Re: Edmund Burke

["Ted Moffett" <ted_moffett@hotmail.com>]

Douglas et. al.

Edmund Burke may very well have thought ill of the MER effort regarding the 
nudity ordinance, but Saundra has sent Burke's quote along with many of her 
vision2020 posts dealing with a variety of subjects.  It is an inspirational 
thought that most people would do well to heed, sent with her e-mail to 
remind people of the importance of political and social participation, 
regardless of what Burke would have thought regarding how people apply his 
quote.  I see no problem with its use, unless she makes claims of specific 
issues Burke would support that he would not or did not support.

The progressives (whatever that means!) world view is anything but "tidy and 
narrow."  Surely you jest!  Without the comforting but empirically and 
logically flawed worldview offering the ethical and eternal certainty that 
you offer, Douglas, the options are far from "tidy and narrow," even if much 
superstition is abandoned.

And surely you jest again when you invoke evolution to explain your 
mischievous subject heading mutations!  Mischievous indeed!

But I'll concede a point implicit in your C. S. Lewis quote, that those who 
believe in evolution and deny God and religious certainty are heading into 
the future with a less than perfect map.  But you can't have it both ways!  
If you claim "progressives" have a "tidy and narrow" worldview, you then 
cannot without contradiction turn around and assert they believe they face a 
future of mutation into some unknown form.  This is not a "tidy and narrow" 
worldview.

I suppose (notice my hesitation to be stereotyped.  what a horror!) I fit in 
some way under the banner of "progressives," but you are quite wrong to 
claim my worldview is "tidy and narrow" when I concede your point I do not 
have the certainly about the future that you assert in your worldview.

On this point it is your worldview that is "tidy and narrow" and mine that 
is "chaotic and wide open."

Ted

>From: Douglas <dougwils@moscow.com>
>To: vision2020@moscow.com
>Subject: Edmund Burke
>Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 08:58:08 -0700
>




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