tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38413397.post6325808435501287311..comments2023-12-19T15:10:02.866-08:00Comments on ex cathedra: Should vs isUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38413397.post-63129814463171765472011-09-09T08:33:39.209-07:002011-09-09T08:33:39.209-07:00“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream t...“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’" The Serpent says this to Eve in Shaw’s “Back to Methuselah”<br /><br />Interesting that Ted Kennedy later used the Serpent's word so eulogize his murdered brother.Tarquinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01731930461164428232noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38413397.post-38539200291940164262011-09-08T12:07:48.886-07:002011-09-08T12:07:48.886-07:00A Prot professor a generation older than moi in Bo...A Prot professor a generation older than moi in Boston claim'd that a turning point for him away from liberalism was this: an NCC committee he was on in the early 1980s(?) had funded a study of the use of chemical pesticides comparing family farms with those of agribusiness; the study found that the family farmer used much more per acre, whereas big operations used only the prescribed amount, etc; so, dismissing his strong objections, the NCC committee voted to destroy the findings of the study.<br /><br />But you know, really, this prof was always rather an odd man out, for example, he didn't really march to the proper tune against American involvement in Vietnam.<br /><br />erAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38413397.post-16668735156046450012011-09-08T12:00:39.710-07:002011-09-08T12:00:39.710-07:00I wonder, Did you "drift" away our cultu...I wonder, Did you "drift" away our culture's standard liberalism because you "grew tired" of having see the world as it should be and positively discouraged from seeing it as it is, or did you transfer your natural-born energetic dissatisfaction from the world and apply it to our culture's standard liberalism? ...<br /><br />In any case, maybe it "lacks common sense" to find fault with the standard liberalism as if one can reasonably expect our crowd to do something different. ... And I suppose it would lack common sense to expect ex cathedra to become a que sera sera kind of guy. ...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com