Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Monday, July 13, 2009

A columnist

hits the nail on the head regarding what was wrong with Sarah Palin as a politician, and what the politics of appearance has done in the U.S.. Plus, why it is so destructive and why there's going to be more of it.

A Farewell to Harms

"Palin was bad for the Republicans—and the republic."
A generation of people who have been raised to believe that they're perfect in every way. As Ms. Noonan says about Sarah Palin, "She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough."

2 comments:

Kate said...

"For 30 years the self-esteem movement told the young they're perfect in every way. It's yielding something new in history: an entire generation with no proper sense of inadequacy."

Now that is a brilliant insight into a lot of behavior - not just among the celeb's and politicians

James said...

Wow! A comment! Someone does read the blog! Woo-hoo!

Anyway, yes, I think it explains a lot of things, right down to the 'my child can do no wrong' that teachers get told in the local schools, and what that attitude ultimately leads to...