Two Visions Three Questions
My 70+ years as an American have not made me an optimist nor a pessimist nor an end of-history utopian. I am an American realist. I see things as they are and work from there.
My 70+ years as an American have not made me an optimist nor a pessimist nor an end of-history utopian. I am an American realist. I see things as they are and work from there.
“American thought is dominated by a “prevailing vision” which seals itself off from any empirical evidence that is inconsistent with that vision.”
Are you less free now than a year ago? Are you currently free to flourish as a human? Are you currently told to wear a mask, stay home and wait for release from house arrest? Are you being told how you can gather with your family and your church? Are you being told that you…
“…this country, despite its sins, also is a country for the last sixty years has truly transformed itself morally. And, Americans today are a different people in regard to all these issues [discrimination, oppression] …” Shelby Steele, How America’s Past Sins Have Polarized Our Country Parallel Perspective April 1968. I was sixteen when I heard…
Utopia comes from the Greek: οὐ (“not”) and τόπος (“place”) and means “no-place“, a non-existent place. ….. And now a few clarion words from Claremont Institute Senior Fellow Angelo M. Codevilla: “This dismissal of the American people’s intellectual, spiritual, and moral substance is the very heart of what our ruling class is about. Its…
Envy St. has been the road most travelled from the start. Covetousness and self-deception have been the vehicles of choice. The serpent promised the first couple that they could become like God – their projected 1%. “You will not surely die,” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of…
“The history of the 20th century is full of examples of countries that set out to redistribute wealth and ended up redistributing poverty. The communist nations were a classic example, but by no means the only example.” – Thomas Sowell, economist ~~~ On the heels of a previous post, Resident Evil: Redistribution, I now…
It’s a mystery to me We have a greed with which we have agreed You think you have to want more than you need Until you have it all you won’t be free Society, you’re a crazy breed I hope you’re not lonely without me. Though the message of the above song…