In today's NYT Week in Review, there is an article
about tolerance in a conflictual world. The article
ends with something that I think, with only minimal
mutatis mutandis, explains why we have wage labor and
wage laborers. I have previously said that I
believe that conservative free-market
bottom-line-Uber-Alles pay-the-lowest-wage capitalists
are communists at home and in their clubs.
If tolerance is not a perfect vitrue,
suited to every context, that
doesn't mean it isn't a critical one.
As E.M. Forster said, tolerance
"is just a makeshift, suitable
for an overcrowded and overheated planet.
It carries on when love gives out,
and love generally gives out as soon
as we move away from our home and our friends."
Serge Schmemann, "Us and Them: The
burden of tolerance in a world of
division", NYT Week in Review,
29Dec02, p.WK3.
Happy overcrowded and overheated New Year!
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
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