Comments on: The War of Position

By: Ron Snyder

Ron Snyder — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:46:43 +0000

And I agree with Mr. B.

By: virgil xenophon

virgil xenophon — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:07:40 +0000

Maj. Harvey/

It sounds like every “progressive” I’ve ever known or whose words I have ever read, let alone Obama himself….

Which is why William F. Buckley famously said he’d rather be governed by the first 200 people randomly picked from the Boston phone book than the faculty at Cambridge.

By: MajHarvey

MajHarvey — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:16:42 +0000

To continue Lewis’ quote from The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment in his book God in the Dock:
“They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level with those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”

Huh.
Now who does that sound like?

By: Zane

Zane — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:08:56 +0000

VX, de Tocqueville predicted in the 1830s that the great danger to the American republic lay in “soft despotism.”

By: Bill K.

Bill K. — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:04:22 +0000

Lex, are you thinking of The Third Wave when you say, "such a thing could never happen here" ? Another Christian thinker, G.K Chesterton is somewhat erroneously quoted as having said, A man who won't believe in God will believe in anything else. Even if the quote is inaccurate, it does shed some light on human nature. Scott, if you're right, perhaps Wormwood has learned a thing or two in the last 70 years. Who says humans are the only critters that can learn from their mistakes?

By: SCOTTtheBADGER

SCOTTtheBADGER — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:51:24 +0000

I have always enjoyed the way Ol’ Clive Staples Lewis’ mind worked. Alas, Screwtape’s nephew that is running Mr. Obama is far more successful than the WWII nephew was, but then, this time, he has found an enthusiastic subject.