



...you had me at Hegel.

It is better to watch things than to do them.





Making good on his promise that:

It is a very serious, thoughtful, argument that has never been made in such detail or with such care.

... Jonah Goldberg has bowed to pressure from his publisher and has changed the title of The Most Eagerly Awaited Book Evah to: Liberal Fascism: The Totalitarian Temptation from Hegel to Whole Foods. Oh dear. I could barely make it to Whole Foods before considering the possibilities of Jonah's notes comparing Hegel with the other great thinkers......



Hegel : "Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion”



Homer : "Son, if you really want something in this life, you have to work for it. Now quiet! They're about to announce the lottery numbers."



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Hegel : “What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted on principles deduced from it”



Homer : "When are people going to learn? Democracy doesn't work."



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Hegel : “God is, as it were, the sewer into which all contradictions flow”



Homer : "Flanders, it's no use praying. I already did the same thing, and we can't both win."



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Hegel : “Truth in philosophy means that concept and external reality correspond.”



Homer : "It takes two to lie, Marge. One to lie and one to listen."



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Hegel : “Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.”



Homer : "Kill my boss? Do I dare live out the American Dream?"



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Hegel : “To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.”



Homer : "How come the bear can crap in the woods and I can't?"



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Hegel : “Only one man ever understood me, and he didn't understand me.”



Homer : "Television. Teacher, mother, secret lover."



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Hegel : "The History of the world is none other than the progress of the consciousness of Freedom... The destiny of the spiritual world, and... the final cause of the World at large, we claim to be Spirit's consciousness of its own freedom, and ipso facto, the reality of that freedom... This final aim is God's purpose with the world; but God is the absolutely perfect Being, and can, therefore, will nothing but himself."



Homer : "If the Bible has taught us anything—which it hasn't—it's that girls should stick to girl's sports like hot oil wrestling, foxy boxing and such and such."



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Hegel : "America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself”



Homer : "In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women." Coming soon: Baruch Spinoza

Spinoza : “Desire is the very essence of man”



Homer : "I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer."









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posted by tbogg at 7:01 PM