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Remember the film Being There? As imdb puts it:
Chance, a simple gardener, has never left the estate until his employer dies. His simple TV-informed utterances are mistaken for profundity.
Now read this post and the comments thread. In case it’s pruned, here’s where Richard Murphy’s pseudo-gnomic utterances have got him so far:
Adrian
August 18th, 2010 at [...]
30 Jul 2010 at 13:19
Peter Risdon
Derangement Syndromes, Liberalism, Politics, religion, totalitarianism
Long, excellent post from Edmund Standing begins:
The white liberal is an unhealthy type of creature that you will undoubtedly have encountered, if not in real life, certainly via the media. By ‘liberal’, I do not mean simply someone who has a generally liberal outlook, in the sense of a ‘live and let [...]
Norm has responded to my post about positive rights:
In a post on positive rights Peter tries to sidestep the truth of this claim by arguing that all a government needs to do to preserve freedom of speech is not to interfere with it itself. But what about the need for governments to [...]
You have a jar of candy.
Other people would like some candy, but you keep the jar hidden and take a piece when you want some. I come along and stand next to you, with a sign round my neck saying “Candy Protector”. Now it’s my candy. At least, it’s thanks to me that you have [...]
The piece in the Telegraph today, suggesting that left wing people move right as a pack as they age, without realising it, so they are less left wing than they think, is interesting so far as it goes. But there’s a lot of confusion about right and left, as terms, and this piece might just [...]
Coming back, after a week or so, to the discussion with Norm about question begging, let me start by accepting completely this definition, also quoted by Norm in a later post:
To “beg the question” does not mean to raise or prompt the question. It means to assume in your premises the truth of your [...]
Wouldn’t this:
What is your favourite piece of political wisdom? > That there are not necessarily solutions to political problems.
be better with one word moved?
That there are not necessarily political solutions to problems.
14 May 2010 at 13:56
Peter Risdon
Derangement Syndromes, Middle East, Politics, WTF?, religion, totalitarianism
Here’s part of an exchange between Davod Horowitz and a student from the Muslim Student Association at the University of California, San Diego:
“I am a Jew,” [Horowitz] said. “The head of Hezbollah has said that he hopes that we will gather in Israel so he doesn’t have to hunt us down globally. For [...]