Posted on 07/29/2006 6:22:28 AM PDT by Harrius Magnus
Sorry but it is still too general to help me.
From the subject line I presumed the article focused on the left's long tendency to promote and use rolling "crisis" topics to invoke their political agenda.
School shooting > immediate calls for gun control.
Hot summer > it's America's fault and global warming, must ratify "Kyoto".
Terrorists launch rockets into Israel > Bush's fault, need the United Nations.
During the previous administration, the WH coordinated message with their allies in the MSM, and this became almost a soviet-style propaganda operation.
Good explanation of the Leftwing-Moonbat BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) psychology!
I was only looking for something to me help understand your posts, I don't really want to start studying Rousseau.
A couple of examples of groups on the right that embrace Romanticism would probably help me to figure out enough for use as it relates to this thread.
Ayn Rand is one. Pat Buchanan could be classified as another. Robert Heinlein would be a third. Although their philosophies are different in many ways their outlooks are the same in that they are Romantics.
BTW you should study Rousseau.
Now I get it, but the only philosopher that has ever triggered an interest in me, was when I came across Thomas Reid in my 1903 set of Americana encyclopedias.
I think philosophy would have been different for me if the professors had introduced me to Reid, instead of trying to explain why a dumb ass like Nietzsche was so brilliant.
For philosophers I enjoy Locke, Smith and Hume, to list the top three. But one of the things I found important is not to hero worship. They were a bunch of very clever guys with interesting ideas some which I even agree with. :)
But perfect they were not nor do the best of them claim to be.
As far as questioning patriotism goes, the Left is most certainly not in support of the America that actually is, the one they fill up entire days inventing accusations and condemnatory rhetoric for. Their "patriotism" consists of an admiration for an America that exists only in their minds. When they say they are "progressives," that's what they think they are progressing toward. In fact they're crawling after an ever-receding mirage and it is the rest of us who they blame for it.
I'm clearly not the guy to discuss philosophy with, but here is a link on Reid, I would be surprised if he doesn't at least get some agreement from you (since you hate Romanticism).
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reid/
If they're pets, they're damn dangerous pets, kind of like the story I read a year ago about a guy's "pet" cobra that bit him while he was feeding it.
If they're pets, they're damn dangerous pets,
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Great post...
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