"Happy" July 4th, everybody!
Posted: Sat Jul 04, 2020 6:14 pm
“In the same way as men cannot for long tolerate a sense of spiritual meaninglessness in their individual lives, so they cannot for long accept a society in which power, privilege, and property are not distributed according to some morally meaningful criteria.”
Irving Kristol and the Reinvigoration of a Bourgeois Republicanism
"If you don’t breathe the spirit of the nation, if you don’t have a fierce sense of belonging to each other, you’re not going to sacrifice for the common good. We’re confronted with a succession of wicked problems and it turns out we’re not even capable of putting on a friggin’ mask."
David Brooks - NYT -The national humiliation we need
“I look at you; I don’t see an intelligent, confident man; I see a cocky, scared kid”
from Good Will Hunting, quoted by David Brooks NYT
Irving Kristol and the Reinvigoration of a Bourgeois Republicanism
"If you don’t breathe the spirit of the nation, if you don’t have a fierce sense of belonging to each other, you’re not going to sacrifice for the common good. We’re confronted with a succession of wicked problems and it turns out we’re not even capable of putting on a friggin’ mask."
David Brooks - NYT -The national humiliation we need
“I look at you; I don’t see an intelligent, confident man; I see a cocky, scared kid”
from Good Will Hunting, quoted by David Brooks NYT