Visionaries,
Secular fundamentalists like Duane really crack me up. Evil? What’s that? And when Duane accused me of anti-Semitism, I confessed to you all earlier that I was nonplussed. I was like a congressman who had found a copy of the Constitution. I honestly did not know what he was talking about. But when I got a moment, I went back over my letter to the editor and found the offending passage. Referring to our private school’s curricular development program, I said this:
“But when we get one [a memory hole], we will also try to arrange to replace the Nazis with the Israeli Likkud party, and to increase the Hispanic representation in Attila’s hordes.”
A joke, Duane, is an archaic form of expression still found among lesser-evolved primates. When one makes one of these expressions, sometimes called “a funny,” one’s abdomen shakes in what is called a gut-chuckle, and then one snorts through one’s nose. All highly undignified, of course, but a great deal of fun. No logical case can be made for doing this, I suppose.
Cordially,
Douglas Wilson
“All that is necessary for the triumph of alternative lifestyles is for the other alternatively lifestyled to do nothing.” Edmund Quirk
“Apologetics in the Void” are repostings from an on-going electronic discussion and debate I had some time ago with members of our local community, whose names I have changed. The list serve is called Vision 20/20, and hence the name “visionaries.” Reading just these posts probably feels like listening to one half of a phone conversation, but I don’t feel at liberty to publish what others have written. But I have been editing these posts (lightly) with intelligibility in mind.