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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (13586)	5/15/2001 10:29:10 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

It is shallow to think that that which is hard is easy. No one who had any deep insight into the matter would think so. As for making much of originality, what is true is true regardless of its origins, and, in any case, a lot of "original" thoughts merely reflect one's lack of education, so that what is hackneyed is offered by the callow as a novel insight. When joy is the appropriate response to something, be joyous. When it is not, to be joyous is merely fatuous. To measure people's spiritual stature by whether they can maintain enthusiasm is shallow. It is like a mother who is constantly telling her children to smile, and intimidating them against sharing their actual feelings, because there is something wrong with them for not being upbeat.......

To: epicure who wrote (13586)	5/16/2001 4:34:44 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I will take a crack at answering your objections. You presume what I do not, that someone of character and intelligence, having fully meditated upon the route to wisdom, might think that it can arise by following one's strong prejudices and preferring originality to truth. In other words, I think it is shallow, not merely mistaken, because I think one cannot have thought upon it deeply. Perhaps I am mistaken, but that is my take at this time. On the other, I take it that the failure to register the variations in one's fortune or the fortune of those one loves means that one care's little, and therefore is emotionally shallow.