Wednesday, April 22, 2015
How wise are we really?
Jonathonan Holmes laments our inertia but clearly doesn't understand it . SMH and Age articles today
Chesterton observed that if you adopt a low view of man ( cf Imagedeo) you become committed to a high view of government .Huxley ( Brave New World ), Shaw ,Orwell ( 1984) and Chesterton wrote nearly 100 years ago in the hope of warning us to avoid these days. We "don't blink an eye "because , as Chesterton observed about the broader western culture in early 1900's,we are no longer feisty about anything --having pulled down everything" .We now pay increasing numbers of people to"tell us what we need to know. " - which sort of means we allow ourselves to be treated like children (One of feisty old Nietzsche's few worries )
As Chesterton also indicated, if you adopt a low view of man ( post christian reality- ImageoDeo ) we are , as idealists, committed to a high view of mother and father government . M&D government is a terrible indictment of our history and the sense of freedom offered to US by our forefathers. We won over the Romans and the Greeks - we might need to do it again
On Anzac Day, give your brothers back their freedom- all over the world from whatever race. Forgive, give and don't try to tell people how to live .
Polys would do well to ask questions about Labor dumb view of science which is symbolic of a bigger problem of perception . The trouble that thinking YOU the smart arse KNOWS what FULL story of science says see also http://misplacedconcreteness.blogspot.com
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/afl/stephen-dank-no-science-guru-says-afl/story-fnca0u4y-1227315981137
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