tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post2725448323246696105..comments2024-03-27T11:16:36.951-07:00Comments on One Cʘsmos: When Reality is Against the LawGagdad Bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14249005793605006679noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85649812880579670812018-07-31T17:50:27.118-07:002018-07-31T17:50:27.118-07:00Apparently Bork was still an atheist at the time o...Apparently Bork was still an atheist at the time of the senate hearings, but became Catholic a few years after the publication of Slouching Toward Gomorrah.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-87768604001008384432018-07-31T16:40:49.269-07:002018-07-31T16:40:49.269-07:00I had never read any books by Robert Bork, but on ...I had never read any books by Robert Bork, but on impulse picked up <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Slouching-Towards-Gomorrah-Liberalism-American/dp/0060573112/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=onecos-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=a6ee84f30735cdc5215adb700576c4b9&creativeASIN=0060573112" rel="nofollow">Slouching Toward Gomorrah</a>, and it is the best analysis I've ever read on the deep pathology of liberalism. His brain was too big for the Supreme Court.Gagdad Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00911613613759942690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-41595397353316697622018-07-31T07:12:32.350-07:002018-07-31T07:12:32.350-07:00Julie said "...for common sense to exist, the...Julie said "...for common sense to exist, there must first be a common culture. Destroy the latter, and the former goes right along with it."<br /><br />Culture, Common Sense... or what Gramsci called the 'False Consciousness' that needed to be destroyed, so that Marxism could prevail. Depressing how many admiring pages, or rabidly frothing pages on Gramsci I had to scroll through, to find a <a href="https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/02/cultural_marxism.html" rel="nofollow">fairly decent one</a> on him. <br /><br />Almost makes you think the long march is nearing its end.<br /><br />More than any previous time, I take great comfort in the fact that I don't know nearly as much as I think I do... there's still plenty of room for surprises.Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-17219587578215226242018-07-30T21:07:28.853-07:002018-07-30T21:07:28.853-07:00It seems to me that both a culture and a nation ar...<i> It seems to me that both a culture and a nation are rooted in the idea of a common reality -- especially the former, which is prior to the nation. </i><br /><br />I saw somebody this weekend - forget where, maybe it was even here - observe that for common sense to exist, there must first be a common culture. Destroy the latter, and the former goes right along with it.juliehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15975754287030568726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8580258.post-85198020626776636772018-07-30T11:36:19.530-07:002018-07-30T11:36:19.530-07:00"More to the point, The truth does not share ..."More to the point, The truth does not share the defeat of its defenders. Woo hoo!"<br /><br />My favorite from The Aphorist<br /><br />Why ask why? <br /><br />"But "why" is the most dangerous and subversive -- but liberating -- question humans can ask, so no wonder the left always and everywhere tries to restrict or ban it."Van Harveyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08470413719262297062noreply@blogger.com