@Ruthless Logic,
Ruthless Logic wrote:Fair enough! Let me provide some context to my sentence of definition.
How does this context apply to some accepted concept of liberal philosophy? You haven't even shown that you know what liberalism
is.
[quote]The desire to indulge in idealism,= The belief that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.[/quote]We all know what idealism is. Do you REALLY believe that idealism is unique to one political belief? Extreme liberalism (marxism / socialism) is full of idealism. Extreme conservatism (fascism, religious conservatism, monarchy) is ALSO full of idealism. The Republican party has conservative idealists (particularly evangelical Christian ones, libertarian 'personal freedom' ones, and big business ones). The Democratic party has liberal idealists (particularly the human rights and environmental rights ones and sociocultural idealism).
So lots of people indulge in idealism, +/- any
desire to do so.
[quote]while subjected to the constraints of the Human Condition,= A typical turd contains millions of harmful bacteria, which exposed to Human Beings can cause sickness or death.
and unable to reconcile the realization= I understand that exposure to fecal matter can cause great harm, but if concentrate hard enough, I can suspend the existence of the bacteria, and consequently handle the turd with complete impunity.[/quote]Ok, you've gone off the deep end here. Philosophizing through Beavis and Butthead-like analogies doesn't really work. Why don't you concentrating on telling us about the "Human Condition" and how you've come to know its "constraints" so globally.
Quote:But seriously, liberalism is the attention deficit student of the political classroom.
You're the one who created a thread entitled "the defects of liberal thought", lapsed immediately into defining it instead of critiquing it, and then supplemented it by talking about turds. So you don't really have the latitude to accuse something else of attention deficit...
Your name is "Ruthless Logic". If you aspire to this, you need to drop the stream of consciousness rant and start defining your terms, referring to specifics, and actually making a logically coherent point.