Mark Levin has said repeatedly that civil society has nothing to do with government.  And he's quite right.  Civil society is the pattern of norms through which citizens interact with each other.  Many neighborhoods don't need police to stop citizens from assaulting and robbing each other because in many neighborhoods, the civil society, the fundamental respect that citizens have for each other, still holds.  The right to "be left alone" is fundamental.

But where civil society has broken down, there is no respect for fellow citizens.  And there is no better petri dish to study this disease than the streets of the work-free drug zone of the District of Columbia.

The WaPo had an admiring piece about a former drug-dealing "rapper" named Kokamoe who climbs onto buses and then forces the audience to listen to his "singing."  Since people have to be on the bus to get to wherever they are going, they are effectively a captive audience.

Kokamoe claims he is performing a public service:

"A lot of people could have a bad day, and that one moment helps them," he says. "I remember one dude said, 'Cuz, thank God for you, because I was gonna go to this dude's house and straight kill this dude, man, but when I got finished listening to you, I realized it wasn't even worth it.'"

If you read the long WaPo article, you will see that everyone on mass transit loves Kokamoe's rapping.  I have trouble believing this.  I think many people boarding the bus first thing in the morning don't want to hear a man yelling at the top of his lungs.

Because that's what "rapping" is.  It's not singing.  It's talking very loudly and rapidly.  It's "singing" for those who can't sing.

Instead of documenting this as a decline of society, the WaPo celebrates it, producing a slanted article where everyone on the bus is happy.  I somehow get the feeling that none of the WaPo writers or editors ride these bus lines or would feel quite as happy if they did.

The only way we are going to be able to repair civil society is to call out bad behavior.  That's why it's important to point out examples of the liberal media embracing the counterculture.  As I look at the photos of the people trapped in Kokamoe's bus, my main thought is "Thank God for cars."

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