This from Nezua is really worth perusing – on politics and on life. Two brief excerpts:
As we’ve had made painfully clear to us for too long now, the Left is running around reacting and no longer trusts progressive visions enough to forward them boldly and unapologetically and borne on their own volition and timing. While the Right has had the patience and vision and tenacity and fearlessness (I’m being generous) to build (often preposterous) Cognitive landscapes in which to forward their (Material) agendas, the Left oddly remains caught up in parrying the burrs and low-flying shrapnel and bark peeling off of those landscapes. It’s been noted online in many places before, and it still baffles the mind. However, the mind is not baffled (or ought not be) when someone like Barack Obama comes along and does some Cognitive work, and people RESPOND.
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“I feel it is in these earthy and immediate and rather obvious truths that we can find the peace for which our strained and tense nation yearns. It is in these small, still, cognitive spaces that our core American values can again take root and bloom, if at all.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
I think this is a Nietzschean issue. The left looks into life and goes, “The horror! The horror!” Thus it recoils from life and is not strong enough to put its visions into practice. One wants life to be beautiful and sanctified — and it is not.
But my going into Zimbabwe is with eyes wide open and a full sense of the horror that accompanies living.
Thanks for getting me over there.
It’s not about recoiling from life, it’s about the huge attacks on even moderates over the last 30 years that make it really hard to be whole … the ones that say the horror are more like the kind but consevative middle classes.
Ain’t Nezua cool? 🙂
Cool, indeed.
The post hit a home run with me as it made some sense. “….does some Cognitive work, and people Respond.”
I’ve never ignored the ugly part of life. Rather, I have reacted or butted heads with it trying to make a difference. I’ve certainly been bitten on the posterior because of it, but a mule like sensibility keeps me going believing a change can occur.
As usual, thanks for pointing me Nezua’s way. I’ll be over there to read his post after I give my students their midterm (the horror! the horror!). He does have a way of cutting through the crap.