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Knowledge Too Big to Handle
I didn't read any of these books, nor did I see the movie referenced in TFA.But I do conclude from reading the article is that Obama, Ayers et al are a symptom of a generation generally not grounded in rigorous thinking, but rather taught in sloppy thinking. They hate what they do not understand because frankly they are incompetent, and Obama, his Obamettes and any number of followers are exemplars of incompetence of their generation. From TFA: By contorting every fact that did not naturally fit their template, the Weathermen and their allies concluded, in Ayers' words, that America's "intentions were evil and her justifications dissembling, her explanations dishonest, her every move false." This was the "knowledge," uniquely intuited by the hard left, that Rudd and his colleagues found "too big" to handle. In Weather Underground not one of the seven or eight Weathermen interviewed in 2002 questions this assumption about America and the Vietnam War. Neither do their liberal critics in the film, nor do the filmmakers for that matter. All that anyone questions are the futile ends to which the Weathermen applied their superior insights. Posted by: badanov 2009-08-16 |
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