Wimps and Barbarians - The Sons of Murphy Brown (LONG)

Claremont Review of Books ^ | December 8, 2003 | Terrence O. Moore

[Dan from Michigan]

"There ARE no winners or losers."

As a coach, that statement just makes me shudder.

[edwin hubble]

The author's premise is well founded in some respects.

1. The lack of a mature father figure hampers developemnt in boys as individuals.

2. This becomes a problem society-wide, and the effect is seen in inner cities and in our culture.

3. Clear paths left for the growing boy are: Barbarian or Wimp in world where the rules are written only by women and men who don't understand what it means to behave like a grown man.

This said, I think the author has spent much of his time in the Upper West Side of New York or in a large California city.

He is certainly right about the culture of the media, in general, but he is too pessimistic about the long term.

There are places in the red zone of this country where men are raised to be thoughful, responsible, enthusiastic, dedicated grown-up men.

[Panzerfaust]

This article sounds a lot like the plot line to the movie "Fight Club"

[longtermmemmory]

BUMP for correctness

[longtermmemmory]

BUMP for correctness

[ladylib]

He's the principal of this school:

http://home.microsoft.com/access/autosearch.asp?p=Ridgeview+Classical

A charter school that has an entirely different way of educating students, entirely different from the progressive public schools we have today -- the curriculum is based on the age-old trivium -- different developmental stages for students, which "go with the grain" -- grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

IMHO, we would all be better off if we had more schools like this. Thankfully, the movement is growing.

[Rummyfan]

Bump for later read.....

[oyez]

From my barbarian training I learned when the chip are down, suck it up and go or when the going get tough the tough get going. From what I see of the wimp side to when the chips are down, go and suck or principles are made to compromise.

I don't know. The say we should celebrate our diversity(Balkanization) I don't buy it.

[oyez]

From my barbarian training I learned when the chips are down, suck it up and go or when the going get tough, the tough get going. From what I see of the wimp side to when the chips are down, go and suck or principles are made to compromise.

I don't know. The say we should celebrate our diversity(Balkanization) I don't buy it.

[wayoverontheright]

Furthermore, wimps vote. As Aristotle pointed out, to the cowardly, bravery will seem more like rashness and foolhardiness than what it really is. Hence political and social issues that require bravery for their solution elicit only hand-wringing and half-measures from the wimps. Wimps are always looking for the easy way out.

Hmmm. Democrats are wimps! I wasn't looking for the political lesson here, but then it just jumps out at me!