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Peggy Noonan offers up free intellectual pleasure

I almost always like Peggy Noonan’s column—she’s a contributing editor of the Wall Street Journal and her column appears at their OpinionJournal.com.

This week is no exception and she’s especially poetic.  It’s a really nice column and left me feeling warm.  Adults will appreciate it.  Liberals will not.  But then they won’t read it.  They’re busy reading Michael Moore books or they’re at their little online junior politician chatty dance-party forums virtually high-fiving each other and asking each other, fearfully, with some mental trepidation (although they come off full of calm bravado and machismo) within their echo-chamber:  “…yeah like so how will gay ‘marriage’ affect me me me me me me me me meeeeeee, so you know, like, who cares? The neo-cons are backwards. Ya know?”. 

She’s writing about the new Pope:

People are complicated. You can hit distracted people with all the propaganda in the world, you can give it to them every day in all your media, and sometimes they’ll even tell pollsters they agree with you. But something is always going on in their chests. Some truth is known there; some yearning lives there. It’s like they have a compass in their hearts and turn as they will, this way and that, it continues to point to true north.

We want a spiritual father. We want someone who stands for what is difficult and right, what is impossible but true. Being human we don’t always or necessarily want to live by the truth or be governed by it. But we are grateful when someone stands for it. We want him to be standing up there on the balcony. We want to aspire to it, reach to it, point to it and know that it is there.

Because we can actually tell what’s true.

We can just somehow tell.

[… Read the column (3 minutes of free pleasure and enlightenment and intellect) …]

 

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