Most people I believe, want to be left alone to mamage ther own affairs, to manage their households, raise their families, go to their jobs. I do not consider most people to be intelligent, but I believe that most people have a system, cultural, religious, or intellectual, that allows them to manage their affairs in good order. Most have investments in the status quo, for stability, income and the ability to predict future events with some reasonability. (Rent at this date, means I'l have to have that amount by that date). the weight of the status quo was nicely discussed in that recent Jonah Goldberg Link I posted. http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200408200923.asp He takes on a narrow arguement. The piece may seem to be about Gay marraige, but he's taing on a narro argument raised by a proponent. Goldberg thinks that Gay marraige is inevitable, but this section came to mind reading your piece.
Change without social consensus will seem to millions as merely the arbitrary abuse of power, as it surely would have if the Supreme Court had ruled in 1904 that those who were commonly called sodomites should, with the bang of a gavel, be given the right to marry one another. Rauch might respond that justice delayed is justice denied, or some such, and he might have a good case. But as a matter of human behavior, that wouldn't change the analysis. After all, we were right to abolish slavery as a matter of justice. But the lack of social consensus to do so birthed not only America's bloodiest war but generations of civil discord, which endures today.
Essentially you seem to be coming from this from a Utopian perspective. My Idea of a Utopia would be a house na hillside, witha moderate amount of land, enough that I don't see my neighbor's house. a creative job within easy commute with my flying car, and getting to gether with friends on th weekend for a barbeque, and shooting, with all of us watching movies and cleaning what we used after the sun goes down. Easy access to info, and a certain "smalltown" feel of the local community. Your utopia may be different, in fact it probably is. Utopia is subjective. One man's Utopia is another man's hell. Utopianism, or belief in utopianism, i think is one of the most dangerous ideas out there, because of it's subjectivity. the road to hell, et cetera. I think a better idea is to create for yourself the environment you want to live in personally,and enjoy that freedom, without imposing one's utopian ideal upon someone else. Choose your arraigements, rather than be coerced itno them "for the common good". the U.S. is not perfect, but it works.
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Part 02
Date: 2004-08-23 12:39 pm (UTC)http://www.nationalreview.com/goldberg/goldberg200408200923.asp
He takes on a narrow arguement. The piece may seem to be about Gay marraige, but he's taing on a narro argument raised by a proponent. Goldberg thinks that Gay marraige is inevitable, but this section came to mind reading your piece.
Change without social consensus will seem to millions as merely the arbitrary abuse of power, as it surely would have if the Supreme Court had ruled in 1904 that those who were commonly called sodomites should, with the bang of a gavel, be given the right to marry one another. Rauch might respond that justice delayed is justice denied, or some such, and he might have a good case. But as a matter of human behavior, that wouldn't change the analysis. After all, we were right to abolish slavery as a matter of justice. But the lack of social consensus to do so birthed not only America's bloodiest war but generations of civil discord, which endures today.
Essentially you seem to be coming from this from a Utopian perspective. My Idea of a Utopia would be a house na hillside, witha moderate amount of land, enough that I don't see my neighbor's house. a creative job within easy commute with my flying car, and getting to gether with friends on th weekend for a barbeque, and shooting, with all of us watching movies and cleaning what we used after the sun goes down. Easy access to info, and a certain "smalltown" feel of the local community. Your utopia may be different, in fact it probably is. Utopia is subjective. One man's Utopia is another man's hell. Utopianism, or belief in utopianism, i think is one of the most dangerous ideas out there, because of it's subjectivity. the road to hell, et cetera. I think a better idea is to create for yourself the environment you want to live in personally,and enjoy that freedom, without imposing one's utopian ideal upon someone else. Choose your arraigements, rather than be coerced itno them "for the common good". the U.S. is not perfect, but it works.
Scott