http://www.openculture.com/2008/11/how_would_rabbit_angstrom_have_voted.html The best free cultural & educational media on the web Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:01:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.openculture.com/2008/11/how_would_rabbit_angstrom_have_voted.html#comment-3257 Dan Colman Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:22:31 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/?p=1577#comment-3257 Hanoch, I have to basically agree with you here. Those weren't particularly well chosen words. Boy, I am feeling quite post-partisan these days. Hanoch, I have to basically agree with you here. Those weren’t particularly well chosen words. Boy, I am feeling quite post-partisan these days.

]]> http://www.openculture.com/2008/11/how_would_rabbit_angstrom_have_voted.html#comment-3258 Hanoch Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:35:42 +0000 http://www.oculture.com/?p=1577#comment-3258 In describing the citizens of Pennsylvania, he says they "tend to want to ban abortion and all manner of redneck ideas". Unbelievable. It should not be that difficult--particularly for an intelligent person like Updike--to recognize the profound moral implications of taking the life of a developing human being in its mother's womb, irrespective of where one ultimately comes out on the issue. In reducing the other side of this this profound debate to nothing more than a "redneck idea", Mr. Updike shows a deplorable tendency towards elitism, and demonstrates there is not necessarily a connection between intelligence and wisdom. In describing the citizens of Pennsylvania, he says they “tend to want to ban abortion and all manner of redneck ideas”. Unbelievable. It should not be that difficult–particularly for an intelligent person like Updike–to recognize the profound moral implications of taking the life of a developing human being in its mother’s womb, irrespective of where one ultimately comes out on the issue. In reducing the other side of this this profound debate to nothing more than a “redneck idea”, Mr. Updike shows a deplorable tendency towards elitism, and demonstrates there is not necessarily a connection between intelligence and wisdom.

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