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		<title>By: Wolfthatknowsall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree wholeheartedly that utopia is, by definition, authoritarian.  Given the differences between people, everyone&#039;s utopia is going to be different, even the different views are close.  Utopia must be enforced.

Even among the Amish people, utopia has enforcement mechanisms.  The worst thing that can happen to them is to be shunned.  But yet, these people live in a close-knit community of like-minded people.

Your second paragraph says it all.  It is a description of the United States, at its foundation.  I do admit to being found of the Articles of Confederation ...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree wholeheartedly that utopia is, by definition, authoritarian.  Given the differences between people, everyone&#8217;s utopia is going to be different, even the different views are close.  Utopia must be enforced.</p>
<p>Even among the Amish people, utopia has enforcement mechanisms.  The worst thing that can happen to them is to be shunned.  But yet, these people live in a close-knit community of like-minded people.</p>
<p>Your second paragraph says it all.  It is a description of the United States, at its foundation.  I do admit to being found of the Articles of Confederation &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Wolfthatknowsall</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 16:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radical is the word.  The truly shocking thing about them is that they&#039;re not stupid.  They should know better.  They choose not to ...]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Radical is the word.  The truly shocking thing about them is that they&#8217;re not stupid.  They should know better.  They choose not to &#8230;</p>
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		<title>By: Texas Patriot</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 03:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judahlevi:  “Watching the first part of this, Dr. Atkinson mentions that he thinks the 2008 financial crash was caused by a lack of capital investments in manufacturing.”


I think you should watch the rest of the video.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Judahlevi:  “Watching the first part of this, Dr. Atkinson mentions that he thinks the 2008 financial crash was caused by a lack of capital investments in manufacturing.”</p>
<p>I think you should watch the rest of the video.</p>
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		<title>By: Judahlevi</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2013 02:34:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you are aware, economists are not all in agreement on almost anything.  Watching the first part of this, Dr. Atkinson mentions that he thinks the 2008 financial crash was caused by a lack of capital investments in manufacturing.  Coming from the finance side, we saw it as a real estate bubble driven by too much capital into a market which could not sustain it.  


In other words, home ownership went from an average of about 60-65% to over 70%.  Loans were being given to people who did not deserve them nor could pay for them.  The markets collapsed due to lack of any kind of qualified borrower and leveraged mortgage bonds sold by Wall Street which found out their mortgage holders could not pay them back.  This was not a lack of capital, but sending too much liquidity into a market which became weaker and weaker.  The capital went there chasing yields.  This is the story of 2008 according to most economists. 


We have moved from a manufacturing/industrial economy to a services economy.  Whether we can sustain our economy on a services basis and hire out manufacturing to the third world is an interesting question.  We have so far because I don&#039;t think 2008 had anything to do with manufacturing.  Is this a house of cards or can we continue to maintain the economy on a services basis?  Add to this the ability of the US to print money and the issues become more complex.  I do agree we need a balanced economy with both services and manufacturing.   


Thank you for sharing the video.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As you are aware, economists are not all in agreement on almost anything.  Watching the first part of this, Dr. Atkinson mentions that he thinks the 2008 financial crash was caused by a lack of capital investments in manufacturing.  Coming from the finance side, we saw it as a real estate bubble driven by too much capital into a market which could not sustain it.  </p>
<p>In other words, home ownership went from an average of about 60-65% to over 70%.  Loans were being given to people who did not deserve them nor could pay for them.  The markets collapsed due to lack of any kind of qualified borrower and leveraged mortgage bonds sold by Wall Street which found out their mortgage holders could not pay them back.  This was not a lack of capital, but sending too much liquidity into a market which became weaker and weaker.  The capital went there chasing yields.  This is the story of 2008 according to most economists. </p>
<p>We have moved from a manufacturing/industrial economy to a services economy.  Whether we can sustain our economy on a services basis and hire out manufacturing to the third world is an interesting question.  We have so far because I don&#8217;t think 2008 had anything to do with manufacturing.  Is this a house of cards or can we continue to maintain the economy on a services basis?  Add to this the ability of the US to print money and the issues become more complex.  I do agree we need a balanced economy with both services and manufacturing.   </p>
<p>Thank you for sharing the video.</p>
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		<title>By: Texas Patriot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Texas Patriot]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2013 23:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judahlevi: &quot;We are both interested in a better America, much better than where we are today, and on that we hopefully can agree.”  

