We’ve been exploring problems with leftist thinking and I’d
like to continue with that discussion, but I’m going to do so by telling you a
story.
Part 4 – What is Wrong with Liberal Thinking
Once upon a meme*
-- which is itself a meme, which has become so trendy it’s gone from
pseudo-intellectual to rancidly cheesy in under 40 years, turning up, as it did,
on college campuses in the late 70’s where it was useful only under the
influence of whatever was available. The word was used at first by professors
trying to impress their students, and then by students attempting to impress
their professors. Now it’s found in use amongst graduates who still lean
college-left and want to impress each other. But I digress.
Back to the story. Once there was a country where all the
fathers were risk-takers, all the mothers were mothers (which made them
risk-takers extraordinaire) and all the children were wildly and joyfully
suicidal. The country was blessed with broad open spaces, wide rivers, deep
forests and oceans to keep dangerous people away. The people moved about, built
farms and factories and cities and roads and cars to drive on the roads. Then
they moved around more. Eventually they built airplanes and moved around more
quickly. They invented many things, worked very hard, took huge risks and
became the wealthiest nation the world had ever seen.
As they did all this they tried to follow the rules they
believed in – tried because, like all
people they weren’t perfect. Their energy and ambition sometimes got them in
trouble. But through it all they remembered God, who had created them and all
the blessings their country provided. They were grateful for the power they
discovered all over the land – the wood, coal, oil, gas, and raging rivers.
They planted crops, cut down trees, built fences, and they mined gold and
silver and iron and copper. They prospered and they were grateful.
