1. Whereas the Civil Rights Movement could sustain the Montgomery bus boycott nearly 60 years ago, a boycott that required much sacrifice by poor people for more than a year, the new and sciency "left" can't even sustain a boycott of Amazon.com because it's got Amazon Prime and the deals on shipping are just too good to pass up for the rights of retail sweatshop workers.
2. The new and sciency "left" not only doesn't do fact checking, it doesn't even do reading.
3. The new and sciency "left" doesn't even have the rigor to analyze its own stands. That's because it can't tell the left from its own elbow, both of them actually right ones.
4. The new and sciency "left" can safely be ignored because it will never do anything and it will never amount to a large enough number to be worth the bother. "Rules For Radicals" is more likely to inform the far right these days than the La-Z-Boy "left".
Pretty much why I ignore (now; mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa) Dawkins and Maher: flapping bags of wind.
ReplyDeleteAnd the constantly repeated Pew polls show "sharp declines" in religious belief...er, in attendance at church...er, in identification/affiliation with a denomination....(which, at one time or another, would have included me.)
Put in historical context, we're still at the highest percentage declaring religious belief/affiliation in the nation's history, by a factor of about 100%. But that would be context to the Pew findings, and would not comfort the handful on the intertoobs who think their fingers are the voice of the world.
Personally, I don't care if it declines or not. Religion should not be a popularity contest. If no one believes but me an a ragged remnant, so be it. If everyone believes, I wonder what we're all believing.
And 'round and 'round it goes.....
Was reading Tayler's latest screed while watching "The Big Lebowski," so I threw some quotes into the comments because they seemed as fitting as anything else being said there. Really, I'm going back to reading Wittgenstein and gonna get some of Marilynne Robinson's essays. Much better way to spend my time.
Boycotts can't work now. Because reasons.
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