tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5891553.post4856978681548104427..comments2023-08-06T05:21:30.799-05:00Comments on The End Zone: Focusinggcotharnhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10912428161978690599noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5891553.post-86736655395103136112009-11-08T14:41:16.691-06:002009-11-08T14:41:16.691-06:00Thanks for the tip on Barzun. Collectivism, in an...Thanks for the tip on Barzun. Collectivism, in an age of advanced technology, surely cannot be the answer. Individual initiative must be the answer. Hopefully - for your perversely individualistic nature(!) - that pendulum is reaching the end of its arc, and will swing back towards individualism.gcotharnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10912428161978690599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5891553.post-22529480039949723022009-11-07T19:21:44.957-06:002009-11-07T19:21:44.957-06:00I don't disagree that belonging to a group is ...I don't disagree that belonging to a group is a huge factor in adherence to any dogma...<br /><br />It's just that I don't understand it, being perversely individualistic.<br /><br />Have you read "From Dawn to Decadence" by Jacques Barzun? In it he chronicles the historic pendulum swinging from individualism and collectivism over the past 500 years.<br /><br />It's possible we're in a period where the pendulum is at the bottom... and it's undecided which way it will go. I'm pushing from the individualist side.Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5891553.post-71073743822681462132009-11-07T19:01:03.107-06:002009-11-07T19:01:03.107-06:00BTW: any dogma. I don't know why people thoug...BTW: any dogma. I don't know why people thoughtlessly adhere to any dogma.gcotharnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10912428161978690599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5891553.post-78147995557923893822009-11-07T18:59:57.411-06:002009-11-07T18:59:57.411-06:00Hi Donna. I've added you to the blogroll. If ...Hi Donna. I've added you to the blogroll. If it's not b/c of desire to be part of a certain group, then I don't know why people thoughtlessly adhere to liberal dogma. If anyone finds out, <b>please</b> let me know!gcotharnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10912428161978690599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5891553.post-57478617245176530922009-11-07T17:22:24.824-06:002009-11-07T17:22:24.824-06:00gcotharn -- I agree to some extent about belonging...gcotharn -- I agree to some extent about belonging and tribes... but not fully. <br /><br />My sister and I were raised by the same parents and we could not be more politically different. My brother, a quintessential liberal is much more conservative than my sister, though he wouldn't freely admit it. He had formal training in logic and it pains him at times.<br /><br />From my perspective, I see so many of my relatives adhering by knee-jerk to liberal memes when they are living their lives as conservatives.<br /><br />THAT's what I don't understand.Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5891553.post-72881221491971391412009-11-05T01:12:36.626-06:002009-11-05T01:12:36.626-06:00Thank you, Greg.
You may notice, from the link at...Thank you, Greg.<br /><br />You may notice, from the link attached to my username (this time) that I've contracted the bug too.<br /><br />Lord knows where this will go. :-)Paul_In_Houstonhttp://paulinhouston.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5891553.post-68621387169068925722009-11-04T18:20:45.375-06:002009-11-04T18:20:45.375-06:00Hi Paul. Good to hear from you.Hi Paul. Good to hear from you.gcotharnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10912428161978690599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5891553.post-41828436002071730692009-11-04T09:38:01.243-06:002009-11-04T09:38:01.243-06:00On the NY-23 race, neo-neocon summed it up perfect...On the NY-23 race, neo-neocon summed it up perfectly...<br /><br /><i>If Republicans want to win, they should nominate Republicans in the first place, not RINOs who will be challenged by Conservatives and end up splitting the vote</i>.<br /><br />Paul GordonPaul Gordonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16530815397182777195noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5891553.post-37985356581596560442009-11-03T17:58:17.825-06:002009-11-03T17:58:17.825-06:00You have hit on the question which tortures the ri...You have hit on the question which tortures the right. The answer, I suspect, has little to do with logic and everything to do with tribes, belonging, and the familiar. <br /><br />Just as I am most likely to be Presbyterian, or Baptist, and less likely to be atheist or Catholic, so the left are most likely to belong to the left. Their family are on the left, their friends are on the left, their self-justifying sense of personal virtue is tied up with their being on the left. They fear the ideas of the right - actively block out those ideas, actively refuse to consider those ideas - out of fear that some of the right's ideas might have merit. Seeing such merit would mean leaving their family, leaving their friends, and leaving their cherished and familiar sense of personal virtue. Seeing such merit would mean leaving their tribe, leaving the familiar and comfortable, and casting themselves into the lonely and frightening wilderness. <br /><br />Therapist "Robin of Berkeley" is living such a casting-into-the-wilderness experience, and <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/desperately_seeking_conservati.html" rel="nofollow">writes about it</a>.gcotharnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10912428161978690599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5891553.post-43102997646532509792009-11-03T14:06:35.631-06:002009-11-03T14:06:35.631-06:00I've lived a long time - through a whole lot o...I've lived a long time - through a whole lot of both liberal and conservative presidents and congresses. Why do these liberals turn a blind eye to what has happened before? Why cannot they see that socialism and communism DO NOT WORK, have never worked and will never work? Such stupidity.emjayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04063486791931616531noreply@blogger.com