I don’t see why we can’t.  From my perspective, the
lack of vision, the lack of leadership, and the lack of a coherent plan for revitalizing and re-industrializing America in the 21st Century is the single greatest political failure in the history of the United States, and the consequences of that failure are far more profound and advanced toward the negative than most people think.   

In that regard, I would direct your attention to a recent book entitled “Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage” (Yale University Press, 2012) in which the authors outline in great detail the catastrophic results of our failure to invest in high value-added manufacturing industries in America. If you’re not inclined to read the book, then I think it would be well worth your time to watch the following video of Dr. Robert Atkinson, one of the co-authors, introducing the book last year.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWM08DzTuhY  

If after watching the video and/or reading the book, you still don’t share my sense of urgency about this subject, I will be very surprised.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Judahlevi: &#8220;We are both interested in a better America, much better than where we are today, and on that we hopefully can agree.”  </p>
<p>I don’t see why we can’t.  From my perspective, the<br />
lack of vision, the lack of leadership, and the lack of a coherent plan for revitalizing and re-industrializing America in the 21st Century is the single greatest political failure in the history of the United States, and the consequences of that failure are far more profound and advanced toward the negative than most people think.   </p>
<p>In that regard, I would direct your attention to a recent book entitled “Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage” (Yale University Press, 2012) in which the authors outline in great detail the catastrophic results of our failure to invest in high value-added manufacturing industries in America. If you’re not inclined to read the book, then I think it would be well worth your time to watch the following video of Dr. Robert Atkinson, one of the co-authors, introducing the book last year.  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWM08DzTuhY  " rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWM08DzTuhY  </a></p>
<p>If after watching the video and/or reading the book, you still don’t share my sense of urgency about this subject, I will be very surprised.</p>
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		<title>By: Texas Patriot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Texas Patriot]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2013 21:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thank you.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thank you.</p>
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		<title>By: emptorpreempted</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2013 21:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#039;re completely right.  


In the words of Alfred North Whitehead: &quot;when ideals have sunk to the level of practice, the result is stagnation.&quot;]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re completely right.  </p>
<p>In the words of Alfred North Whitehead: &#8220;when ideals have sunk to the level of practice, the result is stagnation.&#8221;</p>
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		<title>By: emptorpreempted</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2013 21:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#039;s actually sobering, if what you say about your erstwhile professorial colleagues is true.  Can they all be that radical and that stupid?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>That&#8217;s actually sobering, if what you say about your erstwhile professorial colleagues is true.  Can they all be that radical and that stupid?</p>
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		<title>By: emptorpreempted</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2013 21:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doesn&#039;t every high-IQ person like obfuscations and ironies, preferring them to moral clarity any day of the week?]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Doesn&#8217;t every high-IQ person like obfuscations and ironies, preferring them to moral clarity any day of the week?</p>
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		<title>By: Judahlevi</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Judahlevi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Dec 2013 20:02:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I agree that utopia is to be avoided.  Utopia for one individual or for one group would always be an authoritarian state.


Hopefully, we may all be able to achieve our own individual happiness by having a state with recognizes our personal freedoms and respects them;  where individual rights are supreme with state rights a distant second.  


Political correctness reminds me of Newspeak in &quot;1984.&quot;  This is not a good path we are on.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree that utopia is to be avoided.  Utopia for one individual or for one group would always be an authoritarian state.</p>
<p>Hopefully, we may all be able to achieve our own individual happiness by having a state with recognizes our personal freedoms and respects them;  where individual rights are supreme with state rights a distant second.  </p>
<p>Political correctness reminds me of Newspeak in &#8220;1984.&#8221;  This is not a good path we are on.</p>
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		<title>By: Texas Patriot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Texas Patriot]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2013 20:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The reason I prefer to call it “utopiaphobia” is that it’s the argument conservatives usually come up with when they get nervous about something new.  When for example someone talks about transforming the educational system of America to being the best in the world, they invariably say, “It’s utopian, it will never work.”  Likewise, when someone talks about improving the health and physical fitness of Americans, so that we can avoid the currently unsustainable levels of health care expenses, conservatives say, “It’s utopian, it will never work.”  Or even if someone talks about improving the productivity of American workers so that instead of losing millions and millions of jobs and even entire industries to foreign competition, America can once again attract foreign manufacturing operations, conservatives will invariably say, “It’s utopian, it will never work.”  


