tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5213291.post2118011721454610088..comments2023-06-28T09:59:42.375-05:00Comments on The Clue Batting Cage: The Changing Storyphilmonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10385793223534322848noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5213291.post-46225965024808176122011-03-07T20:29:42.533-06:002011-03-07T20:29:42.533-06:00Catching up on Godwin's blog tonight, I ran ac...Catching up on Godwin's blog tonight, I ran across this. It's teh awesome.<br /><br /><i>The confidence man -- from the tenured on up -- recoils at clarity, and always tries to muddy the water. As Upton explains, these are people who "absolutize the relative," which begins and ends in the destruction of wisdom. And once wisdom is out of the picture, everything is at once conceivable and permissible. </i>philmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385793223534322848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5213291.post-40443820559023272942011-03-05T10:59:23.790-06:002011-03-05T10:59:23.790-06:00Yup. And the theory may very well be right.
Mean...Yup. And the theory may very well be right.<br /><br />Meanwhile, in this country we've been so many generations without totalitarianism that we appear to be lulled into thinking it can never come back. So rather than us "going back" to it, it may very well come to us. Slowly, in a drip, drip, drip fashion, until it's too late for us to do anything about it.<br /><br />I know. I'm just "scare mongering". But of course, when the left warns us of "climate catastrophe" if we don't let them regulate every aspect of our lives ... that's <i>not</i> scare mongering.<br /><br />It's "settled" "science".philmonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385793223534322848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5213291.post-33395924758622084632011-03-05T10:06:26.961-06:002011-03-05T10:06:26.961-06:00Very few people gave Bush any credit for having th...Very few people gave Bush any credit for having thought out the Buch Doctrine. In one of his State of the Union addresses he mentioned Natan Scharansky's book The Case for Democracy. Bush said he got a lot of inspiration for his policy from this book. I read it and could see how Bush would incorporate it into his policies.<br /><br />The jist of the book is that once people under totalitarianism get just a taste of freedom they will not go back without great bloodshed. Scharansky lived in the USSR when it came apart. Once the soviet people got a taste of freedom, he said it was all over. Bush had the audacity to believe the same would happen in the Middle East. God Bless 'im.Whitehawknoreply@blogger.com