tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post3644227717170183487..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: E Pluribus UnumGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-68986681982285854632007-10-04T12:39:00.000-06:002007-10-04T12:39:00.000-06:00Well put. Another "great" thing about politics is ...Well put. <BR/><BR/>Another "great" thing about politics is that it often causes some to think they are trapping other people when in fact they are merely distracting themselves from the self-inflicted damage they are about to do.Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-24847809904937448972007-10-04T12:14:00.000-06:002007-10-04T12:14:00.000-06:00Wha'ts funny is how these sort of left-right conve...Wha'ts funny is how these sort of left-right convergences actually happen quite a lot -- "Is God Green?" by Bill Moyers is a good example -- but each time, commentators treat it like it's an aberration.<BR/><BR/>They'll even get to the point of saying that the so-called "political spectrum" is actually a circle that bends back onto itself with the "extremes" meeting up.<BR/><BR/>But they never, ever take that last step to realize what Admiral Ackbar did, a long time ago in that galaxy so far, far away (but not unlike our own):<BR/><BR/>"It's a trap!"<BR/><BR/>The entire field of "political science" is an anti-conceptual, epistemological trap designed, as John Lewis once said in an email to me, to ensnare men into the same disastrous ideas that killed their grandfathers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com