Re: OT: This Bumper Sticker Enrages Fascists

Scoop wrote:
"Alex" <alex.woods@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1151363867.736865.142450@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
And good point Scoop, but what shows more is the half-baked philosophy
that is heavily filtering all the history and current events that he is
reading (without the aid of mass media).

True enough. It's funny, though, in that history has always been filtered through glasses. The Victorians were just awful in their retelling of Elizabeth I's reign, you'd have that the Mary, Queen of Scots, walked on water by the time they were done. The attitude stayed around until the middle of last century, when other writers examined the records and letters and figured out what was going on.

<chuckle!>

You two are quite the pair! Evidently you find popular political commentators and the mass media a better source of factual and pertinent information than the scholarship of learned men and women. I find that whole idea preposterous! Those of us who are not <cough> journalists know well enough that the value of a *single* article or book on any given subject is inconsequential compared with that of the entire body of collected works. It is only by reading *everything* available that a proper perspective can be attained and well-considered judgment may be formed. But you knew that, right? Right?

Perhaps old TJ's words were lost on you. I'll repeat them in hopes you'll think again:
> "Not every difference of opinion is a difference of principle." -Thomas Jefferson

Never assume that those who disagree with you are being duped. It may well be that they see the problem from a different perspective; one which you may have overlooked or undervalued. Very few issues resolve into two distinct points of view.

Regards,

Tim Parker ... Samarra in a Savinelli Punto Oro bent billiard

--
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves
up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill
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