tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post8951585261015796291..comments2023-10-26T08:02:44.948-04:00Comments on Connecticut Commentary: Red Notes from a Blue State: The Extremists Among UsDon Pescihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-1450931209325636312014-09-21T18:15:14.274-04:002014-09-21T18:15:14.274-04:00PB, I heartily agree. By "experiment in Weste...PB, I heartily agree. By "experiment in Western thought" I was referring,in my own mind, to Western political thought, beginning with the Greeks, Aristotle's "Politics" in particular, that culminated in the Glorious English Revolution and the American experiment in political constitutional government -- not science per se, and especially not pseudo science. I could have been clearer and welcome your elaboration.Don Pescihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11167988001948356357noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9069955.post-31083299583975798152014-09-21T14:17:09.046-04:002014-09-21T14:17:09.046-04:00the great experiment in Western thought that has b... the great experiment in Western thought that has brought us a form of civilization<br />-----<br />Allow me, please, to disagree with your use of the image of science in this way. It is the egalitarian social engineers who are conducting experiments. (Although whenever they go wrong the managerial class lies and pretends all is well;so with public education, social security, welfare, obamacare... ) The left denies that there is a god given natural justice accessible by human reason. Rather it has embarked on a program of "fundamental transformation" of society in the image of its (rational/scientific) social justice. It rejects the given in favor of the man-made, even after all the empirical evidence of the 20th century's experiments by the Soviet Union, Germany, China, Vietnam, Cambodia,North Korea.. not to mention FDR and LBJ. Embarked on changing society, the left denies objective truth, and labels as extreme, reactionary, closed-minded, bitterly-clinging anyone who stands in its way. But, the extremists are the ones with the hi-tech guillotine cutting off the heads of tradition and western civilization. Unfortunately, our penchant for social engineering in the service of an abstract proposition may go back to the Gettysburg Address, and Lincoln's mistaken understanding of what this country is (was). <br />------<br />Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.<br />Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.peter brushnoreply@blogger.com