Comments on: Yet More on the Turnover

By: Patricia

Patricia — Sat, 10 Jul 2004 15:35:17 +0000

I live in the land of writers and academia and, yes, they are not serious people. Like most of the Left, they are in abject, fearful denial of reality. Their world view is crumbling and they clamber over each other asserting their superior sensitivity to save themselves, as if that ever saved anyone. One colleague, for example, loudly proclaimed her “sympathies to the parents” when Uday and Qusay were killed. I knew it was over: the Age of Reason devolved into the Age of Narcissism.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 23:01:23 +0000

If some group of people slaughters thousands of your countrymen and promises to persist in the practice, you had damned well better be serious about it. Life and death — it doesn’t get much more serious. Protecting the people who love and depend on you from a homicidal, nihilistic death cult — that seems serious to me. It could be that some people are themselves trivial, incapable of taking anything but themselves seriously.

BTW, someone must pay you to write in real life, right?

By: Scotus

Scotus — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 18:15:21 +0000

For a third time, Brava and Amen, Ginny! (This time, however, I have inflected properly.) I guess there is a similar lack of seriousness among some on the Right (Pat Buchanan and his ilk, perhaps), but the condition seems much more endemic to the Left. In line with j scott’s comment, the Lefties now dither about the meaning of ‘collaborative’ instead of ‘is.’ Instead of contemplating our navels or imputing our own petty hatreds to the Islamists, we should aspire to the heights described by Shakespeare in Hamlet, keeping our feet firmly on ground all the while by never forgeting the last line of the speech:

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculty! In form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! The beauty of the world! The paragon of animals! And yet . . . this quintessence of dust!

By: Stevely

Stevely — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 14:23:51 +0000

Ginny,

That was a fine and thoughtful, if depressing, piece. Thanks for posting it. I find it increasingly harder to even write about such things, so outrageous and sickening do I find the behavior of the Left these days.

By: j.scott barnard

j.scott barnard — Wed, 07 Jul 2004 12:36:25 +0000

“That is what we would know if we were serious.”

I wonder if, even after 9/11, we are capable of being serious. This is the nation who had the “summer of the shark” or Gary Condit as news worth 24/7 coverage while the rest of the world was burning down. Now we’re back to Scott Peterson, Coby Bryant…and John Edward’s “Two Americas”.

At 10:00pm on Nov. 2, we’ll know if this nation is serious about anything anymore…and I fear we’re not.–s