Regardless of what it is, if the idea is new and has the potential of radically transforming America for the better, some conservatives will automatically hate it.  And I’m not sure that even they know why they hate it, they just do.  The idea of change just makes them nervous and they don’t like it.   I don’t know if you recall, but it was in George H. W. Bush’s second campaign for president in 1992, he was challenged by Bill Clinton as not having any “vision” for the future of America.  He really didn’t know what Clinton was talking about, and I think his comment was “What is this vision thing?” 


Why conservatives are that way, I have no idea.  But whatever it is, it is a psychological malady that is killing the Republican Party and making it very easy for very poorly conceived Democratic campaigns dominate American elections.  From my perspective, conservatives will either be able to get over their pronounced and irrational “utopiaphobia”, or the real future they inevitably face will be horrific beyond their worst nightmares.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The reason I prefer to call it “utopiaphobia” is that it’s the argument conservatives usually come up with when they get nervous about something new.  When for example someone talks about transforming the educational system of America to being the best in the world, they invariably say, “It’s utopian, it will never work.”  Likewise, when someone talks about improving the health and physical fitness of Americans, so that we can avoid the currently unsustainable levels of health care expenses, conservatives say, “It’s utopian, it will never work.”  Or even if someone talks about improving the productivity of American workers so that instead of losing millions and millions of jobs and even entire industries to foreign competition, America can once again attract foreign manufacturing operations, conservatives will invariably say, “It’s utopian, it will never work.”  </p>
<p>Regardless of what it is, if the idea is new and has the potential of radically transforming America for the better, some conservatives will automatically hate it.  And I’m not sure that even they know why they hate it, they just do.  The idea of change just makes them nervous and they don’t like it.   I don’t know if you recall, but it was in George H. W. Bush’s second campaign for president in 1992, he was challenged by Bill Clinton as not having any “vision” for the future of America.  He really didn’t know what Clinton was talking about, and I think his comment was “What is this vision thing?” </p>
<p>Why conservatives are that way, I have no idea.  But whatever it is, it is a psychological malady that is killing the Republican Party and making it very easy for very poorly conceived Democratic campaigns dominate American elections.  From my perspective, conservatives will either be able to get over their pronounced and irrational “utopiaphobia”, or the real future they inevitably face will be horrific beyond their worst nightmares.</p>
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		<title>By: Judahlevi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2013 20:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without getting too much into a semantic digression, I would recommend the term &#039;visionphobia&#039; rather than &quot;utopiaphobia.&quot;  As you admitted, utopia is unachievable and therefore an &quot;irrelevant&quot; goal.  A &quot;Blueprint for America&quot; can be a very positive vision for the country which will motivate those who see it.    


I would also say that conservatives by nature are more hopeful than liberals.  Studies have shown that conservatives are generally happier and more generous people who live longer lives.  You are right that hope is necessary, but a positive vision of what America can be with a plan to get there would also be inspirational.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Without getting too much into a semantic digression, I would recommend the term &#8216;visionphobia&#8217; rather than &#8220;utopiaphobia.&#8221;  As you admitted, utopia is unachievable and therefore an &#8220;irrelevant&#8221; goal.  A &#8220;Blueprint for America&#8221; can be a very positive vision for the country which will motivate those who see it.    </p>
<p>I would also say that conservatives by nature are more hopeful than liberals.  Studies have shown that conservatives are generally happier and more generous people who live longer lives.  You are right that hope is necessary, but a positive vision of what America can be with a plan to get there would also be inspirational.</p>
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		<title>By: Wolfthatknowsall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2013 17:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a former professor of philosophy, I can tell the reader that this article &quot;spoke&quot; to me.  My colleagues?  They would have sat in on a Deutscher seminar with wide-eyed wonder at the wisdom of the &quot;great man&quot;.  Berlin?  They likely would have boycotted his lecture.

We, on the Right, can become Utopians, also.  It is a fate devoutly to be avoided, because both the Left and the Right seem to view government power as the means of arriving at the &quot;ideal&quot;.  Only the individual knows what utopia truly is (though I admit that even that view is grossly utopian).  But an individual utopia at least has the virtue of requiring the least amount of coercion from bureaucrats and politicians.

