While Your Humble Blogger is puttering around with a way to discuss the Democratic Presidential candidates, there's no reason to stop our march through the Conservative Tenets. Multi-tasking, you know.
15. The mystery, grandeur, and tragedy of history, man's surest guide to wisdom and virtue.
True.
Well, OK, I suppose I can't just stop there. I'm not sure what Mr. Rossiter's Conservative is rejecting as alternate guides to wisdom and virtue. Pure reason? Epiphany? The Bible Code? But enough mockery. I agree with the Conservative emphasis on history. I don't know about the mystery, exactly, and the grandeur is generally paired with infamy and pathos, and tragedy is where you find it, but sure, if you seek wisdom, if you seek virtue, study history. There are both bad and good examples, the cost of ignorance and vice, perhaps most important, the belief that things were wise and virtuous which will strike you on first blush as foolish and evil. You will be able to see bigger patterns as well as smaller patterns, and better judge the patterns in which you reside. So, yeah, score another one for the Conservative. But no-one's counting.
Redintegro Iraq,
-Vardibidian.
