Gratitude is a virtue which greatly enriches life. I am not abundantly endowed with this virtue by nature, continue to display significant and grimace-producing gaps in it, but try my best to make it second nature.
One of its components is not taking good things for granted. Another is paying attention to your situation in comparison to others. And for a conservative, that comparison includes a wide historical sweep. That's why I say that, in comparison to the Kingdom of God, America is a scandal and a catastrophe, but compared to pretty well any other place and time in history on this earth, it is a continuing daily miracle.
Jonah "Politics is Not Redemptive" Goldberg, who often makes a great deal of sense to me, continues to do so in his piece on the whiny ungrateful children of capitalism.
3 comments:
I think of gratitude as a skill. You have to cultivate it. And, you will make tons of mistakes or still come up short... humor helps.
Your 'ungrateful children' link goes nowhere. Would like to read it!
Based on your recommendation I read 'Liberal Fascism.' Basic idea on target, argument weak. Sir Karl Popper and the economic calculation argument are the real coffin nails in socialism.
sorry about the bad link. now fixed. thanks for letting me know!
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