TAM, thanks for sharing some of your life story. Your political philosophy seemed to begin changing when your dad died and your son was born. That must have been quite a year for you... I suspect from the thought and memory of your history that you must do a fair amount of meditation. We all know you better now and admire you even more. Thanks again.
Have you thought about running for office???
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- Tue Nov 28, 2017 10:38 pm
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Interesting parents. And now we know where your great writing ability comes from... Thanks for sharing but what about the rest of the story. When did you begin to realize that their views no longer seemed right to you?The Annoyed Man wrote: My dad had two PhDs, and my mom’s doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne, where she graduated Summa Cum Laude was published as a book. And she has published 16 other books since then during her career. My dad was also a WW2 combat vet and former Captain in the USMC Reserves post-war. He published two books, one of which is one of the most authoritative sources on the life and writings of Joseph Conrad, and the other he co-published with my mom - the definitive translation of the works of Aimé Césaire, a Haitian poet, from French into English. They were both professors at Caltech. My dad was a fairly common sense guy in a day to day sort of way, if you looked the other way over his liberal politics; but my mom sometimes says the dumbest things - PARTICULARLY when it comes to having absolutely no idea of what “normies” have to do to survive outside the coddled womb of tenured academia (AKA the indoctrination industry). And even my dad would sometimes say stuff that just made me shake my head......such as being very dismissive of people who are committed to their Christian faith. Both of them bright as heck, but no longer connected to the real world.
I had some experience with politics in academia. I received a low grade for a semester in English after doing very well most of the time, I think because the instructor wore an Adlai Stevenson shoe pin on his lapel and I was maybe too obviously a big Eisenhower supporter. Or, maybe I just deserved it.