Steyn • Feb 13, 2015
Our occasional feature, the Steyn I-Told-You-So Moment, always trembles on the brink of obnoxiousness, and one must be careful about pushing it too far. However, given that we have a president who selfies while the world burns, I hope you'll forgive a couple of columnar selfies for this Valentine's Day, prompted by items in the mail. First, Matt McWilliams writes from Florida:
Mark,
Regarding your comments about Kayla Mueller and where her idealism got her, I'm reminded of another story from some years ago. You may recall a fellow named Timothy Treadwell, described on Wikipedia as "American bear enthusiast, environmentalist, amateur naturalist, eco-warrior, and documentary filmmaker and founder of Grizzly people." He was also known for spending his summers living with Grizzly bears in Alaska. A further entry from Wikipedia; "At the end of his 13th summer in the park in 2003, he and his girlfriend Amie Huguenard (October 23, 1965 – October 5, 2003) were killed by a 28-year-old brown bear, whose stomach was later found to contain human remains and clothing."
Those brown bears can be pretty random.
Matt McWilliams
Coral Springs, FL
Well, Matt, you have to get up pretty early to beat me to metaphors of civilizational suicide. From page 261 of After America:
In 2003, Disney brought us its latest animated feature, Brother Bear, the usual New Age mumbo-jumbo with a generic Native American gloss. It told the tale of Kenai, a young fellow in a bucolic Pacific Northwest at the end of the Ice Age. To avenge his brother's death, Kenai kills the brown bear responsible. But trouble's a-bruin: his late brother is wise enough to know that killing is not the answer and so gets the Great Spirit to teach Kenai a lesson by transforming him into a bear. He thereby learns that bears are not violent beasts but sensitive beings living in harmony with nature who understand the world they live in far more than man does. I would certainly agree that bears are wiser and more sensitive than man, if only because I've yet to meet a bear who's produced an animated feature as mawkishly deluded as this.-go to links-
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