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| Knowledge Too Big to Handle |
| 2009-08-16 |
| 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 |
| #3 Parochial, no matter how much they've read, how far they've travelled, or degrees they've collected. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2009-08-16 18:41 |
| #2 the intellectual landfill upon which the American left has built its worldview The problem is that their view never really was a worldview--it was a myopic, narrow, and selfish view.. They never really understood that withdrawing from Viet Nam had significant far-reaching ramifications beyond their limited cause. And likewise the mindset of a community organizer tends to be narrow, limited, and self-aggrandizing. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-08-16 18:17 |
| #1 The core of modern Leftism is narcissism. It makes them think that they are superior, and entitled to rule the little people. There's a vein of psychopathy about how they view other people. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-08-16 16:58 |