It just enrages me every now and then in the midst of my book - Holy Madness: Romantics, Patriots, and Revolutionaries, 1776-1871.
No I have nothing against Zamoyski.
I just get riled up and pissed off when I read about some silly Romantic patriot who's so engulfed by his ideals - or the similarities between state-worship and christian-worship. however you define it. The irony of the 19th century is that a belief in rationality coincided with a widespread irrationality of the Romantic sort that pervaded through Europe like a disease; and through Europe the world!
Come the 21st century, reason and emotionality can't be defined and separated clearly anymore. American politics is a good example. So is YW, the epitome of dark irrationality.
It issn't the case that what we say goes.
And no, you don't decide the facts, or what's right and wrong. (As a side point, I have decided to coin a term ("confusionasionism"), meaning the emotive attempt to assert one's moral superiority over another through the posing of a question in a seemingly innocent way, but subverts truth through the use of poor reasoning smoked in a series of illogical - but not always identified clearly - arguments.)
In other news, Obama's stimulus package has been approved by Congress - but rejected by all house Republicans. Am I surprised? No. What irks me is all the confusionasionism going on. Facts and truths are subjugated amidst emotive appeals to 'poverty', 'transparency' and 'accountability'.
I think a good 99% of AC360 viewers have NEVER scrutinized the bill firsthand.
I also think that a good number of Republican reps close to that never have probably never bothered because voting FOR could lose them their seat.
And above all I think that no plan is perfect, but doing something is better than doing nothing at all. If there's anything I learnt, it seems pretty much that a system which has the greatest possibility of instilling confidence also encapsulates the worst. Why should it be otherwise? The American coin can flip either way any day. I'm just unable to comprehend at the present moment the complexity and alien-ness of American politics to my own country and culture. There is something wrong in all this. Democracy wasn't meant to be like that. Then again, why shouldn't it be?
We need a plan that is viable and accountable. I think the debate has to move away from 'what we should do'. Republican policy is hollow and empty. 8 yrs is enough. But we need to improve the current one as well so that the world won't go down to hell with the Americas.
No I have nothing against Zamoyski.
I just get riled up and pissed off when I read about some silly Romantic patriot who's so engulfed by his ideals - or the similarities between state-worship and christian-worship. however you define it. The irony of the 19th century is that a belief in rationality coincided with a widespread irrationality of the Romantic sort that pervaded through Europe like a disease; and through Europe the world!
Come the 21st century, reason and emotionality can't be defined and separated clearly anymore. American politics is a good example. So is YW, the epitome of dark irrationality.
It issn't the case that what we say goes.
And no, you don't decide the facts, or what's right and wrong. (As a side point, I have decided to coin a term ("confusionasionism"), meaning the emotive attempt to assert one's moral superiority over another through the posing of a question in a seemingly innocent way, but subverts truth through the use of poor reasoning smoked in a series of illogical - but not always identified clearly - arguments.)
In other news, Obama's stimulus package has been approved by Congress - but rejected by all house Republicans. Am I surprised? No. What irks me is all the confusionasionism going on. Facts and truths are subjugated amidst emotive appeals to 'poverty', 'transparency' and 'accountability'.
I think a good 99% of AC360 viewers have NEVER scrutinized the bill firsthand.
I also think that a good number of Republican reps close to that never have probably never bothered because voting FOR could lose them their seat.
And above all I think that no plan is perfect, but doing something is better than doing nothing at all. If there's anything I learnt, it seems pretty much that a system which has the greatest possibility of instilling confidence also encapsulates the worst. Why should it be otherwise? The American coin can flip either way any day. I'm just unable to comprehend at the present moment the complexity and alien-ness of American politics to my own country and culture. There is something wrong in all this. Democracy wasn't meant to be like that. Then again, why shouldn't it be?
We need a plan that is viable and accountable. I think the debate has to move away from 'what we should do'. Republican policy is hollow and empty. 8 yrs is enough. But we need to improve the current one as well so that the world won't go down to hell with the Americas.
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