Comments on: Taking In the Palin Speech http://blacknell.net/dynamic/2008/09/04/taking-in-the-palin-speech/ Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:13:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: MB http://blacknell.net/dynamic/2008/09/04/taking-in-the-palin-speech/#comment-48647 MB Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:11:46 +0000 http://blacknell.net/dynamic/?p=1224#comment-48647 No, they don't really go away, I suspect. Let's call this Sarah's Surge, then. ~ I can <a href="http://jeffreygoldberg.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/the_michael_chabon_interview_s.php" rel="nofollow">tell who's side</a> Michael Chabon is on! No, they don’t really go away, I suspect. Let’s call this Sarah’s Surge, then.

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I can tell who’s side Michael Chabon is on!

]]> By: Peej http://blacknell.net/dynamic/2008/09/04/taking-in-the-palin-speech/#comment-48642 Peej Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:42:49 +0000 http://blacknell.net/dynamic/?p=1224#comment-48642 But you don't think culture wars ever go waway, even temporarily, though--right? Palin's speech mostly just turned a floodlight back on the one(s) over here. But it's nothing new. (I'm probably taking the comment way too literally.) *** "You can’t win people over with concepts that are meaningless to them. " This is at the heart of the naive optimism I was refering to, before. It's a hard lesson to learn, and unfortunately, it takes a long time to learn, as simple as it is. But you don’t think culture wars ever go waway, even temporarily, though–right? Palin’s speech mostly just turned a floodlight back on the one(s) over here. But it’s nothing new.

(I’m probably taking the comment way too literally.)

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“You can’t win people over with concepts that are meaningless to them. ”

This is at the heart of the naive optimism I was refering to, before. It’s a hard lesson to learn, and unfortunately, it takes a long time to learn, as simple as it is.

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