The Blog Formerly Known As Vote '08

In his blog, Hendrik Hertzberg wrote about his experience speaking with students at Covenant College last month (which I wrote about here):

“I liked them all—students, faculty, and the college president, Niel Nielson—very much. They were polite, serious, gracious, and un-self-righteous.

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I got the impression that many of them are embarrassed by the likes of Dobson, Robertson, and Sarah Palin, and have no wish to be lumped in with them.

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These students live in a bubble, and they know it. But then, people like me live in a bubble, too, and, on the whole, we don’t know it. From my angle, of course, our bubble looks bigger and better. Theirs: a constricted, six-thousand-year-old world ruled by an incorrigibly small-minded God, the secrets of which are to be found in a black-bound anthology of unreliably translated old tribal stories, poems, directives, and tracts. Ours: an unimaginably immense, unimaginably ancient universe ruled by no one, the wonders and beauties of which are continually being revealed to us through our senses and our minds. The more frank and friendly conversation there is between the two bubbles, the better.”

Emphasis mine.

On the whole, I’d say the bubble-viewer in the previous post has a far more clearer view of the outside world.

Both men, though, I think have hit upon something we all need to recognize in order to move our great country forward.

But what do you think?

FURTHER READING: Read Covenant College’s coverage of Hertzberg’s appearance.

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