For some reason I was thinking about this very death of pragmatism this morning, kinda day-dreaming I guess.
I posited as a possibility that in America before 1960 people generally didn’t have trouble saying something was brilliant or stupid, a good idea or bad, simply based on what they observed.
Today morality and success, failure, competence and smarts are filtered through a bewildering variety of race, sexual orientation, party affiliation and race. Sure, there have always been biases and stereotypes but one gets the feeling that stereotypes always came from some germ of truth compared to today.
Today in America, the Democratic Party’s Rainbow Coalition is obsessed with the idea that everyone is equal, regardless of race or creed. Yet that party stubbornly insists that gays are not quite as capable of bigotry or murder as the average person, that blacks are not quite as capable of hate or racism, that rich people are not quite as moral as a college student or taxi driver.
What has done this to America? Have we simply been watching too many movies?
