THE DEEPER YOU LOOK, THE MORE YAWNING THE ABYSS:

It’s America, Obama: A modest dissent to the citizen of the world. (Victor Davis Hanson, 7//25/08, National Review)

What disturbed me about Barack Obama's Berlin speech were some reoccurring utopian assumptions about cause and effect — namely, that bad things happen almost as if by accident, and are to be addressed by faceless, universal forces of good will.

Unlike Obama, I would not speak to anyone as “a fellow citizen of the world,” but only as an ordinary American who wishes to do his best for the world, but with a much-appreciated American identity, and rather less with a commonality indistinguishable from those poor souls trapped in the Sudan, North Korea, Cuba, or Iran. Take away all particular national identity and we are empty shells mouthing mere platitudes, who believe in little and commit to even less. In this regard, postmodern, post-national Europe is not quite the ideal, but a warning of how good intentions can run amuck.

Barrack Obama at least settles the argument about whether singularities exist and whether any light or information comes out of them.

Posted by Orrin Judd at July 25, 2008 9:21 AM