Posted by
The Interface on Monday, January 15, 2007 1:04:20 PM
The inability of what appears to be the vast majority of the Left to think is amply compensated by their ability to feel. I was going to ignore the Boxer-Rice event, but Michael Ledeen's brief post here says it so well, and brings out the critical point extremely worthy of note here:
The theory that you must have the correct emotions in order to understand a body of knowledge or master a particular subject is a corollary of the doctrine that there is no objective truth (knowledge being no more or less than an instrument of power). Every idea is held to be subjective, and thus—again—emotions and feelings are the most important things. Indeed, for a certain kind of contemporary liberal, they are the only things that matter.
If you believe that, there is obviously no point in studying anything, except to provoke emotional reactions, and you will be unable to distinguish between the validity of conflicting emotions.
We need to consign this philosophy to the trash heap of history as quickly as possible, or we ourselves will be thrust there by those whose grasp on reality is more objective, and whose grasp on the sword is likewise more real.