The beauty of the individual utopia is that it doesn&#039;t need people like me to envision it, or the government to enforce it.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>As a former professor of philosophy, I can tell the reader that this article &#8220;spoke&#8221; to me.  My colleagues?  They would have sat in on a Deutscher seminar with wide-eyed wonder at the wisdom of the &#8220;great man&#8221;.  Berlin?  They likely would have boycotted his lecture.</p>
<p>We, on the Right, can become Utopians, also.  It is a fate devoutly to be avoided, because both the Left and the Right seem to view government power as the means of arriving at the &#8220;ideal&#8221;.  Only the individual knows what utopia truly is (though I admit that even that view is grossly utopian).  But an individual utopia at least has the virtue of requiring the least amount of coercion from bureaucrats and politicians.</p>
<p>The beauty of the individual utopia is that it doesn&#8217;t need people like me to envision it, or the government to enforce it.</p>
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		<title>By: Texas Patriot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Texas Patriot]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2013 04:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Judalevi:  &quot;We can have a very positive future, better than the present day, but we will never have utopia.&quot;

Whether we ever achieve “utopia” is beside the point.  That’s not an achievable objective, so it’s irrelevant.  What is achievable is putting the revolutionary economic and humanist principles of Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson into practice and creating an economic juggernaut that provides a substantially better quality of life for all Americans.  


However, as a result of a pronounced phobia of anything resembling utopian thinking, most conservative politicians are deathly afraid of talking about any positive goals for the future whatsoever, which means we are totally dropping the ball and getting hammered by Leftist politicians who do offer hope for the future whether they are sincere about it or not.  We might as well face the fact that “utopiaphobia” is the genetically programmed disease of unenlightened conservatives who are afraid of change of any kind, and that is why the conservative movement today is so completely dead in the water and sinking so fast.  Here’s a tip.  There’s nothing conservative about having no dreams, no hopes, and no goals you’re willing to work for.  It just means you’re dead and have no ideas that anyone is going to get excited about.  


In order to provide leadership at this critical juncture of American history, conservatives are going to have to come up with a &quot;Blueprint for America” that puts our nation in a position to lead the world in economic growth and prosperity in the 21st Century, and that’s something that a majority of all Americans could get on board with.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Judalevi:  &#8220;We can have a very positive future, better than the present day, but we will never have utopia.&#8221;</p>
<p>Whether we ever achieve “utopia” is beside the point.  That’s not an achievable objective, so it’s irrelevant.  What is achievable is putting the revolutionary economic and humanist principles of Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson into practice and creating an economic juggernaut that provides a substantially better quality of life for all Americans.  </p>
<p>However, as a result of a pronounced phobia of anything resembling utopian thinking, most conservative politicians are deathly afraid of talking about any positive goals for the future whatsoever, which means we are totally dropping the ball and getting hammered by Leftist politicians who do offer hope for the future whether they are sincere about it or not.  We might as well face the fact that “utopiaphobia” is the genetically programmed disease of unenlightened conservatives who are afraid of change of any kind, and that is why the conservative movement today is so completely dead in the water and sinking so fast.  Here’s a tip.  There’s nothing conservative about having no dreams, no hopes, and no goals you’re willing to work for.  It just means you’re dead and have no ideas that anyone is going to get excited about.  </p>
<p>In order to provide leadership at this critical juncture of American history, conservatives are going to have to come up with a &#8220;Blueprint for America” that puts our nation in a position to lead the world in economic growth and prosperity in the 21st Century, and that’s something that a majority of all Americans could get on board with.</p>
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		<title>By: Judahlevi</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Judahlevi]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Dec 2013 01:08:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a very positive message, and I like it, but there is no perfect world in the future for leftists or for those on the right.  We live with the constraints of human nature.  We can have a very positive future, better than the present day, but we will never have utopia.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a very positive message, and I like it, but there is no perfect world in the future for leftists or for those on the right.  We live with the constraints of human nature.  We can have a very positive future, better than the present day, but we will never have utopia.</p>
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		<title>By: Texas Patriot</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Texas Patriot]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2013 06:21:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The phobia of utopia, shall we call it “Utopiphobia”, is as harmful to human progress as the blind belief in it.  The entire idea of the American Dream as envisioned by Jonathan Winthrop and Ronald Reagan which sees America as a “shining city on a hill” could be regarded by the Utopiphobians as a bizarre aberration of human thinking that should be avoided at all costs.  Simply put, the Utopiphobians have it all wrong.  


