The Voice of the Neuter is Heard Throughout the Land

American Digest ^ | January 26, 2006 12:37 AM | Vanderleun

[steve8714]

I think they had it all along and I am thankful for it.

[Fresh Wind]

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[Diddle E. Squat]

bttt

[vanderleun]

If you read it carefully I didn't condemn "the whole generation" but Stein and his cohort -- others like him.

Please believe me when I tell you that condemn a whole generation was not nor is my intent in this essay.

[okie01]

It's made it virtually impossible for me to work congenially with people of a certain age, because they are enraged by any confident statement of opinion.

One of the defining characteristics of this group is their terminal confusion of "facts" and "opinions".

Their "facts" are, in fact, an opinion.

And, to them, your facts are not "facts", but "opinion".

There seems to be a congenital inability to make a distinction between facts and opinion. Consequently, they are reliant on dogma -- which is, itself, distinct from faith.

[okie01]

Superb skewering of the target group.

You captured something.

[The Drowning Witch]

here's what Rush was talking aboot today. Talk about an evisceration. I'll try to email ya from Seattle

Witch

[Wicket]

"truth was just another condiment on the buffet tray" is perfect. I can tell I need to read Bloom's book.

Thanks and blessings,

[Jackknife]

Thanks for the ping.....this was a great topic today on the show.

[Cannoneer No. 4]

The Pathetic Last Children of Nietzsche's Pitiable Last Men

. . . Stein's piece is an out-and-out assault on masculinity, on men with honor, on men who fight, on men who make sacrifices for a higher good in order to protect the ungrateful children of a lesser one.

[Old Professer]

That phrase was not a quote from his book but my take on what he wrote; but do read the book, he wrote it knowing it needed to be said.