Perhaps we should be a little more careful in the future about the way we stir up resentments by constant reference to wrongs and injustices, without any counterbalancing appreciation of historic achievements. If you want poison in the water supply, teach a generation that it is heir to nothing but oppression and injustice, and one of its members will oblige. 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
>>>>>Moreover, for many years the intellectual and moral worth of a member of the intelligentsia has been measured by the vehemence of his criticism and rejection of the accomplishments of the past. Only anger over wrongs and injustices is considered a generous or constructive emotion; admiration for past achievement has been relegated to the status of swinish complacency, which is itself the passive handmaiden of oppression. And in an age dominated by mass media, it is hardly surprising that such an attitude should have communicated itself to the whole of society.
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.