[Wallace T.]

I have not stated that bagpipes cause warlike attitudes or that rock music causes communism. That is a false inference. As an analogy, you have emphasized the role of the "red diaper babies" for the rise of the New Left in two posts. Many, if not most, of the "red diaper babies" came from ethnically (though not religiously) Jewish households. Since you stress the role of these largely Jewish activists in the leftist activities of the 1960s, should I then assume you are an anti-Semite and a conspiracy theorist to boot? After all, you might have heard the "Jews are the cause of communism" position from Liberty Lobby or the Ku Klux Klan. Such inferences would be specious. But then again, so is your statement that "I can't dance". Whether I dance or not is irrelevant. But if you goose step to the "Horst Wessel Lied," that would be very relevant!

There is a long gap of over two centuries between the French philosophes and the leftists of the 1960s antiwar movement who later cut their hair, shaved their beards, and put on suits and ties, the better to penetrate politics, academia, the tax-free foundations, and think tanks. We did not go directly from the French encyclopedists to the Beatles. However, there is a common thread of philosophy and worldview that links the ideas of Rousseau and Voltaire to the leftists of our day. Ayn Rand, in her commentary on the "Free Speech" movement at Berkeley in 1964, noted the same continuity. She titled her observations, "Mario Savio, Son of Immanuel Kant."

[elbucko]

...should I then assume you are an anti-Semite and a conspiracy theorist to boot?

I suppose you should, if you have no other rebuttal to offer. Calling someone an anti-Semite, or a Nazi, is the last refuge of the speechless.

But if you goose step to the "Horst Wessel Lied," that would be very relevant!

No, but I can play Beethoven's, "Ode to Joy", in march time, on the bagpipes. Oh wait, He was Austrian. My mistake.

As for the "Red Diaper Baby" issue, I believe it was your article that first raised that ugly specter on this thread. If their mention makes me an anti-Semite, what does it make you?

There is a long gap of over two centuries between the French philosophers and the leftists of the 1960s antiwar movement who later cut their hair,

That's not fair, using the French in any kind of argument. From Rousseau to Sartre, the French have little, if any real concept of what Liberty means to the soul. The Continental philosophers, as opposed to those of the Scottish Enlightenment, have little to offer the Republic of the United States. You should have separated the two. The US, at its founding, had much more in common with English Common Law and the Scottish enlightenment than it does the Napoleonic Law and European Continental philosophies.

They may have had many drinking songs, but little encouraging sex outside of marriage.

Geez. You re a bigger moron than I thought. And you've got a dirty little mind, as well.