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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: epicure who wrote (223052)4/30/2013 9:03:12 AM
From: koan  Read Replies (1) of 542688
 
<<Actually, a lot of the wing nuts love Durant- they see Muslims as the barbarians (and liberals too, probably)>>

That may be a little bit of hyperbole-lol. Most wing nuts can barely read and those that can keep it to Readers Digest, and the sports page e.g. Palin-lol. They could never understand the complexity of Durant.

I would guess the number of wing nuts that have read Will Durant at less than 1 in 10,000.

Here is a sample of the level Durant operates on:

My favorite quote of all time.

Will Durant: "The persistent effort to subordinate fancy to reason is the dominate quality of the Greek mind.

Ergo, Greek literature is modern, or rather contemporary, we find it hard to understand Dante or Milton, but Euripides and Thucydides are kin to us mentally and belong to our ages.

This is because though myths may differ, reason remains the same, and the life of reason makes brothers of its lovers in all times and everywhere.

Can you imagine a Tea party person understanding this-lol?
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