By Way of Elimination
Every year between 60 and 70,000, if not more, books are published. Some are announced with all the grandure a well-off publisher can afford, some come into this world with no publicity at all. Believe me, often the latter have more to offer you than the former. In order to save my time and temper, I get annoyed if read material that features badly reasoned thesis, I read reviews. Fortunately for me and others there are a few very good reviewers at the Wall street Journal who save me from buying books with bad dialectic and they cheer me by cutting illogical reasoning like surgeons cut a cancer.
Example: THE FAIR SOCIETY by Peter Corning. It is subtittled as THE SCIENCE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE, and, therefore, a book I would choose to buy and delve into. Well, once again, I was spared. This time by Kenneth Minogue, who deserves kudos. Mr. Corning proposes in his book that America should be transformed into a fair society, much along the lines the socialists in Europe are striving to do with their hapless domain. Mr. Minogue pulls this enlightening quote from the book, with which the author tries to explain the extent of his envisioned endeavor. He would like to ..."bend the arc of the moral universe, " and thus make this country fair for all. Just reading this smidgen makes me want to gag. "The arc of the moral universe?" First off, is there a moral universe and does it have an arc, or does moral thinking run more along straight lines, namely along the lines cultures and their religions? Secondly, let us assume there is such a thing as a moral universe arc and it is bend sufficiently, one arrives at the very beginning of human culture where man settled disputes with fellow Cro-Magnon men by swinging an enormous club.
Perhaps I will write more on this--perhaps not. In any case, the gist of the book is that those who produce and earn must share all with those who don't. Well that is an old hat!!! Having lived under communism I have heard all that pablum, and lived it, and I can assure the readers of this blog that I have never seen more poor, sad, dejected people as under the socialist banner.
