Posted on 12/04/2018 11:57:26 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o
i think she is loyal to a phantom Democratic party that hasn’t existed in some time, if ever. probably a classic liberal, not a Dem.
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Why? What has Kamala Harris accomplished thus far that would cause Ms. Paglia to believe her last few years of life would be enriched (literally or figuratively) by a Kamala Harris Presidency?
She voted for Bernie. She thought Kamala might be a better, younger Bernie.
I suspect you're looking for too much in her statement. If you hear about somebody from your party who manages to get elected someplace and people are talking him or her up, you might have high hopes ... until you learn more about the politician in question. That's a pretty common experience.
I enjoy reading her commentary but she is truly intellectually inconsistent!
2 without a doubt in my mind.
That the categories I mentioned above are your endowments rather than your accomplishments, cannot be disputed.
That is not to say that you have no choices, or that your choices have not shaped --- as well as proceeded from--- who you "are." Everything we think, intend, say, and do, is both gift and task. But first, and enduringly, it's gift. And to be "task," you have to know what these gifts of yours are good for. (As in "good scissors.") How do you know you're a good man if you don't know what you're for? Anyone can just follow that they think will be self-fulfilling. Anybody can be Harvey Weinstein. Paradoxically, a world full of self-actualizing individuals, defining "good" and "evil" for themselves, and fulfilling themselves under the assumption they owe no "subservience" to anybody because they are "freeborn," would be unlivable..
Then I thought, "I can not make YOU a reuben sandwich and YOU can't give ME a coupla minutes." That's the way it goes,for contingent beings like ourselves...
Is this a good pair of scissors? It's very poor for hammering in quarter-rounds. Useless for opening tuna cans. No good for pillowing your head while falling asleep. No good as a writing instrument. No good as a spouse. No good as a god. But it will cut paper and cloth: yes, it's a good pair of scissors.
Are you a good man?
None of this is really answerable, I think, unless you know what a man is for.
I already wasted a lot of time with Nietzsche and Sartre> They're about as good for my journey as Pauline Reage.
If you switch them around they might make more sense "o)
I have enormous respect for Camille. She needs to be read and listened to, widely. Her wit is sharp and she nails the “new left” brilliantly. She loves Peterson because she enjoys bright people with depth, no matter their ideology - it’s the exchange of thoughts and humor and differing ideas that challenge and interest her.
As a country we need more of her, fewer of Hillary. I had several friends like her- and they were real friends- years back. We’d argue and debate and then go out to dinner. Life was larger then, and much larger than politics. We’ve become very small and limited and insular.
I guess you’re right. It could mean more like, “I hoped she might be a real presidential contender,” as opposed to, “I had reason to believe she might accomplish something specific that I care about.”
This makes me think that we've been arguing about different things without making the necessary distinctions.
I have been regarding "subservience" and "humility" in this discussion, anyhow, in a filial sense. Which is to say, a way that is conformed to reality. "Humility" in this context is practically a synonym for "realism." We did not make ourselves, we are contingent beings and therefore indebted beings, we live "referred lives", which is to say, lives that refer, inescapably, to others; and we are born into a society and a world we did not make.
We are not born "free". We are born into a predicament.
Your kids will say, as you yourself said, or at least thought, as a kid: "Why do I have to live in this world I did not make?" "What do you expect *me* to do?" That's the predicament.
I agree with that. However, I also think that the most common experience of human beings over time is "subservience, enforced by physical or mental threats." To conclude from this that humans are "born free" in any sense is far from obvious.
Great. Glittering Images is at my local library in Georgia. I’ll check it out tomorrow. Thanks.
A society pervaded by this "filiality" would be just and good, but it is a justice never perfectly expressed on this earth. We live with, at best, some approximation of this justice. We enact, at best, some approximation of it. We desire it.
Hungering and thirsting for justice is as good as it gets in this life. Those who hunger and thirst are called "blessed."
During Pat's school meeting, I was translating next Sunday's lectionary; it helps me with my grammar and vocabulary, as well as focusing the mind. In the first reading from Baruch, it says (my translation), "God will give you a name forever: 'Peace in justice and glory in reverence'."
Just beautiful.
“But it is extremely mystifying that with her towering intellect she continues to adhere to the intellectually bankrupt Democrat lie.”
That is attributable to her same-sex attraction disorder.
Bkmk
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