Posted on 10/15/2001 3:07:46 AM PDT by The Raven
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:45:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
By Theodore Dalrymple. Theodore Dalrymple is the pen name of Anthony Daniels, a British physician and contributing editor to City Journal.
It was H.G. Wells who, only a few years after the development of the germ theory of disease, first realized the value of bacteria for terrorist purposes. In 1895, he published a story called "The Stolen Bacillus," in which an anarchist revolutionary worms his way into the confidence of a bacteriologist in order to obtain cholera germs to put in London's water supply.
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The left looks for the "root cause" and always comes up with anger. Then the recommendation is appeasement - or "do nothing".
You said: The liberals "enable" this anger behavior as well (witness 60 minutes last night).
The left looks for the "root cause" and always comes up with anger. Then the recommendation is appeasement - or "do nothing".
Wow! Did you miss the point.
He said, "teach a generation that it is heir to nothing but oppression and injustice," which is just exactly what the liberals, most minority leaders, and our public shools have been doing for 60 years. He was just surprised the natural consequences of this idiocy have not occurred earlier, and frankly so am I.
His piont is, that we ought to stop teaching everyone that their victims that are owed something (like reparations).
Hank
Who would have guessed it?
The identity of anger with virtue and generosity has become complete.
I plead guilty of speedreading and not reading the last paragraph....this is puzzling in light of the above.
The identity of anger with virtue and generosity has become complete.
I plead guilty of speedreading and not reading the last paragraph....this is puzzling in light of the above.
Here he is making the same point, that the pseudo-intellectual elite (educators, so called) have been totally negative in their teaching about the accomplishments of science and technology (medicine, twin towers, etc.) and only considered issues like, "destruction of the environment," worthy. This resulted in a "passive" (not enthusiatic enough) attitude toward what we would call the blessing of liberty and a free market. He's right here too.
All these sniveling complainers take the life-style and freedoms they enjoy for granted because we have failed to make a big enough issue of the fact that it is the creators who make their very lives possible.
Hank
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