After I started thinking about it, I realized that it's too deep for me. But...it's a beautiful mirage he's chasing and he chases it with presence and joy.
Mao wrote:Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Our principle is that the Party commands the gun, and the gun must never be allowed to command the Party
T>1200 wrote:He spent 50 years building something that doesn't work?
Ah, sir, may God forgive you for the damage you've done to the whole rest of the world, in trying to cure the wittiest lunatic ever seen! Don't you see, my dear sir, that whatever utility there might be in curing him, it could never match the pleasure he gives with his madness? But I suspect that, despite all your cleverness, sir, you cannot possibly cure a man so far gone in madness, and, if charity did not restrain me, I would say that Don Quijote ought never to be rendered sane, because if he were he would lose, not only his witticisms, but those of Sancho Panza, his squire, any one of which has the power to turn melancholy into happiness.
We are all better for him chasing windmills.
"Liberalism is arbitrarily selective in its choice of whose dignity to champion." Adrian Vermeule