That's the price that money-grubbing, envy-consumed, A-hole of a neighbor can be bought for. That wasn't his dream home after all. He wasn't born and raised there. It's just a flop-house. An investment. A starter home.
I just wanna fix this up enough to make a down payment on someplace decent.
Can a Bourgeois Philistine blame a guy for such a motivation? Hell no! But I've already mentioned two other motives for buying a house. I think it's rather strange that the "liberal" members of the US Supreme Court - the defenders of the "little guy" - refuse to take non-monetary considerations - passions! - into consideration.
Let me, right here, right now, coin the term "micro-culture" in defense of little urban neighborhoods that are destroyed by local governments in the name of progress. Every neighborhood has its own culture...its own traditions...the older the neighborhood, the better developed are its traditions.
If all cultures and traditions are to be respected by Multiculturalists... What the hell are they asking for?! That they be preserved in museum?! A zoo?!
"Micro-culture" is a palm leaf I'm offering. A compromise... I'm willing to accept the standards of the community, radical individualist that I am. In my college Cultural Anthropology class, the professor said that it's almost impossible to know more than 125 people on a personal basis. How many Cultural Anthropologists vote Republican or Libertarian?
"It takes a village to raise a child." How many villages contain 1500 people, let alone 10, 100, 1,000 or 10,000 times that? A village is a small community whose members all know each other. They love each other. Or, at least, they respect each other well enough not to steal or destroy each others' property.
If your neighbor cares about something, do you smash it? Do you expect them to love it when you build a beautiful monument (to something else) in its place? If you do, you don't care about your neighbor at all; their life or death is no concern of yours. Their dreams and ambitions and passions are as nothing to you!
You don't care about the little dreams of the little guy.
How can you call yourself a Liberal?
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Good point/question, Al. (Again) It's a bit odd that this simple rationality and logic does not even dent the armor of the esoterically complex and nuanced ones of 'superior intelligence'. There must be an irrational hatred for what someone like Bush represents. (How much more for those with greater libertarian leanings that have respect for the common man in and of themselves, not as pet projects or mascots.)
But it does nicely fit into their overall evolutionary paradigm: survival of the fittest, with their egos viewing themselves and their ideologies as the fittest. Under those auspices, presuppositions, it does have an odd logic. From that viewpoint they could even point to Sowell's Conquests and Cultures and say, "See?!"
I view these presuppositional beliefs as faiths making it all a religious clash veiled as a political one.
I couldn't have put it better, Steve.
Excuse me, I need to work on my self-esteem.
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