93 posted on
08/23/2015 11:31:10 PM PDT by
rmlew
("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers.")
[Charles Murray] "He's a libertarian with traditional values."
You mean he supports LEGALIZATION of RECREATIONAL DRUGS ?
You have NOT offered any answers to my questions.
You've offered only INNUENDOES.
Who did he support in 2008, ROMNEY ?
Does he support Paul (since you say he's a
"Libertarian" ?
Like most people trying to straighten out the mess Congress has gotten us into, and vote for the "best person to do the job",
I neither have the time, or the inclination to go reading 2 bloviating books by someone who sits around with a bunch of other college/university snobs, discussing how smart they are.
Like Martin Morse Wooster said in
one of the quotes I found while trying to figure out if Charles Murray was a PRETEND Conservative, or an out right LIBERAL lying about his conservative values:
Murray sees the American elite as morally hollow.
The upper class does many things well (including having strong and lasting marriages)but is unwilling and possibly unable to defend the virtues that lead to its success.
The signs that Americas new upper class has suffered a crisis of self-confidence are hard to ignore, he writes.
By being separate from the rest of the nation, this class fails to set an example of good behavior that is necessary for everyone to follow in order to succeed.
The elite colleges are implicitly part of that problem.
Intellectuals are known for overthinking problems.
I have a nagging suspicion that Murray may have done exactly that in his argumentthat elite colleges are complicit in Americas coming apart.
Is it really something newthat the brightest young men and women tend to marry and have very bright children
and that the upper classes dont mingle much with the rest of society?
Whatever the answers to those questions, Murray offers no specific solutions, including changes in the role of colleges.
Should those schools change admissions policies?Should the elite individuals change their lives?All he says is that they should think about ways to change.
Here, Murrays long-established cultural pessimism shows throughwere facing a problem and there isnt any clear solution to it.
I hope its not as bad as he claims.
But NONE OF THIS
answers my questions !