To: WaterDragon
Actually, I've never gotten to that one. However, another excellent book for understanding the left-wing mind is Paul Johnson's
Intellectuals.
However, the best book by far for understanding the left-wing mind is Dostoevsky's The Demons (also titled as The Possessed or The Devils). It's fiction, but it'll open your eyes to what's really going on inside the collectivist mind--especially the passage that's become known as "Stavrogin's Confession".
13 posted on
02/06/2003 2:31:15 PM PST by
HumanaeVitae
(Saddam's not a threat? 300,000 former Iraqi citizens would disagree---if they could.)
To: HumanaeVitae
Oh, wait, you mean this one is new?
No, I distinctly remember the book as "A Conflict of Visions". Let me check that out...
Does this one address the main concept underlying conservatism as "articulated reason"? That's the statement I remember most from the book...
14 posted on
02/06/2003 2:34:15 PM PST by
HumanaeVitae
(Saddam's not a threat? 300,000 former Iraqi citizens would disagree---if they could.)
To: HumanaeVitae
Yes! Paul Johnson's "Intellectuals" was the first book I read that exposed the Left. He does a devastating bio on each of the moronic intellectuals.
Haven't read the other book you mentioned, but now I will!
15 posted on
02/06/2003 2:35:03 PM PST by
WaterDragon
(Playing possum doesn't work against nukes.)
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