Posted by
RedDot on Friday, May 16, 2008 12:15:59 AM
There are days I think that thinking is... well, difficult. My family would say this is both indemic to and epidemic in my life's cocoon.
I find it difficult to connect the dots in some areas. Being the ever so slightly stubborn soul that I am, I tread unlightly into those arenas with no small lack of foresight. I have thought that scuba lessons might help... in hindsight of course.
I have decided I need assistance with assessing the world's loftier issues... let alone in coming up with positive, cogent, pithy (my favorite word because it is so often used in a context that ain't) and executable (read practicable) ideas toward resolution or sound change.
I need help understanding, in concrete, direct terms, my role in the world and WHY my goverment is suppose to be viewed as evil, Craig Newmark clears that up at his Berkeley commencement speech.
I find myself mystified in determining the role of the sexes in society, history and what grounds for a marital relationship are. The greater minds of California's Supreme Court have straightened this out for me.
I have a hard time with economics. I think it started with my desperate fear of my college junior statistics professor - who was an economist and reveled in making minds like mine melt. It all becomes simple if I would just listen to the Clintons - it starts with the farm bill that the mean dim conservatives have quashed out of pure spite.
Unfortunately, taking to heart the meandering drivel which constitutes the thinking, mores and musings of those above would most likely make me miss the real heroes of thought and action who we are graced with yet today. Those who don't or didn't manipulate the masses to simply acrete power for sacrifice upon altars of base desire. Those who truly led. Those who invested their lives in the reality of freedom, liberty, peace through strength, vanquishing evil as and in the reality it manifests itself. Those who we should invest ourselves in learning from.
Hillsdale just dedicated a great effort to Maggie Thatcher - the "Iron Lady"
"The new world of freedom into which the dazzled Socialists have stumbled is not new to us. What to them is uncharted territory is to us familiar and well loved ground. For Britain has returned to those basic truths and principles which made her great—personal liberty, private property and the rule of law, on which democratic freedoms everywhere are based. Ours is a creed which travels and endures. Its truths are written in the human heart."
Margaret Thatcher
Here here.