Logic Monkey believes that "Ideas Have Consequences"

One week ago today, June 15, 2005, Logic Monkey posted this on his blog. (He thought he whisked it away like an Afghan to Gitmo, but thanks to Google cache, his legacy lives on.)

Enjoy:

Ideas have consequences

Human Events has published an interesting list, Ten Most Harmful Books of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Coming in at number one is, of course, "The Communist Manifesto". I am proud (ashamed?) to say that I've read some of the books on that list when I was at St. John's College. "Das Kapital", by the way, in addition to being a bad economic book, is the absolute most dreadfully boring thing you will ever have to read.

I am happy to see that John Dewey's book, "Democracy and Education" is on the list. I remember during student teaching how much Dewey was lauded as a "hero". I personally think he was America's most evil man, because he is responsible more than anyone else for the mess that is the public education system.

Every list is, by definition, kind of silly. Where is the original idiot liberal, Rousseau, for example? Oh, well- we can't have everything.

// posted by the Logic Monkey @ 8:54 AM 0 comments

So, do "ideas have consequences," or is holding someone to account for their hate speech wrong?

That seems to be the choice we with which we are left.

-The Oklahoma Hippy