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Liberating Liberals
Free — even ethereally light — thinking is an alternative to these easy yet destructive passions. Let’s let our minds go for a holiday, skipping in a spring meadow with every heavy meaning that now weighs humanity down. Then come walking soberly back with new meanings resulting from playful reason and objective calculation. The Infinitum is the limit.
Ad nauseam ad infinitum...
To reiterate, seeing the world from a view of meaninglessness or compassionate detachment is one of the freest angles from which you can look. Saints, monsters, geniuses, nonentities, billionaires, paupers, atheists, theists, professionals, amateurs etc., in short, all of us, generally have one trait in common — they want meaning in their lives. The political views of
us liberals and our comrade conservatives are also a big part of this drive for meaning. In the middle of a hard-fought election we can stand outside the fray and in the meaningless zone and see everyone fighting — often oblivious to facts — for their own meaning.
Arthur Balfour, author of the momentous Balfour Declaration which threw England’s weight behind
the founding of Israel, once said: “It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that
so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.”
I don’t think he meant that enthusiasts would lie intentionally, but that their level of enthusiasm would
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