A Silver Lining, by Robert Gore at Straight Line Logic
Logic is man’s tool to grasp and deal with reality. Reality and consequences can be delayed, never prevented. Consequences in a world that believes devoutly in governments and central banks, warfare and welfare, phony money and debt, patently false political homilies, and transcendent “feelings” are severe. However, they will affirm the convictions of that remnant who tenaciously adhere to reason and rationality. That has to count as the silver lining to this dark and intellectually beclouded epoch.
But before that can occur, someone with courage must oppose force with force. Reason is not practiced by the majority and as a result rational arguments fall on deaf ears.
j/k.
I love the article and agree completely. I do wish for a better silver lining.
As I read I kept wondering if it's really true that few see the logical contradictions. It seems like it. But people are more educated than ever. I wonder if people feel more confident than ever that there is no danger of losing rule of law, so it's fine to allow legal processes to become a circus.
"If Kavanaugh’s opposition had resorted to logic,"
My thought is it really wasn't opposition to the nomination but rather an attempt to goad President Trump and allies into saying something stupid. Every time I say this, people assure me they know the Democrats' true motive. Maybe they do. I don't care what their motive is. The problem is the lack of logic about something serious, which you describe in the article.
Print money now to keep an economic expanision going longer than it should, but later it will crash anyway, and probably worse.
Thanks Robert...another good read.
"Reality is that which exists. The unreal does not exist. The unreal is merely that negation of existence which is the content of a human consciousness when it attempts to abandon reality." -Ayn Rand (emphasis added)
I think that may have been what you were getting at.
What I'm for is "pragmatism" without skepticism (or "skeptics" of anything but reason).
"You who prattle that morality is social and that man would need no morality on a desert island -- it is on a desert island that he would need it most. Let him try to claim, when there are no victims to pay for it, that a rock is a house, that sand is clothing, that food will drop into his mouth without cause or effort, that he will collect a harvest tomorrow by devouring his stock seed today -- and reality will wipe him out, as he deserves; reality will show him that life is a value to be bought, and that thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it." -Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, p. 1018
nor have I voted democrat...they are destroyers...