Down among the double digits
There is a belief dear to the more intellectual if sometimes extreme political elements that political power on the ground is nought but the ebb and flow of a great battle of ideas. Thus philosophy is both the king of abstract human contemplation and the pawn of human instrumentation.
The Achilles heel of this view is that Nature is also expressed, and rather viscerally, through our hearts and minds and thence through our deeds. But Nature is not an idea. The battles between “isms” have no application to it. Even race realism, for example, is only about Nature - just intellectuals protesting an anti-Natural ideology.
That is not to say that Nature cannot speak pretty directly through us. It can. But do you want to listen?
Posted by JOHN RAY on Thu, 20 Jan 2005 12:41 | #
LOL
That really is an amusing thread!
Some truth at times too