sophocles07
05-12-2008, 07:40 AM
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1453210931858379190&q=firing+line&ei=qkMoSP3ZEIyArgKy1_ScCg&hl=en
I suppose I agree almost completely with this (exclude first 20 or so seconds).
I don't like Reagan. At least, post-California. What do you think?
Exclude your hatred of Chomsky's economics. I think he's spot-on on foreign policy. And (generally) spot-on on Buckley.
There's a lot of Reagan-worship and Buckley-worship around conservative circles these days; I think we should abandon such pious attitudes, as they can be mishandled by ANYONE who comes about (B Kristol, C Krauthammer, G Will, etc), and don't always live up to the idol image.
I think rationale should always reduce the "idol" to a common person; and then analyze the positions of that person to a certain value system. One should not gather to an image as those who worshipped at the feet of Andrei Rublyev's images did so.
I suppose I agree almost completely with this (exclude first 20 or so seconds).
I don't like Reagan. At least, post-California. What do you think?
Exclude your hatred of Chomsky's economics. I think he's spot-on on foreign policy. And (generally) spot-on on Buckley.
There's a lot of Reagan-worship and Buckley-worship around conservative circles these days; I think we should abandon such pious attitudes, as they can be mishandled by ANYONE who comes about (B Kristol, C Krauthammer, G Will, etc), and don't always live up to the idol image.
I think rationale should always reduce the "idol" to a common person; and then analyze the positions of that person to a certain value system. One should not gather to an image as those who worshipped at the feet of Andrei Rublyev's images did so.