RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.

John Hinderaker remarks on “hopelessness.”

My thought: Hooah! Good! Now they will get serious. Now the intelligent will do leadership.  Like Martel at Tours, Sobieski at Vienna.  Curious constant of human impulses: they don’t clarify until they hit the wall of hopelessness, purify in the crucible of extinction.  So, hopelessness is a good thing, a clarifying emotion.  I am glad for it, glad to hear it.  The intelligent, finalmente, will get serious and lead.  Much as the Power Line boys have been tip toeing towards doing this past decade.

Update 1: Kindly posted by Bob Belvedere at The Camp Of The Saints.

Update 2: Jack Wheeler writes brilliantly on this topic.

Update 3: In fact Hinderaker and colleagues at Power Line have gotten more clear sighted after John wrote this post.  Hopelessness de-loused their intellects.  As Heraclitus says, conflict is the father of all things.