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The Faculty Lounge

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…is running (and in the process, ruining) the country:

If you wonder how our present administration’s attitudes toward business, commerce, taxes, finance, race, national security and foreign policy now play out, just drop by a local faculty lounge for a few minutes and listen up — America in 2010 will suddenly make sense, and perhaps scare the hell out of you all at once. It all reminds me of the proverbial first-semester college student who returns home at Thanksgiving to his near-broke parents to inform them of all the “new” things he’s learned at university.

Maybe we can start to mitigate some of the damage this November.

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  3. Amen to that!

    Tried to post the above but the system said the message was too short and to try again! So….

  5. This is perhaps the ultimate example of the “Faculty Lounge” mentality in action. It’s an op-ed piece from the NYT by a philosophy professor at New York’s New School of Social (Socialist Research) Research. His name is J.M. Bernstein, and he trashes the Tea Party’s desire for reduced govt intervention in our lives as delusional, and that we all owe too much to government benefits to ever be truly free. It almost reads as if he’s calling for a Marxist dictatorship no later than 2012, if not before.

    Oh yes, in the best spirit of a free and open press the NYT stated at the bottom of the webpage that no posting of comments was being allowed.

    M. Gallagher
    Seoul, Korea

    http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/the-very-angry-tea-party/?src=me&ref=general

  6. That’s a gem, Gallagher. Let’s ponder the following passage:

    My hypothesis is that what all the events precipitating the Tea Party movement share is that they demonstrated, emphatically and unconditionally, the depths of the absolute dependence of us all on government action, and in so doing they undermined the deeply held fiction of individual autonomy and self-sufficiency that are intrinsic parts of Americans’ collective self-understanding.

    Note the implied axioms: individual autonomy and self-sufficiency is a “fiction” and we are absolutely dependent on government action. Given that neither is true (we can tell merely by looking at the actions of a person and see that most of them are not directed or enabled by government) invalidating his entire argument, I really wonder what this guy is good for? Can he flip burgers or maybe sand drywall? Intellectual endeavors seem a bit beyond him though he can write.

  7. I am exposed, vulnerable, needy, unanchored and without resource. In fury, I lash out, I deny that you are my end and my satisfaction, in rage I claim that I can manage without you, that I can be a full person, free and self-moving, without you. I am everything and you are nothing.

    Wow, Bernstein has clearly had some sour relationships in his past. Somehow I doubt this one’s going to beat-out the “racism” meme — it’s a little too Jane Austeny for the rabid Left-o-sphere rabble…

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