Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
That’s from Andy.
Trouble is, liberals understand just like anyone else that someday they’ll be gone, and like anyone else they have this primal desire to be remembered for something.
But in their unique situation the epitaph is the struggle itself. Normal people dream of a future in which their successors, perhaps their direct descendants, achieve what we today can’t even envision…making use of things we have completed, whose construction they, in turn, will not be able to envision. In other words — normal people dream of progress.
Liberals dream of a future in which their successors struggle exactly the same way they do. They nurture the same lusts that were visited upon The Foolish Old Man Who Moved the Mountains. Those who remember them…those who struggle with the “benefits” of the old man’s struggles…struggle in exactly the same effort that captured the energies of the old man himself. Same struggle. No progress.
Examples? Let’s start with every single social program you would care to name. Haven’t you noticed this; they’re all hailed as this-or-that liberal politician’s “lifetime achievement.” But they all have to be fiddled-with. Social Security has to be “shored up.” The Internet needs its own version of the “First Amendment.” We need more hate crime legislation, more gun control legislation, the minimum wage has to be hiked yet again, more more more more more.
It moves, sure enough; but it isn’t linear. It’s circular. Like a hamster on a little metal spinning wheel…is doing something that’s circular.
And they are the ones called “progressives.”
Go figger.
Anyway, I think this is what creates the contradiction, the dichotomy. The job must be “finished” — and yet, at the same time, a piece of the job must be left unfinished, so that those who come afterward can continue to work it over. It’s the only thing they have that has something to do with immortality.
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The contradiction resolves itself when you realize that the modern liberal–the nitwit soldier, not the plutocrat making the money on the deal–seeks to live in the present tense.
- smitty1e | 10/18/2009 @ 19:49They will ignore the future consequences, and airbrush any history necessary in their attempt to load-shed intellect and maturity and return to an Edenic innocence.