Re: bats & battalions (was Benton and Kinman)

[philidor11@snet.net]

HP Marjanovic was quoted
<...some would invoke laziness of thinking for a reason, maybe. 
Tradition.  It
certainly works, but does it really work well?>
and supported by HP Williams:
<Ken is using a circular argument: keep the tradition going because 
it's 
traditional.>

There is a reason for saving tradition.  It works.
Remember that priestess sitting alone in a Nile temple, the final 
flower in the pagan tradition that had flowed from the earliest 
times, gathering and accumulating the fertile insights that sometimes 
nurtued science and art, that brought consolation and understanding. 
 She sat awaiting the mob seeking to destroy what they no longer 
chose to accept, carrying their scythes, ready to tear down walls 
because their timeless solidity reproached the flawed view that 
no glimpse of truth could be found in an alternative, and believed.
How many of us would silently rise and go to the doorway of that 
temple, even though we did not accept her philosophy, and stand 
in solidarity with the human effort, the value to real lives 
lived, that she alone upheld.

I'd like to think, Tim, that you'd be one of those standing before 
the door to reproach the mob.  And ask them to prove that their 
views are in any wise so much better that the remarkable and 
still entirely useful old edifice should be destroyed.

:-)  This is fun.  



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