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Liberals simply are refusing to engage in exercises in reducto ad absurdum with folks who are unable to process or accept information in a contemporary moral or ethical setting
Faced with ideas mired in a time warp, and supported by proponents of a status quo, that rewards those who subscribe to resistance to social progress, argumentation is a waste of time and energy, as we see here daily
I like to bring out a quote by noted science fiction writer H.P Lovecraft from a 1936 letter that sorta encapsulates the futility of trying to engage followers of Republicanism
You really can't argue away a personal failing like greed...why try?
"As for the Republicans — how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical 'American heritage'…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead."
Letter to C.L. Moore (August 1936), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 574 |
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