Wednesday, January 15, 2020

POINTS TO PONDER XLV
From Reader's Digest

I consider myself some sort of liberal, but I don't like where liberalism has gone in this country in the last 20 years. It's become mindless - Medallion-wearing and placard bearing. It's a cover also for a great deal of resentment and hatred, these terrible outbursts from people whose principles are affronted when you disagree with them.
Saul Bellow
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   Pride comes from an achievement that does not depend on others' approval. It is the hard-earned approval we grant ourselves. It prods us to distance ourselves from the herd.
   Today, however, the word has been so debased that it is used to describe people whose only distinction is that they are part of the herd. People claim they are "proud" because they are gay, black, female, white, whatever, all of which are accidents of nature. Real pride make us distinctive, even if only in our mind's eye.
Pat Jordan

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