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A Curious Incuriosity 2

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” – Rudyard Kipling   Before I …

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A Curious Incuriosity

I’ve discussed the impenetrability of most on the Left to new information on my old blog in a series coining (I think) the term Teflon Intellects.  Alas, that blog is gone for reasons not to be discussed here.

Notable quote:

“Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent ‘the people.’ Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth.”  —Author and historian Paul Johnson. Just a thought.