roundtable: Re: OP-ED ON TV - PUBLIC

roundtable: Re: OP-ED ON TV / PUBLIC

Re: OP-ED ON TV / PUBLIC

Jeff Briggs (jbriggs@capital.edu)
Fri, 6 Jan 1995 04:52:01 +0500 

Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 04:52:01 +0500
From: jbriggs@capital.edu (Jeff Briggs)
Message-Id: <9501060952.AA01226@athena.capital.edu>
To: roundtable@cni.org
Subject: Re: OP-ED ON TV / PUBLIC


Reply to Brad Cox:

     Sneering at ideas of the public good indicates you do not 
think well, but simply parrot propagandas reflexively. The part
of Vigdor's post that you cast into the hinterlands of Siberia
with craven accolades to a benighted right-wing politician
and to an American public who vote by horserace news coverage
and better-funded and more effectively degrading commercials is
the very part I liked the best. 

     The test of his idea is in the benefit it might bestow.
To mock it witlessly with such hatred without dealing with it
first on its own merits is an expression of an ugly trendiness
among those so intellectually challenged that they turn their
brains into copy-cat jack-in-the-boxes and pop out threateningly
at a series of preprogrammed buzzwords indicating "liberal"
tendencies - such as "public good" or "helping people".

     Your post has been an apt reflection of a dangerous
ideology that owes more to Atila the Hun than to the founding
fathers, who bandied about concepts of the public good without
breaking into paroxysms of Cold War epithets.

     Your signals are crossed. Regroove yourself. Calm 
down and start your education by reading widely.

Jeff Briggs
jbriggs@capital.edu

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