Saturday, September 15, 2007

A "Conservative Arts" Degree?


Quote of the day:
“Does ‘liberal thinking’ mean being so open minded that your brains have fallen out, to the extent that you no longer know what “right and wrong” mean, and have a tendency to invent Constitutional Rights [sic] that don’t exist”?
--Deidra Trinidad

Let’s talk polarization. You likely think either that this quote is inspired and witty or that it is lame and incomprehensible.

I believe the term “liberal thinking” means that the thinking is politically liberal as much as the term “liberal arts” means that the arts are politically liberal.

I may actually apply a slightly liberal quantity of thinking here. If that’s okay.

This quote came from someone who was frothing at the mouth, or on the verge of it. She is likely someone who thinks the world is getting more chaotic and descending into hell because so many people don’t follow the rules.

She may come from an extreme and hold a strict, literalist view of the Constitution, Bible or the IRS regulations. Well, probably not the last.

As always, most people of any quantity of thinking exist somewhere between the extremes of believing there are no rules and believing there is nothing but rules.

Speaking from the extremes might (MIGHT) be momentarily entertaining. But rarely is it elucidating.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Where are you on the bell-curve of life?

Speaking from the extreme middle, "Seems to me that if you are on the median, you are not contributing to the shape."

Extremely yours,
Hijo