[Iris7]

And you use amazingly sweeping generalities. Do not confuse your own opinions with the truth. In fact, your prejudices appear unexamined.

With enormous risk of being uncharitable, your point of view reminds me of Henry Ford's "History is bunk." That reminds me of "Ignorance is bliss." If I were mean spirited it would remind me of "Freedom is Slavery."

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Iris7 wrote: And you use amazingly sweeping generalities. Do not confuse your own opinions with the truth. In fact, your prejudices appear unexamined.

Hogwash!

You're the one who dotes on philosophers and what do they do if not make sweeping generalities.

Iris7 wrote: With enormous risk of being uncharitable, your point of view reminds me of Henry Ford's "History is bunk." That reminds me of "Ignorance is bliss." If I were mean spirited it would remind me of "Freedom is Slavery."

Now you're being — and I'll be charitable here — silly.

History is a window to the past, not a blueprint for the future.

You can put as much lipstick on the paleo-con pig as you wish, but the past that they so greatly admire was — for all it's gentility and romantization — deeply bigoted and cruel.

It gave us, for instance, slavery, Bleeding Kansas and lynch law.