Whoever swerves from the path of reality is irrevocably lost in the emptiness of illusions. – Zoltan Kodaly
Radical progressives – not all of them are leftists – can’t admit, even to themselves, that beneath their professed ambition to improve the world is a passionate loathing of reality and grudge against nature. How, according to an argument they would agree with, can anyone tolerate such a cruel and unpredictable master as nature, doling out pain and pleasure with equal indifference and treating health, the means of livelihood, life itself, as playthings? The answer becomes clear when it is discovered and acknowledged that the givens of reality, including nature, are in fact the beginning of any journey toward progress, a beginning that triggers a release of freedom of action and of creative energy that swings open doors of possibility perhaps never dreamed of.
For if life were free of
friction, conflict, risk, constant challenge (conditions laid down by
utopians), people would not be fully human but in a sense synthetic
copies of humanhood - in other words, fake. Overcoming adversity makes
people grow in strength and in health of body and mind. How can being
committed to “a perfect future” – undeniably a good motivation for
progress – help that goal by ignoring the world we actually live in? How
can making mind and muscle grow flabby ever serve a good and noble
purpose?.............To Read More....
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