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E-PrinceDemocracy is dead, long live democracy!" Much to the dismay of those of us who would smear democracy across the rest of the shackled world, today that whimper of a battle-call is the ragged flag flapping above the Western world ...(back to the article)
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"refuge of anti-intellectual sentiment"
I think you truly fail to understand the true point of freedom speech in America and America's true spirit. The rational comes from the irrational. Many many years ago, people said the sun revolved around the Earth. It was taken as fact. After all, how could we revolve around some shiny orb we see in the distance. The truth was considered an irrationality or"anti-intellectual" crap.
Americans accept all thoughts whether they be Christian fundamentalist or extreme pragmatism because Americans have the sense to know that no one person has the ability to judge the right thoughts and the wrong thoughts. The only way to get to "enlightenment" as you put it as to accept that no one knows which direction its in(or else we'd already be there) and to accept all ideas.
Most Americans will stand up for what they believe in and stand up for what others believe. I think this is best exemplified by our military( a mostly conservative group)that defends all Americans no matter their beliefs. It's the spirit of Voltaire. Some people may hate, but it's what makes America such a great country.
I had more to say, but I've got better things to do.
I don't think the columnist was criticizing freedom of speech--he was just pointing out that the uninformed use it as an excuse to not make valid arguments.
"The land of milk and honey" should remain as its original usage, as a description of the land of Israel. To corrupt this phrase, sans irony even around the Jewish High Holidays, into referring to the financial crisis is sort of poor taste or cliche or something. at least use it in a self-aware way next time, acknowledging the whole of the idiom.
Honey you use WAY too many big words. Try again, as though you were talking.
Good God. Why does the Prince have this guy on staff--shouldn't he write for the Nass? (Oh wait, they're collapsing.) I actually like the content of a Loh article of once--but the style is ridiculous. How many $4 words can you shove into one sentence? Pedantic writing isn't necessarily good.
Oh. and use 'land of milk and honey' however you want. Yeesh.
hehe--I just posted, and class of 78, you made my day.
"Pedantic writing isn't necessarily good."
True, but is this a problem with Loh's writing? That's only a high-school english teacher soundbite.
To the writer...I believe Prozac or Zoloft is available at UHS.
Fuck that. One's brain chemistry is sacred.
I feel that most Asian students (myself included) go through a phase of using unnecessarily high-falutin words. Hope Johann grows out of it soon 'cause reading this gave me a headache.
0.5 acceptances per country is deceiving. Why don't you just say like 6.5% or whatever it is?
I think you mislabelled "relativism" and "postmodernism" as "freedom of speech" btw.
One last thing: has there ever been a time where the lot of racial, sexual and spiritual minorities in America was better? Has there ever been a time when xenophobia, rabid nationalism, Christian fundamentalism and imperialism were less in vogue? Think about it.