horse of george

"... different cultures produce different outcomes and it's those different outcomes that decide all the good, bad and ugly that happens in the world... neo-liberal sympathies, summed up in the professorial elitism of an Obama which paradoxically champions wistful dreams of equality, these sympathies, which are incapable or unwilling or in earnest denial of recognizing or coming to grips with this often unpleasant but still fundamental reality of culture, these sympathies I say are what pose the greatest threat to the Western tradition... when Obama went to Europe early in his presidency and upon being asked about American exceptionalism espoused a glib panutopian idealism of all countries being exceptional and good and noble he betrayed either a profound ignorance of or arrogant disdain for the way the world actually works... of course, the peevish contarian might posit that the fact that America produced an Obama and then in a fit of mass delusion decided to make him its leader may suggest the sun is already in steep decline for my beloved Western tradition... and I'm not sure I'd know how to answer that nettlesome postulation..."