tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post7086927670723219339..comments2024-03-28T19:56:32.848-05:00Comments on Anecdotal Evidence: 'Laughter and Humility Can Then Go Together'Patrick Kurphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08436175583386298032noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-88406658905523151662019-07-24T15:59:00.553-05:002019-07-24T15:59:00.553-05:00Well imagine being black. Supposedly intelligent w...Well imagine being black. Supposedly intelligent writers (including many Jewish ones; but especially the racists who believes Jews are the "special minority" ) have been stupid enough to buy into race and racial superiority for hundreds of years and many still do. It matters only a little. A good artist doesn't make a good person, of course. I would have very little if I refused the product of every anti-black writer,haha.Montezhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11099333058568185397noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21999805.post-62224429511156645172019-07-24T07:14:41.635-05:002019-07-24T07:14:41.635-05:00Santayana is to philosophy what Wagner is to music...Santayana is to philosophy what Wagner is to music, at least from my perspective as a Jew who loves his Jewishness. But I can listen to Wagner with joy because his genius translated harmony and tone into rapturous experience. Santayana, too, seems to have idealized beauty. But here is what Richard John Neuhaus writes in a thorough review of John McCormick’s biography: <br />“Measured by what his crowd deemed necessary, Santayana was an anti-Semite. Jews were not beautiful, which in his scheme of things meant they were unnatural”“natural” being the preferred term for truth and beauty. Even Bernard Berenson, who at I Tatti (his exquisite villa near Florence) beautifully worshiped the beautiful, was decidedly not to Santayana’s taste, and it had everything to do with Berenson’s being a Jew. The more offensive Jew is the Jew who so insidiously disguises his Jewishness. Worse than their not being like us is their affecting to be like us. The anti-Semite is adept at penetrating the disguise. “rgfrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03098442053009135266noreply@blogger.com