A note about my own language
June 28, 2008 @ 11:26 am by Noble LieSometimes you’ll catch me using the habits I criticize. I tend to use the term progressive over the term Liber AL, excuse me, liberal. I know both are meaningless terms by themselves. A progressive is somebody who makes progress towards something. To progress towards something presupposes an end goal, so what is the end goal that progressives are progressing toward? Though I love his talks and he speaks a lot of truth (which is why I post them), sometimes it seems the end goal of Parenti and others of their ilk is international communism — not something I would necessary call “progress.”
Who defines this progress thing anyway? Is this God again? Silly me, here I thought that progressives were secular atheists and agnostics. Is this “progress” Manifest Destiny, as our square founders liked to call it? Is it Historical Necessity, which seems to be the communist term for same? Is it the Grand Architect… or the Carpenter’s Son?
Anyway, the main point I’m trying to make right now is that some of these labels are just labels, and don’t read too much into me using them. Certainly don’t read a full endorsement into it.
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