News Flash! Thinking Found NOT To Be Dead!

January 2nd, 2009 • hivanh
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Obama was elected to regain the "Paradise Lost" or to recreate one we have in our hopes.Just before real writing, and the inclusive nature of the circumspect thought which it requires, was about fall from the precipice of our extremely temporal, sensationalistic and immensely dissatisfying existence, this comes along.

I never read The New Republic, and would never had seen this, if it were not for David Brooks in the NYT:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/02/opinion/02brooks.html?th&emc=th

“The American instinct to continuously remake ourselves in the image of Adam — to achieve a decisive and final break with history — has periodically proven seductive to voters. And, sometimes, this instinct can produce important, transformative results. Yet the past — in the form of race or war or deeply held partisan animosities — has a way of lingering around.”

http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a559152f-70db-4183-8a8e-ed818ce6df7c

Happy New Year(s).

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  1. Comment by Chief Hypocrite on 2 January 2009:

    hivanh: Great writers and thoughts at both links, thanks.

  2. Comment by Chief Hypocrite on 2 January 2009:

    But for whom amongst "us" is "immensely dissatisfying existence" true?

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