tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post7756850061053722218..comments2024-03-28T12:16:12.797-07:00Comments on Inductivist: Ron Guhnamehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06421460508647618774noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-79411833541102201652009-03-21T09:21:00.000-07:002009-03-21T09:21:00.000-07:00I saw a high school soccer player wearing a practi...I saw a high school soccer player wearing a practice shirt that read "Discipline is freedom". Probably the coolest piece of clothing I've seen in a decade.Audacious Epigonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07495507254628580077noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26188478.post-67156142972282223402009-03-20T18:12:00.000-07:002009-03-20T18:12:00.000-07:00The Audacious Epigone pointed at Charles Murray's ...The Audacious Epigone pointed at Charles Murray's recent (superb) essay which encapsulates this problem of a hedonistic lifestyle in this memorable section: <BR/><BR/>"That mentality goes something like this: Human beings are a collection of chemicals that activate and, after a period of time, deactivate. The purpose of life is to while away the intervening time as pleasantly as possible.<BR/><BR/>If that’s the purpose of life, then work is not a vocation, but something that interferes with the higher good of leisure. If that’s the purpose of life, why have a child, when children are so much trouble—and, after all, what good are they, really? If that’s the purpose of life, why spend it worrying about neighbors? If that’s the purpose of life, what could possibly be the attraction of a religion that says otherwise?"<BR/><BR/>http://american.com/archive/2009/march-2009/the-europe-syndrome-and-the-challenge-to-american-exceptionalismBruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.com