Examining the Questions

 
Over at Shrinkwrapped the good doctor is contemplating this question:

Why is it that some people have so much trouble questioning themselves?

He goes on to consider New Sisyphus' answer to this problem and then describes the distortions and dissonances the Left must create and maintain to shore up an increasingly Ptolemaic cosmology... Presumably he includes here the impotent fury which resides the descriptions of Bush as simian, slimy and sinister. Now there is a bundle of contradictions for you.

The closed universe of the American Left - and of European Socialism, which it resembles - is not only gated shut, it is shrinking in relevance and meaning. The choice of issues it chooses as "burning" are conflagrations fewer and fewer are showing up to watch. Smart politicians (read "those who might wish to be re-elected") are moving right in order to keep up with their voters. The trivialized and trifling -- academia and media -- don't need to leave the enclave. But thanks to the dynamic movement that life is, no one needs to bang on the gate anymore in order to request a hearing.

One wonders if they even notice that the neighborhood is emptying out. Except for some fellow traveling jihadists, they will die alone. Unmourned.

The sadness lies in the fact that it didn't have to be this way.