The Nobel Peace Prize, The Excluded Middle & Not Glenn Beck

The Nobel Peace Prize, The Excluded Middle & Not Glenn Beck




2 responses to this post.

  1. That poll represents much of what’s wrong with political discourse in general. There is one absolute or the other, no in between. Consider Afghanistan. Conventional wisdom, largely fueled by the drumbeat of the press and pundits, who remind that it has been the ‘graveyard of empires’ says it is ‘unwinnable’. No one really listened to the President’s Nobel speech very carefully, where he never defines empire as the terms of victory in Afghanistan. Dismantle Al Qaeda, weaken the Taliban, stabilize local, regional and central govts, say goodbye.

    Neither side really gets that. On the left, he’s criticized for warmongering. On the right, for whatever they can find to take a shot because they’re…right-wingers. In the middle, a whole bunch of Americans who feel that he’s doing the right thing for the country even though they really don’t understand what that is.

    It makes me want to scream, that our country as a whole has come to rely on institutions that profit from outlandish and biased reports without any sense as to where the truth is.


  2. The only education we need in this country is facilitating people to learn to think. The only education we are afraid to give people is allowing them to learn to critically think on their own. The fact that critical thought is content and value free scares the daylights out of the Right and the Left.


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