Hugh Hefner’s Life’s Work Is Worth No More Than His Ashes
by Peter Scaer, The Federalist:
Hugh Hefner has finally passed away. In a strange way, it seems as if he’s been dead for years. His mansion, from the reports of past bunnies, had largely gone to seed, with the kind of mildew that seems to fit a life like his.
Once in an interview Hef said he had just a tiny bit of puritanical blood in him, which I take to mean the smallest smidgeon of guilt. He said if he could put it all into his pinkie, he’d have it cut off. One forgets, perhaps, that his Playboy empire came with a philosophy. If you’re curious, you can check out YouTube for his interview with William F. Buckley. It was the ’60s, and those were heady times. With feminism on the rise, Hefner struck. If women don’t need men, then boys never need to grow up. They can play all they like with no consequences.
Indeed, asked about his legacy, Hugh was proudest of the fact that he made premarital sex okay, along with shacking up, which has ever since been called “living together.” His victory was complete, as young Christians think nothing of it. But then they think nothing of sex, either. Upon putting all of life’s meaning into the pursuit of pleasure, we now have a generation that knows neither meaning nor pleasure. Emphasizing the joy of living together, Hefner drove us apart. How many fathers now actually “live together” with their children, or their children’s moms?
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