tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post8587534932311700497..comments2023-12-28T06:30:48.808-05:00Comments on The Rule of Reason: Obama’s Emerging Enabling ActUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-71181688698880359312010-12-04T21:49:43.186-05:002010-12-04T21:49:43.186-05:00My other growing concern is that the Right, especi...My other growing concern is that the Right, especially if Christian conservatives gain more influence in the Tea Party movement, will increasingly turn to "God" to solve what the cannot and will not take the responsibility of resolving themselves. I just read someone on another blog the riot act for babbling about "God works in mysterious ways" and sense that this could become a psychological escape route for too many of them.revereridesagainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-37273069376769144502010-12-04T21:30:54.447-05:002010-12-04T21:30:54.447-05:00Thanks for the words of encouragement, Roxanne. I ...Thanks for the words of encouragement, Roxanne. I know just how Randy feels as he so evocatively describes it, because it's the same thing that has been turning my life into an increasingly desperate search for some sign of rationality that I can trust. That's the worst part. There are so few people left who can be trusted, not in the sense of not betraying or doing physical harm, but trust not to turn out to be irrational Obots who remind me of the alien-mutant humans at the end of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers". It's not even an issue of getting them to agree any more -- it's getting them to even care.<br /><br />Ed Cline's articles keep me reminded that I'm not slowly going mad in a sane world, but that it's the other way around.revereridesagainnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-7337950790026731592010-12-03T18:08:34.149-05:002010-12-03T18:08:34.149-05:00Important ideas to discuss but I am not giving up ...Important ideas to discuss but I am not giving up on America yet. It is a significant minority that ever turns a culture. <br /><br />Rand said it's too late for a popular revolt towards better ideas, and too early for a fully rational society.<br /><br />It's up to us to change the ideas of this culture. You reach out to the relatively few people who are concerned with/ understand that ideas move man/society. It is not necessary to reach everyone. <br /><br />Randy, what is very apparent to you is not apparent to most people. They just don't get that ideas matter. Don’t give up attempting to reach those who are “reachable”- you will never know when something you say will affect someone. It most likely will not be at the time you discuss it with that person- it takes time to digest ideas, concretize them, see the ideas you discuss “out there” in reality. Most people will only change fundamental ideas slowly which I think is how it must be done. Very seldom will an adult instantly agree with you on a complex issue, especially of morality. <br /><br />But there will be people you’ve talked with, who will remember something you said. And when some irrationality hits them personally they’ll remember your observation and they will question an assumption they’ve been living their life on. That is how a culture is changed. <br /><br />Roxanne A.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-37825885919645476082010-12-03T17:30:28.536-05:002010-12-03T17:30:28.536-05:00Good read.Good read.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5200276.post-80672124393051230382010-12-03T15:31:45.840-05:002010-12-03T15:31:45.840-05:00The last decade has been an inexorable decent to t...The last decade has been an inexorable decent to the living hell of a socialist/communist police state. I see it, some others see it. Maybe even the majority see it, but the majority is more concerned with getting their outstretched hand filled with goodies to care. The apathy and even downright derision these people have for individual rights appalls me. <br /><br />I find myself more and more fantasizing about how rationally self interested persons could establish a new nation to call home. The civil war dictates that we would not simply be left alone in a state the seceded from the Union. Every other looter nation would only let us be long enough for us to build up some capital worth invading and seizing.<br /><br />It seems hopeless and yet, being rationally self interested, I can't just give up. I have to keep trying to change the moral character of the people whose lives I affect on a daily basis. More and more, though, it just seems I am shut out, ignored, even laughed at. The worst reaction is the blank stare and nod as something in them knows I am right, but they long ago lost the courage and will to fight for the right and instead just settle for the mediocre for as long as they can.Randyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14871995062048215902noreply@blogger.com