tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post7989626587830614454..comments2024-03-27T03:19:11.216-04:00Comments on Assistant Village Idiot: All My Road Before MeAssistant Village Idiothttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-16372844551491664622014-07-09T02:29:24.950-04:002014-07-09T02:29:24.950-04:00These days, the buffet table is choosing them.These days, the buffet table is choosing them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-38711942962951967072014-06-24T16:59:40.391-04:002014-06-24T16:59:40.391-04:00@dmoeling - one would think they must have known. ...@dmoeling - one would think they must have known. But look at folks today. We are surrounded by those who "should" know they are enabling fools and frauds. Yet they don't. The ability of all of us to pick and choose our reality from the buffet table is astounding.<br /><br />@T99 - yes, I keep forgetting that even in my own generation I have more of the 19th C or earlier in me than most other folks. Moral certainty <i>per se</i> does not offend me. I welcome such declarations, but choose to examine "are they so?" rather than saying "Horrors! Have any of us the right to be so sure?"Assistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-44029604283031770892014-06-24T15:46:09.876-04:002014-06-24T15:46:09.876-04:00Lewis said that, even before he converted, there w...Lewis said that, even before he converted, there was someone he knew in WWI (maybe a sergeant?) who first discussed duty with him in a way that awoke him to the whole world of moral choice. In the early 1920s I guess he would have been mulling these things over?<br /><br />His style is so unfashionable now. If you are used to the didacticism of the 19th century he seems flexible and humble, but in the 21st century there are lots of people who can't bear his moral certainty and assumed authority on issues other than a narrow, pre-approved set, like sustainable agriculture.Texan99https://www.blogger.com/profile/10479561573903660086noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-69570768576577622752014-06-24T13:22:36.624-04:002014-06-24T13:22:36.624-04:00A few years ago I listened to an interview with an...A few years ago I listened to an interview with an author of a book on the Haymarket Bombers. Both the author and interviewer were dyed in the wool leftists, but the author had come to the conclusion that the bombers were actually guilty as charged. They acted as they declared (as Anarchists) to destroy the current civic order. One suspects that most if not all of the US Communists of the 1930's actually believed in the program. The HUAC didn't have to look very hard to find them. That others later professed to be only marginally involved or ignorant of the true nature of the Party stretches the imagination.dmoellinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13128088863830769762noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-2541480027488693282014-06-22T12:06:12.467-04:002014-06-22T12:06:12.467-04:00Comment about a dead, semi-well-known English writ...Comment about a dead, semi-well-known English writer. I wonder about a comment that impugns his race and sex, and why any fool would go there.Sam L.https://www.blogger.com/profile/00996809377798862214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-48457531903795551572014-06-22T08:12:22.459-04:002014-06-22T08:12:22.459-04:00It seems we find 3 categories of inappropriate com...It seems we find 3 categories of inappropriate comments:<br />1) Those who didn't understand the issue and rant about something that isn't there. Sometimes the obtuseness is real but often it is ideologically driven.<br />2) Trolls who like to stir up trouble.<br />3) Dung-smearing monkeys trying to mark territory.<br /><br />I happened to see the comment last night, and it looked type 3.jameshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01792036361407527304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-27165159208029202432014-06-22T02:25:08.350-04:002014-06-22T02:25:08.350-04:00Asking myself whether I'm more or less curious...Asking myself whether I'm more or less curious about the deleted comment because of the explanation...<br /><br />Also thinking I could (should?) go back and delete numerous comments of mine with the explanation "because I was drunk". <br /><br />This one too, perhaps?Donna B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/16771075314473811594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-26374556501805177102014-06-21T23:29:16.804-04:002014-06-21T23:29:16.804-04:00I didn't read all of it, or even much of it. I...I didn't read all of it, or even much of it. I mostly just leafed through. I thought it was interesting mostly for its tone - it was interesting to read the daily thoughts of someone who has received no notice for his thinking yet, but is on the cusp of being very famous. Not that Lewis was ever the least bit fatuous, but there's a rawer humility to it that comes from having nothing and no one knowing your name, which was obviously less true later in his life (though the money troubles remained).Ben Wymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12491745981357751416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19305198.post-22913304600031479512014-06-21T21:58:21.565-04:002014-06-21T21:58:21.565-04:00Comment deleted because of racial sexual contentComment deleted because of racial sexual contentAssistant Village Idiothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01978011985085795099noreply@blogger.com