Posted by
Red Meat & Cigarettes on Tuesday, December 30, 2008 3:08:17 PM
If you have ever had the pleasure of having a full and honest philosophical debate with a liberal, it becomes clear, fairly quickly, that they do not value wisdom (or in some cases don't even understand what it is).Probabilities and history are of little interest compared to the more fun world of dreams and possibilities...however improbable. Take for example John Lennon's " Imagine". It ignores Human nature, history, reality and common sense in favor of fantasy. This quality is endearing in children but a dangerous impediment in the world in which we live. Artists and dreamers are only accountable for creating and entertaining not for solving real problems. It's a wonderful luxury to dream and create.. it's one that I cherish. Conservatives usually understand the roles of the doers and the dreamers... liberals on the other hand cannot generally make this distinction. In order to make proper distinctions between unlike things, you need to make some intellectual judgements about validity, logic, effectiveness, and in most cases morality. This exercise for a liberal is like cramming for a test, they don't do the "daily workout" of this muscle and end up playing catch-up or improvising, to solve governmental problems or resolve ethical and moral dilemmas. Thank God for conservatism.