In 1776, Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson both published what might be called by the unnecessarily paranoid as utopian blueprints for and American destiny of economic progress and human rights.  Adam Smith, who was also one of the greatest moralists of his day, published the classic &quot;Wealth of Nations&quot;.  Thomas Jefferson. one of the greatest philosophers of all time, penned his classic &quot;Declaration of Independence.”  Within those two documents, are the ingredients for a powerful combination of individual freedom and economic freedom that have the potential of creating a future of economic and human progress unimagined by even the most grandiose utopians.


No, the future belongs to economists and humanists who long to stretch the boundaries of human achievement, to push the envelope of science and technology, to harness the energy of our planet and to build great societies of prosperity and human achievement.  Those who are afraid of that vision of the future because it reminds them of “utopia” will no doubt wander aimlessly in the backwaters of fear and despair, never hoping, never planning, never working for the fantastic future lying at their fingertips.  


Hope is not the enemy of the future.  Hope is the key to the future.  Hope is the fire that drove the genius minds of Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, Howard Hughes, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs and every other American genius to imagine new frontiers in science and technology, in education and sports, in art, in music, and in philosophy.  Hope is the basis of all legitimate human endeavor, and hope for a better future is the essence of the American Dream yesterday, today, and tomorrow.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The phobia of utopia, shall we call it “Utopiphobia”, is as harmful to human progress as the blind belief in it.  The entire idea of the American Dream as envisioned by Jonathan Winthrop and Ronald Reagan which sees America as a “shining city on a hill” could be regarded by the Utopiphobians as a bizarre aberration of human thinking that should be avoided at all costs.  Simply put, the Utopiphobians have it all wrong.  </p>
<p>In 1776, Adam Smith and Thomas Jefferson both published what might be called by the unnecessarily paranoid as utopian blueprints for and American destiny of economic progress and human rights.  Adam Smith, who was also one of the greatest moralists of his day, published the classic &#8220;Wealth of Nations&#8221;.  Thomas Jefferson. one of the greatest philosophers of all time, penned his classic &#8220;Declaration of Independence.”  Within those two documents, are the ingredients for a powerful combination of individual freedom and economic freedom that have the potential of creating a future of economic and human progress unimagined by even the most grandiose utopians.</p>
<p>No, the future belongs to economists and humanists who long to stretch the boundaries of human achievement, to push the envelope of science and technology, to harness the energy of our planet and to build great societies of prosperity and human achievement.  Those who are afraid of that vision of the future because it reminds them of “utopia” will no doubt wander aimlessly in the backwaters of fear and despair, never hoping, never planning, never working for the fantastic future lying at their fingertips.  </p>
<p>Hope is not the enemy of the future.  Hope is the key to the future.  Hope is the fire that drove the genius minds of Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers, Howard Hughes, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs and every other American genius to imagine new frontiers in science and technology, in education and sports, in art, in music, and in philosophy.  Hope is the basis of all legitimate human endeavor, and hope for a better future is the essence of the American Dream yesterday, today, and tomorrow.</p>
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		<title>By: Judahlevi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Dec 2013 05:09:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quoting from Isaiah Berlin as he wrote in &quot;The Pursuit of the Ideal&quot; in speaking of utopians (progressives), &quot;I know the one true path to the ultimate solution of the problem of society...since you are ignorant of what I know, you cannot be allowed to have liberty of choice...if the goal is to be reached.&quot;


The utopian dream is achieved only by the authoritarian dystopia of &quot;1984&quot; where you cannot have freedom because it would interfere with the plans of those who know better.  


To allow human freedom, we must allow dissent.  In fact, dissent is to be encouraged not discouraged.  Utopia to progressives envisions groupthink not dissent.  If we value freedom, we will never have the progressive utopias of the Stalins or Hitlers.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Quoting from Isaiah Berlin as he wrote in &#8220;The Pursuit of the Ideal&#8221; in speaking of utopians (progressives), &#8220;I know the one true path to the ultimate solution of the problem of society&#8230;since you are ignorant of what I know, you cannot be allowed to have liberty of choice&#8230;if the goal is to be reached.&#8221;</p>
<p>The utopian dream is achieved only by the authoritarian dystopia of &#8220;1984&#8243; where you cannot have freedom because it would interfere with the plans of those who know better.  </p>
<p>To allow human freedom, we must allow dissent.  In fact, dissent is to be encouraged not discouraged.  Utopia to progressives envisions groupthink not dissent.  If we value freedom, we will never have the progressive utopias of the Stalins or Hitlers.</p>
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